Self vs Wix: Your Career Website Without the Site Project
Self builds a polished career website from your resume. Wix asks you to direct a broader site. Put your experience and projects online without turning your professional introduction into a website project.
Javier Martínez Samblas
Founder of Self · AI-powered resume-to-website platform
You already have the raw material for your career website: your experience, achievements, and work. Self turns it into a designed professional page. You should not have to plan a broader site just to introduce yourself well.
Self vs Wix at a glance
Starting point
Self
Existing resume or career material
Wix
Portfolio brief and project media
First draft
Self
Generated professional sections
Wix
AI portfolio to refine
Editing focus
Self
Experience, projects, and presentation
Wix
Website pages, layout, and features
Choose it for
Self
A dedicated career website
Wix
A broader website project
| Decision point | Self | Wix |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Existing resume or career material | Portfolio brief and project media |
| First draft | Generated professional sections | AI portfolio to refine |
| Editing focus | Experience, projects, and presentation | Website pages, layout, and features |
| Choose it for | A dedicated career website | A broader website project |
A broader builder gives you a broader brief
Wix can generate a portfolio with AI from your goals and project media. AI can help create the draft, but you still direct the site and decide how the full career story belongs in it.
For someone building a business site, choosing pages and features is part of the job. For someone who needs a professional link for applications or introductions, those decisions can be a detour. Our position: a career website should start with the career, with the presentation already designed around it.
Self turns what you have written into the page
Upload your resume, CV, portfolio, or career notes. Self generates the professional sections for you to review and edit. You can move from checking your experience to adding selected projects, without first deciding what kind of website to build around the information.
A consultant can put relevant experience beside an engagement summary. A developer can show a project image and link to the repository. A researcher can connect their background to publications and supporting work. The details differ; the need is the same: make the professional story easy to inspect.
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Professional design should be part of the starting point
Self pairs those sections with curated templates. Corporate keeps a career introduction composed and readable; Gallery brings visual projects forward. The page has a consistent typographic hierarchy and responsive layout before you start refining your content.
Browse the website templates and examples and choose the presentation you want people to open.
Verdict: choose Self and publish the career website
Wix makes sense when the broader site is itself the project. Choose Self when the goal is a polished professional presence from your existing material. Get the experience and work you want to share onto a page designed for that purpose.
Create your career website with Self.
Self vs Wix: common questions
Does Wix use AI to build portfolios? Yes. Wix offers an AI portfolio generator. Self starts from existing career material and generates professional sections, keeping the workflow centered on your resume website.
Can a Self page include a portfolio? Yes. You can add projects with images, video, descriptions, and links alongside your experience. Choose work that helps explain what you can contribute.
Can I use a custom domain with Self? Pro and Team let you connect a domain you own and provide search visibility controls and analytics. Free pages use a self.cv address, carry Self branding, and are not indexed by search engines.