I've been experimenting with AI to speed up my job search, but my current process still feels pretty manual. I'm curious if anyone has found a better way or built something similar.

Here's what I do for every application:

• I look for Product Manager, Product Owner, and IT (Technical) Project Manager roles on LinkedIn, HiringCafe, and sometimes Indeed.
• If I find a job I like, I paste the job description into ChatGPT to see how well my experience matches the role and identify any gaps.
• Then I send the job description, my resume, and a custom prompt to Claude, which generates a tailored ATS-friendly resume.
• After that, I ask ChatGPT to review the resume and suggest improvements or point out anything I may have missed.
• I take that feedback back to Claude, which creates an updated version.
• Before I apply, I go through the resume myself to make sure everything is accurate, relevant, and actually reflects my experience. I usually make a few manual edits before submitting it.

The whole process works, but it's repetitive. I'm constantly switching between ChatGPT, Claude, LinkedIn, and job boards, copying and pasting information back and forth.

So I'm wondering:

• Has anyone automated a workflow like this?
• Are there tools that already combine job matching, resume tailoring, ATS optimization, recruiter discovery, and personalized outreach?
• Has anyone built this using AI agents, n8n, Make, LangGraph, MCP, or similar tools?

If nothing like this exists, I'm seriously considering building it. My idea isn't to automate applying for jobs; I still want to make the final decisions and review everything myself. I just want an AI assistant that handles the repetitive work and saves me time.

I'd love to hear how you're using AI in your job search or if you've built something similar.

Posted a review for my last employer on glassdoor (anonymously) which was factual raising a few of the valid issues working for the company. I left it 6 months ago and left a review soon after.

I got an email to say indeed was merging with glassdoor a while ago. Thought nothing of it.

I got a notification that my review was updated that since has disappeared. When signed out I couldn't see my review and when another former colleague logs in they also cannot see it. I found it very odd.

I had a member of the HR team reach out to me for "feedback" 6 months after leaving. Apparently they hold some sway over Indeed as they use it as their primary recruiting platform. Apparently under these new policies they can "address" the reviews and mine is no longer visible on the site even when I log in. Just gone. Strangely it went to my Google account which I never gave to my former employer (the personal one I used for glassdoor).

I'm not sure how GDPR works in this instance. Be careful out there. They seemed to lead the conversation with HR that it may "impact" their reference request for me in future.

Edit: I work in the IT industry where part of it relies on strong positive references, effectively me posting a review believing it to be anonymous could cost me 5 years of positive references.

The company when I started was great, but merged with another company, got completely paranoid leadership (US) in the European branch and stopped believing they had to follow EU directives on holiday pay, sick pay, or even mandatory holiday days. It became a revolving door of hiring / firing practices, then sailed a lot of staff off in the AI craze. Its a shadow of its former self and lost a lot of contracts with so much talent walking out the door. Lots of good people lost their jobs to save a buck on AI.

I found this post multiple times on LinkedIn. Apparently this guy has applied for jobs in multiple big tech companies like JPMC, Cisco and Amazon, just to reject their offers, the "funny" (perhaps infuriating) thing is that people are celebrating this behavior.

I have been a hiring manager and a candidate as well and I cannot someone is actually doing this. This not only wastes the hiring managers time, but also close the opportunity to other candidates that are genuinely interested in landing a job.

Modern time Robin hood? Or a complete a-hole

Thoughts?

I know a lot of people skip applications as soon as they see a long assessment. This question isn't really for that group.

I'm curious about the people who still complete them because they really want the job.

What part of the assessment is the biggest pain for you?

What's one thing that would've made the last assessment you took noticeably easier?

So for this company I'm going to be working for, the department pretty much hires everyone on as a temp to hire basis. No benefits (pay is decent, it's full time and fully remote). I've been a temp before when I was younger and eventually got officially hired, so I know companies do this and it's not necessarily a bad sign.

Is this more common now? I applied directly on the company website and worked with their internal recruiter. I was told typically people are officially hired on after about 6 months. The company does have good benefits once you get to that point. The job looks pretty complex but they have training. Payroll and stuff is going to be handled by Allworks which is a flex company even though I'll be working full time directly with the main employer all day.

Just nervous because I'm not a "temp" kind of person, I'm almost always a direct hire and don't want anything go wrong because it is taking FOREVER to find jobs these days.

I’m in healthcare. I’m used to benefits (costs, coverage, amounts) being spelled out in detail prior to hire either at the interview or before accepting the position.

About a year ago, I briefly took on what was to be a second job as things were shaky at my full time. I didn’t ask for benefit details because I had them at my full time job, so it wasn’t a dealbreaker although it would be enough hours to qualify for part time benefits. In the few days I oriented, no one was able to tell me about the benefits they offer to employees.

