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Is there a way to parse resume information into an Access form? Will pay $$!?

  • We are a small recruiting firm that uses an Access system to manage all of our candidates. We spend a lot of time typing in information from the resume such as Name, Address, Home Phone, Cell Phone, and Email address. I know that many of the larger software applications can do this for you. Would it be possible for us to add VBA code to our app to allow it to scan in information from Word docs, PDFs and RTFs? We are willing to pay to have someone add this capability to the software as long as you can show us some kind of proof of concept. We understand that it will not work 100% of the time as resumes are often formatted very differently from one to the next. We also understand that it may be more difficult to do it with all formats so .DOC is the most important. This application was developed in house so we do have a certain level of techical aptitude SO if anyone could either point us in the right direction or offer their services we would be very grateful!

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    May be you can post your project requirements at freelance websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ and let many programmers bid for your project, you can then choose whoever you like.

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I am capable of doing this. However, doing this the way you specified would require several hundred hours worth of work. You don't want to pay for that. However, if you can have the applicants submit their resume in either text file or even from a web form (I can help you with that too), the scope of the project would become much smaller. [email protected]

Doug J

As an alternative, why not setup your website so that submitted resumes must be parsed by the submitter? You can call it a "resume wizard" but essentially it would be a page flow that walks the user through a process of copy/paste from their soft copy resume to a form driven page flow that dumps into your database. If you truly want to do the automated parsing, take a look at the search results for "human resource resume parsing" and you'll find plenty of commercial products that offer to do that. I am not familiar with any of them but I'd figure that with a little digging you could find reviews or even ask for a demonstration from the company before purchasing. ** Edit ** Forgot to mention that while developing your own software to parse is certainly an option, the issue is software maintanence. With a commercial (or possibly a free open source) product, you won't need to maintain that portion of the solution other than evaluating updated versions to ensure compatibility with your custom code. What you do get from this is additional features without putting all the development time into it. For example, will your code handle the Open Document Format (ODF), MS Open Office XML (OOXML), PDF, WPD, etc...? What about various specifications? Most likely the commercial (or open source) solution would be addressing that for you.

Jim Maryland

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