Hey everyone,<p>My wife graduated in 2022 and she was fortunate enough to land an internship at a small startup which then offered her a permanent position. But ever since then she has been trying to find another job as a frontend dev since the current one doesn't offer any growth opportunities. She started looking in 2023 right when the job market started tanking.<p>She's been at it for months with no success as there are little to no junior roles available and she spent most of her day refreshing linkedin to check for new opportunities.<p>At the beginning of this year I had this idea that I could automate the job search part for her by web scraping the search results page in linkedin. This way she could focus on work/portfolio projects and check when the tool finds new job opennings.<p>Long story short, what started as a small script evolved into a full fledged project since I realised this could help other people too.<p>The app is an electron desktop app which uses the underlying chromium instance to download the HTML of job sites and sends it to a Supabase edge function for parsing. It doesn't search the entire site, just what jobs are shown in the URL you paste into it. As of now it supports more that 10 sources including linkedin, indeed, dice, glassdoor, flexjobs, bestjobs, we work remotely and constantly looking to add more.
I think that while this is a decent idea, I would be more interested in tools that already exist that can actually do the physical applications automatically.<p>An example of this is WonsultingAI’s AutoApplyAI product. Not an endorsement, I’ve never used it, just that I know it exists and what it does.<p>If I’m going to pay a monthly fee (once your payment processing is ready ) why am I still having to apply manually when competitors will actually submit the applications for me?
Very nice, but probably very US-centric aswell, so maybe displaying for what job market it applies might be a good thing :)<p>But yeah reminds me in about a year I will also have to apply for a new job, and I'm certainly not looking forward to the whole process.
I built a similar project, for a single industry. Same concept strategically: scraping a bunch of web sites for job listing, aggregating, then providing direct link to the source:<p><a href="https://www.casinojoblist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.casinojoblist.com/</a>
Much gratitude for your application, I have used it so far to apply to an opportunity I would otherwise not have found. Optimistically this will help me get back into a corporate gig using Clojure.