Components
Resume Builder is an android application that is meant for fast/quick creating of resume. There are six (6) steps within the app for creating of resume and each segmented part needs to be filled appropriately with the right information to enable perfect result. These steps are
- Personal Info
- Essentials
- Projects
- Schools
- Experience
- Preview
Personal Info
Comprises of basic informations such as Name, Job title, Address 1 and 2 phone and email address.
Essential Info
Has to do with skills of the user which he/she can easily input the info in the right column and languages is also consolidated in this section.
Projects
Here Users can input their projects Name,Details and give description of the project.
School
Is the section to imput the educational history of the user on the Resume, providing the name of school, location, degree acquired and give all neccessary data needed.
Experience
Here is the part to state work history and experience providing the company name, location, post occupied while in the company and general description of the job.
Preview
The last page on the app to show all the informations that has been stucked into the app in a page and viewable as Resume.
Though the app is still cool based on rudiment measures but i think more can be added to really improve the functionality of the application, specifically on the finishing part of the project and adding more feature into the application.
Having used the appplication for quite sometimes and i got to realized the project can be improved by adding more feature and also enhancing some parts of the functions.
Proposal
I propose the
Ability to select Format and style of resume and option to select background.
Direct Upload to social media channels
Upload and take picture
Magnifier tool and Font size
Interview recorder
Ability to select format/style of the resume and option to select background
This function is also known as appearance whereby users will be able to select the way which the resume will be printed out in terms of designs depending on user's interest and as required by the prospective employer, this will also have a function to select how the furthest/background part of the resume will look like in terms of color.
I believe this can be realised by providing options for users to pick as how they would like the finishing of their resume should look like.
Direct upload to social media channels
After inputting all necessary information and user previewed the resume there is a icon to save the resume into mobile storage memory/SDcard or google-drive so any further procedure has to to be from the device, I am suggesting a smart way of sending resume directly from the app to other social media platform this feature will be on the preview
There will be a icon whereby users will be able to send/upload their organized resume directly to social media platforms directly.
Upload and take picture
There are some advanced resume that requires adding of picture to suit the requirement of the employer's so addition of this feature will be useful for this reason, There will be upload button and take picture at the Personal Info page of the app so users can decide to use this features if entailed.
Magnifier tools and Font size
These features are needed majorly at the preview page of the resume, magnifier is a lens that is used to make something more larger in appearance in another word to zoom in and out of a page to enable better view for users depending on their visual capability as the page does not allow pinch to zoom
Font is a type of different sizes of text which can be selected and use, user can easily select font size that they would like to use to save their resume.
Interview recorder
Interview recorder is a feature whereby all submitted or sent resume possibly for job or any other purpose can be tracked, there will be a section within the app where user can input all the necessary information's got from the prospective employer such as Company name, date and time for interview, all necessary document to submit, Location/venue.
Mock ups
Pictorial illustrations of my suggestions
Benefits
Pragmatically all the suggested features and sections enhancement will be of added advantage for users of the application.
With the ability to select format/style of resume users will be able to select the type of resume format they want, depending on the design that will suit their personality, definitely these will make the application to be more advance and more useful.
Upload icon to social media platforms will make the project to be more flexible because it will be very easy to send resume directly to anyone within all installed social media platforms available on the user's device and the recipient can easily download the file on their device and this will perfect a specific extent of good enhancement.
Upload and take picture will also be of a brilliant feature as user will be able to add picture to their resume if required.
Instead of using another application to add picture RESUME BUILDER will perfect it and their won't be need for searching else where to add picture to resume.
Magnifier tools, Apparently this feature is meant majorly for people with sight issue and the preview page text might be kinda smaller in text, the inclusion of the feature will enable users to zoom in to see all the text properly as the page does not work on pinch to zoom.
As for now the save available is only in PDF and might involve additional application to convert PDF to Ms doc or other editable format,
Font size before saving resume will be of good feature so that the printed copy will have a suitable font size to eradicate all sort of limitation on the printed copy of the resume as user can select font size that will be nice
Interview recorder
This feature has lots of benefits.
Users will be able to track all the resume submitted to companies, it will be of more value for people searching for job and are submitting their resume's to different companies, they will be able to input all the response relating to interviews, the app will manage anything that has to do with the resume as well as interview and it will save users of the application from forgetting any necessary information that are essential
If all the above suggested features are added on the application it will improved users experience and will make the project to be more advance and will definitely have more users.
