The Ultimate List of Job Search Apps
Dez S. Papp was kind enough to offer this list of job search apps and a nice recommendation at the end. Follow him on LinkedIn
The Easiest Way to Negotiate a Higher Salary for Yourself
Don’t lurk around with no tools in your belt.
This is the age old wisdom that applies to everything.
To projects even more so.
And there are only a few projects harder than to look for a new job.
By the end of this short listing, I hope you’ll have at least one tool that you’ll use in your job search.
Let’s dive in.
What are these apps?
I’ll list the healthy apps sorted into helpful categories:
- Preparation,
- Hunt, and
- Close.
Based on the phases of job search projects. With the categories alphabetically sorted.
Boom.
Preparation
These are apps and resources that make you more prepared and present yourself in the best possible light in the eye of employers. Including polishing up your CV, resume, cover letter et al.
Made in Taiwan, and with the tech sector in mind. Drag and drop resume snippets to build an impressive online resume in minutes. Users love most about it:
- Free PDF export
- Drag and drop editing
- Clean user interface
UK-based, mobile app: iOS & Android) – Career guidance with Artificial intelligence.
They claim: “Our resumes get people hired at top companies.” Both free and for pay options to touch up your CV, cover letter. They even help you find jobs.
Their claim: instantly create a resume, cover letter with the help of algorithm.
Their key claim: “One beautiful resume that works everywhere.” People seem to like its clean design above else. Also, a more general alternative to CakeResume.
Hunt
These are tools & apps that make the grind less grinding. This is the part which lies closest to the job board’s jungle. So, the surviving products need to be significantly better. Also, there are juggernauts serving the project minded masses already like Trello, Notion or Airtable. Where spinning up your pipeline is fairly simple.
Huntr
From their website:
“No more messy spreadsheets. Huntr keeps track of every detail about your job opportunities, regardless of where you found them. Track contacts, notes, dates, tasks, job descriptions, salaries, locations, company data and more. It’s like a CRM for your job search.”
Optimize and organize your job search on one dashboard. It is still running but their last blog post is from 2017 and the copyright in the footer is until 2016.
A visual “job CRM” to help you get organized and effective.
Organize your job search by tracking all your prospects. An even simpler version, which is not a spreadsheet. But sure looks like one.
Job search app and community for startup jobs. Mostly in Europe, specifically in the Baltics.
Explore job offers from Top-500 companies.
Job hunting made easy with a Kanban board. Plus a handy Chrome extension.
Close
Essentially, this is the part where you need knowledge (about industry salary levels and such), plus know-how (negotiate.)
Salaries are usually not that hard to figure out with a bit of elbow grease. Indeed (here’s an example search from Ireland) & Glassdoor (example) both do an ok job here. In the tech space services like levels.fyi may be helpful.
Still can’t find your way in your job search?
Then you most likely need human intervention. Job search or career coaches may be helpful (hit up Jeff, running this blog.)
Dez S. Papp
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