Another huge topic for HR-XML consortium is how to handle culture specifics:

Basically, in some countries, some fields are mandatories while other aren’t.
Therefore, the schemas can’t easily provide restrictions such as mandatory fields without moving into local versions of each HR-XML schemas.

My company is a HR-XML certified member and quite funny you did this.

The thing is HR-XML is not promoting their schemas to the public area but rather to software publishers in the HR market so those companies have their products talking to each other using a standard set of definitions.

The only issue why they are not pushing HR-XML to be the standard candidate Resume structure is because of competencies management: there is today no standard reference library of skills shared commonly therefore, your resume can’t be processed automatically by systems understanding HR-XML.

It still helps on structuring your resume in a standard way for presentation purposes.

That’s one of the big issues commonly shared by Application 2 Application or Business 2 Business integration (using either web services or any other remoting capability): the lack of common references for huge business hierarchal datasets.