Five years ago I was using a Word document to maintain my résumé, then I wrote a tool to manage it. The tool adhered to hr-xml markup; from the XML file I use to generate an html page that I converted in Word and PDF document. But I’m over this now. For my most recent résumé update I switched to yet another “standard”, hresume. It’s a microformat.

Interesting enough linkedin.com has adopted this microformat. If you got a public profile, you may not know but this profile is using hresume microformat - just look at the source code for your public profile page.

The good thing about hresume is that you write your résumé directly in html marking tags with specific classes defined by hresume microformat. Then you just have to write a stylesheet to make your résumé look good. You’ll find several examples of people who have published their résumé with hresume format. There is even a Wordpress plugin.

If you’re still wondering how to present your résumé on your website, I encourage you to move to hresume, it’s simple enough to maintain - it’s just html - and even if it does not really take up in the long term at least you did not bind you to some proprietary/binary format.

So here on the left is the new look of my résumé looks today - I still need to review it a bit but the CSS is final (I think). If you get to use hresume, feel free to reuse the css I’m using.