extract-resume-and-generate-profile

Extract Resume Data and Generate an Employee Profile

Staffing agencies and HR departments use this pipeline to accelerate onboarding — extracting key details from a candidate's resume and generating a standardized employee profile document ready for internal systems.

APIs Used

Document Extraction (1 credit per page), Document Generation (1 credits/request)

Prerequisites

You need an Iteration Layer API key. Get one at platform.iterationlayer.com during the 7-day trial.

For full integration guidance (SDKs, auth, MCP, error handling), see the Iteration Layer Integration Guide.

Implementation

# Step 1: Extract resume data
EXTRACTION=$(curl -s -X POST https://api.iterationlayer.com/document-extraction/v1/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "files": [
      {
        "type": "url",
        "name": "resume-elena-vasquez.pdf",
        "url": "https://example.com/resumes/elena-vasquez-2026.pdf"
      }
    ],
    "schema": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "name": "full_name",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Candidate full name"
        },
        {
          "name": "email",
          "type": "EMAIL",
          "description": "Email address"
        },
        {
          "name": "phone",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Phone number"
        },
        {
          "name": "address",
          "type": "ADDRESS",
          "description": "Home address"
        },
        {
          "name": "job_title",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Most recent job title"
        },
        {
          "name": "employer",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Most recent employer"
        },
        {
          "name": "years_of_experience",
          "type": "INTEGER",
          "description": "Total years of professional experience"
        },
        {
          "name": "education",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Highest degree and institution"
        },
        {
          "name": "skills",
          "type": "TEXTAREA",
          "description": "Key skills listed on the resume"
        }
      ]
    }
  }')

# Step 2: Generate an employee profile document
curl -X POST https://api.iterationlayer.com/document-generation/v1/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "format": "pdf",
    "document": {
      "metadata": {
        "title": "Employee Profile — Elena Vasquez",
        "author": "Apex Staffing Solutions"
      },
      "page": {
        "size": {
          "preset": "A4"
        },
        "margins": {
          "top_in_pt": 54,
          "right_in_pt": 54,
          "bottom_in_pt": 54,
          "left_in_pt": 54
        }
      },
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "headline",
          "level": "h1",
          "text": "Employee Profile"
        },
        {
          "type": "headline",
          "level": "h2",
          "text": "Elena Vasquez"
        },
        {
          "type": "separator"
        },
        {
          "type": "table",
          "header": {
            "cells": [
              {
                "text": "Field"
              },
              {
                "text": "Details"
              }
            ]
          },
          "rows": [
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Email"
                },
                {
                  "text": "[email protected]"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Phone"
                },
                {
                  "text": "+1 (512) 555-0198"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Address"
                },
                {
                  "text": "814 Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78701"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Current Title"
                },
                {
                  "text": "Senior Product Manager"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Current Employer"
                },
                {
                  "text": "NovaTech Solutions"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Experience"
                },
                {
                  "text": "8 years"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "cells": [
                {
                  "text": "Education"
                },
                {
                  "text": "MBA, University of Texas at Austin"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "separator"
        },
        {
          "type": "headline",
          "level": "h3",
          "text": "Key Skills"
        },
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "runs": [
            {
              "text": "Product roadmap planning, Agile/Scrum methodology, cross-functional team leadership, data-driven decision making, user research, A/B testing, SQL, stakeholder management"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "type": "separator"
        },
        {
          "type": "paragraph",
          "runs": [
            {
              "text": "Prepared by Apex Staffing Solutions — Confidential"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }'