Monday, December 20, 2010

Resume Builder in the (digital) news

Since its release on December 10, the Resume Builder has been featured in a number of blogs and articles. Lots of good feedback and lively discussion from all over the world:

Don't worry, we won't let popularity get in our way. New features baking in the oven:
  1. The ability to order and show/hide individual items within a section. You can already reorder and hide entire sections, such as all of "summary" or "experience", but with the next release you'll be able to do the same for a single job in "experience" or a single phone number or address in "contact".
  2. Email address. Complete contact information on a resume is important. The Resume Builder already allows you to include your address, phone number and websites, and soon you'll be able to add email address too!
  3. Embeddable resumes. Want to include your resume in your own website? Soon you'll be able to.
Got some feedback? Let me know on the Resume Builder IdeaScale page.
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10 comments:

  1. Website appears to be down... I'm getting the problem notification. I've deleted the 'new' features from my LinkedIn profile and I'm still not able to create my resume. Any ideas?

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  2. @Suzanne: what time did you try to login? If you can let me know the time as accurately as possible, I can check the logs and see if I can figure out what the issue is.

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  3. I just tried again (5:16pm EST)... I'm on Safari but earlier I swapped to Firefox just to see if it was something stuck with my browser but no luck there either...

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  4. Just to be complete this is the initial error message I got on a red bar after linking my profile to the site:

    "There was an error fetching profile data from LinkedIn. Please wait a little and try again."

    And then when I click on 'new resume' I get: "
    We're sorry, but something went wrong.

    We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

    Thank you for your help!

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  5. @Suzanne: thanks for the detailed info. Looking at the logs now, will report back shortly.

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  6. @Suzanne: the error in the logs _looks_ like the issue the API team is having with the new profile sections. They are working hard to fix the issue, but currently, the only option is a workaround. In particular, if you started to fill out but didn't complete one of the following sections, you'll have issues:

    * Skills
    * Languages
    * Certifications
    * Patents
    * Publications

    Please check your profile and either remove these sections completely (click the X in the top right corner of the section) or make sure they are fully filled out and working properly in your public profile.

    Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for reporting the issue!

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  7. Brilliant. I'm in now... thank you for your help. This is a great feature, I'm so happy I'm able to access it.

    The problem was (in case anyone else is reading this)... that I had several 'sections' of my profile not filled out and not viewable. So I didn't realize they were there until I went to the 'edit profile' feature and saw the blank boxes. Once they were 'x'ed everything worked perfectly.

    Thank you again!

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  8. Glad to hear it. Hopefully we'll get the API bug fixed soon so others don't run into the same problem.

    BTW, if you have any feedback, ideas, etc, feel free to use the Resume Builder IdeaScale community page: http://liresume.ideascale.com/

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