Bob Job

Your AI-powered job-search assistant. Feed it a job posting, get a tailored resume as PDF.

Features

• Import your existing resume — PDF or paste text to build a professional summary
• Paste a job URL or description — BobJob fetches and parses it automatically (Playwright + Chromium bundled)
• AI-driven clarification loop — Answer questions to maximize your match score (0–100)
• Clean PDF output — Print-ready A4 resume tailored to the specific job
• Refine over time — Add new experience or details to your professional summary
• Local-first — All data stored in ~/.bobjob; only LLM calls leave your machine

How It Works

flowchart LR
  Import[Import resume or text] --> Summary[Build professional summary]
  Summary --> Job[Provide job description]
  Job --> Clarify[Clarification loop]
  Clarify -->|"Score >= 85 or 5 rounds"| PDF[Generate tailored PDF]

1. Import your resume (PDF or text) or use an existing professional summary
2. Provide a job description (URL or pasted text)
3. Answer optional clarification questions until match score ≥ 85% or you finish early
4. Get a job-tailored PDF resume

Quick Start

Prerequisites: Node.js 18+, OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-here
npx bobjob

That's it — no install required.

Commands

| Command | Description | | ------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | npx bobjob | Interactive menu | | npx bobjob resume [url] | Generate a tailored resume (optionally pass job URL directly) | | npx bobjob refine | Refine your professional summary with additional text or PDF | | npx bobjob --debug [command] | Show full error stack traces for troubleshooting |

Demo

Generate a resume from a job URL

Pass the URL directly and BobJob fetches, parses, and tailors everything in one shot:

$ npx bobjob resume https://jobs.example.com/senior-engineer

(Job URL: https://jobs.example.com/senior-engineer)
? How would you like to provide your resume?
  ❯ Upload a PDF
    Paste text
✔ Generating your professional summary...
✔ Job description fetched
✔ Extracting job information...

Match score: 72/100

Your backend experience is strong but the listing emphasises
Kubernetes and CI/CD pipeline design. Adding detail about your
infrastructure work would raise the score.

? What would you like to do?
  ❯ Answer follow-up questions
    Generate resume
    Exit

Follow-up questions to strengthen your match. Press Ctrl+C to skip.

? Have you designed or maintained CI/CD pipelines? (1/3)
> Yes — built GitHub Actions workflows for three services at Acme...

✔ Incorporating your answers...

Match score: 91/100

? Where do you want to save your resume? ~/Documents/resumes
✔ Resume saved to: ~/Documents/resumes/example-senior-engineer-a1b2c.pdf

Interactive mode

Run without arguments to get a guided menu:

$ npx bobjob

? What would you like to do?
  ❯ Generate a tailored resume for a job
    Refine your professional summary

Refine your professional summary

Already have a summary? Add new experience or an updated resume to keep it current:

$ npx bobjob refine

? How would you like to provide additional information?
  ❯ Upload a PDF
    Paste text
✔ Refining your professional summary...
✔ Professional summary updated

Storage

User data lives in ~/.bobjob:

| Path | Purpose | | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | | professional-summary.json | Your profile (name, contact, experience, education) | | config.json | User preferences (e.g. resume save directory) | | resumes/ | Generated PDFs (<company>-<job-slug>-<id>.pdf) |

Troubleshooting

Add --debug before any command to print the full error stack trace and root cause when something goes wrong:

npx bobjob --debug
npx bobjob --debug resume https://jobs.example.com/role

Note: --debug must be placed before the subcommand (npx bobjob --debug resume, not npx bobjob resume --debug).

Project Structure

Monorepo with Bun workspaces:

packages/
├── core/   # Business logic: LLM, PDF, job fetching, storage
└── cli/    # CLI interface (Commander, Inquirer)

• @bobjob/core — Reusable logic (Vercel AI SDK, Playwright, Handlebars, pdf-parse)
• @bobjob/cli — Commands and interactive prompts

Development

bun install
bun run check      # Format, lint, typecheck, tests
bun run lint:fix   # Auto-fix lint issues
bun run format     # Prettier
bun run typecheck  # TypeScript
bun run core:test  # Core package tests
bun run cli:test   # CLI package tests

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Fork the repo, create a branch, and open a pull request.

License

See LICENSE for details.