generate-custom-resumes

name	generate-custom-resumes
description	Generate persona-based resume variations — create resume versions focused on specific perspectives like frontend, backend, mobile, or fullstack. Use when the user wants to create a resume focused on a particular area or perspective, NOT tied to a specific hiring process.

Generate Custom Resume Personas

Create resume variations based on different professional perspectives (e.g., frontend-focused, backend-focused, mobile-focused, fullstack, tech lead) — independent of any specific hiring process.

For resumes tied to a specific hiring process, see the manage-hiring-processes skill.

When to Use

• User wants a resume highlighting a specific area of expertise
• User asks to create a "frontend resume", "backend resume", "mobile resume", etc.
• User wants to generate a resume from a particular perspective or persona

Workflow

Step 1 — Create the resume directory

Create a directory at resumes/{perspective}-{year}-{sequence}/ (e.g., resumes/frontend-2026-01/)

Step 2 — Create the customization YAML

Create resume.yaml with overrides tailored to the chosen perspective. Only include fields that differ from the base resume (resumes/resume-base.yaml).

Customization strategies by perspective:

• Frontend: Emphasize UI/UX achievements, component architecture, performance optimizations, design systems, accessibility
• Backend: Emphasize API design, microservices, database optimizations, scalability, system reliability
• Mobile: Emphasize React Native/Flutter experience, mobile-specific challenges, app store metrics
• Fullstack: Balance both sides, emphasize end-to-end ownership and cross-stack contributions
• Tech Lead: Emphasize team leadership, mentoring, architecture decisions, process improvements

YAML structure:

title: Senior Frontend Engineer

introduction: |
  Perspective-specific introduction emphasizing relevant strengths...

experiences:
  - id: company-id
    roles:
      - id: role-id
        bullets:
          - Rewritten bullet emphasizing perspective-relevant impact
        keySkills: Perspective, Relevant, Skills

Cross-reference source-of-truth/work-experience.md and source-of-truth/relevant-experiences.md to select the most impactful bullets for the chosen perspective.

Step 3 — Generate the PDF

The resume generator lives at .cursor/skills/generate-custom-resumes/resume-generator/. See its README for full documentation.

cd .cursor/skills/generate-custom-resumes/resume-generator && npm install
node src/index.js \
  --custom resumes/{perspective}-{year}-{sequence}/resume.yaml \
  --output resumes/{perspective}-{year}-{sequence}/resume.pdf

Add a comment at the top of the YAML with the generation command for future reference.

Reference Files

Purpose	Path
Base resume YAML	resumes/resume-base.yaml
Resume generator (bundled)	.cursor/skills/generate-custom-resumes/resume-generator/
Resume generator docs	.cursor/skills/generate-custom-resumes/resume-generator/README.md
Work experience (source of truth)	source-of-truth/work-experience.md
Relevant experiences	source-of-truth/relevant-experiences.md
Resume writing tips	guidelines/resume-tips.md
Copywriting tips	guidelines/copywriting-tips.md
Existing hiring process resumes (examples)	hiring-processes/in-progress/*/resume.yaml