Auto-deploy: 2026-08-05 17:41:16

server/generate_cv.php

@@ -520,9 +520,34 @@ PROMPT;
             if ($pageCount <= $TARGET_PAGES) break;
         }
 
-        // ATS parsers key on the filename too — "Name - Role.pdf" reads cleanly.
-        $safeName  = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_ ]/', '', $id['fullName']);
-        $safeTitle = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\-_ ]/', '', $jobTitle ?: 'CV');
+        // ATS parsers key on the filename too — "Name - Role.pdf" reads cleanly,
+        // and a recruiter sees it before opening anything.
+        //
+        // Scraping a job title out of LinkedIn's DOM is fragile, and a bad
+        // scrape has shipped filenames like "Hamza Ayed - 0 notifications.pdf"
+        // and "Hamza Ayed - Are these results helpful.pdf". The client is fixed,
+        // but the server must not depend on the client being right: reject
+        // anything that does not look like a job title and fall back to the
+        // profile's own positioning instead.
+        $rawTitle = trim($jobTitle);
+        $looksLikeUiText = preg_match(
+            '/helpful|result|feedback|notification|message|your profile|match|tips|about the job|^\d/i',
+            $rawTitle
+        );
+        // Real job titles carry a role noun. Requiring one rejects stray UI
+        // strings without hardcoding a list of every possible title.
+        $hasRoleNoun = preg_match(
+            '/engineer|developer|architect|lead|manager|consultant|specialist|analyst|designer|' .
+            'programmer|scientist|director|head of|principal|staff|senior|founding|cto|technologist/i',
+            $rawTitle
+        );
+
+        if ($rawTitle === '' || $looksLikeUiText || !$hasRoleNoun) {
+            $rawTitle = $id['primaryTitle'];
+        }
+
+        $safeName  = preg_replace('/[^\p{L}0-9\-_ ]/u', '', $id['fullName']);
+        $safeTitle = preg_replace('/[^\p{L}0-9\-_ ()\/]/u', '', $rawTitle);
         $safeTitle = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $safeTitle));
         $fileName  = trim("{$safeName} - {$safeTitle}") . '.pdf';