Resume-Optimization-with-AI

https://airesume-optimizer.streamlit.app/

Completed by: Venkata Abhinandan

End-to-end AI-powered resume optimization system — from raw Kaggle dataset to live deployed web application

📌 Table of Contents

Overview
Live Demo
Key Results
Project Pipeline
Dataset
Step 1 — EDA
Step 2 — TF-IDF Scoring
Step 3 — Resume Rewriting
Step 4 — PDF Conversion
Model Building
Model Evaluation
Deployment
Tech Stack
Project Structure
How to Run
All Outputs
Author

🎯 Overview

The AI Resume Optimizer is a complete end-to-end NLP system that automatically rewrites resumes to match specific job descriptions. It uses TF-IDF vectorization to identify keyword gaps, GPT-4o-mini to inject role-specific keywords, and a Random Forest classifier to categorize resumes — all wrapped in a professional Streamlit web application deployed on the cloud.

What It Does

📄 Upload Resume (PDF/TXT)
        ↓
🎯 Select Target Job Role (24 categories)
        ↓
📊 TF-IDF Cosine Similarity → BEFORE Score
        ↓
🔍 Keyword Gap Analysis → Missing JD Keywords
        ↓
⚡ GPT-4o-mini Rewriting → Keyword-Aligned Resume
        ↓
📈 TF-IDF Cosine Similarity → AFTER Score
        ↓
📥 Download PDF / Markdown / TXT

🌐 Live Demo

🚀 https://airesume-optimizer.streamlit.app

The app is fully live and publicly accessible with 4 interactive tabs:

Tab	Feature
📤 Upload & Select	Resume upload (PDF/TXT) + 24-role dropdown
📊 Score Analysis	Plotly gauge charts + keyword gap visualization
✍️ Optimized Resume	Rewritten resume + before/after score banner
📈 Dashboard	KPI cards + donut chart + frequency bar chart

🏆 Key Results

Role	Before Score	After Score	Improvement
Information Technology	0.41	0.72	+75.6% ✅
Finance	0.38	0.69	+81.6% ✅
Healthcare	0.44	0.75	+70.5% ✅
HR	0.36	0.68	+88.9% ✅
Engineering	0.42	0.73	+73.8% ✅
Average	0.40	0.71	+78.1% 🎯

🎯 Target was 40% improvement — achieved 78.1% average (nearly 2× the target)

🗺️ Project Pipeline

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                      AI RESUME OPTIMIZER                            │
│                     End-to-End Pipeline                             │
├──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬───────────┤
│  STEP 1  │  STEP 2  │  STEP 3  │  STEP 4  │   MODEL    │  DEPLOY   │
│          │          │          │          │            │           │
│   EDA    │  TF-IDF  │ Rewrite  │   PDF    │   Train    │ Streamlit │
│    +     │    +     │   with   │   with   │  Random    │  Cloud    │
│  Plots   │  Cosine  │ GPT-4o   │ReportLab │  Forest    │   Live    │
│  (4 figs)│   Sim    │  mini    │ (5 PDFs) │  72.84%    │    URL    │
├──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────────┴───────────┤
│   Dataset: Kaggle Resume Dataset — 2,484 Resumes — 24 Categories   │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

📦 Dataset

Property	Details
Source	Kaggle — Resume Dataset by Sneha Anbhwal
File	`Resume.csv`
Total Resumes	2,484
Job Categories	24 unique roles
Null Values	0 — fully clean
Key Columns	`Resume_str` (text), `Category` (label)
Avg Length	~6,295 characters per resume

Why This Dataset Was Selected

Criteria	This Dataset	Others Considered
Real resume text	✅	❌ Synthetic
24+ categories	✅	❌ 5–10 only
Pre-labeled	✅	❌ No labels
Zero nulls	✅	❌ Needs cleaning
Free access	✅	❌ Paid / scraping
2,000+ records	✅	❌ Too few

📊 Step 1 — Exploratory Data Analysis

Goal: Understand dataset structure, category distribution, resume length patterns, and role-specific keyword signatures before model building.

Figure 1 — Category Distribution

24 job categories — IT leads with 120 resumes, BPO is smallest with 22

Figure 2 — Resume Length Distribution

IT and Engineering resumes are longest (keyword-rich). BPO and Arts are shortest.

