New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
455 by xitang | 145 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes. Top highlights of the resume builder are: 1. Real time UI update as you type 2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever 3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access 4. Support import from existing resume PDF The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses ( https://ift.tt/0lcwBpt ). I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all. Home Page: https://open-resume.com Github Repo: https://ift.tt/Hig3IDT Product Hunt: https://ift.tt/V587Wn9