h-resume

Tantek Çelik (Editor)

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h-resume is a simple, open format for publishing resumes and CVs on on the web. h-resume is one of several open microformat draft standards suitable for embedding data in HTML.

h-resume is the microformats2 update to hResume.

Per CC0, to the extent possible under law, the editors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. In addition, as of 2024-12-21, the editors have made this specification available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement Version 1.0.

Example

Here is a simple resume example:

<div class="h-resume">
  <span class="p-name">
   <a class="p-contact h-card" href="http://example.org">
    <img src="http://example.org/photo.png" alt="" />
    Joe Bloggs
   </a>
   resume
  </span>
  
  <p class="p-summary">Joe is a top-notch llama farmer with a degree in <span class="p-skill">Llama husbandry</span> and a thirst to produce the finest wool known to man</p>
</div>

Parsed JSON:

{
  "items": [
    {
      "type": [
        "h-resume"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "name": [
          "Joe Bloggs resume"
        ],
        "contact": [
          {
            "value": "Joe Bloggs",
            "type": [
              "h-card"
            ],
            "properties": {
              "name": [
                "Joe Bloggs"
              ],
              "photo": [
                "http://example.org/photo.png"
              ],
              "url": [
                "http://example.org"
              ]
            }
          }
        ],
        "summary": [
          "Joe is a top-notch llama farmer with a degree in Llama husbandry and a thirst to produce the finest wool known to man"
        ],
        "skill": [
          "Llama husbandry"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Get started

The class h-resume is a root class name that indicates the presence of an h-resume.

See microformats2-parsing to learn more about property classnames.

Properties

h-resume properties, inside an element with class h-resume:

• p-name - brief name of the resume
• p-summary - overview of qualifications and objectives
• p-contact - current contact info in an h-card
• p-education - an education h-event event, years, embedded h-card of the school, location.
  Main article: h-event
  Main article: h-card
• p-experience - a job or other professional experience h-event event, years, embedded h-card of the organization, location, job-title.
  Main article: h-event
  Main article: h-card
• p-skill - a skill or ability, optionally including level and/or duration of experience
• p-affiliation - an affiliation with an h-card organization

All properties are optional.

Status

h-resume is a microformats.org draft specification. Public discussion on h-resume takes place on h-resume-feedback and the #microformats irc channel on irc.freenode.net.

h-resume is ready to use and implemented in the wild, but for backwards compatibility you should also mark h-resumes up with classic hResume classnames.

Property Details

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p-skill has a proposed expansion into competency with explicit summary, rating and/or duration components. Based on existing real world adoption, we should consider an h-skill vocabulary with p-name, p-rating, and dt-duration properties.

Examples in the Wild

• Moez Bouhlel has marked up his résumé using h-resume.
• Almorca has marked up his personal web page (in spanish).
• Peter Molnar has marked up his resume (on his about page) using h-resume.
• View (and add!) more examples here:
  • https://indieweb.org/resum%C3%A9#IndieWeb_Examples

Archived examples (past examples from sites that may be gone, down, or had markup changes)

• Sarven Capadisli marked up his Curriculum Vitae as an h-resume.
• … find archive.org links for any broken examples above and move them here

Validating

Main article: validators

Test and validate microformats2 markup in general with:

• https://pin13.net/mf2/ - enter your markup directly
• https://pin13.net/ - enter a URL to a page to test where it says "Microformats Parser"

Backward Compatibility

Publisher Compatibility

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Parser Compatibility

Microformats parsers SHOULD detect the following root class name and property names. A microformats2 parser may use existing microformats parsers to extract these properties. If an "h-resume" is found, don't look for an "hresume" on the same element.

compat root class name: hresume
properties: (parsed as p- plain text unless otherwise specified)

• summary
• contact - including compat root vcard in the absence of h-card
• education - including compat root vevent in the absence of h-event
• experience - including compat root vevent in the absence of h-event
• skill
• affiliation - including compat root vcard in the absence of h-card

Background

h-resume is based on the existing hResume specification.

See Also

• microformats2
• h-card and h-event are both embedded in h-resume
• The include-pattern is likely to be useful to avoid repeating information in any embedded h-cards
• hResume is the classic microformat replaced by h-resume