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Thu, 03 May 2007 16:38:05 GMT

RSS Resume

Yesterday, Douglas Karr left a very challenging comment on Chip' Quips. Basically, Douglas wants to use RSS as an envelop for his resume. Others could subscribe to his resume and get an update whenever his resume changes.

http://www.chipsquips.com/?p=837#comment-43978

Douglas has written before on this subject. He would like to do a tag query on Technorati and find matching resumes.

http://www.douglaskarr.com/2006/12/20/peace-2/

Standards for embedding resumes in RSS already exist. Microformats is the most commonly used format, but you can also simply embed an HR-XML Resume object in your RSS <item>. So, I decided to make this functionality available on ResumeBay. Hack. Hack! And done.

My resume
http://www.resumebay.net/resume.aspx/randymorin
My resume in RSS microformats
http://www.resumebay.net/resume.aspx/randymorin?t=rssmf
My resume with embedded HR-XML
http://www.resumebay.net/resume.aspx/randymorin?t=rss

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Reader Comments

Fri, 04 May 2007 12:32:20 GMT

User comment

Nice work Randy. I've often thought that resumes via RSS was a natural fit, but never pursued it further.

- Charles

Sun, 06 May 2007 12:19:47 GMT

User comment

Now that is an interesting use of RSS and it gets away from the usual date based usage. An online service that allows people to update their resumes this way would do well I'd think.

cheers,
Paul M. Watson

Sun, 06 May 2007 19:30:06 GMT

User comment

Thanks Charles and Paul.

Randy