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Talha Aamir
Talha Aamir

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Cover Letter Generator - Prototype

I'm showcasing a cover letter generation tool I prototyped for fun a while back. This doesn't use any deep learning, or anything fancy.

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The idea is simple: you define a set of templates, and when running the tool can specify things like company name, role name, and achievements/things to showcase in the cover letter.

Motivations

Mainly, this was written at a point where I was a bit tired and confused with just how many variants of cover letters I'd need to write.

So, I'm a full stack engineer but I can apply to multiple roles

  • Front-end
  • Back-end
  • Full-stack
  • software-engineer And since each job and company is different there requirements require tuning the cover a bit every so often to match or highlight achievements that they want to see. That's when I reached this point. I wanted to see if I could make a utility that would simplify that process a bit.

Cool Features

  1. You can specify a template, then generate an cover letter based on your requirements at run-time.
  2. You can choose to either copy the generated cover-letter to your clipboard OR,
  3. Generate a pdf, I do this using Fpdf.
  4. a simple JSON datastore to track if you've already generated a cover letter for this role and company (for...reasons).

It's something I wanted to make, and see if it would be useful, and... it was slightly. What doesn't work is that the sentences seem a bit awkward, as I need to figure out the connectors between each achievement section.

Thats it,
Thanks

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Hristo Hristov

Great idea! Why you haven't uploaded example output pdfs in the repository? 🙂

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Talha Aamir

fair point, I've updated it with an example.