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Save as editable document

Open geofferb opened this issue 1 year ago • 8 comments

Appreciate the awesome website! There should be a way to save your resume as an editable file (e.g. .docx) so that additional edits can be made.

geofferb avatar Jun 27 '23 03:06 geofferb

It is a good idea!

zhenda-hub avatar Aug 22 '23 16:08 zhenda-hub

Markdown is much better, for open-resume's simplicity, strongly suggest

woday-dev avatar Aug 30 '23 07:08 woday-dev

Markdown is much better, for open-resume's simplicity, strongly suggest

Yes but recruiters need .docx .

The ultimate goal of the resume is to get a person an interview -- and often that requires a recruiter to get you the interview.

Hence, please support export to .docx first...then later do Markdown

theschles avatar Dec 25 '23 20:12 theschles

Worth noting that docx in browser is a relatively huge module... May also be difficult to match the formatting and have the desired output from docx to pdf for import.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/docx

tracker1 avatar Jan 03 '24 15:01 tracker1

What about an .RTF instead of a Docx. That would be much simpler and can be imported and converted very easily into a Docx by your favourite word processor.

Bag72 avatar Feb 05 '24 01:02 Bag72

+1 for RTF export to see how that does...

theschles avatar Feb 06 '24 17:02 theschles

Just a quick update. I had a recruiter call me about the PDF requesting a Word version. It took me about 45 minutes to replicate it in word and made me think that I may as well have done it in word to begin with. I use this for tailored CVs as it is so easy to use. Importantly, the recruiter liked it but still annoyingly wanted to add something. I'm guessing highlights and comments but he didn't say. But if everyone ask for an editable version there is no point in using this tool if it is only PDF.

Bag72 avatar Feb 09 '24 22:02 Bag72