Parsers

SkyHive’s Parsers API securely takes information from uploaded user resumes or LinkedIn profiles and extracts skills, experience, education, and certifications for profile population. With this API, you can:

• Provide users with an automated, streamlined approach to profile population

Automate user profile completion using this method:

• Use extractSkillsFromFile to extract skills from a DOC, DOCX, PDF or RTF type file.
• Use parseResume to parse an uploaded resume, CV, or a PDF-formatted LinkedIn profile.
• Use parseSkills to parse skills from text.

Parse Resume

The Parse Resume method takes the text of a resume/CV/LinkedIn profile as a string and extracts information on skills, experience, education, etc. for automatic profile population.

Proper Resume/CV/LinkedIn Profile Formatting

To ensure success, refer users to this SkyHive article, which describes the best-suited resume formatting for these methods. Also refer users to this LinkedIn article, which details how to save a LinkedIn profile as a PDF.

The following use case covers a possible application of the Parsers API:

• Use Case: Creating Employee Profiles