Don't forget that to the average user, the fact that the resume is stored in XML is transparent. To them it's just a *very* flexible, intuitive and easy to use tool for creating a resume that lets them download it in the format they want. Treating the resume data as XML (whether it's stored that way or not) is what allows the use of a base set of professionally designed transformations (html, pdf, docx, teX?), and gives technically savvy users the ability to contribute their own. The transformations would normally be applied on the server behind the scenes, but if you're geeky you can always download your resume as XML in order to use/develop your own transformations. You should also be able to upload an XML resume if it's well formed. I'd also make the transformations (especially the base) downloadable so they can be used as templates, and I'd allow the rating of user contributed transformations. I'd create API's and applets which can be consumed by sites such as Dice, Facebook & LinkedIn. I'd put a forum on the site, and hire bright, articulate business students to respond to questions about the content of user resumes, and eventually hope that HR professionals would visit. The goal would be to put professional resume writers out of business and develop a self sustaining repository for resume information that's the *best,* most cost effective option for everybody, from office clerks to hiring managers to code monkeys. It would be easy, it would flexible, and you'd be able to hack it, so the consumer base should be extremely broad (think OS-X). The ends to the means is the information itself, which, if it accumulates... would give you the opportunity to be hired and/or bought out by Google.