Show HN: Dynamic Resume Generator

Hello HN!

I've been applying for jobs recently. One of the biggest frustrations I've found is managing all the documents for my applications. I have experience in different fields, but when I'm applying for a job with specific requirements that extra experience just ends up being noise. I tried copy-pasting relevant content from a main docx file into a specialized application, but doing this for every job became very cumbersome very quickly to the point where the friction became too high and I just stopped applying.

Dynamic Resume Generator is sort of my attempt to make that process easier on myself. All I have to do is load up a JSON file with all of my credentials, selectively enable/disable them for a specific job that I'm applying to, and run the main script to generate a custom resume for that job application.

This probably isn't too special of a thing, but when I realized that I could write a quick script to alleviate my problems I was ecstatic. Given that the monthly "Ask HN: Who is Hiring/Wants to be Hired?" threads are tomorrow, I figured I'd share this with you all in the event that someone finds it useful :)

Coincidentally, I also created a dynamic resume generator. Mine is web-based and comes with a GUI to handle the filtering and display.

To the people reading here: You can upvote my comment if you want me to host mine up for you to use it. If there are enough upvotes to show demand for it, I will make the time to host it.

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

I also have my own script for Resume generation but my JSON is based on the JSON resume[0] schema.

While I find these tools pretty nice and there have been a lot of attempts to standardize, I've found that almost everybody likes to maintain their own way, or redo it after a couple of years.

[0]: https://jsonresume.org