FlowCV - Create a beautiful resume & customize it easily

Hi @andrea_gaffuri, thanks for trying FlowCV! We unfortunately do not support creating more than one resume (yet). We are evaluating it though because we get that feature request quite a lot :) Hint for getting two resumes in the meantime: you can create a different account under a separate eMail-Adress and change the displayed eMail on your resume so that they both show the same one 🤓 Thanks again & glad to have you on board!

@andrea_gaffuri @alxjpzmn I second this! I’d like to have at least 3 resumes, 1 for each language I speak. Then it’d be great to be able to duplicate one of those and make some small changes before downloading it, so that it’s better suited for whichever company i happen to be applying for a position at. Perhaps you can introduce that as a paid option? But please not another subscription! You could let users “unlock resume slots” like: 10€ for 1 extra resume slot, 18€ for 2 extra slots, 25€ for 3 extra slots etc. So I pay 10 € once and I “unlock” a second slot, meaning I can have 2 resumes simultaneously and tweak each one as many times as I want. If I delete the second resume, the 2nd slot will be free and I’ll be able to create another resume or duplicate the main one. How about that? ☺️ I’d 100% pay for it and I’m sure many many others would too!

@anna_0x, super cool idea - like it a lot! The reason we haven’t implemented multiple resumes is that we haven’t sufficiently thought about the UI/UX just yet. But clearly the demand is here, so we will work on it :)

@alxjpzmn yessss, glad to hear that! Can't wait 😁

@anna_0x Big news: you can now create quickly create multiple versions of your resume with FlowCV! We are excited for you to take it for a spin & tell us what you think! 🤗

Hi @filterfreak 👋, thanks for your feedback! We know that it can be hard for HR to decipher what exactly the candidate means by giving himself 4/5 stars for a skill. That's why we encourage our users via tips to provide more information on the rating they gave themselves for a skill. And of course we offer the possibility to completely hide the skill bar 🙂 At the same time, we believe that it contributes to an easily scannable resume that invites readers/HR to skim through the skills quickly. That's why we offer the skill bar.

@filterfreak true but it’s completely optional, thank god! Point charts are actually useful when it comes to languages though.

@anna_0x For languages it will be better to say if the creator can read, write a particular language. I believe putting that on a CV will add more clarity than a Point chart.

@anna_0x @renga_vasan of course we support that as well ;)

@jpmartin thanks, really appreciate it! 😊 not yet but its on the list - stay tuned!

@jpmartin @alxjpzmn LinkedIn import for me would be a need-to-have. I'm done updating and syncing my resume copy manually, and my LinkedIn profile is my source of truth.

@alxjpzmn @mosymuis There is actually a feature in linkedin, to download the resume as a PDF version - and nicely formatted one too!

@alxjpzmn @jpmartin Yes exactly, so that's what I'm using now. Therefore, for me to adopt a new resume-building tool (that allows for more visual tweaking for example, or creative layouts) should at least be able to use my LinkedIn-copy.

Hi @rajesh_kumar_nalla thank you for your question🙌 FlowCV is free to use for anybody and we will keep it free. The code itself is not open-source at the moment. 
However we are actually playing with the thought of open sourcing certain parts of FlowCV in the future in connection with another product we have in mind!

Thanks for the feedback @christopher_lee4! We placed a lot of attention to starting out with CV designs & customizations that are as universal and effective as possible. We will of course add more customizations soon because we also want to provide users some more sass for their resumes 😉

@alxjpzmn No problem. By the way seeing as you just launched I have a market research service where for $12 you can ask 100 people a question then follow-up based on how they answered and even interview them! https://scoops.io/ You could ask e.g. "How much of a pain is it to design & standardize your resume when applying for jobs?" Anyway If you want to give it a shot I'll pass you $12 in free credits. Best of luck otherwise!

@christopher_lee4 looks really cool! Yeah definitely, thanks! Will PM you!

Thank you so much for your kind review Daniel - much appreciated 🙌 we are having a lot more extensions in the pipe for letting users customize their resume –– so stay tuned!

Hi @shyamantab, thanks for checking us out! Currently, we calculate page breaks by entries so that we can be sure that no resume entries are split between pages which would make it harder to read for recruiters. If there are entries in a resume (e.g professional experience) that take up a lot of height, they unfortunately get pushed down to the next page which could result in a lot of white space before that section. We are going to look into making the page break logic more context-aware! In the meantime, it could help to either - shift sections around - reduce the vertical height the sections take up by e.g. reducing line height or vertical padding - and the most radical one would be to create custom sections for longer entries or distribute the content for professional experience (e.g. to skills so that an individual entry doesn’t take up a lot of space) Of course, those are just meant as an immediate possible remedy and we will make sure to think hard about how to make the page break logic account for longer entries! Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks again for taking the time to give it a spin! 🙌

@alxjpzmn Thanks for your response. The fact that you've released this product for free means a lot in itself. We'll collectively try to make it better.When I interact with young professionals and students I always find that building a great CV is a real struggle for them. Wish you all the best! Will try the tips you shared and get back.

Thanks for your support & suggestions, already put them into our Kanban-board 🤗

@eulerr thanks a lot! :)