Ollama: Resume Tailoring CLI

Learn a CLI workflow that scrapes job descriptions, uses local Ollama AI to generate YAML resume overlays, and compiles final PDFs with Typst.

Overview

It’s a CLI for managing resume submissions to jobs and using AI to tailor parts of my resume based on the job description. There’s a workflow that involves:

Scrape JD into markdown
Prompt AI to generate a resume overlay rewrite based on JD
Manual review of overlay
Compilation of resume from YAML to PDF using typst

It uses YAML heavily, resume data is stored in YAML, role-specific YAML overlays to rewrite sections and then there’s a singular YAML file that acts as a repository to keep track of roles as they flow through the process, some CLI commands to update statuses.

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