Show HN: Score My Resume – Automated Resume Feedback
resumeworded.com
resumeworded.com
The tool scans your resume for elements that are characteristic of a good resume, and gives you feedback/explanations on how you can improve. These range from simple things like word count (is your resume too short/long?) to a bit more complex things such as checking if you’ve quantified your bullet points, and suggesting similar lines in my database of lines (based on keyword ranking) and metrics (see https://resumeworded.com/metrics).
I think the hardest part was parsing a resume properly into its sections (e.g. people name their work experience, skills, etc sections differently e.g. ‘Work experience’, ‘Work and leadership’, …) and identifying what’s a bullet point (people use hyphens, bullets, or no bullets at all), or what’s a job title. Parsing resumes correctly is a pretty hard problem that modern HR systems seem to struggle at too imo. I used spaCy nlp mainly for pos tagging - I think it is the best nlp library out there (e.g. nltk out-of-the-box is ineffective, while stanford was just too slow) - highly recommend so wanted to give a shoutout. I think my model has a long way to go but I feel it’s getting there. I have a few new features that I’m almost done with but thought i should just ship the product as is before I delay it any longer!
I hope you guys find it useful. Appreciate any and all feedback.
-Rohan
P.S. I’ve tried making the parser flexible enough so that it can read pretty much any template. However, sometimes pdf’s don’t get converted correctly, or your template/format is just not something I expected. So if for any reason your resume fails, try putting your content in this standard resume template from Harvard’s career website (http://hwpi.harvard.edu/files/ocs/files/template_bullet.doc) and reupload. Thanks!
I definitely think your service is attractive given the price point and (presumably) quick response time. Best of luck to you!