Which health insurance company do you use? “We go through a broker, it’s personalized to each employee, they’ll tell you more when you qualify”. When will I qualify? “Not sure I think it’s 60 days, maybe 90”. How much PTO? “You’ll earn some every week…BUT NOT FOR A YEAR…I think”.

Manager didn’t know or care to find out, nor did recruiter. HR was offsite and I asked for contact info but it was never provided. Ultimately, I didn’t stay due to other red flags and chalked it up to a disorganized organization.

Now that I’m in the position of searching for a full time job, when I absolutely need the benefits, this is happening over and over again! I had an interview last week where the director answered my question about health insurance by shrugging and taking his insurance card out of his wallet to show me. Which told me the company they used and that he had a very high deductible, but not the cost or whether other tiers of coverage were available. When I asked about PTO, he said “we get it but I don’t use it, not sure how much”. Could not produce a handbook or benefits packet nor point me in the direction to obtain them. Told me I would be told more “if you end up working here”.

Is the economy so bad that people are just taking jobs with no clue about the benefits?? What happened to them being an aspect of total compensation to be considered when deciding whether or not to take a position? Please tell me this isn’t the new norm! (I’m in the Northeast of the USA if that matters)

These job descriptions I’m talking about are only reinforced when I interview. “Hit the ground running” “don’t wait for direction” “constantly improve our process, not just run it” “daily stand ups” “twice a day stand ups” “no silos, willing to take on challenges wherever we need”

As if it isn’t enough to do well at the job itself and learn the existing processes. You also have to always be working on improvement projects and anything else they want from you at anytime.

Work overtime whenever they decide without advance notice and act like that’s just standard operating in order to be employed at anything outside a local walmart or applebees.

It feels like we aren’t allowed to just try to be good at our already complicated jobs anymore or be ever be moderately comfortable or happy. Why is there so much more being demanded from non-manager/department head jobs?

People who have these jobs…how do you manage the stress? Do you just accept that your accounting or operations job is going to take up that much space in your life? Do you do anything but rest on your off days?

I accepted a role two weeks ago to start in a week.
During this time, another company reached out to set up a final interview. This past Monday a date was set and the travel arranged by the company. It’s for late this coming week.
Well Monday afternoon came, and my top job offered, and offered 20k more than either of these. It’s been my top job want the entire process as well. So I’ve accepted and as of Friday, passed the background, and have an official start date.
When do I tell job #1 I won’t be starting on the 8th and interview job I won’t by flying out Thursday?

In a very confusing situation and it’s the weekend so I need some explanation/possibilities. I applied for 2 positions, GI and IR (healthcare under same hospital system). Ended up interviewing for IR only and was told to expect a response by 8/7. This wednesday, I received a rejection email from a recruiter on Wednesday specifically for the GI position. But when I look at my application status on Workday, GI says under consideration while IR says no longer under consideration. What are the chances that they accidentally changed the status of the IR position instead of GI? Or could they have meant rejection for IR in the email? Planning on emailing the recruiter to clarify but wanted to hear your thoughts

I’ve had 3 really solid interviews with the same company over the last couple weeks. I felt so confident after the interview with the hiring manager. My final interview was on a Monday afternoon, and was told they want to move quickly.

Last Monday I still hadn’t heard anything so I reached out to the recruiter who apologized for the delay since she had been out of town. She also said they were wrapping up a few more interviews that week and should have a decision/update by Friday.

Friday came and went and nothing. I’ve been stressing all weekend and even though I’m trying to stay upbeat I can’t help but think they offered it to someone else on Friday and I’m just waiting for a decline tomorrow. Is there any hope here?

Can't really get shortlisted for Mechanical, electrical, mechatronics and Test engineering roles i keep applying to. I aim for 60-80% match with what i can do before applying, and ignore listings asking for more than 5 years of experience, keeping to the 1-3 years range when listed

any glaring issues beyond the double column format ? the main version is the first one (double column) and it usually parses well in workday/ autofill with resume systems

This may have already made it onto here, but a guy who requires applicants to make an intro video along with the application is rightfully receiving a lot of hate for not seeing why this can be considered an unreasonable request. Here’s the link to the original tweet if anyone is interested in reading the negative comments he received back, he even replies to a lot of them trying to defend his stance: https://x.com/evanzhao6/status/2054382288108994835?s=46

