I’m looking for something that takes a CV (e.g. md, pdf, odt, whatever) and a site to the job post as inputs and outputs a CV that is tailored to the requirements listed in that job post, without significantly changing the CV in some way…

I know that LLMs would be best used for such a problem, but the issue is that I don’t have such a beefy computer to run an LLM locally… Maybe there’s something out there that doesn’t use an LLM? Anything that helps with applying and making sure that the CV is attractive enough to your average ATS, honestly.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      If it’s just one job post, then automating it is not going to be very useful. I don’t think OP meant that. Seemed like they want to give a general CV/resume and then feed it each job posting and get customized versions for each posting. Many HR departments have keyword filters necessary to clear before it gets to a person. Otherwise, it takes only a few minutes to customize one time and would be much better to do manually anyway.

      Problem is, these days it usually takes 50-100 job applications per interview depending on industry. In the software industry (in the US anyway), that’s about average. Last job took me about 500 applications and that led to 3 third-round interviews and 2 of them gave offers. Total I probably had around 8-10 first round interviews, not including the many 5-10 minute phone calls with headhunter recruiters that contacted me based just on my resume on LinkedIn and various other sites.

      • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        What field are people in that take so many applications?

        I’m an automation tech lead and my app to interview ratio is 1:2 at its worst.

          • AustralianSimon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 days ago

            I’m in software too. Maybe it is tougher competition outside Australia but I would imagine if you are firing off that many resumes in Software Engineering, you are probably doing yourself a disservice sending out so many variations. What if you get tagged for AI applicant and put into a spam list? What if a company gets 2 copies of resumes that are vastly different.

            Also… How many cashier jobs would genuinely need any sort of tailoring though.

            • theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              9 days ago

              To your first point, yes. Some idiot twenty years ago said to a bunch of guidance counselors that software engineering would be a sure way to get money, so there’s way too many in the US; on top of this companies don’t want to pay even close to a living wage so they import H1Bs. Competition is ridiculous.

              To your second point and exacerbating the first… Every company, practically, uses AI screening software, and before that just plain old applicant screening software. Your resume won’t get seen by a human unless you’re lucky enough to get through the layers of screening, so it’s an arms race to guess what they’re screening for and add that to your resume while not exaggerating too much so as to make the human after the screening process to not throw away your resume.

              And at the end of this; especially in software but more and more in less specialized, less skilled positions, you have to still do 3+ interviews.