Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
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Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#2Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit your applications (name, email, resume, etc). All feedback is welcome, you can also email me here: admin@jobgen.io
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#3Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit you…
First of all, make the website look more professional. I.e. Do Not Capitalise Every Single Word. Secondly, fix spelling mistakes ("Its a numbers game").
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#4On the one hand, this is super cool and I know some people/fields this would be great.
On the other, I worry that without knowing exactly who and how these are getting sent out, that I'll seriously consider one of these companies soon after using this, and then be in the unfortunate position of having one low-quality application, and a followup high quality one.
Do I have the ability to select who things are going to? Also, with a trigger this powerful, I'd appreciate a bit more implication of what that first form submission does.
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#5Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit you…
Well done on building this, it's an interesting idea. Where did the numbers come from on the homepage?
I only ask because your personal account of 100+ jobs, at 5 mins per application, doesn't seem like the best approach to me. When I was jobseeking, I'd research every job description & company thoroughly first, and if it seemed like somewhere I'd want to work then I'd spend probably 20 minutes or so writing a cover letter that came across as personal.
I'm sure our experiences aren't apples-to-apples, but I definitely got a very high response rate from taking this approach.
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#6I actually really disagree that it's a numbers game. Yes, it is a numbers game if all you do is send a generic application.
But it's not at all a numbers game if you only apply to companies where you have some human connection. For privileged people, that means a relative, family friend, or friend.
For others, who have no useful connections, it's possible to make these connections by cold-messaging people on LinkedIn, especially alumni from your school. I have friends who have done this right out of college and only applied to 3 or 4 companies before landing a job they loved.
I'd argue that a tool like this encourages and facilitates a dead-end method of applications.
EDIT: Let me rephrase this a different way. Sometimes, when you're not finding success, it's not because of too few attempts. It's because your conversion rate needs to be increased. In this case, the conversion rate of "send generic app" is very low, whereas the conversation rate of "tailor your app to the specific opportunity" is much, much higher.
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#7Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit you…
I'm at work so I can't check it out right now. Does it show you the job descriptions of all the jobs you have applied to?
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#8I actually really disagree that it's a numbers game. Yes, it is a numbers game if all you do is send a generic application. But it's not at all a numbers game if you only apply to companies where you have some human connection. For privileged people, that means a relative, family friend, or friend. For others, who have no useful connections, it's possible to make these connections by cold-messaging people on LinkedIn…
I agree, but also it is true that the mechanical process of actually filling in an application is very tedious. If that bit can be eliminated then it is definitely worth it.
That said, I think you can apply to jobs with a single click on LinkedIn (and I assume StackOverflow?) so that has kind of been solved. Ish.
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#9Hi guys, I built this after spending over 2 months applying to 100+ jobs on all the job boards and managing everything through a spreadsheet as a senior in college. I want to make the job seeking process easier for everyone so I built JobGen, a way to auto-apply to hundreds of jobs in 2 minutes. It's built with Rails on Heroku, and on the backend uses image recognition and DOM parsing to identify fields to submit you…
Hmmm, and we built a Job Search tool that we initially intended as our internal tool to hunt for contract works. However, we end up aggregating all sorts of jobs.
I'm thinking search job with our tool - https://getbetterluck.com/ and apply with your tool.
Re: Show HN: A Webapp to Auto Apply for Jobs
#10Good idea. One important feature that can make it great idea is to match open positions based on the resume's text and the job title and description text(NLP). Then present a screen with the list of the companies with job information algorithm matched with check-boxes. So that user can decide where to apply.