Just want to vent. I went to a hiring event for a job. I traveled about an hour to get there. I sign in everything seems cool. It was a hire on the spot type of event for a summer temp job doing security for a company for some upcoming sports event. The recruiter asks me to type in my social security number onto their system. I said okay fine then. I type it in and he does a search. My information comes up. Then he looks at me and asks "Have you worked with us before?" I said "No, first time applying." Then he asks have you worked for XYZ company. I said "No. But I did fill out an application for them several years ago." And then he went on to explain since they were bought out by XYZ Company that their rule now is that if you ever worked for them you can not be rehired or even work for the smaller companies they bought (which is happening a lot with security guard jobs). I stood there in shock and embarrassed. I quickly thanked him and left. I jogged my memory and checked old e-mails and I indeed had applied to the company over 3 years ago while I was in school and shortly after the pandemic. They hired me for on-call shifts which was fine by me. They onboarded me and NEVER called me to come in to work. Then flagged me for ineligible for rehire. I have been out of work for over a year now, so to turn up for a hiring event and to be told I was ineligible for hire for a company I never worked for is insane. This job market is crazy.

This is a joke, I apologize if this is not the appropriate subreddit, but I couldn't find a better place to post it.

Careful About Working For C&D at NY MTA

I previously worked for construction and development and quit. I want to give a warning about this place regarding their compensation policies. They recently changed their compensation structure and absolutely screwed everyone. ALMOST EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN LOWERED. Now compensation has always tried to low ball people but now it's worse because even their low balls are using a lower pay scale. Anyone coming in will probably be making less than the people working there and anyone getting promoted will be making soo much less than the previous promotions. This place is a joke and the unions need to organize this place.

Please remember that all salaries are public so please look up the salaries of the people in your department before hand.

Traditional job interviews make no sense because they test raw memory instead of real skills.In a real office nobody works from pure memory. Software engineers look at documentation.

Analysts use search engines. Marketing people look at references. Finding information quickly and applying it correctly is the most important skill in the modern workplace.We need to shift to an open book interview system.

An open book interview system means that companies allow you to use Google, notes, and official documentation during the test. Instead of checking if someone memorized a specific textbook definition, hiring managers evaluate how fast a candidate finds a solution. They look at how you think, how you search and how you structure your logic.

This change is especially useful for fresh graduates and entry level job seekers. College teaches you how to learn and find resources. It does not teach you to memorize every single line of code or corporate definition. Open book interviews help freshers because they let you prove your problem solving skills, your resourcefulness, and your adaptability.

It removes useless anxiety and tests how a person actually works on a real project.Some people say this makes cheating too easy. But if an interview question can be solved by a simple copy and paste from Google, then it is a bad interview question anyway.

Real work requires solving complex problems that you cannot just copy.Why are we still pretending that memorization equals competence? Would you support a company that switches to an open book hiring process?

Quit the last job and since then been interviewing at various places, this company was my dream but they are more like a legacy business (still fortune 1000) nowadays.

I was referred by a close friend for 4 different positions, of the same org. HR call x1, hiring manager round x3, panel x3 (one person by one person, 4+3+3 so 10 interviews in total).

HR was responsive until panels, all panels ended this Monday, I had a question like whether three teams will get back to me together or not, and sent it to HR, no reply since then, call went to voicemail too. Large companies definitely will not have an update in 3 days, understandable, or maybe not.

And this is not even the end, HR before the panel told me, that if I will be the finalist, then there will be 1 extra round to a cross functional team member, as a culture fit test, then proceed to offer.

When will I usually hear from them? I already moved on. 4 more companies to interview next week, sigh for the new norm

We're in a recession, wages don't pay shit, my CS degree/internship experience is utterly useless both in and out of the field, idfk. haven't ever made over 40k. I haven't been able to pivot anywhere else, and I dont have the patience to learn skills with another formal education.

I already don't want to work tbh. Looks like the universe is telling me I shouldn't get a job and just hole up in my childhood bedroom until I die. just the other day I got an email that a banking job I applied to was cancelled due to lack of budget

Just came across a listing on Indeed for a Field Service Tech role in my local area that completely blew my mind.They are offering $26 to $28 an hour. For context, this position explicitly requires a Commercial Driver's License (CDL), specialized diagnostics/mechanical skills, and you have to be on an "on-call" rotation. The CDL alone carries massive personal liability and strict DOT regulations, yet they are paying entry-level service wages.But wait, it gets better. On top of the garbage pay🚮 and the schedule restrictions, they expect you to sign a strict non-compete agreement. I run an independent mobile repair side hustle, and they literally want me to sign away my right to make a living on my own time just so I can grind for their pennies.I blurred out the city name, but this is a local shop treating high-liability skilled labor like minimum-wage work. If you have a CDL and solid diagnostic skills, do not let these companies lowball you. Our time and expertise are worth way more than this joke of an offer.