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Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by srbhr »

JCharante wrote: post #49
srbhr wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, the web-app is in development. And the way to use this is Streamlit interactive or the streamlit app. With your Qdrant and Cohere API keys for Semantic similarity.

I'm not familiar with streamlit. So streamlit is another way to interact with the backend? How can we see the results?

Yes, it's a python dashboard that contains all the Backend code. You must run the app, add your API keys in config.yml, and upload your resume and job description.

You can see the matching keywords (although the UI is messy) and your resume's semantic similarity score.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by srbhr »

m3047 wrote: post #48

Upvoted this post. I see it's Apache licensed, somebody should be running it somewhere as a service with an easy, small payments option. A service which genuinely validates a resume as parseable by the majority of popular ATS and even spits out a summary would be useful from an adversarial (applicant) POV. I'd pay $5-$10 by credit card if I trusted the processor. I'm not worried about privacy particularly, given that…

Hi, my goal is to help people find jobs. Amidst lay-offs and panics, I wanted to create a tool (with whatever knowledge I have) to help people understand whether the Resume Templates they use are friendly. - Are keywords getting highlighted or not?

A scenario I faced was. - I wrote Java in my resume for the role of Java Developer. But there were other words like J2EE, Gradle, Maven, etc. I possess the knowledge, but I didn't write it. - So, I wanted to detect such keywords and develop something that can highlight such keywords.

Conclusion: - I landed three interviews. 1. Big Service Based Company 2. Startups

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by andai »

JCharante wrote: post #36
andai wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A book from nearly 100 years ago recommends hiring a specialist to help you write your job application letter. What I'm seeing here is kinda the same thing except available to people with less money.

Which book is that? I'm interested in adding it to my reading list

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. On the face of it, a new age book about turning your thoughts into reality. (And a pretty good one, as far as that goes...)

The author interviewed hundreds of the most successful people of his day and distilled their success principles.

It's packed to the brim with practical advice about how to run a business, and how to achieve any goal. Worth a read.

TLDR pick a goal you really care about, develop absolute faith that you will attain it (i.e. practice seeing it as already done, until it feels real), lay out a concrete plan of action for its attainment, and get to work!

(The section on quality and quantity of service rendered is of particular interest.)

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by jimbokun »

willsmith72 wrote: post #9
ssharp wrote: post #4

I'm generally confused by how much "ATS-friendly" matters, or what that even means. On one side of the coin, it logically makes sense that ATS systems would help recruiters pare down the list. I'd assume there is some auto-rejection happening, but how sensitive is it (getting rid of clearly unqualified candidates vs. rejecting marginal candidates vs. actually qualified but still rejected due to not being ATS-friendly…

ATS optimisation is absolutely critical these days, at least in tech. With the amount of applications you receive, the easiest first step is looking for a way to exclude someone. If your ATS can't even parse someone's CV properly, that's a great way to exclude it from consideration. The next level is keyword matching. If your ATS can't find any of the keywords from your listing in the CV, another easy exclusion. The…

You could sell an ATS system that randomly selected n resumes from the total and it would be almost as effective.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by willsmith72 »

jimbokun wrote: post #54
willsmith72 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ATS optimisation is absolutely critical these days, at least in tech. With the amount of applications you receive, the easiest first step is looking for a way to exclude someone. If your ATS can't even parse someone's CV properly, that's a great way to exclude it from consideration. The next level is keyword matching. If your ATS can't find any of the keywords from your listing in the CV, another easy exclusion. The…

You could sell an ATS system that randomly selected n resumes from the total and it would be almost as effective.

have you posted a job listing recently?

the amount of crap coming in is ridiculous, and nothing like a few years ago. people apply to anything from anywhere

looking for a full stack web engineer? i'm a senior data analyst on the other side of the world, and you have python in your job description, and i know python, and i don't have a visa, and you explicitly said you can't sponsor visas right now, but i'm applying anyway

once you've seen that a few thousand times, you'll realise even though it's far from perfect, automated filtering is a must. that's all an ATS is. some people get so turned off by the acronym, but i bet if they were on the receiving end, their first instinct would be to build their own "automated filter" (ATS)

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by endemic »

manicennui wrote: post #21

Resume tricks like this are nonsense. Are there recruiters who are swayed by things like this? Sure. Do you want to work for those companies? Probably not. Stop shotgunning your resume to dozens of companies. Research a few companies where you might actually want to work. Do this from time to time even if you aren't looking; don't wait until you are desperate for work. And the most important thing is to actually have…

> Stop shotgunning your resume to dozens of companies.

