Resumé Checker

Introduction

I have been writing resumés and cover letters for early career jobseekers in Australia since August 2023. Part of my sales process has been to offer 1-on-1 calls to give people feedback on their professional documents. I have done hundreds of these calls at this point. These calls take 40-45 minutes on average. I aim to provide a lot of value and feel the calls generate goodwill, trust, and referrals. While I enjoy a 67% conversion rate, it nevertheless requires a significant time investment. I have a very good understanding of the many mistakes that people make with their professional documents.

I do not regret investing this time to talk to customers. However I do think that I am at the limit of what I can learn from this particular activity.

I am interested to see if I can prompt a generative AI tool (such as OpenAI) in such a way that it checks a resumé for the things that I look for. It would then provide the feedback I ordinarily give through a structured (i.e. JSON) response.

Approach

I will upload my resumé to OpenAI via its Assistants API. It should return a series of boolean (true/false) values to reflect each of the dozens of things I look for in a resumé and cover letter (e.g. an Australian phone number). It can also include a free-text field to provide overall feedback that takes the results into account, incorporating the sort of language I use on my calls with prospects. The API should return this in JSON format with a consistent structure I could later use programmatically.

My rough plan:

- Create a webpage with HTML form that accepts one .docx/.pdf file

• Write PHP to manage API call
• Write prompt for OpenAI to return JSON
• Render results on the webpage

Tools/Technologies

VS Code, Terminal, Claude 3.7, JSON, PHP

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