# Resume Tailor

> This skill should be used when the user wants to tailor or customize their resume for a specific job or company. Triggers on phrases like "tailor resume for [company]", "customize resume for [job]", "generate resume for [company]", "adapt resume to this job posting", "create resume for [company] role".

- Skill: `mahashwetha/resume-tailor` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add mahashwetha/resume-tailor`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/mahashwetha/resume-tailor/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Mahashwetha (https://skillmd.com/u/mahashwetha)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/mahashwetha/resume-tailor

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# Resume Tailor

Generate a per-company tailored resume using Gemini 2.5 Flash via `resume_tailor.py`.

## How to run

For a single job, run `resume_tailor.py` with the job posting URL and company name as arguments.

For batch mode (all companies with status `done` and non-LinkedIn links in the tracker), run it with no arguments.

## Output

Saved to the `resume_adjusted/` folder configured in `config.py`, named `resume_{CompanyName}.docx`. The script skips a company if the file already exists — delete the file to regenerate it.

## What it does

Fetches the job description from the URL, reads the base resume, and asks Gemini to suggest minimal tweaks — reordering skills, surfacing existing keywords. It never fabricates experience. Gemini's markdown formatting (`**bold**`) is stripped automatically before writing to the DOCX.

## Site compatibility

Most standard job pages work. Workday works via JSON-LD extraction. Ashby and internal portals (like BPCE) may fail — in that case, skip the URL and tailor manually, or paste the job description text into a temp file and adjust the call.

LinkedIn URLs are skipped automatically in batch mode.

## If you hit rate limits

The free Gemini tier occasionally returns 429 errors — the script retries automatically. If it keeps failing, wait a minute and re-run. Use `gemini-2.5-flash`, not `gemini-2.0-flash` (that quota runs out faster).

## Note: on-demand only

Resume tailor is NOT part of the daily job search run — controlled by `RESUME_TAILOR_ENABLED` in `config.py` (default: False).

When the user asks to tailor a resume:
1. Set `RESUME_TAILOR_ENABLED = True` in `config.py`
2. Run the tailor
3. Set `RESUME_TAILOR_ENABLED = False` in `config.py` again