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My weekend project = CVs in member profiles!! Check it out and submit yours!!!! :)

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Short note on the new career profiles (introduced by ): these are separate, employer-facing CV pages that sit alongside the standard community member profile. They’re meant to present a concise professional snapshot — headline, skills, roles, notable projects and a few community contributions — so recruiters can assess experience quickly without wading through forum-specific content.

Practical filling tips: keep a 2–3 line professional headline; follow with a compact skills list (technologies + level); list recent roles in reverse chronological order with 3–5 outcome-focused bullets each (metrics where possible). Add 2–3 curated links — a hosted project, GitHub repo, or a DaniWeb thread that demonstrates real problem solving — rather than a long list of every contribution. Omit sensitive personal data (full home address, SSN, birthdate). Prefer a contact method (email or LinkedIn) and a short optional line about availability or location.

Notes about importing and verification: the LinkedIn import is a convenient baseline but not an automatic sync — imported data should be reviewed and edited. Early users noted date/refresh oddities, so double-check start/end months and any overlapping entries after import. If LinkedIn is edited later, re-run the import to pick up changes; manual corrections are expected and often necessary.

Guidance for different experience levels: a modest, accurate CV is better than none (echoing ), and partial profiles are fine while gaining experience (as mentioned). Update after any significant role or project; a quarterly pass keeps things current. The team has discussed tying profiles into the jobs board, so keeping entries clear, keyword‑focused and results-oriented will help discoverability.

Quick checklist:

  • Short headline + one-line summary
  • Skills with proficiency, not long paragraphs
  • 3–5 outcome bullets per role (numbers help)
  • 2–3 curated links (portfolio/GitHub/DaniWeb posts)
  • Verify dates after import; edit for clarity
  • Remove PII; state preferred contact method

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Do you mean curriculum vitae?
And: how can I submit it?

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Here's mine:

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Very nice option for members Dani. After reading yours and Mike's though, I don't think I'll be doing anything with mine until I have a few more years experience under my belt.

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A modest CV is better than no CV.

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Cool new feature, Dani. Here's mine

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Davey, that's a link to the new CV feature within your member profile, but we take that a step further to create a whole new career profile for you (outside of your standard community member profile).

Yours is here: http://www.daniweb.com/profiles/67225/happygeek

You can see that, unlike your normal member profile, it's not aimed at other community members, but rather targeted towards outsiders to showcase your achievements at-a-glance both within the DaniWeb community as well as within your professional life. This is the page that your byline now links to for your editorial content, and we hope it's a page you would be proud to show off to future employers that would make more sense to them overall than your DaniWeb member profile. It is designed to give employers what they want -- which is a more unbiased understanding of who you are as a whole, with data (such as your rank out of one million members) and links to some of your more recent content to back it up, instead of just what you want them to read -- without all of the fluff targeted towards other DaniWeb community members. You'll notice it doesn't even have the standard DaniWeb header/footer.

Edited by Dani because: Broken link
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Update!! There's now an Import from LinkedIn button on the Edit CV page. It imports everything from there, and plus, if you edit your LinkedIn, and then hit it again, it makes only the appropriate adjustments on our side.

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I like the import from LinkedIn. A big ol +1 for that!

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Thanks!! At around the time when I saw you imported yours, there was a bug related to dates, so I'm not sure if the dates imported correctly for you or if you had to correct those manually after import?

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I thought there was a refresh problem as I changed some things on LinkedIn and those changes didn't take place for about 15 minutes here. Other than that I didn't notice problems.

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Not sure what you're talking about, actually :) Changes you make to LinkedIn do not automatically carry over to DaniWeb. (This is done on purpose because not everyone wants to mirror their DaniWeb exactly ... some might just want to use the import feature as a baseline.)

However, once you've imported, you can click the import button again from time to time to retrieve the latest LinkedIn updates.

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