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Customized CV generator:

Released (2010-02)
Posted At: October 14, 2009 10:42 AM
Posted By : visentin
Related Categories: Community
Rating: (16 votes)

We would like to have the possibility to generate a customized CV for the candidates in our system:

- The CV should be customized to our layout and automatically be filled like an email template with standard fields, custom fields and Custom objects. - if we click on the Generate CV button, a CV is generated and the text can still be adapted. The customer can choose to store the CV as Word or PDF and the Generated CV should be stored next to the existing CV or at other more prominent place than the document

- The generated CV should be selectable as part of other mail templates, this means that it should be possible to send the CV directly to our customers or line managers. (no delete email first)

-if we change fields for the candidate, and we click generate CV again, the details of the CV are updated. Alternative solution the moment a CV is sent, it always contains the latest details of the candidate.

-we should be able to open the CV and manually change details of the CV and store the CV again, the existing CV is overwritten.

-Optional it should also be possible to view the generated CV in the Candidate portal.

-above all as always with Peoplexs, this should be simple to use and configure

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# Posted By leo 11/3/09 10:43 PM

We did some prelimenary investigation of the technology needed to create this. A issue could be the automatic generation of a Word file. PDF is no issue.

Optional would be to generate an RTF file of a HTML file.Both can be opened in Word but lack some specific Word layout possibilities (like tables in RTF).

When you can still edit the CV after it is generated and first thereafter it is saved as a PDF, would you still need the option to generate a Word file? And if yes, why?

# Posted By nw 11/25/09 5:05 PM

Hi,
My comments on this new config would be:
- The CV ideally needs to be constantly editable/ changeable as a word or pdf file, following the conversion and upload. The reason for this is that we might need to tailor the CV for a specific role or client. A generic CV is never the bext CV to use... PDF is not wholely editable by everyone on any pc, if I am travelling I need to have maximum flexibility, especially should we need to manually change the CV and forward to a client.
- Company logo added in a 'header' at the top right of the CV, plus company contact details to be added as 'footer' centred at the bottom. Both would be excellent as an option to have.

# Posted By Koen van den Outenaar 11/27/09 4:48 PM

In order to generate a CV from candidate information some macro's must be added.
Currently most candidate fields are available as a macro when creating a template.
However macro's of custom objects are not available.
When making these macro's available in the candidate template it is important that also a repeat option is included.
This must be done because under custom objects you have the possibility to add multiple rows with data.
So when adding a macro field of a custom object a repeat option must be added:


[RepeatStart]
[{macro name}]
[RepeatEnd]


However custom objects can exists out of multiple columns.
So when using a macro field that belongs to a custom object with multiple columns it must be able to use
the macro in a table.
Ofcourse the table will have a header row so the template may look as follows:

< table>
< tr>
< td> column 1 header < /td>
< td> column 2 header < /td>
< /tr>
[RepeatStart]
< tr>
< td> [{macro name}] < /td>
< td> [{macro name}] < /td>
< /tr>
[RepeatEnd]
< /table>

We understand that this might not be very easy to configure for a user that has no knowledge of HTML.
So to make things a little easier for users that create templates and use custom object related macro's we
will make it a little easier as shown below:



If you don't want to use the column headers you can also do it like this:

# Posted By leo 2/23/10 12:30 PM

The CV generator is delayed, we will keep you updated through this thread on a new delivery date.

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