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Job Goose

Tailor a resume to the actual role.

Paste a job description. Get a tailored resume.

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Why I built it

I wanted resume tailoring to be faster without inventing anything.

Problem

What made this worth building.

I have never preferred spray and pray. I make the effort to tailor my resume for each job application and at times that takes an hour. I don't believe in one resume. Every accomplishment can be framed multiple ways. A project was "scaled a team" or "reduced costs by 40%" or "shipped under constraints" — depending on what the role needs. Doing this manually for every application is slow and exhausting.

Value

What the app gives back.

I built a database of everything I've ever done. Every accomplishment is tagged: what skills it highlights, what persona it appeals to, what type of work it was. Every bullet has an alternate version for different contexts. Paste a job description. Job Goose identifies a persona, matches requirements, and creates a ready-to-send resume. It has guardrails — it won't invent new experiences or accomplishments, but at best reword what's real. I also built a UI to manually select experience and skills and assemble the resume in seconds.

Build

Build notes.

Build 01

An accomplishment database with tagged metadata for skills, persona, and work type.

Build 02

Alternate versions of every bullet for different contexts, plus JD intake into persona identification and auto-matched resume generation.

Build 03

A manual assembly UI for fine control, with guardrails that only reframe what is real.

Preview

Screens, flow, and product shape.

Role intake

A focused first step that extracts what actually matters from the job description.

Resume shaping

A structured editing state that reframes experience around fit and relevance.

Comparison review

A final pass that compares the role signal with the updated resume language.

Ecosystem

How it fits with everything else.

Job Goose is standalone. The database is the real asset — once experience is broken down and tagged properly, resumes become templating. I can always add new experience blocks and edit metadata, so it's an evolving knowledge base.