HireTune

HireTune | Tune your resume to the hectic world of industry

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HireTune

Inspiration

The hiring seasons of Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 inspired us to build a tool that helps applicants stand out by tailoring their resumes to specific job descriptions. For all of us, we found a lot of confusion in the hiring market, and we had kept refining our resume over the course of our applications. A lot of time was sunk into making sure a resume showcased the right skills for the job, which HireTune aims to save.

One important aspect of HireTune we wish to preserve is for it to remain free and open-source. Ensuring access for all.

What it does

HireTune is a web application that helps users optimize their resumes based on job descriptions. By leveraging AI, it rewrites and fine-tunes resume content to match the language and keywords employers are looking for. HireTune can also add in any edits that you'd like, just ask it something like "Change my graduation date to Dec. 16" and It'll just make the specific update.

HireTune also serves as an application tracker. Users sign in through discord, and HireTune keeps track of where they've applied and which resume they used. It also allows users to write in comments for quick reminders, like job location, compensation, or anything else the user may want to remind themselves of.

How we built it

  • Django
  • React
  • Python
  • Bootstrap
  • OpenAI API

Challenges we ran into

  • Rendering LaTeX into a properly formatted PDF
  • Setting up and integrating the database
  • Merging the backend with the frontend
  • Managing API communication and token limits

Our biggest challenge by far was hosting. In the span of 24 hours, its really difficult to have perfect practice and planning, especially for something as far ahead as deployment. At the end, we decided it would be better to host locally, as we were spending a lot of our allotted time just trying to get it to work. Thanks to this, we were able to add in the application tracker features! We're excited to work on this in the future, cleaning up, refactoring, refining, and then putting it to production so everyone can take advantage of it!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • A fully functional product with a clean frontend and robust backend
  • Building and integrating our own API
  • Implementing LaTeX-to-PDF rendering and dynamic display
  • Adding user authentication and security features

What we learned

  • Full-stack development with Django and React
  • How to use the OpenAI API in production
  • Rendering LaTeX with Python
  • GitHub collaboration and debugging real-world issues

What's next for HireTune

Our idea for HireTune came after a grueling hiring season, with over 300 applications between the four of us, we found a lot of frustration in managing our applications, especially cause of the time waste. We don't want HireTune to sit in a repo after this, we're utilizing the amazing collaborative environment of the hackathon to jumpstart our project, which we plan on deploying in future through the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers @ the University of Central Florida to offer HireTune to students who can best benefit from it.

  • [ ] Final deployment in collaboration with SHPE
  • [ ] Expand resume feedback features using AI
  • [ ] Add support for cover letter generation
  • [ ] Improve UI/UX and add mobile responsiveness

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