Welcome to Hugo

Your AI-powered career coach for building standout resumes and achieving your career goals

What is Hugo?

Hugo is your AI career coach that helps you create compelling resumes and land your dream job. We combine intelligent resume analysis with guided self-reflection and personalized job matching to help you tell your professional story effectively and find your next opportunity.

Key Features:

  • Upload & Parse Resumes: Automatically extract and organize your experience from PDF or DOCX files
  • AI-Powered Scoring: Get detailed analysis with actionable improvement suggestions
  • Guided Reflection: Answer inspiring questions to articulate your achievements and goals
  • Resume Generation: Create tailored resumes from your accumulated profile data
  • Personalized Job Matching: Get AI-powered job recommendations based on your preferences, work style, and profile

Getting Started

Choose your path:

Path 1: Upload Your Resume

  1. Go to Profile and click "Upload Resume"
  2. Upload your PDF or DOCX resume (max 10 MB)
  3. We'll automatically extract your experience, education, and skills
  4. Head to Score Resume to get AI-powered feedback

Path 2: Build From Scratch

  1. Start with Inspire to reflect on your proudest achievements
  2. Visit Intention to clarify your career goals
  3. Use Practical to systematically add your work experience
  4. Generate a polished resume from your profile

Path 3: Find Your Next Role

  1. Go to Job Search and set your preferences (target roles, locations, salary, industries)
  2. Answer the job search Q&A questions about your work style and preferences
  3. Visit Rec to see your personalized job recommendations
  4. Browse matched jobs, review fit scores, and apply directly through the platform

Core Features

Inspire Questions

Deep reflective questions that help you articulate your achievements, motivations, and career highlights. Perfect for uncovering the stories that make your resume compelling.

Intention Questions

Goal-focused questions that clarify your career aspirations, target roles, and professional direction. Helps you tailor your resume to your next opportunity.

Practical Experience

Step-by-step collection of your work history. Add companies, titles, dates, and describe what a typical day looked like. Build your experience timeline methodically.

Resume Scoring

Get AI-powered analysis of your resume with detailed subscores: structure, achievements, readability, role alignment, technical skills, and ATS optimization. Receive specific, actionable improvement suggestions.

Resume Generation

Create polished, tailored resumes from your profile data. We intelligently select and format your experiences based on your target role. Generate multiple versions for different opportunities.

Job Search Preferences

Set your target job titles, preferred locations, salary expectations, and industries. This information helps us match you with the right opportunities and tailor your resume recommendations.

Personalized Job Recommendations

Get AI-powered job recommendations based on your preferences, work style, and profile. Each recommendation includes a fit score showing how well the role matches your criteria, with detailed breakdowns of preference match, work style alignment, and context fit.

Job Matching & Fit Scoring

Our matching algorithm considers your job preferences (location, salary, title), work style answers (management style, structure, travel), and your profile context. Each job gets a fit score with detailed breakdowns showing what makes it a good match.

Job Search & Recommendations

Setting Up Your Job Search Profile

To receive personalized job recommendations, you need to complete your job search profile:

  1. Basic Preferences: Set your target job titles, preferred locations (cities or remote), target industries, and minimum salary expectations
  2. Job Search Q&A: Answer at least 2 questions about your work style, preferences, and what energizes you in your career

Once your profile is complete, you'll see personalized recommendations on the Rec page.

Understanding Recommendations

Recommendations are updated in real-time based on your profile. Each job shows:

  • Fit Score: Overall match percentage (0-100%)
  • Fit Breakdown: Preference match, work style match, and context match scores
  • Top Contributors: What factors make this job a good match (e.g., "Q&A Context", "Role Match", "Management Style")
  • Job Details: Company, location, salary range, employment type, and direct application link

Fit Scores Explained

Each recommendation includes three match components:

  • Preference Match: How well the job matches your target titles, locations, salary, and industries
  • Work Style Match: Alignment with your work style preferences (management style, structure, travel, schedule)
  • Context Match: How well the job description matches your profile, skills, and Q&A answers

These scores are combined to create an overall fit rating. Higher scores indicate better matches.