Figure 3 — TF-IDF Keyword Heatmap

Each role has a distinct set of high-TF-IDF keywords — validates the keyword alignment approach

Figure 4 — Project Dashboard

Comprehensive EDA dashboard showing category composition, score distribution, scalability

EDA Code Execution Outcomes

Dataset Shape          : (2484, 3)
Unique Categories      : 24
Null Values            : 0
Avg Word Count         : ~900 words per resume
Avg Char Count         : ~6,295 chars per resume
Largest Category       : INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY (120 resumes)
Smallest Category      : BPO (22 resumes)
Figures Generated      : fig1, fig2, fig3, fig4

🔢 Step 2 — TF-IDF + Cosine Similarity

Goal: Measure the baseline keyword match between original resumes and job descriptions (BEFORE scores).

Approach

Selected 1 representative resume per role (first 3,000 characters)
Created role-specific Job Descriptions with targeted keywords
Applied TfidfVectorizer to both resume and JD text
Computed cosine_similarity between TF-IDF vectors
Performed keyword gap analysis — identified missing JD keywords

BEFORE Scores (Baseline)

Role	Score	Assessment
Information Technology	0.41	⚠️ Below Average
Finance	0.38	❌ Poor Match
Healthcare	0.44	⚠️ Below Average
HR	0.36	❌ Poor Match
Engineering	0.42	⚠️ Below Average

TF-IDF Configuration

TfidfVectorizer(
    max_features = 5000,   # Top 5000 discriminative words
    ngram_range  = (1, 2), # Unigrams + bigrams
    sublinear_tf = True,   # Log normalization
    min_df       = 2       # Ignore rare words
)
# Output matrix shape: 2,484 × 5,000

⚠️ API Issue: OpenAI returned 429 (quota exhausted). Resolved by using hardcoded realistic JDs that maintain full statistical validity of cosine similarity calculations.

✍️ Step 3 — Resume Rewriting

Goal: Inject missing JD keywords into resumes using GPT-4o-mini prompt engineering to maximize ATS match scores.

Prompt Engineering Strategy

You are an expert resume writer and ATS optimization specialist.

TASK: Rewrite the resume below to match the Job Description.

RULES:
  1. Keep ALL original experience and facts — do NOT fabricate
  2. Inject role-specific keywords from the JD naturally
  3. Rephrase bullets to mirror the JD language
  4. Output in clean Markdown format (# Name, ## Section, - bullets)

Model: gpt-4o-mini | temperature: 0.5 | max_tokens: 1000

Keywords Injected Per Role

Role	Keywords Injected	Output File
IT	Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Jenkins, REST APIs, Agile	`rewritten_IT.md`
Finance	SAP, Bloomberg, GAAP, CFA, variance analysis, IFRS	`rewritten_finance.md`
Healthcare	Epic EHR, HIPAA, ICD-10, JCAHO, Cerner, clinical ops	`rewritten_healthcare.md`
HR	Workday, PHR, SHRM, BambooHR, talent acquisition, DEI	`rewritten_hr.md`
Engineering	AutoCAD, ANSYS, ASME, PE License, MS Project, Primavera	`rewritten_engineering.md`

AFTER Scores — Final Results

Role	Before	After	Improvement
IT	0.41	0.72	+75.6%
Finance	0.38	0.69	+81.6%
Healthcare	0.44	0.75	+70.5%
HR	0.36	0.68	+88.9%
Engineering	0.42	0.73	+73.8%
Average	0.40	0.71	+78.1%

📄 Step 4 — Markdown to PDF

Goal: Convert all rewritten Markdown resumes to professional, ATS-compatible PDF documents.

# ReportLab PDF Pipeline
SimpleDocTemplate → Paragraph → HRFlowable → TableStyle

# Markdown Parsing
# → Dark navy header bar
# → Section divider lines
# → ATS-compatible Helvetica fonts
# → Role + optimizer info in footer

5 PDFs Generated

resume_information_technology.pdf  ✅
resume_finance.pdf                 ✅
resume_healthcare.pdf              ✅
resume_hr.pdf                      ✅
resume_engineering.pdf             ✅

🤖 Model Building

Goal: Train a Resume Category Classifier to predict job roles from resume text, powering targeted keyword alignment in the app.

Three Models Trained & Compared

Model	Test Accuracy	F1 Score	CV Mean (5-fold)	Rank
Logistic Regression	66.6%	64.7%	65.1% ±2.1%	🥉 3rd
Linear SVM	71.8%	70.5%	71.3% ±0.8%	🥈 2nd
Random Forest	72.84%	69.8%	71.5% ±0.9%	🥇 1st

Figure 7 — Model Comparison

Random Forest consistently leads across all three metrics

Train/Test Split Strategy

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
    X_tfidf, y,
    test_size    = 0.20,  # 80% train / 20% test
    random_state = 42,    # Reproducibility
    stratify     = y      # Preserve class balance across 24 categories
)
# Training: 1,987 samples | Testing: 497 samples

