job-tools

This repo holds scripts and code used to make the job application process easier.

How It Works

Download the repo and create credential file:

git clone git@github.com:Shumakriss/job-tools.git
cd job-tools
touch site/modules/gapi-credentials.js
open site/modules/gapi-credentials.js

Add your own credentials

// Provided by Google API Console
const CLIENT_ID = '<Your client id>';
const API_KEY = '<Your API Key>';

View the page: open site/modules.index.html

Goals

Here are some common tasks to automate within the job application workflow:

• Search

  • Aggregate job postings
  • Search, filter, and sort job postings

• Assess

  • compensation from job req
  • Glassdoor stats
  • levels.fyi numbers

• Tailoring

  • Basic tailoring steps
    • Clone resume and cover letter with job-specific titles
    • Replace job title in resume
    • Populate today's date in cover letter
    • Populate hiring manager name or default to Hiring Manager
    • replace job title throughout cover letter
    • populate company name throughout cover letter
    • Populate favorite company values
    • populate main experience area for team
    • populate company address
    • Download PDF copies
  • Advanced
    • Create scan on jobscan.co
    • Fill out the job title
    • Automatically rescan when document changes online

Apply

• Fill out the web form
• Upload docs
• Log it in Google Sheets

Other helpful automations:

• Look up headquarters address (reliable?)
• Slice requirements, nice-to-haves, and duties from job description
• Get jobscan results from each

Score Determination

This page aims to address two limitations with Jobscan.co. First, as we tailor our resume, we must copy/paste repeatedly. Second, we do not know what level of information will be used by ATS scans (i.e. only the minimum or full job description). Thus, more copy/pasting.

Our Solution:

1. Automate retrieval of tailored resume
2. Copy/paste job description once
3. Scan at multiple levels of information

Individual section scores are not useful alone, they must include all previous higher priority information. There are four major levels of info: minimum requirements, preferred requirements, job duties, and other (typically company information).

The priority ranking is as follows:

1. Minimum Requirements
2. Preferred Requirements
3. Job Duties
4. Company Information

If a section is not provided or the corresponding checkbox is not checked, it will not be included in any scores.