CV-Tracker

This application lets you create and manage a pool of all of your achievements. You can use this pool when building a resume and pick the achievements that are relevant to the position you are applying for. Under the hood it uses Ollama to generate embeddings of all the entries and uses that to compute cosine similarity with a given job description to find suitable matches from your pool.

Getting Started

• Install Ollama on your machine
• Download the embedding model ollama pull nomic-embed-text
• Clone this repository git clone https://github.com/ChakradharG/CV-Tracker.git
• cd CV-Tracker
• npm install to install dependencies
• Edit package.json and set the icon's extension depending upon your OS (.ico for Windows, .png for Linux and .icns for MacOS)
• npm run make
• The executable application will be created in the CV-Tracker/out/cv-tracker-{architecture}/ directory

How to Use

• Run the application, go to the Add tab and start adding events
• You can view and edit the events in the Home tab (right click on an event row to edit it)
• If a column is set as a collapsible column (accessed by right clicking on a column name), all rows in that table having the same value in the collapsible column will be bunched together (a table can have atmost 1 collapsible column)
• Columns with names Level and Duration are special in that they display the value differently than how it is stored
• Level column expects a value between 0 and 5 inclusive, and displays it as: ●●●○○ (if the value is 3)
• The Description column (in all the tables except for the Skills table, which uses Skill column) is used to generate the embedding which is then used for cosine similarity matching
• In the Apply tab, you can paste a job description and click on Get matches which will fetch the entries from the pool that are closely related to the description. You can change the cosine similarity threshold using the slider.
• Date should be in YYYY-MM-DD:YYYY-MM-DD format where the first date is the start date and the second date is the end date (optional)
• Example of single date: 2021-12-20. Example of start and end date: 2020-01-08:2021-12-20
• You can visualize a timeline of the events in the Timeline tab (if an event doesn't have a duration, it won't appear on the timeline)
• To get a backup of your database, go to CV-Tracker/out/cv-tracker-{architecture}/resources/app/database/ directory and execute either sqlite3 DB.db .dump > DB-dump.sql or the following commands

sqlite3 DB.db
.once DB-dump.sql
.dump

• To restore your database from a backup file, copy the DB-dump.sql file into CV-Tracker/out/cv-tracker-{architecture}/resources/app/database/ directory and execute either sqlite3 DB.db < DB-dump.sql or the following commands

sqlite3 DB.db
.read DB-dump.sql

• You can export the entire pool as an HTML file from the Export tab