System and method for improving a resume according to a job description

• US 8,930,398 B1
• Filed: 10/10/2012
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Professional Diversity Network, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Careerimp Incorporated (Professional Diversity Network, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kishore, Ayan, Sutcliffe, Paul A. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vu, Thong
• Application Number:
  US13/648,659
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: 707/748, 707/10, 707/741, 707/722, 707/767, 707/723, 707/750
• US Class Current: 707/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/337 Profile generation, learning or modification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and method for improving a resume according to a job description, including generating a first user profile signature based on a first user profile element associated with a user, generating a first job description signature based on a first job description element associated with a job description; and comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature to determine a first score indicating a strength of a match between the first user profile element and the job description.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating, by a processing device, a first user profile signature based on a first user profile element associated with a user, the first user profile signature comprising a plurality of vectors, wherein each vector comprises a topic and a respective weight that identifies a relevancy for the topic, and wherein the first user profile element comprises unstructured text;

generating, by the processing device, a first job description signature based on a first job description element associated with a job description;

comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determining a first score indicating a strength of a match between the first user profile element and the job description based on the comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determining a relevancy score threshold indicating whether to include the first user profile element in a resume;

comparing the first score to the relevancy score threshold; and

updating, by the processing device, a resume associated with the first user, wherein the updating comprises parsing, by the processing device, the resume associated with the first user and including, by the processing device, the first user profile into the parsed resume.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a first suggested profile signature from a database, the first suggested signature associated with a first suggested profile element associated with a person who was hired for a job similar to the job description;

comparing the first suggested profile signature with the first job description signature to determine a first suggested score indicating a strength of a match between the first suggested profile element and the job description; and

generating a suggestion to include the first suggested profile element in a resume if the first suggested score is greater than the first score.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the first suggested profile signature from the database is based on at least one of a company name or a job title.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

modifying the first user profile element if the first score does not exceed the relevancy score threshold;

generating a modified first user profile signature based on the modified first user profile element;

comparing the modified first user profile signature with the first job description signature to determine a modified first score indicating a strength of a match between the modified first user profile element and the job description; and

generating a resume comprising the modified first user profile element if the modified first score exceeds the relevancy score threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the relevancy score threshold is determined based on an available space for the resume.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the available space for the resume comprises a desired number of pages for the resume.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a second user profile signature based on a second user profile element associated with the user;

generating a second job description signature based on a second job description element associated with the job description;

comparing the second user profile signature with the second job description signature to determine a second score indicating a strength of a match between second user profile element and the job description;

determining a first importance weighting factor for the first user profile element and a second importance weighting factor for the second user profile element; and

determining an aggregate relevancy score based on the first and second scores and the first and second importance weighting factors, the aggregate relevancy score indicating a strength of a match between the first and second user profile elements and the job description.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

determining a rank order of the first user profile element and the second user profile element based on the first and second scores and the first and second importance weighting factors; and

including the first user profile element or the second user profile element in a resume based on the rank order.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the aggregate relevancy score is a product of the first importance weighting factor and the first score plus a product of the second importance weighting factor and the second score.

10. A system comprising:

a resume generation program comprising a processing device, the resume generation program communicatively connected via a network to a communication device, wherein the resume generation program is configured to;

generate, by the processing device, a first user profile signature based on a first user profile element associated with a user, the first user profile signature comprising a plurality of vectors, wherein each vector comprises a topic and a respective weight that identifies a relevancy for the topic, and wherein the first user profile element comprises unstructured text,

generate a first job description signature based on a first job description element associated with a job description,

compare the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determine a first score indicating a strength of a match between the first user profile element and the job description based on the compare the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determine a relevancy score threshold indicating whether to include the first user profile element in a resume;

compare the first score to the relevancy score threshold; and

update a resume associated with the first user, wherein the update comprises parse the resume associated with the first user and include the first user profile into the parsed resume.

11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

modify the first user profile element if the first score does not exceed the relevancy score threshold,

generate a modified first user profile signature based on the modified first user profile element,

compare the modified first user profile signature with the first job description signature to determine a modified first score indicating a strength of a match between the modified first user profile element and the job description, and

generate a resume comprising the modified first user profile element if the modified first score exceeds the relevancy score threshold.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

generate a second user profile signature based on a second user profile element associated with the user,

generate a second job description signature based on a second job description element associated with the job description,

compare the second user profile signature with the second job description signature to determine a second score indicating a strength of a match between second user profile element and the job description,

determine a first importance weighting factor for the first user profile element and a second importance weighting factor for the second user profile element, and

determine an aggregate relevancy score based on the first and second scores and the first and

second importance weighting factors, the aggregate relevancy score indicating a strength of a match between the first and second user profile elements and the job description.

13. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

determine a rank order of the first user profile element and the second user profile element based on the first and second scores and the first and second importance weighting factors, and

include the first user profile element or the second user profile element in the resume based on the rank order.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the aggregate relevancy score is a product of the first importance weighting factor and the first score plus a product of the second importance weighting factor and the second score.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein the relevancy score threshold is determined based on an available space for the resume.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the available space for the resume comprises a desired number of pages for the resume.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising data that, when executed by a processing device, causes the processing device to execute operations comprising:

generating, by the processing device, a first user profile signature based on a first user profile element associated with a user, the first user profile signature comprising a plurality of vectors, wherein each vector comprises a topic and a respective weight that identifies a relevancy for the topic, and wherein the first user profile element comprises unstructured text;

generating a first job description signature based on a first job description element associated with a job description;

comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determining a first score indicating a strength of a match between the first user profile element and the job description based on the comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

based on the comparing the first user profile signature with the first job description signature;

determining a relevancy score threshold indicating whether to include the first user profile element in a resume;

comparing the first score to the relevancy score threshold; and

updating, by the processing device, a resume associated with the first user, wherein the updating comprises parsing, by the processing device, the resume associated with the first user and including, by the processing device, the first user profile into the parsed resume.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising:

identifying a first suggested profile signature from a database, the first suggested signature associated with a first suggested profile element associated with a person who was hired for a job similar to the job description;

comparing the first suggested profile signature with the first job description signature to determine a first suggested score indicating a strength of a match between the first suggested profile element and the job description; and

generating a suggestion to include the first suggested profile element in a resume if the first suggested score is greater than the first score.