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Kickresume is the world’s most powerful career documents builder. Create a perfect resume, cover letter or personal website in minutes.
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@tomas_ondrejka nice! I'll add this to my Hack Your Job Search Collection! https://www.producthunt.com/@gab...
@tomas_ondrejka Help run a company in the entry level job space, called babajob.com, in India. Would love to understand how people, who aren't exactly your early tech adopters, could use the product.
There are a ton of job platforms that are optimized for companies to hire employees.
Refreshing to see a holistic solution that caters specifically to the people who want to land a new gig. Kickresume is a one stop shop for everything you need: CV, cover letter, personal career focused website, you name it 🎨💘
@__tosh Thanks Thomas for submiting Kickresume. We help to create an outstanding resume, cover letter or personal web in minutes, impress a future employer and land dream job exactly as you mentioned.
Kickresume is a professional and career tool trusted by 400 000 job seekers 🦄. We help people through the whole process of resume and cover letter creation with many templates that are approved by recruiters and features that make us highly competitive in this market.
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Hi, I like the concept of being able to quickly (sorry, kickly :) ) create resumes.
I signed up with Linkedin and somehow expected that Kickresume would import my data from Linkedin - but it didn't. Linkedin is the only place I keep my professional info updated and I'd prefer to keep it like this.
Hi @bujatt, great point! It was possible to import all your data from LinkedIn in past (it was pretty fast and useful) Unfortunately LinkedIn changed their policy and now we are unable to import your information via their app. It was a great feature so we decided to try it another way.
Now you can simply import your LinkedIn data in 3 easy steps.
1. Download your LinkedIn profile in PDF
2. Upload it to Kickresume
3. Edit and download it or create a personal website.
Here is a step-by-step video:
@tomas_ondrejka thanks, wanted to try but I see it's a pro feature. Plus again, it's a manual process - I would prefer an automated one which keeps my resume up to date all the time
@bujatt you can get premium plan for free. Just use promo code ''producthunter'' At this time it's the easiest way to import LinkedIn data to Kickresume. We are also working on a browser plugin to make import easy and fast 👌 Maybe LinkedIn will allow users to import data in future 🙏 but we are not going to wait for it.
Love this! But I have a couple of questions: how does the grammar check work? Is the resume checked by human or just editing software?
@pieroborgo Hi Piero, thanks for asking. Great questions.
When you choose our Grammar Check, one of top-notch editors will personally review your resume. They will correct all grammar mistakes and improve the readability of your resume (in 24 hours).
Based on research, you can increase your chances to getting a job by 60% if your resume is without grammar mistakes. 🕵✍👌🤘
Idea is great but the templates are rather poor quality from design perspective... typography, alignments, use of whitespace etc. have space for a lot of improvement. Go for it!
@bboernard thank you for your feedback! We created our templates with the help of hundreds of world-class recruiters. One of the advice was to ''add a white space'' into resume templates to make it easy to read. We are still working on pixel perfect design so any feedback is welcome :) You can also customize every resume template (fonts, colors, alignments...)
@tomas_ondrejka @bboernard Tomas I don't think Bernhardt is saying using whitespace is bad but the way it's being used isn't up to par.
I have looked at many design resumes and the number one pet peeve of mine is the skill scaling system. Software skills should never be presented in a 5 star or a fill-bar iconography. Photoshop for example can be used by many different types of professionals and my 5/5 of photoshop doesn't compare to my coworkers 5/5 which makes it completely arbitrary.
Hi @bacheller, we are still working on our PDF rendering engine. It's pretty complex problem to generate pixel-perfect PDF resume with all the graphic.
According to skill scaling system - we had a pretty long discussion about this feature. Now users can simply use stars or words. At first we wanted to allow our users to use just text also because of resume parsing. We added star system later because some of our users asked for it.
Looks awesome. I came across many articles about ATS resume scanning in big companies. As far as I know, many ATSs don't parse .pdf docs very well. Kickresume seems to support only PDF download. Have you thought about this?
@adrianpica Grat question Adrian 🖖. Kickresume was tested with most popular Applicant Tracking Systems and resume parsers. They can read 99% of the information in our resumes 🙌 which is pretty impressive number. Actually we are more focused on content of resume and on using right keywords. That's why we created database of 17 000 resume phrases with keywords for each profesion. You can simple use them in your resume and rank higher in ATSs 🔝💻. It's like SEO for your resume. On the other hand, advantage of PDF is that it looks the same in every browser, parsing software etc.
Looks like a good product, but I really dislike the aggressive price change between annually and monthly charges. You know job searching is temporary, so users will prefer to be charged monthly, but monthly charges carry a 300% (!!!!!) increase in pricing. Can you explain the reasoning behind this? (And be honest?)
Hi @danr_4 thanks for your question! Kickresume is not only resume builder. Users can create a minimalistic personal website from their resumes in minutes - our users simply love it. Our vision is to make from Kickresume not only resume builder but also personal branding tool. That's one of the reasons why our annual pricing is less expensive. On the other hand, we have tested more than 10(!) pricing models to fit our user's needs and subscription model was most successful. We tried ''pay per download'' model and it was much more expensive. Last but not least - we have to cover our acquisition cost per user (we have 7 people in our team).
