I've since heard from so, so many people that they aren't getting any bites with traditional job applications, so I've paused active development on it.
My motivations were very similar to yours. I have the personal opinion that there is so much more that we have in our heads that we don't put in our resume/CV and that's the approach I took. You need to come in with a sort of AI biography/career highlight reel on yourself to get the best results. I provided users a template to start from. Yes, your resume is a source of the bio, but there is so much more that job hunters should be drawing from.
That AI biography was the result of another project I was working on.
How do you link the cover letter/resume to a job? Does the user need to come in with a job description in mind? (I didn't try your tool out yet!)
Oh cool! I'm shocked people weren't getting interviews with the resumes. I had gotten zero interviews in four months of applying. Then once I built PatchWork, I applied to ten jobs, I've heard back from 8, and 7 of them have been for interviews.
Cover letter content is linked to a job with AI calls. Most cover letters should say the company and the role that a certain work experience was at, so generally it should be pretty easy for the AI to categorize it. What issues were you running into there?
I originally had it as "upload anything with any career info in it," but that proved to be nearly impossible to parse so I scaled back down to documents with predictable content and structures. I also have an AI chat onboarding option if people would rather chat to set up their profile.
Oh i just looked at your tool and it looks like your tool is extremely complementary to PatchWork... would be cool if people used your tool to find the roles that fit them best, then used PatchWork to generate their best resume for their strongest role matches with a click of a button... Just an idea :) haha
I build this completely solo and manage it solo, so feedback would be greatly appreciated! This truly was a tool I built for myself because it didn't exist on the market, and I hope people see value in this approach the way that I do.
Also, any tips on how to reduce AI costs without reducing quality would be great. I've done quite a bit of optimization in that regard but there's a lot I don’t know.
I did something similar with https://shortlist.addslift.com/
I've since heard from so, so many people that they aren't getting any bites with traditional job applications, so I've paused active development on it.
My motivations were very similar to yours. I have the personal opinion that there is so much more that we have in our heads that we don't put in our resume/CV and that's the approach I took. You need to come in with a sort of AI biography/career highlight reel on yourself to get the best results. I provided users a template to start from. Yes, your resume is a source of the bio, but there is so much more that job hunters should be drawing from.
That AI biography was the result of another project I was working on.
How do you link the cover letter/resume to a job? Does the user need to come in with a job description in mind? (I didn't try your tool out yet!)
Oh cool! I'm shocked people weren't getting interviews with the resumes. I had gotten zero interviews in four months of applying. Then once I built PatchWork, I applied to ten jobs, I've heard back from 8, and 7 of them have been for interviews.
Cover letter content is linked to a job with AI calls. Most cover letters should say the company and the role that a certain work experience was at, so generally it should be pretty easy for the AI to categorize it. What issues were you running into there?
I originally had it as "upload anything with any career info in it," but that proved to be nearly impossible to parse so I scaled back down to documents with predictable content and structures. I also have an AI chat onboarding option if people would rather chat to set up their profile.
Oh i just looked at your tool and it looks like your tool is extremely complementary to PatchWork... would be cool if people used your tool to find the roles that fit them best, then used PatchWork to generate their best resume for their strongest role matches with a click of a button... Just an idea :) haha
Feel free to get in touch! I'm happy to collaborate to make something greater
I build this completely solo and manage it solo, so feedback would be greatly appreciated! This truly was a tool I built for myself because it didn't exist on the market, and I hope people see value in this approach the way that I do.
Also, any tips on how to reduce AI costs without reducing quality would be great. I've done quite a bit of optimization in that regard but there's a lot I don’t know.
Thanks for reading about my little project!