CV Manager EU

A web application for collecting, editing, and exporting professional CVs in the DIGIT-TM II format — the standardised template required for EU framework contracts (e.g. DIGIT, ENISA, EIB).

Built with Laravel 11, Tailwind CSS, and the Anthropic Claude API.

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✨ Features

For Candidates

• Structured CV editor with all DIGIT-TM II fields
• Project management — add, edit, delete work experience entries
• Technology tagging with competence ratings (1–5) per project
• Language proficiency table
• AI Import — extract project history automatically from:
  • Pasted text (existing CV, LinkedIn export, etc.)
  • PDF upload (max 5 MB)
• Auto-save

For Administrators

• Admin dashboard with CV status overview (draft / locked / archived)
• Invite candidates via email
• Lock / unlock candidate editing
• Archive CVs
• Export CV as .docx (DIGIT-TM II template) — one click download
• Suspend / unsuspend user accounts
• Reset AI import quota per candidate

Output

The exported Word document includes:

• Personal and professional overview with automatic checkbox fields
• Profile summary page
• Trainings and certifications table
• Technology expertise table — months of experience calculated automatically across all projects (overlapping dates merged)
• One page per project with full structured detail

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🛠 Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Backend	Laravel 11 (PHP 8.2+)
Frontend	Blade + Tailwind CSS + Alpine.js
Authentication	Laravel Breeze + Sanctum
AI extraction	Anthropic Claude API (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001)
PDF extraction	pdftotext (Poppler CLI)
Word generation	PHPWord
Deployment	Envoy

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🚀 Installation

Requirements

• PHP 8.2+
• Composer
• Node.js + npm
• MySQL or PostgreSQL
• pdftotext installed on the server (apt install poppler-utils)
• Anthropic API key

Steps

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/your-username/cv-manager-eu.git
cd cv-manager-eu

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Install JS dependencies
npm install && npm run build

# Copy environment file
cp .env.example .env

# Generate application key
php artisan key:generate

# Configure your .env (see below)

# Run migrations
php artisan migrate

# (Optional) Seed with a default admin user
php artisan db:seed

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⚙️ Environment Configuration

Key variables to set in your .env:

APP_NAME="CV Manager EU"
APP_URL=https://your-domain.com

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=cv_manager
DB_USERNAME=your_db_user
DB_PASSWORD=your_db_password

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=your.smtp.host
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=your@email.com
MAIL_PASSWORD=your_mail_password
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=no-reply@your-domain.com
MAIL_FROM_NAME="CV Manager EU"

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

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👥 User Roles

Role	Access
candidate	CV editor only — self-registered or invited
admin	Full dashboard, user management, DOCX export

Admin accounts are created manually (set role = 'admin' in the users table, or via seeder).

Candidates can self-register at /register or be invited by an admin from /admin/users.

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🤖 AI Import

The AI import feature uses Anthropic Claude (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) to extract structured project data from unstructured text or PDF files.

• Each candidate has a quota of 3 AI imports
• Admins can reset the quota from the users management page
• The extraction prompt is written in Italian (matching the target user base)
• Supported input: plain text paste or PDF upload (max 5 MB, requires pdftotext)

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📄 DIGIT-TM II Export

The Word export is generated using PHPWord and follows the official DIGIT-TM II CV template structure:

• Page 1 — Personal overview, education, languages, top 5 technologies
• Page 2 — Profile summary
• Page 3 — Trainings and certifications
• Page 4 — Full technology expertise table (competence + months, auto-calculated)
• Project pages — one per project, structured layout

Technology experience months are computed automatically. Overlapping date ranges across projects are merged to avoid double-counting.

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🚢 Deployment with Envoy

The project includes an Envoy.blade.php for zero-downtime deployment:

envoy run deploy

Deployments use a releases/ + current/ symlink structure. Configure your server's document root to point to current/public.

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🔒 Security

• Login rate-limited to 5 attempts per minute per IP
• Email verification required for self-registered users (invited candidates are pre-verified)
• Forced password change on first login for invited candidates
• CV lock prevents editing even by authenticated candidates
• Suspended users are logged out immediately on their next request

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📁 Key Routes

Method	Route	Description
GET	/cv/edit	CV editor (candidate)
POST	/cv/ai-import/text	AI import from text
POST	/cv/ai-import/pdf	AI import from PDF
GET	/admin/dashboard	CV list with status
GET	/admin/cvs/{id}/export	Download DOCX
POST	/admin/users/invite	Invite a candidate
PATCH	/admin/cvs/{id}/lock	Lock a CV
PATCH	/admin/users/{id}/reset-ai-import	Reset AI quota

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📝 License

This project is open source and free to use. If you use it or adapt it, a mention is appreciated.

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Developed by Cristian Pantea