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Career Signals API — An AI-Powered Resume & Role-Fit Analysis Engine

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This is a submission for the Xano AI-Powered Backend Challenge: Production-Ready Public API

What I Built

I built Career Signals API, a production-ready public API that analyzes resumes, job descriptions, and candidate profiles to generate structured, explainable career insights.

Where most ATS systems still rely on keyword matching, this API provides:

🔍 Profile Analysis

  • Skill breadth & depth scoring
  • Five-dimension leadership scoring (people, technical, delivery, cross-functional, mentorship)
  • Career risk signals (job-hopping, gaps, stagnation, buzzword density)
  • Narrative themes (e.g., “Builder”, “Coach”, “Scaler”)

🎯 Role Fit Analysis

  • Weighted role-fit score (0–100)
  • Matched vs. missing skills with impact levels
  • Seniority and domain alignment
  • Red/green flags + actionable resume and interview recommendations

✍ Resume Bullet Generation

  • Bullets grounded in actual experience (no hallucinations)
  • Tailored to job descriptions
  • Seniority-adjusted tone (IC → Manager → Director → VP)
  • Focus-tag metadata for UI filtering
  • Mismatch warnings when the candidate is underqualified

The API returns clean, consistent JSON responses that can be plugged into resume builders, job-search tools, HR platforms, and ATS systems.

API Documentation

Base URL:
https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:career_signals

Swagger / API Explorer:
https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:career_signals

GitHub Repo:
https://github.com/Tawe/careersignals

Authentication

All endpoints use Bearer tokens:

Authorization: Bearer <API_KEY>

For testing, you may also pass:

{ "test_api_key": "test-key-123" }

Rate Limits

  • 60 requests per minute (default)
  • Configurable per client via Xano table
  • 429 returned when limit exceeded

Endpoints

POST /v1/analyze/profile

Analyzes resume/profile text and returns skill scores, leadership signals, risks, and narrative themes.

POST /v1/analyze/role-fit

Compares a profile to a job description and outputs matched/missing skills, red/green flags, and role-fit scoring.

POST /v1/suggest/bullets

Generates non-hallucinated resume bullets grounded in the candidate’s real experience.

Each endpoint includes:

  • Schema-validated JSON
  • Anti-hallucination safeguards
  • Evidence-based scoring
  • Consistent response formatting

Demo

Microsite

A lightweight frontend you can try immediately:

https://careersignal.johnmunn.tech/

It supports:

  • Pasting a resume
  • Pasting a job description
  • Calling each API endpoint
  • Viewing structured JSON responses

Screenshots

Bullet Suggestions UI

Role Fit Workflow

Example API Calls

🔍 Profile Analysis

curl -X POST "https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:career_signals/v1/analyze/profile" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer test-key-123" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "profile_text": "Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable systems...",
    "locale": "en-US",
    "options": {"include_leadership_signals": true}
  }'

🎯 Role Fit

curl -X POST "https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:career_signals/v1/analyze/role-fit" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer test-key-123" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "profile_text": "Engineering Manager leading backend teams...",
    "job_description": "Director of Engineering role...",
    "locale": "en-US"
  }'

✍ Bullet Suggestions

curl -X POST "https://x8ki-letl-twmt.n7.xano.io/api:career_signals/v1/suggest/bullets" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer test-key-123" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "profile_text": "...",
    "job_description": "...",
    "role_title": "Director of Engineering",
    "max_bullets": 6
  }'

The AI Prompt I Used

I used three core prompts, heavily engineered to enforce structure and prevent hallucinations.

Profile Analysis Prompt (excerpt)

You are a career analysis engine. Analyze resumes and career profiles to extract structured career signals. Always respond with valid JSON only, no prose outside JSON.

LEADERSHIP SCORING (REQUIRED when include_leadership_signals is true): Output a leadership_evidence object with these EXACT fields (all integers 0–100):
- people_leadership_score
- technical_leadership_score
- delivery_ownership_score
- cross_functional_collab_score
- mentorship_coaching_score
- explanation (string with evidence citations)

SCORING RULES:
- Only assign scores above 50 when the profile explicitly shows leadership responsibilities such as: managing people or teams (with team sizes), mentoring, owning delivery of major programs, leading architecture decisions, incident response leadership, or acting as EM/Tech Lead.
- Weak or buzzword-only evidence (e.g., "provided leadership", "cross-functional teamwork") must score 0–30.
- If there is no leadership evidence, scores must be 0–10 and the explanation must state that no leadership responsibilities were found.
- DO NOT infer potential leadership. Only score based on demonstrated experience.

SKILL SIGNALS:
Return skill_breadth_score, skill_depth_score, seniority_band, specialization_archetype, primary_domains, and explanation.

