Building Cv Profile Generator Using Ai21 Studio

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Can a machine automatically generate a paragraph of fluent text? Not so long ago, the answer to this question was ‘No!’. Today, thanks to large language models, practitioners with different levels of expertise can build applications that generate useful text for marketing, content writing and more.

Hold on tight, because in this blog post we’re going to go from an idea to a completely new text generation feature that you can ship immediately. Ready to get started?

Motivation

Suppose you’re building a job marketplace app or a personnel recruitment platform. You probably have a feature that lets candidates upload their CV to your system. Those CVs aren’t always stellar. For example, many of them lack a profile section – a short paragraph that highlights the candidate’s background, skills and ambitions. Luckily, you can use AI21 Studio to help your users by auto-generating a CV profile for them. This is just one example of short-form content generation, where language models are used to draft text up to a paragraph long (more examples are in the summary).

In this post we’ll build a CV profile generator that you can integrate into your application or website in just a few minutes of work.

Step 1: Define the problem

Understanding what kind of text you want to generate is essential. In this case we need to ask ourselves: what makes a good CV profile that our users will appreciate? Let’s take a look at some examples and try to find ones we like. Here is an article you can find online that shows various types of CV profiles. For example, let’s look at a profile for a chemical engineer:

I am a dedicated, hardworking and proactive Chemical Engineer with a strong background in design, plant operations, offshore operations, and process and safety improvements. I have solid work experience in designing, testing and analysing processes to increase the overall efficiency of operations. I am currently looking for an opportunity to utilise my technical skills in a challenging working environment and become a valuable asset to the organization that I work for.

As you can see, it’s a short paragraph that covers the candidates background, experience and the type of role they are looking for. Browsing through more examples, it is clear that most CV profiles follow this pattern. Let’s make a note of a few examples (3-5 will do) that we like. Our goal is to generate texts similar to these examples. Now we are ready to log into the AI21 Studio and start building.

Step 2: Create your (initial) prompt

Language models take in some text as input and generate some likely continuation of that text. We call the input text the prompt and the generated text the completion . You can think of large language models as smart auto-completion algorithms: they are very good at latching on to hints and patterns expressed in plain English, and generating text that follows the same patterns.

For example, if we input a prompt that is likely to be followed by a CV profile, we can get the model to generate new and original CV profiles as completions. One simple way to do this is to spell out an instruction, just like you would when asking a person to produce some text:

Write a winning Teaching CV profile:

Let’s take this prompt and see what the model will generate. Go to the AI21 Studio, put this prompt in the input field and click “generated”. This is the completion the model generated:

Mr George Mwangi is a Teacher who has completed Diploma, Degree and Masters Degree in Education. He has vast teaching experience of 7 years. His expertise is in the field of Science, Biology, Chemistry and Physics. He is a hardworking, dedicated candidate with vast experience of teaching various levels, including University students.

What do we like about this completion?

It matches the profession we provided (Teacher).

It contains relevant education and experience.

It uses some good adjectives.

What do we not like about this completion?

This paragraph is written in third person (“Mr Mwangi is…”), whereas our good CV profile examples are always written in the first person (“I am…”).

The details the model generated are completely made up – they may or may not reflect our candidates’ true skills.

How can we make the model produce the output we want?

You can try to phrase the instruction differently. Be descriptive and clear, and try a few different ones, like:

Following is an exceptional CV profile for a Teacher:

or

Here is an enthusiastic Teacher’s CV profile:

That said, you shouldn’t spend too much time on choosing the perfect adjectives.

The most powerful tool you have at your disposal is providing examples that demonstrate what you expect from the model. This is the most effective way to guide the generations according to your intentions, and if you have time to do only one thing – this is it.

In this case, we already collected some relevant examples in Step 1. All that’s left is to create the prompt from instruction-profile pairs. Below you can find a prompt we made by stringing together a sequence of examples we liked. The bold text is the completion our model generated.

Write a winning Sales/retail CV profile: I am a mature, positive and hardworking individual, who always strives to achieve the highest standard possible, at any given task. In my previous role as a Sales Representative, I demonstrated the ability to work under intense pressure, sell products and services to customers from all backgrounds, handle customer complaints and solve problematic situations as and when they arose. I was promoted twice for exceeding my sales targets.

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Write a winning Teaching CV profile: I am a loyal, talented and caring teacher who loves making a difference in the lives of young children. I am open-minded, patient and supportive towards other people, especially towards children or those who suffer from disabilities. In my previous role as a primary school teacher, I have taught and nurtured more than 100 pupils from all backgrounds, successfully preparing them for the next stages of their young lives.

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Write a winning Media CV profile: I am a professional, ambitious and highly skilled Camera Operator able to use a wide range of technical equipment, including professional cinematography camcorders. I have extensive...