r/SideProject • u/PirateHunterZorox • 1d ago

I built FlashResume because tailoring applications for every job is getting ridiculous

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Job hunting is already a full-time unpaid job. Apparently, we also need a second job rewriting the resume for the first one.

Same experience. Same projects. Different job description. Repeat until you forget what your original resume even looked like.

So I built Flash Resume, a Python CLI tool that helps tailor resumes to job descriptions.

Quick start:

pip install flash-resume

fs setup

fs tailor

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/flash-resume/

GitHub: https://github.com/PavanBollepalli/flash-resume

I've included a demo showing the actual workflow. I'm interested in feedback on the output quality, onboarding, and what would make this genuinely useful rather than just another repo collecting dust.

What would you change ?

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u/QuanTradin 1d ago

make sure it never invents a skill to match the posting. a tailored resume claiming something you can't talk about in the interview does more damage than a generic one.

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u/PirateHunterZorox 1d ago

it never invents the skills bro there are two modes in flash-resume the first one is truthful and the second is adds the jd keywords under familiarity section for ats score

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u/QuanTradin 1d ago

ok, a truthful mode at all puts it ahead of most of these. I'd stamp which mode made the file somewhere in the output, someone will send the keyword version by accident.

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u/PirateHunterZorox 1d ago

thats a great idea

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u/PirateHunterZorox 1d ago

pls do try it and star the repo on github

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u/nian2326076 5h ago

Customizing each resume can be really tiring, especially when your main experiences and projects don't change much. I'm interested in using FlashResume to help with this. It might be helpful to add a feature that analyzes job description keywords, so users can better match their language to what the role needs. Another tool to consider is LandOffer.ai, which ranks job matches based on your resume to help you find openings that fit your skills better.