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What if you have a careers CV but want to post a job as an employer?

Using OpenId makes it somewhat bothersome to have separate accounts for employers and resumes (since you have to remember which account is tied to which openId provider). Also, I'm assuming an ...
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how to delete account and remove resume from Careers.stackoverflow.com? [closed]

Is there a way a registered user can remove his/her resume from careers.stackoverflow.com?
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Apply for Jobs using Careers CV

Now that jobs.stackoverflow.com has been migrated to be part of careers.stackoverflow.com, I propose that those of us who have CVs on Careers have a button on the job listings to simply submit our ...
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Should I include a link to my Stack Overflow profile on my résumé? [duplicate]

I'm not sure if this question belongs here, how ever it is related with Stackoverflow (and me). Recently, I had a chance to talk with Team manager in mobile company which name is irrelevant. He was ...
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Careers CV - Possible Export Functionality [closed]

Has anybody thought about/seen the ability to export your careers.stackoverflow.com CV to a PDF (or Word, or OpenDocument, etc.)? Seems like it would be a really nice feature to offer so that we have ...
Justin Niessner's user avatar
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Support export to Word format for CV's created by careers.stackoverflow.com [closed]

I've really only just begun to play with careers and it really a joy to use. However having as been on both sides of the recruitment fence, the only format recruiters speak is Word I the past I tried ...
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On my careers profile why are all the "customize public view" checkboxes greyed out?

I would like to display more information in my public view, currently it's very minimal. However when I go to "my profile" -> "public view" -> "customize public view" everything is greyed out. My ...
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Add your Lanyrd conferences to your CV on careers.stackoverflow.com

I think it would be cool if you could add the conferences that you've attended to your CV. Here are the docs for how to add this info from lanyrd to your site
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Feature to help other devs with CV typos etc

I just noticed someone had a typo on a CV. I wish there was a feature for other users to highlight things like this. Something similar to the 'flag' functionality would be neat. Edit: This is perhaps ...
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Add an honors & awards section

Could an "Honors & Awards" section be added to our Careers 2.0 profiles? I could put such accolades in my personal statement, but a separate section for these offering a more structured approach ...
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Careers: CVs ugly when saved or printed

In my company, we copy the CV into a meeting request for the interviewer to read. I can't find a "save as PDF" or "print" option, so I save the CV as a web page and attach that to the meeting request, ...
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Writing C++ expert on my CV

Can someone write that he is a C++ expert on the basis of reputation earned and badges received here at SO in the C++? Suppose I somehow manage to earn a C++ gold badge, can I include these ...
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Careers profile editing sometimes fails with a blank page and sudden logout

I'm working on updating my Careers CV, and it has now twice today happened to me that after editing a section (both times this took quite some time, which may be a related fact) and clicking "save", ...
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Can we have better 'projects' support in the CV section of careers?

The projects section is just a simple block of rich text. It would be nice for people who participate in multiple projects to be able to provide a specific section for each, including tags and your ...
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Location element of customizable CV public view on StackOverflow Careers is broken

StackOverflow careers allows each user to customize the public view of their CV and show or hide various elements as the user sees fit. One of the elements is "Location", underneath the "Personal ...
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Ability to change order of education/experience [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Please allow a user to sort the experiences on the career site. There are two possibilities for this: The order should be intelligent based on data. I would suggest reverse ...
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Can't add Writings to my CV?

I'm trying to add a few blog posts to my CV. I keep getting this error though: Sorry, we could not retrieve that URL for some reason. The URL I'm trying to use is just a simple page from my blog: ...
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Careers: Switch sides: from being an employer to looking for a job? [duplicate]

At careers you cannot be both employer and job seeker (link to another meta question). I have a login named nalply. Currently I am employer. But as I accumulated reputation with my login, I want to ...
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Can anyone see my CV before it has been "filed"?

If I've created and saved my CV but haven't filed it, can anyone see it?
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Careers student-status not actively updated in summary

When I toggle the checkbox associated with the text: I am currently a student it displays saving then ✔ saved. However this doesn't actively add/remove the: Currently a student at top of the ...
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