@tomas_ondrejka Thank you for replying but you babbled about features and vision and pricing models when all I asked was why is the price change aggressive between monthly and annually. I understand subscription is the right model.
Only the last statement is related to my question - you need to cover your expenses - so you aggressively push users to pay annually even though they are most likely to use it for no more than 6 months. That's logical, if your acquisition costs dictate it, but what you are practically saying is that your business model only works if users pay excessively for monthly subscription or they pay moderately for a period of time way beyond what they need.
Though, if you are doing well, this means the product is good, since users are willing to take the hit. But if your business model isn't sound, competition could lower prices and make you obsolete.
@danr_4 @tomas_ondrejka from my point of view it makes sense for people to have an up-to-date resume and available all the time (that's why I think the website part of the offering in addition to the cover letter is quite compelling). That's also what I recommend to everyone I know.
Especially in the creative industry everyone is hiring all the time, no matter if you have a job or not. Just check your mail or LinkedIn inbox. So imho it also makes sense to have an up-to-date resume even if you are not looking for a new gig and only want to have the reassurance that you have other options and want to regularly check your market value.
How I see it: by offering a subscription model and discounted longer-term plans they (Kickresume) align their business model with the customer relationship. This imho is a good sign. Another way to view the pricing strategy is to show that by signing up for longer term you get a heavy discount (therefore supporting the right decision/behavior & attracting more customers who are a good fit who think about their career longer-term and not gig-based on/off).
Pricing models can be a great way to filter your customer base & to incentivize people to make the right decisions. When you look at how the Economist (newspaper) is priced you will see that they incentivize longer-term subscriptions as well as taking the print + digital versions which imho is the right way for them to align their focus & incentives with mine as a reader (I want them to invest in their digital offering and I want them to continue high quality journalism that doesn't depend on clickbait cover stories to sell the current issue. I want them to take the long-term view).
@danr_4: how would you change their pricing and what reasoning/strategy would you follow ("why")?
@danr_4 we are still testing prices so we decided to test higher price change between monthly and annual plan to give our loyal users better price. In fact 48% of our visitors are returning visitors. You can also check our competitors, they have much higher prices with fewer features than Kickresume.
@__tosh @danr_4 @tomas_ondrejka Great Q&A. As was mentioned, Kickresume helps users to get visual and visible. That is a long therm process.
@danr_4 Thanks for your question. It's true there is huge difference. Also another way to look at it is that the yearly plan is heavily discounted because we want to go the long way with our customers. I appreaciate help so please feel free to suggest any ideas.
Hi guys, it seems you did a really good job with Kickresume, but I think that classical paper version of resumes are going to die and companies are more focused on your LinkedIn profile ... am I wrong ?
This is very good point @kolar_jakub. Thanks for asking this kind of question. If this was true, people would send emails with nothing but a link to their LinkedIn profile to potential employers. But they don’t. If you’re looking for a job, to have a LinkedIn profile is important as a complement to your resume.
@kolar_jakub If you are more interested in this topic we created article on our blog early this May. You can find it here
➡️➡️ https://blog.kickresume.com/2015...
Many companies accept resumes only in .doc format. Is it possible to download my resume as a .doc file?
@mirceavadan Thanks for asking Mircea. Kicresume currently allow you download and create documents in PDF and HTML. We considered .doc format and cosulted it with several top recruiters. Final decision was made and we keep documents only in PDF. Its better with formatting, generating and even in some case of resume parsing.
@peduris @mirceavadan might be worth to consider adding .doc support (if it is not super difficult) and have it available for the people who really need it (think: jobs-to-be-done) but UX-wise focus on and encourage PDF usage.
@__tosh @mirceavadan That is correct. We will add .doc export to some templates where we will be 100% sure that .doc will keep formating and structure. Thanks for feedback 👌📄📁
Hi guys, good to see you here! It's amazing to see the progresses you have made on the product. Keep up the great work!
This is really cool! Kickresume seems like a neat all-in-one solution for job seekers. How has Kickresume started and how many people are there in your team?
Hi @tomas_vysny great question! We put Kickresume together with @peduris back at university when we needed to write a resume for an internship, so we created a very simple tool for us and our friends. In a few months, though, we found Kickresume used by a couple of thousand people! That’s when we decided to move Kickresume to another level. We have seven great people in our team at this time. ✌️
i think you did a great job designing your templates and i really like quite a few of them. maybe you should contact this guy (http://saijogeorge.com/website-b...) and have him add you to his list.
however i would never recommend anybody to use a service like yours. why?
situation A: you're a designer or you do something media related as a job. obviously your resume needs to look something like this, but it also shouldn't come out of a templating engine like kickresume. if you're a designer, i do hope you're capable of designing something like this on your own. if a possible employer finds out that you used a template to style your resume, he will throw it away immediately. why would i hire a designer, who instead of designing something simply used a template? worst idea ever.
situation B: you do not work in the media sector. well, i think your resume shouldnt look like any of this. you need to google "resume" and use the most boring resume template you can find. if you feel creative you may want to go with helvetica instead of times new roman. im serious. many people in HR will hate your for using any kind of fancy templates, because they need a moment longer to understand where they find a certain kind of information. its a myth that a fancy resume will get you the attention you want. people from HR care about the content of your resume and anything that looks fancy, will seem like a cover-up for that D- you got in economics.
this of course is my personal opinion based on what i heard from friends using these kinds of designs and recruiters i talk to. id love to hear your point on this Tomas. anybody in HR has seen designs like this a million times. sure they seen the regular and boring design probably a billion times, but dont think for just a second that a resume like this will make you look special, creative or unique.
