Ask HN: Do you make your CV public?

7 points by timurlenk 14 years ago | 4 comments

In my corporate life, I have noticed that most of the senior/executive staff are quite protective of their CV's and profiles.

Even more, if they are members of linkedin, they usually only present their job titles with no further description of role or responsibilities. This would seem to me counter-productive as a potential recruiter would be less likely to find their profile using a generic search.

Personally I would have greater trust in a public CV because my feeling is that the respective person would be less likely to lie or embellish facts in a CV that be seen by their immediate peers.

Is your CV public or not? Why? Do you fill in your complete linkedin profile or just job titles? Why?

logn 14 years ago |

I agree with you. I think overly private CV's are that way because they don't want co-workers noticing or calling them on BS. Of course, some people are just private.

Also, some people, myself included, tend to craft a resume for a particular job. You can always accentuate your strengths that are relevant to the particular job. This is one reason to not post a CV.

I have a very full LinkedIn profile because I use it to market myself. I often include the link in cover letters. I've gotten a lot of callbacks just by exporting my profile as PDF and sending that as my resume (worked for Google). But I know a lot of people just on linked in to keep in touch with co-workers and not to market, so there's no need to list specifics.

dangrossman 14 years ago |

I keep a profile at StackOverflow Careers for the heck of it. It's a fun CV builder.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dangrossman

avinash88 14 years ago |

I keep my CV private, just because I have references that prefer their personal contact information to not be publicly displayed.

cjbprime 13 years ago |

My resume is entirely public, even including my cell number. I don't include references in it, though.