I've been applying for jobs recently. One of the biggest frustrations I've found is managing all the documents for my applications. I have experience in different fields, but when I'm applying for a job with specific requirements that extra experience just ends up being noise. I tried copy-pasting relevant content from a main docx file into a specialized application, but doing this for every job became very cumbersome very quickly to the point where the friction became too high and I just stopped applying.
Dynamic Resume Generator is sort of my attempt to make that process easier on myself. All I have to do is load up a JSON file with all of my credentials, selectively enable/disable them for a specific job that I'm applying to, and run the main script to generate a custom resume for that job application.
This probably isn't too special of a thing, but when I realized that I could write a quick script to alleviate my problems I was ecstatic. Given that the monthly "Ask HN: Who is Hiring/Wants to be Hired?" threads are tomorrow, I figured I'd share this with you all in the event that someone finds it useful :)
I've been applying for jobs recently. One of the biggest frustrations I've found is managing all the documents for my applications. I have experience in different fields, but when I'm applying for a job with specific requirements that extra experience just ends up being noise. I tried copy-pasting relevant content from a main docx file into a specialized application, but doing this for every job became very cumbersome very quickly to the point where the friction became too high and I just stopped applying.
Dynamic Resume Generator is sort of my attempt to make that process easier on myself. All I have to do is load up a JSON file with all of my credentials, selectively enable/disable them for a specific job that I'm applying to, and run the main script to generate a custom resume for that job application.
This probably isn't too special of a thing, but when I realized that I could write a quick script to alleviate my problems I was ecstatic. Given that the monthly "Ask HN: Who is Hiring/Wants to be Hired?" threads are tomorrow, I figured I'd share this with you all in the event that someone finds it useful :)