Hi @gopietz. All of your points are correct. Kickresume's target groups are young students, fresh graduates or people that wanna change their job after a longer period. It's true that if you are a designer, you might have enough skills to create your own stylish resume. However, that is just a small group of people.
Kickresume currently offers to choose from 19 resume templates, with thousands of possible combinations within customization.
We have prepared stylish resumes for jobs in marketing, bartending, retail...etc; very conservative resume for jobs in business, bank, government, legal, executive...etc; and something between for jobs like administration, customer services, internship, IT...etc. Some of our templates might look like pure text, some of them are full of shapes, images and graphics.
However, the priority of all templates is readability, structure and standing out from the crowd. We have consulted each template with hundreds of recruiters from top companies. So all job fields and departments might find format they need.
Every day we receive dozens of feedbacks telling us that we help our user to find a job and stand out from hundreds of applicants. As we grow and we still improving our service it's happening more and more often - which makes us very happy.
On the end, I might also say that Kickresume is not only about formatting and lovely stylish resumes. We help users with content, grammar and editing resume by native professionals. Which btw might be also helpful for some designers.
@gopietz I am very glad you asked this question. With Kickresume, we would love to become something more than just mainstream resume builder. We are here to help you stand out and get your dream.
At this time you only seem to support PDF export of resumes. Will you support exporting resumes to Word, Libra Office or having a web version? Will it look the same in Word and online?
@oprostrednik Hey Ondrej, as you can see there are many reasons these days why recruiters advise much job seekers to send PDF resumes. Even the biggest parsing companies like CVlizer or Sovren support PDF parsing. We tested our resumes with CVlizer and it can read 99.9% of the information in your resume.
minor suggestion: it would be awesome to be able to navigate between the templates with LEFT / RIGHT cursors and arrows.
Hi @milan_steskal. There is lot of work to do. We have many plans to improve Kickresume. We're adding new features basically every week. We're planning to cooperate with schools and universities to help the students create a perfect resume to land their internships and dream jobs. Also, we're working on a top secret Kickresume Bot. We have prepared around 50 000 resume phrases, that are ready to use. We will move personal website creation to the next level and also planing other platforms as iOS for example.
@tomaspeniasko thanks Tomas, We are also glad that some people from our home know about Kickresume on Product Hunt
Hey Tomas,
I stumbled upon KickResume few months ago.
I have audited the site and must say that I like resume designs, features, pricing, blog, job board etc. What should I expect next? You guys covered everything.
Any plan to start job fairs, talks in school/college about importance of resume or annual mega event on resume?
Btw, why three Tomas in team. 😂
Hi @kalpeshsingh, thank you so much for your feedback! We are just at the beginning with Kickresume. Our mission is to help young people get a job because unemployment of young people is a huge problem which will be hard to solve. 💪
We are launching Kickresume for Education by the end of this year. All students will get our app totally for free to learn how to write a perfect resume. We tested it with selected universities and the results were great.
We are also developing a matching system which will find you a job according to data in your resume. In other words, it will be ''LinkedIn for young people'' without annoying recruiters. 🙏 You just pick interesting job offer and send resume (or link to personal website) with one click.
It's pretty funny that we have three Tomas in our team. Can you imagine when someone in our office shout ''Hey Tomas...'' 😂😂😂
Hi @joshuapinter. Thanks for your feedback. I think I know where you are pointing with this. Alignments!!! We will set aligns better. You can also edit them while filling resume. However, please feel free to suggest any improvements so we can make Kickresume better for ALL. Some templates might look very, let's say busy, but those are desinged for conservative jobs where you need to include as much information as possible on one page. 💭
I cannot tell you how much this would help people. As an ex recruiter in my early days, excellent candidates had extremely poor CV's despite being hugely talented. This really shines them in a new light and gives people a significant edge... it's about time resume's looked interesting instead of being boring black and white!
Hi @b4dp4ck. Exactly you said. It's just about time resume's looked interesting instead of being boring black and white! Than Kickresume came and have opened a door to those who don't have so much information to write in resume (young graduates, never employed) or just need to show what to write or just check grammar. First things first. It's content, design, structure and grammar. This is the most important we think we can help all users with.
Very nice product! Quick and easy to work with. Though I would like to see more fresh design templates insipred by Indian culture. By the way, how many users do you currently have?
Thank you @najsamfilip!
We have more than 200K active users (400K together with unregistered users) from all over the world. So, to date, we’ve had more than 400,000 resumes downloads.
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