Why Random Forest Was Selected

✅ Highest Test Accuracy   — 72.84% vs SVM 71.8% vs LR 66.6%
✅ Most Stable CV          — std ±0.9% (lowest variance across folds)
✅ Handles Class Imbalance — bootstrapping helps BPO (only 22 samples)
✅ No Linearity Needed     — resume categories overlap in complex ways
✅ Ensemble Voting         — 100 trees vote → reduces overfitting risk
✅ Feature Importance      — identifies top keywords per category
✅ Robust to Noise         — random feature selection ignores irrelevant words

Saved Model Contents

# resume_model.pkl contains:
{
  'model'          : RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=100, max_depth=20),
  'tfidf'          : TfidfVectorizer(max_features=5000, ngram_range=(1,2)),
  'label_encoder'  : LabelEncoder(),   # maps 24 category strings ↔ numbers
  'best_model_name': 'Random Forest',
  'accuracy'       : 72.84,
  'classes'        : [list of 24 category names]
}

📈 Model Evaluation

Figure 8 — Confusion Matrix (24×24)

Dark diagonal = correct predictions | IT and TEACHER achieved perfect 100% accuracy

Figure 9 — Per-Category Accuracy

Category Performance Summary

🟢 Excellent (>85%)	🟡 Good (70–85%)	🔴 Needs Work (<70%)	Reason
TEACHER — 100%	AVIATION — 83.3%	DIGITAL-MEDIA — 68.4%	Overlaps with ARTS
IT — 100%	ADVOCATE — 83.3%	HEALTHCARE — 56.5%	Similar to CONSULTANT
ACCOUNTANT — 95.8%	CHEF — 83.3%	BANKING — 52.2%	Overlaps with FINANCE
HR — 95.5%	FITNESS — 82.6%	CONSULTANT — 47.8%	Broad vocabulary
DESIGNER — 95.2%	FINANCE — 70.8%	BPO — 0%	Only 22 training samples

Prediction Demo Results

IT Resume     → INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY ✅
Finance Resume → FINANCE ✅
HR Resume      → HR ✅
Healthcare     → HEALTHCARE ✅
Engineering    → ENGINEERING ✅

🚀 Deployment

Application Details

App Name   : AI Resume Optimizer
Live URL   : https://airesume-optimizer.streamlit.app
GitHub     : https://github.com/abhinandan6123/Resume-Optimization-with-AI
Branch     : AI_Resume_Analyzer
Framework  : Streamlit
Hosting    : Streamlit Cloud (Free Tier)
Python     : 3.13
Model      : resume_model.pkl (Random Forest 72.84%)
Status     : ✅ LIVE

App Architecture

app.py
├── Sidebar
│   ├── Model Status (resume_model.pkl info)
│   ├── Progress Tracker (4 steps with live status)
│   └── Live Score Stats (before / after / improvement)
│
├── Tab 1 — Upload & Select
│   ├── PDF / TXT file uploader
│   ├── Paste resume text area
│   └── 24-role dropdown with JD preview
│
├── Tab 2 — Score Analysis
│   ├── Plotly gauge charts (before/after/improvement)
│   ├── Keyword gap tag cloud (red = missing)
│   └── Missing keywords bar chart (Plotly)
│
├── Tab 3 — Optimized Resume
│   ├── Optimize button → role-specific rewriting
│   ├── Before/After improvement banner
│   ├── Keyword added tag cloud (green = added)
│   └── Download buttons (PDF + MD + TXT)
│
└── Tab 4 — Dashboard
    ├── 4 KPI metric cards
    ├── Before/After comparison bar chart
    ├── Keyword overlap donut chart
    └── JD keyword frequency bar chart

Deployment Steps

# 1. Develop in Google Colab + test with ngrok
from pyngrok import ngrok
tunnel = ngrok.connect(8501)
print(tunnel.public_url)  # → https://xxxx.ngrok-free.app

# 2. Download files from Colab
from google.colab import files
files.download('app.py')
files.download('resume_model.pkl')

# 3. Push to GitHub
git add app.py resume_model.pkl requirements.txt
git commit -m "Deploy AI Resume Optimizer"
git push origin AI_Resume_Analyzer

# 4. Deploy on Streamlit Cloud
# → https://share.streamlit.io
# → Connect repo → Select branch → Deploy!

🛠️ Tech Stack

Category	Technology	Purpose
Language	Python 3.10+	All scripts and automation
LLM	OpenAI GPT-4o-mini	Automated resume rewriting
ML	Scikit-learn	Random Forest, TF-IDF, Cosine Similarity
Web App	Streamlit	Interactive web application
Charts	Plotly	Interactive dashboard charts
Visualization	Matplotlib, Seaborn	EDA figures
PDF	ReportLab	Markdown → PDF conversion
Data	Pandas, NumPy	Data processing
Dev Env	Google Colab	Development and execution
Deployment	Streamlit Cloud	Free cloud hosting
Version Control	GitHub	Source code management
Dataset	Kaggle	Resume Dataset (2,484 resumes)

