Resume with Notion

Notion is one of my favorite tools due to how versatile and easy-to-use it is. You can use it for several purposes with resume being one of them.

However most of the notion-based resumes that I observe (including Notion's resume template) don't take advantage of its most amazing feature that is Database.

Database makes structuring your data really easy and affordable. Once you structure your content, it becomes more than set of paragraphs. You can do a lot of things with it and making multiple views is one of them. Each view provides a certain perspective in looking at your data without you having to write them down redundantly.

Out of curiosity I gave a shot and implemented my own resume with Notion. The database structure was pretty straightforward as I have multiple references including personal experiences in writing resume. The structure is as illustrated in the following screenshot:

For the views I implemented:

• List View

  • Purpose: To give it more of a traditional page look
  • Displayed attributes: Name, Starting Date, Organization

  

• Timeline View

  • Purpose: To see the chronological order of my experience
  • Displayed attributes: Name, Starting - End Date, Organization

It's not working perfectly yet and some of them are kind of 땜빵 (workaround). I couldn't make the timeline view work for current position so I put a dummy end date for it (Hopefully not actually get fired by then).

Also I wanted to combine the table for work experience and education so I intentionally assign them to Professional and Education type respectively so I can simply sort them alphabetically descending and I'll have my work experiences above my education, similar to LinkedIn's layout.

It's been an interesting exercise and I'd love to improve it in the future.

You can check it out in the following link (opens in a new tab), let me know what you think and tell me how I can improve it!