Github: https://github.com/jkga/json-resume-template

Q: Have you wrote more than ten(10) resumes in your lifetime?
Q: Have you edited your resumes ever since?
Q: What year you did you receive your college degree?
Q: Looking for your resume on your computer and it is nowhere to be found?

If you believe you have those questions on your mind, maybe it is time for you to take a short break and think

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Almost a year ago, I wrote an article for the dev and non-dev person to help them easily create their own online portfolio in just a few minutes.The process was basically forking a repository and editing JSON file which was structured based on json-resume. Setting up is breeze!

   // Sample JSON-Resume
    {
    "basics": {
      "name": "John Doe",
      "label": "developer",
      "image": "https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/...",
      "email": "johndoe@gmail.com",
      "phone": "(111) 333-4567",
      "website": "http://johndoe.com",
      "summary": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecte...",
      "location": {
        "address": "22111 Makiling",
        "postalCode": "4027",
        "city": "Calamba",
        "countryCode": "PH",
        "region": "Philippines"
      }
    }
  }

🔗 https://github.com/jkga/json-resume-template/blob/master/index.json

Aside from being pretty easy and straight forward to create, there are are more advantages on this approach

✅ Standard format for your resume

✅ Easily track every changes

✅ Stored online and centralized platform

✅ Sharable and Accessible 24/7

✅ Computer program friendly

💡 A friendly reminder: If possible, please refrain from adding sensitive information.

💡 For more info, please visit their official website by clicking this link

Though using a json-resume offers a lot of benefits, it might not be suitable for some instance and there could be a much better approach that will work for you in certain cases. After all, getting started with json-resume is easy. So why not try?

Writing your first JSON-RESUME

Resume in Github

1.) Fork 🍴this boiler plate to your account by clicking the "Use this template" button on the repository page

2.) Write about.me on the repository name

⚠️ Make sure that your repository name is set to about.me. Otherwise, you will receive a profile not found message

3.) Update index.json with your personal information (you can do this later)

Other Version Control Platform

1. Create a repository and name it about.me
2. In the recently created repository, make a new file index.json
3. Go to this webpage and copy all the content
4. Paste the content to index.json then save

Testing

Go to https://me-web.now.sh/[ 👨your_github_username_here] to check if everything is working

Sample

https://me-web.now.sh/potvillage

🎉 🎉 Congratulations for your first JSON-Resume!!! 🎉 🎉

If you have any question or feedback, please type it on the comment box. This is just a short article but I hope you gain some insight on what is json-resume all about and how can you use it in the future. The next part would showcase a package that you can use for reading all resumes across different platforms. So please stay tuned! Have a great day ahead and keep safe!