Resume Builder

A Django web app where students fill in their profile and download a formatted PDF resume. Admins post job notifications and search candidates ranked by skill match.

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What it does

Students register, fill in five profile tabs (Personal, Education, Skills, Projects, Experience), and download a clean PDF resume generated server-side from their data.

Admins log in to post job notifications with required skills, and search the candidate pool — results are ranked by how many required skills each student matches.

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Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Python 3, Django
Frontend	React (in-browser Babel), HTML/CSS
Database	SQLite
PDF generation	ReportLab (Platypus layout engine)
Static files	WhiteNoise

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Project Structure

resume-builder/
├── ResumeBuilder/          # Django project config
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── settings_prod.py
│   └── urls.py
│
├── resume/                 # Main app
│   ├── models.py           # UserModel, NotificationModel
│   ├── forms.py
│   │
│   ├── views/              # Template-based views
│   │   ├── auth.py         # registration, login, logout
│   │   ├── profile.py      # viewprofile, updateprofile, updatepic
│   │   ├── search.py       # admin skill search
│   │   ├── notifications.py
│   │   └── download.py     # PDF download
│   │
│   ├── api/                # JSON API (used by React frontend)
│   │   ├── auth.py         # /api/login/ /api/logout/ /api/register/
│   │   ├── profile.py      # /api/profile/ /api/profile/update/ /api/download/
│   │   ├── search.py       # /api/search/
│   │   └── notifications.py
│   │
│   └── pdf/                # PDF generation
│       ├── styles.py       # ReportLab ParagraphStyle definitions
│       ├── sections.py     # One function per resume section
│       └── builder.py      # build_resume_pdf(user) -> returns file path
│
├── static/
│   └── resume-ranking.html # React SPA (main UI)
├── templates/              # Django HTML templates
├── generated/              # Generated PDF output
└── images/                 # Uploaded profile photos

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Running Locally

git clone https://github.com/ajay062002/resume-builder.git
cd resume-builder
pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

Open http://localhost:8000

Default admin: admin / admin

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API Endpoints

Method	Endpoint	Description
GET	/api/csrf/	Get CSRF cookie
POST	/api/login/	Login
POST	/api/logout/	Logout
POST	/api/register/	Register student
GET	/api/profile/	Get profile
POST	/api/profile/update/	Update profile
POST	/api/profile/pic/	Upload photo
GET	/api/download/	Download PDF resume
GET	/api/search/?keyword=python,django	Skill search (admin)
GET	/api/notifications/	List notifications
POST	/api/notifications/add/	Add notification (admin)
DELETE	/api/notifications/<id>/delete/	Delete notification (admin)