RISK SIGNALS:
Return: job_hopping_risk, tech_stagnation_risk, buzzword_density_score, and any career_gap_flags.

NARRATIVE:
Generate narrative themes summarizing the candidate.
"You are a career analysis engine. Analyze resumes to extract structured signals.

LEADERSHIP SCORING RULES:
- Only assign scores above 50 when explicit evidence is present
- Weak or buzzword-only evidence should be 0–30
- No evidence should be 0–10
- Do NOT infer leadership potential"

Role Fit Prompt (excerpt)

You are a career analysis engine specializing in role matching. Always respond using valid JSON only.

Analyze how well the candidate's profile matches the job description.
Return a JSON object with the following fields:

skills_alignment: {
  score (0–100),
  matched_skills: [{ skill, strength }],
  missing_skills: [{ skill, impact }]
},

domain_alignment: {
  score (0–100),
  explanation
},

seniority_alignment: {
  score (0–100),
  explanation
},

leadership_alignment: {
  score (0–100),
  explanation
},

green_flags: [],
red_flags: [],

recommendations: {
  resume_focus: [],
  interview_talking_points: []
}

SCORING RULES:
- Leadership alignment must reflect demonstrated leadership from the profile.
- Seniority alignment must not be inflated; underqualification should reduce the score.
- Missing skills must include an "impact" rating: Low, Medium, or High.
- Provide clear, concise explanations.

"Match the profile to the job description. Output: skills_alignment,
domain_alignment, seniority_alignment, leadership_alignment,
green_flags, red_flags, recommendations…"

Bullet Generation Prompt (excerpt)

You are a career coach specializing in resume writing.
Generate impactful, metrics-driven resume bullets.
Always respond with valid JSON only.

CRITICAL RULES:
- Never invent achievements, metrics, team sizes, technologies, or responsibilities.
- Bullets must be grounded exclusively in the candidate's actual experience from profile_text.
- If unsure about any detail, omit it.
- Do not infer capabilities the candidate has not explicitly demonstrated.
- Language must scale based on the target role (IC → Manager → Director → VP).
- If candidate appears underqualified for role_title, generate conservative bullets and include a mismatch warning.

OUTPUT FORMAT:
{ "bullets": [{ "text": "...", "focus": ["Leadership", "Delivery"] }], "warnings": [] }

"Never invent achievements. Do not infer metrics, team sizes, or technologies.
If unsure, omit. Only use what's in profile_text."

These prompts, plus schema validation and normalization logic, ensure consistent and safe AI outputs.

How I Refined the AI-Generated Code

The first AI-generated backend worked, but wasn’t production-ready.

Here’s what I fixed:

Before (AI output)

  • Leadership scores were effectively hardcoded whenever evidence was present
  • Buzzwords counted as “strong leadership”
  • Minimal validation
  • Weak error handling
  • Auth logic brittle (mixed-case headers, missing tokens)

After (refined version)

  • Strict evidence-based scoring using AI-generated numeric fields
  • Normalization code rewritten to avoid hardcoded scores
  • Fully structured error responses
  • Robust authentication: case-insensitive Authorization header handling, plus fallback test key
  • Per-client rate limiting
  • Graceful fallback-to-stub when AI is unavailable
  • Consistent schema across all endpoints
  • Sanitized outputs (no unvalidated LLM fields)

Example (Before → After)

Before:

people_leadership_score:
  ($input.ai_data.leadership_evidence.people_leadership ? 85 : 0)

After:

var $people_score {
  value = $input.ai_data.leadership_evidence.people_leadership_score ?? 0
}

My Experience with Xano

What Worked Really Well

  • Function stacks made it easy to structure auth, scoring, logging
  • Instant deployment → rapid iteration
  • Built-in Swagger docs were extremely helpful
  • JSON tooling simplified AI integration
  • Rate limiting & environment variables were easy to configure

Challenges

  • Learning XanoScript syntax (var.update, try_catch, conditional)
  • Parsing authorization headers reliably across clients

Lessons Learned

  1. Prompt engineering is just as important as endpoint design
  2. Validate everything—never trust raw LLM output
  3. Build debug output early; delete it later
  4. Xano is powerful once you get the mental model
  5. Schema-first thinking makes AI integrations predictable

Closing Thoughts

Career Signals API is designed to give job seekers and hiring teams something they rarely get today:

clear, structured, explainable career signals.

By combining Xano, OpenAI, structured prompts, and careful guardrails, I was able to build a real, production-ready service that:

  • Scores leadership honestly
  • Evaluates role fit transparently
  • Generates grounded, non-hallucinated resume bullets
  • Returns consistent, clean JSON every time

Thanks for checking out my submission — and feel free to try the live demo or hit the API directly!

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