Back in mid-March, the Tampa Bay AI Meetup hosted a session at Embarc Collective called Build an AI job application helper app, where we did just that: we built an application that helps you apply for jobs.
I’ve since refined the app and posted it on GitHub, where you can download it and try it out for yourself.
According to the Silicon Valley-based career guidance service Pathrise, job seekers who sent 20+ job applications every week got more interviews and landed a job sooner.
That’s a lot of work, especially since the general advice is to customize your résumé for every job application, and then write a cover letter too. This app makes it easier to take on this big task by taking your résumé and the description of the job you’re applying for, then uses an LLM to generate a résumé and cover letter optimized for that job application.
The app is written in Python and uses Jupyter Notebook as a platform. I wrote this as a Jupyter Notebook rather than a regular command-line Python app because Jupyter Notebooks also allow me to mix explanatory documentation with my code:
Give it a try! You can either clone the GitHub repo for this application, or simply download a .zip file containing all its files.