ATS Platforms Supported

We source jobs from multiple Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS):

  • Greenhouse: Popular ATS used by many tech companies
  • Lever: Common in startups and mid-size companies
  • Workday: Enterprise-level ATS platform

Each job listing shows the ATS platform icon, and you can apply directly through the platform's application system.

Improving Your Matches

To get better recommendations:

  • Keep your job search preferences up to date
  • Answer more Q&A questions to provide better context
  • Update your profile with recent experiences and skills
  • Be specific about your target roles and locations

Frequently Asked Questions

How does the profile system work?

Each user has one master profile that accumulates ALL your data from resume uploads and questionnaire answers. This hidden profile is your data warehouse. When you upload resumes or answer questions, everything merges into your profile with smart deduplication. You can then generate multiple tailored resumes from this rich profile data.

Can I upload multiple resumes?

Yes! Each resume you upload is parsed and merged into your master profile. Duplicate experiences are automatically detected and merged intelligently. Your resume library shows all uploaded and generated resumes.

What file formats are supported?

We support PDF, DOC, and DOCX files up to 10 MB. Note: Password-protected or heavily scanned PDFs may fail to parse. Use a clean, text-based PDF for best results.

How is my resume scored?

Our AI analyzes six key dimensions: structure (formatting and organization), achievements (impact and metrics), readability (clarity and conciseness), role alignment (fit for target job), technical skill relevance, and ATS optimization. You get an overall score plus detailed subscores and specific improvement suggestions.

Do I need to answer all the questions?

No! The Inspire, Intention, and Practical sections are completely optional. You can skip questions, complete them partially, or come back later. They're designed to help you reflect deeply and build a comprehensive profile, but you can always upload a resume and score it immediately if you prefer.

Is my data private and secure?

Yes. Your resumes and profile data are treated as PII (personally identifiable information) and are never shared. All data is stored securely and only you have access to your profile and resumes.

How do job recommendations work?

After you complete your job search preferences and answer Q&A questions, our AI analyzes thousands of active job listings and matches them to your profile. Recommendations are ranked by fit score, which considers your preferences, work style, and profile context. Recommendations are updated in real-time and cached for fast loading.

Why am I not seeing any recommendations?

To receive recommendations, you need to complete your job search profile: set target job titles or roles, preferred locations, and answer at least 2 job search Q&A questions. Check the Rec page for a detailed breakdown of what's missing.

What are fit scores and how are they calculated?

Fit scores combine three components: Preference Match (how well the job matches your target roles, locations, salary), Work Style Match (alignment with your management style, structure, travel preferences), and Context Match (how well the job description matches your skills and Q&A answers). Each component is scored 0-1 and combined into an overall fit rating.

Can I filter recommendations by ATS platform?

Currently, recommendations show jobs from all supported ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday) mixed together. Each job card displays the ATS platform icon so you can identify the source. Filtering by platform may be available in future updates.

How often are recommendations updated?

Recommendations are computed in the background when you visit the Rec page. If you update your job search preferences or Q&A answers, recommendations are automatically refreshed. The system caches recommendations for performance, but they're updated whenever your profile changes.

Troubleshooting

Resume upload failing?

Ensure your file is under 10 MB, saved as PDF/DOC/DOCX, and not password-protected. Heavily scanned PDFs may fail — try exporting a fresh PDF from your word processor.

Signed in but seeing errors?

Try signing out and back in. Clear your browser cookies if the issue persists.

Score not updating?

Scores are cached for performance. If you've updated your profile, use the "Force Refresh" option when scoring to recalculate.

Dashboard not updating?

Try refreshing the page or clearing your browser cache. Open in a private/incognito window to test.

Not seeing recommendations?

Make sure you've completed your job search profile: set target roles and locations, and answer at least 2 Q&A questions. Visit Job Search to complete your profile. The Rec page will show exactly what's missing.

Recommendations seem wrong?

Update your job search preferences and Q&A answers. More specific preferences (target roles, locations) and more Q&A answers lead to better matches. Recommendations refresh automatically when you update your profile.

Contact Support

Need help? Have feedback? We'd love to hear from you:

Email: support@hugo.ai