Show HN: A website that tailors your resume for each job you apply for

[samixg]

https://resume.ink

Hey HN,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on for the past few months. As someone who has spent countless hours tweaking my resume for different job applications, I wanted to find a way to make this process more efficient and effective. So, I built a website that tailors your resume for each job you apply for.

You can check it out here: https://resume.ink

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Cheers, Sami

[pogue]

Can you discuss the data privacy? What happens to my resume if I upload it to you? Are you retaining it? Are you keeping my email and sending me marketing stuff etc etc etc?

[bibliotekka → pogue]

Oddly I have the same questions when applying to jobs in general. Some of the interfaces feel like dark alleyways.

[samixg → pogue]

That's a great suggestion, I'll add a FAQ section to answer these.

[ssayed]

I experimented with Jobscan (https://www.jobscan.co/) and Teal (https://www.tealhq.com/tools/resume-builder)

Neither were that impressive in my opinion. Excited to give this a shot!

[mkobit → ssayed]

I had the same experience with JobScan. I felt that it helped me on my resume overhaul with some good clear suggestions, but didn't work well with editing and replacement, especially with my resume hosted in Google docs. I cancelled my subscription during the free trial.

Thankfully, this is another tool in the current arms war of job searchers versus corporate recruiting.

[samixg → ssayed]

Let me know if you have any feedback!

[samixg]

Also you can download the tailored resume for free if you use code “DEMO” (No account is needed)

[thomasfromcdnjs]

We have a version of this for JSON Resume, just append /letter if you use the registry

https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis/letter

https://registry.jsonresume.org/sadimfinity/letter

prompt/code: https://github.com/jsonresume/jsonresume.org/blob/master/app...

[samixg → thomasfromcdnjs]

This is so cool!

I think Resume.Ink is different because it generates a new PDF resume tailored specifically to the job you're applying to. While JSON Resume generates a cover letter. I think they actually complement each other quite well.

[thomasfromcdnjs → samixg]

Yeah my bad, I just tried to delete my comment but too late.

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My useful feedback;

  - I thought the UX was broken when there was no next button after answering questions

  - It would be great if the homepage showed a real example (real JD, real before and after) 

  - There was a bug in my upload (Thomas Davis pdf if you are looking at the database). It hallucinated a whole job I've never had into my finished resume.

[samixg → thomasfromcdnjs]

Don't worry, I'm pretty sure someone will find your comment useful

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Thanks for the feedback: 1. You're right, the UX can use some improvements there 2. I've just updated the landing page with a before/after example 3. Ooh, that's not good, thanks for reporting this, I'll look into it asap

[thomasfromcdnjs → samixg]

I'm also working on a similar feature, it's simple but complicated too "merge" information in when using GPT's. I imagine you've encountered it too. If I say I have an array of interests ['music', 'gardening', 'racing'], and a GPT replies ['music', 'gardening', 'racing', 'competitive driving'], you don't want additive synonyms. And then more complicated is deletions, if it replies, ['gardening', 'racing', 'skydiving'], does that mean I want to remove 'music' or did it just forget to include it in the response so should I just merge the old and new array.

I'm probably going to open source a llm-structured-data-merge-thingy library (that has different merge strategies) in the near future.

[samixg → thomasfromcdnjs]

Yeah, it's pretty complicated. I didn't really solve it, but I'd be interested to see how you do it.

[bitsinthesky]

Is this a message from heaven? Is the holy Hacker News now God’s preferred vehicle for answering prayers, yonder the silicon curtain far beyond?

[toddmorey]

I like the idea quite a bit, but the example before/after resume shows the resume getting better rather than more tailored.

[samixg → toddmorey]

Fair point, I did try to include the job requirements in the before/after but couldn't integrate it in a pleasant way, but if you're interested here's the job post I used for the example: https://apply.workable.com/lucidya/j/47F7F41A30/

[Mountain_Skies]

LLMs writing resumes

LLMs reading resumes

Can electric monks be far behind?

[bitsinthesky → Mountain_Skies]

Now that I think of it I should set up poisoned models on huggingface which, when used to read resumes, will auto-accept anything with my username on it

[the_real_cher]

Does this use GPT?

[samixg → the_real_cher]

Yes it does

[empire_and_sun]

Hey you want to work on AI projects together!?

[empire_and_sun]

Thanks bro keep it up