Coming along to give VisualCV and JobSpice a run for its money is new online CV builder CeeVee. It’s now opened up after being in private beta and aside from the cute sounding name, it’s aim is simple – to be the simplest CV builder out there.
But what is the point of CV sites like this when we have LinkedIn? Well, not everyone is into LinkedIn’s sparse, rather corporate presentation and so CeeVee – as it’s competors do – aims at the wide consumer marketplace with a simpler interface. Apparently Human Resources people aren’t keen on busy CVs (or maybe can’t cope with them?), hence this design approach.
In addition LinkedIn doesn’t allow you to export or share your resume in a widgety, social way (as yet). The aim, as founder Lee Wilkins tells me, is to work with HR departments and companies to make a more standardized format.
It’s certainly simpler and better looking than some of the CV designs on VisualCV, or maybe that’s just me.
The site also has a cool vanity URL feature. Thus if your name is Mike you can nab CeeVee.com/mike, although this may rather limit the site’s appeal to other Mike’s on the planet.
Plans for the future include company profiles, a jobs board and search amongst other things. The site features FaceBook Connect, and Share twitter buttons, with more coming.
Started by Romania-based Wilkins as a pet project in Sept 2008 the bootstrapped venture is looking to expand into localised version for key markets in Europe like Spain, Russia and Italy and further abroad such as India and also into Asia.
Congratulations Lee & Company!
May this be the first in a long and successful line of projects.
Congrats Lee & Max !
Simple ideea, excelent execution. How you’ll push it forward.
Can’t help but wonder if before entering foreign markets mentioned here, Lee finally decides to pay what he still owes to the editors in Russia and other countries of Eastern Europe after the widely discussed here MyKinda failure. After all, he promised to do so in public here and elsewhere so it could be reasonable before venturing to the new markets with a new product like this.
Lee still owes money to the Romanian MyKinda team, too!
Maybe this sudden reappearance on TC will help him remember to finally pay his debts!
Miron, I don’t really think he has paid to any team in any of the countries MyKinda was present. Interesting if these comments will make him remember his promise to pay.
they are unto a winner if they can get the consumers to use a format that’s accepted by HR departments and those slimy middlemen (recruiters)
Great job!
Congratulations @marele and @leewilkins !
By the way, I love green!
Seems to be a nice tool !
However, nothing very new… Emurse (in the US) and Moncv.com (in France) have been providing the same tool for several years now.
Don’t even know if it’s profitable.
This looks kind of cool but…when I try to type in my details and tab to the next field it loses my data! Crazy no? That you have to click OK each time and update the page….seems very 1.0
I prefer Matt Brown’s Sample Resume Template myself. http://sampleresumetemplate.net/
Love that features- Go Green!
As someone who deals with dozens of CVs each week, I had this exact same idea and was hoping to develop it within the next year. Curses!
From their about page (http://ceevee.com/about/):
“In July 2009, CeeVee opened its door in Public Beta. After many months of acquisition talks, all of which were refused, the CeeVee team picked up the pace to deliver a shit-hot, simple product, that anyone can use.”
Shit-hot? Really?
I like the name. Catchy and the logo is clever too. Very BrandBucket esc!
“The site features FaceBook Connect, and Share twitter button”
This is what now passes for innovation?
How on earth is this going to make money? Or is a catchy name and great url all that’s needed?
Hey man, let’s party like it’s 1999…
Not impressed at all by this. Why is it newsworthy? It is just another copycat.
Well done, hope things would work out well.
Hey, would any of you like to review our (obviously yet another) resume editor, http://praux.com (prauxnounced “pro”)? The aim being more Twitter-esque and open. Lots of RESTful APIs available (or planned), easy resume serialization / encapsulation in YAML or XML. Multi-language support. And more! There is a lot of innovation under the hood here, and this thread looks like its full of the kind of criticism we want.