Automate CV & Cover Letter Generator

A Python tool that automates the process of customizing your skills and qualifications based on job descriptions using Claude AI.

Overview

This tool helps job seekers quickly create tailored skill lists and content for their CV/resume and cover letters by:

1. Taking your existing skills template and a job description
2. Merging them into a single document
3. Sending the merged document to Claude AI to extract relevant skills
4. Processing Claude's response to create a clean, structured list of skills and categories

Features

• Merges a skills template with a job description
• Sends the merged document to Claude API for analysis
• Extracts structured lists from Claude's response
• Saves all outputs in a well-organized folder structure
• Formats results as clean, bullet-pointed lists in Word documents

Requirements

• Python 3.6+
• An Anthropic API key for Claude AI

Installation

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/SCBenson/automate_cv_coverletters.git
   cd automate_cv_coverletters

2. Create a virtual environment:

   python -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install python-docx anthropic python-dotenv

4. Create a .env file in the project root with your API key:

   ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key_here
   

Project Structure

automate_cv_coverletters/
├── main.py                   # Main script
├── .env                      # Environment variables (API key)
├── assets/                   # Template files
│   ├── skills-prompt.docx    # Your skills template
│   └── job-description.docx  # Current job description
├── job_application_outputs/  # Generated outputs
│   ├── skills_prompt_w_job-*.docx    # Merged document
│   ├── claude_response-*.docx        # Claude's response
│   └── extracted_lists-*.docx        # Extracted skill lists
└── README.md                 # This file

Usage

1. Put your skills template in assets/skills-prompt.docx

2. Put the job description in assets/job-description.docx

3. Run the script:

   python main.py

4. Check the job_application_outputs folder for the results

How It Works

1. Document Merging: The tool takes your skills template and adds the job description to it
2. Claude API: The merged document is sent to Claude AI for analysis
3. Response Processing: Claude's response is extracted into clean, categorized skill lists
4. Document Generation: The extracted lists are formatted into a new Word document

Customization

• Modify the main script to change the output folder name or file naming conventions
• Adjust the extraction patterns in extract_list_items_text() if needed for different formats
• Change the formatting in save_extracted_lists() to modify the output document style

License

MIT

Contributing

Feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have suggestions for improvements!

Acknowledgements

• python-docx for document handling
• Anthropic Claude API for AI-powered content analysis