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OpenResume is a powerful open-source resume builder and resume parser. https://open-resume.com/
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Save as editable document #25

Open geofferb opened 1 year ago

geofferb commented 1 year ago

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.

zhenda-hub commented 1 year ago

It is a good idea!

woday-dev commented 1 year ago

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

theschles commented 10 months ago

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

tracker1 commented 10 months ago

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

Bag72 commented 9 months ago

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.

theschles commented 9 months ago

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

Bag72 commented 8 months ago

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.

pim-developer commented 1 month ago

After trying a few free pdf to docx converters online, I found that https://smallpdf.com/pdf-to-word converts the Open Resume PDF the best (i.e. almost no formatting difference, except the icons are off by ~1 px). Upload the converted docx into Google docs and you're good to go.

This might be helpful in the meanwhile !