📁 Project Structure

Resume-Optimization-with-AI/
│
├── app.py                           ← Streamlit web application (main)
├── resume_model.pkl                 ← Trained Random Forest (72.84%)
├── requirements.txt                 ← Python dependencies
├── README.md                        ← This file
│
├── notebooks/
│   ├── step1_eda.py                 ← EDA + 4 visualizations
│   ├── step2_tfidf_cosine.py        ← TF-IDF + BEFORE scores
│   ├── step3_gpt_rewriting.py       ← GPT rewriting + AFTER scores
│   ├── step4_markdown_to_pdf.py     ← Markdown → PDF conversion
│   └── model_building.py           ← Train/Test/Evaluate all models
│
├── figures/
│   ├── fig1_category_distribution.png   ← EDA category chart
│   ├── fig2_length_distribution.png     ← Resume length histograms
│   ├── fig3_tfidf_heatmap.png           ← TF-IDF keyword heatmap
│   ├── fig4_project_dashboard.png       ← Comprehensive EDA dashboard
│   ├── fig7_model_comparison.png        ← Model performance comparison
│   ├── fig8_confusion_matrix.png        ← 24×24 confusion matrix
│   └── fig9_per_class_accuracy.png      ← Per-category accuracy
│
└── outputs/
    ├── rewritten_IT.md
    ├── rewritten_finance.md
    ├── rewritten_healthcare.md
    ├── rewritten_hr.md
    ├── rewritten_engineering.md
    ├── resume_information_technology.pdf
    ├── resume_finance.pdf
    ├── resume_healthcare.pdf
    ├── resume_hr.pdf
    └── resume_engineering.pdf

⚙️ How to Run

Option 1 — Streamlit Cloud (Already Live)

Visit → https://airesume-optimizer.streamlit.app

Option 2 — Run Locally

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/abhinandan6123/Resume-Optimization-with-AI.git
cd Resume-Optimization-with-AI
git checkout AI_Resume_Analyzer

# Install
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Run
streamlit run app.py
# Opens → http://localhost:8501

Option 3 — Google Colab

!pip install streamlit reportlab plotly scikit-learn PyPDF2 pyngrok -q

# Run with public URL
from pyngrok import ngrok
import subprocess, time
ngrok.set_auth_token("YOUR_NGROK_TOKEN")  # free at dashboard.ngrok.com
subprocess.Popen(["streamlit","run","app.py","--server.headless=true"])
time.sleep(4)
print(ngrok.connect(8501).public_url)

requirements.txt

streamlit>=1.32.0
scikit-learn>=1.3.0
reportlab>=4.0.0
plotly>=5.18.0
PyPDF2>=3.0.0
pandas>=2.0.0
numpy>=1.24.0

📊 All Outputs Generated

#	File	Type	Description
1	`fig1_category_distribution.png`	📊 PNG	Category distribution bar chart
2	`fig2_length_distribution.png`	📊 PNG	Resume length histograms
3	`fig3_tfidf_heatmap.png`	📊 PNG	TF-IDF keyword heatmap
4	`fig4_project_dashboard.png`	📊 PNG	Comprehensive EDA dashboard
5	`step2_before_scores.csv`	📋 CSV	BEFORE cosine similarity scores
6	`step3_final_scores.csv`	📋 CSV	BEFORE/AFTER score comparison
7–11	`rewritten_*.md` (5 files)	📝 MD	Rewritten resumes in Markdown
12–16	`resume_*.pdf` (5 files)	📄 PDF	ATS-optimized PDF resumes
17	`fig7_model_comparison.png`	📊 PNG	ML model performance chart
18	`fig8_confusion_matrix.png`	📊 PNG	24×24 confusion matrix
19	`fig9_per_class_accuracy.png`	📊 PNG	Per-category accuracy chart
20	`resume_model.pkl`	🤖 PKL	Trained Random Forest classifier
21	`app.py`	🐍 PY	Streamlit web application

👤 Author

Venkata Abhinandan


Project	AI Resume Optimization System
Year	2026
Platform	Google Colab → Streamlit Cloud
Best Model	Random Forest — 72.84% Accuracy
Avg Improvement	78.1% match score improvement
Live URL	https://airesume-optimizer.streamlit.app
GitHub	https://github.com/abhinandan6123/Resume-Optimization-with-AI

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