Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t want you sharing salary information with your coworkers. I have read stories about how these documents & information can sometimes get leaked & shared on the web which is pretty sketch.

TIL about “functional résumés” which it appears are usually meant to cover up your lack of work experience, but I like the idea of covering up a lot of my specific history as it is the skills that should matter more, no? Do you give out all of your info?

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    8 months ago

    My resume is here: https://kevincox.ca/resume/

    I do have a flag to build it with personal information included, but that is just my phone number, and honestly I don’t even remember the last time I did that. I basically “print” the public version to PDF and share.

    Just about all of the information on the resume could be found elsewhere online. None of it is stuff that I consider private.