Yeah, even with individually crafting the resume and cover letter, my response rate was incredibly low during my most recent job search. After doing that for a while, you realize it's not worth the time/emotional investment.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by ineedtosleep »

chad_strategic wrote: post #34
ineedtosleep wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As for someone looking for a new position, I can give you anecdotal evidence. A little background: I have 10+ years of professional experience. Polyglot. Experience with extremely small to medium sized companies. I re-used my previous resume, which did decently well around 2019 when I was looking for a new position, but with updated info for the newest position I had. Applied to a number positions that I was very qua…

I didn't want to use an ATS service either, but it sounds like you had a decent experience, do you mind telling me which service you used?

I used resumeworded.com. I believe I initially found it on this thread [1], which also has a few more suggestions. I think they'll end up being roughly the same -- don't remember why I ended up choosing Resume Worded.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/resumes/comments/10icgzi/is_there_a...

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by robomartin »

Sirenos wrote: post #40
robomartin wrote: post #29

I am always thankful that I have not been on the job market for decades. I have hired lots of people during that time. I would like to think I did not run them through the torture chamber job-seeking seems to be today. I have many friends and acquaintances who tell me what it's like from their perspective. Sure, there are tons of job listings on sites like LinkedIn and others. And yet, for some, the experience seems…

People like you are rare. It seems like with the ever increasing scale of mechanisation, we are seeing an increasing detachment from everything that makes us human.

Today a highly-experienced CEO in the technology sector told me he thinks one of the reasons for which a lot of this is happening is, as he put it: "People can be victims for anything these days. HR has to be very careful about how they check and filter people. Companies can be sued for just-about anything. Even confirming someone graduated from university can be discriminatory or problematic from an equity perspective".

Not sure what to think.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by bigfatfrock »

willsmith72 wrote: post #25
bheadmaster wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If your ATS can't even parse someone's CV properly, that's a great way to exclude it from consideration. Why? Is there some official CV format that applicants are expected to follow, which is guaranteed to be parsable by ATS, so that un-ATS-parsable CV shows incapability of following rules?

Look at it from the other perspective. You're looking for a new senior developer, starting in the next few weeks. That means with your 4 rounds of interviews, you want to start the first round within the next week or 2. Your engineers have capacity to do the 4 rounds for ~10 applicants in that time. You receive 1000 applications. You don't have time to read every resume and start calling people in the next few days,…

What tool? Can you provide a link or name for the tool?

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by m3047 »

srbhr wrote: post #52
m3047 wrote: post #48

Upvoted this post. I see it's Apache licensed, somebody should be running it somewhere as a service with an easy, small payments option. A service which genuinely validates a resume as parseable by the majority of popular ATS and even spits out a summary would be useful from an adversarial (applicant) POV. I'd pay $5-$10 by credit card if I trusted the processor. I'm not worried about privacy particularly, given that…

Hi, my goal is to help people find jobs. Amidst lay-offs and panics, I wanted to create a tool (with whatever knowledge I have) to help people understand whether the Resume Templates they use are friendly. - Are keywords getting highlighted or not? A scenario I faced was. - I wrote Java in my resume for the role of Java Developer. But there were other words like J2EE, Gradle, Maven, etc. I possess the knowledge, but…

What stops me from trying it out is that I get to the bottom of the README and I see that I need to register for a service not mentioned before (Cohere) and then register that with Qdrant. At this point I think "oh well it's running in the cloud then, not locally". I don't know anything about Cohere or Qdrant to begin with and I have to choose what I spend my time learning about. I may or I may not.
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