Getting your resume ready for public consumption can be a daunting task. You have to find it amongst all your folders and when you do find it, you have to hope that it’s relatively current.
Here is a neat cheat. LinkedIn Labs has created a nifty app to convert your LinkedIn profile into a resume.
You grant access for the app to use your profile, wait a moment while it is compiled and then, voila! A resume!
What’s really interesting is that you can see your resume in ten or twelve different formats. It’s a very quick and cool way to see what’s possible.
You can also edit what you create in terms of moving things around and choosing what you want to have included. It’s a little bit clunky but useful.
It allows you to make changes to your profile on the fly and then refresh the resume to see the changes.
When you are happy with a version, you can save it within LinkedIn, you can make it publicly accessible or you can save it as a pdf.
I was not able to get it to the point where I was really totally happy with the LinkedIn version. There was more tweaking that I wanted to do. I chose to save it as a pdf.
Now, I am going to find a nice little pdf hack so I can turn it into a Word document and then put my finishing touches on it.
Take a moment to try this today – it really is pretty neat.