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Talent Match

Talent Match: AI-powered resume screening using cosine similarity. HRs post jobs, students apply. 80%+ match auto-shortlists. HRs view shortlisted resumes & send interview mails instantly.

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🎯 Project Title: Talent Match 👔🤖💼


🔍 🚨 Problem We’re Solving
Manual resume screening is slow 🐌, inefficient ❌, and full of human bias 😵. HR professionals waste hours reviewing stacks of resumes 📄, while great candidates may be overlooked 😔. Job seekers often feel lost, unsure if they’re even a good fit 🤷.


🧩 💡 Our Solution: Talent Match
We built an AI-powered web platform that automatically matches candidate resumes with job descriptions using cosine similarity 🔍📊 – making hiring faster, smarter, and fairer! 🏆

How It Works:

  1. ✍️ HR Posts Job – via a simple web form

  2. 📄 Candidates Upload Resumes – as plain text or form input

  3. 🧹 Text Preprocessing – clean, lowercase, tokenize

  4. 🔁 Vectorization – convert text into word frequency vectors

  5. 💡 Cosine Similarity Calculation – match score is generated

  6. 🟢 Auto Shortlist – if score ≥ 80%, candidate is shortlisted

  7. 💽 SQL Database – securely stores jobs, resumes, and results

  8. 📊 HR Dashboard – view candidates, scores, and take action

  9. ✉️ 1-Click Email System – send interview calls effortlessly

  10. 🤖 Automatic Interview Scheduling – powered by AI agent to coordinate date & time


🛠️ 💻 Tech Stack

  • 🌍 HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  • 🔄 Node.js with Express.js / Spring Boot

  • 🧠 NLP + Cosine Similarity (JS/Python)

  • 🗃️ MySQL / PostgreSQL

  • 📬 Nodemailer / Java Mail API / EmailJS

  • 🚀 Deployment: Render / Vercel / Railway / Heroku

  • 🔧 Dev Tools: VS Code, Postman


📈 🎯 Impact
Talent Match transforms hiring by automating resume screening with precision 🚀. It reduces human error, saves valuable time ⏱️, and ensures the right people meet the right opportunities 🔗. A win-win for HRs and job seekers! 🙌


📚 References
🔗 equip.co
🔗 Resume Screening Research (ML)
🔗 ijirt.org
🔗 chatgpt.com

Tech Stack

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Node.js
Python
MySQL
NLP Engine