PrivaCV

By Jade Nair, Karina Chung, and Zainab Adamji

PrivaCV is a webapp that uses AI to help candidates receive resume feedback and take mock interviews, while avoiding the risks of sending personal information to a large language model.

Inspiration

We wanted to use AI to help prepare for the recruiting process -- using Claude's language capabilities to get real-time resume feedback and informed mock interviews -- but we were hesitant to just directly upload our resumes with all our information. We wanted an easy way to redact the personal information by just uploading the PDF.

Overview

Our goal is to help make resume feedback and interview preparation more accessible while providing a convenient way to privatize personal information. PrivaCV is designed to help job seekers improve their resume and interview skills through a privacy-first approach. The tool allows users to:

Upload their resume PDF for automatic redaction of personal identifiers
Review and edit the redacted text before analysis
Receive detailed AI feedback on resume quality, strengths, and improvement areas
Practice with AI-powered mock interviews tailored to their resume and job description
Get interview feedback and performance evaluation

Features

📄 Resume Redaction

Automatically removes personal identifiers from your resume
Allows manual review and editing of redacted content
Download redacted text as a standalone file

🔍 Claude AI Analysis

Detailed analysis of resume content, structure, and format
Strengths and weaknesses assessment
Targeted improvement recommendations
Job-specific feedback when a job description is provided

🎯 Mock Interview Simulation

AI-powered mock interviews based on your resume
Dynamic conversation with interview questions tailored to your experience
Natural dialogue with follow-up questions
Comprehensive feedback on interview performance

How to Use

Upload Resume:
- Select your PDF resume file using the upload area
- Optionally paste a job description for more tailored feedback
Review Redacted Text:
- Examine the automatically redacted text
- Make any necessary edits or corrections
- Click "Approve and Send to Claude" when ready
Review Claude's Analysis:
- Read through the detailed resume analysis
- Note recommendations for improvement
- Click "Start Mock Interview" to practice interview skills, customized to your resume and job description
Practice Mock Interview:
- Respond to the interviewer's questions in the chat interface
- Engage in natural dialogue
- Click "End Interview & Get Feedback" when done
- Review comprehensive interview feedback tailored to your resume and job description

Privacy and Security

This tool prioritizes user privacy and security by redacting personal identifiers commonly found in resumes. This allows privacy-minded job-seekers to easily avoid passing personally identifiable information, like names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails into potential training data.

Technical Details

This project was built using:

Claude API
Python/Flask
HTML/CSS/Bootstrap

Deployment

This project can be downloaded and run locally.

Future Enhancements

In the future, we hope to enhance our redaction process and test out more use cases to make it more robust. We also hope to provide more functionality, such as cover letter help, coding interview practice, and web deployment.