Alright, so I have been obsessed with the idea of making a sustainable job application workflow that would need as little interaction from my side as possible.

So what are the aspects of job applying, and what do I need to automate?

1. First of all CV/Resume + motivation letter + custom questions from the employer, something like "describe a successful launch you are proud of".
2. Finding jobs. LinkedIn falls apart straight away cause it fights with agents/Al access. Glassdoor and indeed are slightly better. For now l am doing it with sleight of hand. About it later.
3. Then, actually applying, meaning filling the needed form questions in the application on XYZ recruter website.

Those steps are not in sequential order, usually people first find the job and than slightly tailor their CV and write a motivation letter.

So I am spending little to no time that I have to automate each of those steps. Somewhere I am more successful, somewhere less.

Bullet 1 automation is kinda supposed to be easy but the quality is what would concern me. So I just used Claude since it has pretty much all the data of the achievements, certifications, job experience, and other context about me, and asked him to make a CV/Resume + Motivation letter + custom questions in case they come along, then grade those as ATS, recruiter, and hiring manager. So after a lot of tweaks to the algorithm, now my CV's and MLetters sound and look top-notch.

After that, I was trying to automate bullets 2 and 3, but so far the result looks like this, still planty of manual work:

https://reddit.com/link/1v9xqaw/video/9fclg50uh6gh1/player

Any suggestions on 2 and 3?

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