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How it works

Seven steps from cold resume to final round.

Each step is designed to save you the busywork without taking over the decisions. You stay in the loop; we keep the pipeline moving.

1

Upload your resume and answer a quick intake.

DOCX or PDF. Job Lobster parses your roles, titles, and skills, mines 6–10 interview-ready STAR stories from your work history, and asks a short intake (what you want next, where you’ll work, eligibility) so scoring has the signal it needs.

The intake takes five minutes. The better your answers, the fewer clarifying questions later.
2

We sweep 11 ATS feeds — not a scraped aggregator.

Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, BambooHR, SmartRecruiters, JazzHR, Personio, Rippling, Recruitee, Workday. Every tick the scheduler pulls fresh roles, dedupes by canonical title, and queues them for scoring.

No Indeed scraping, no LinkedIn middleman. Direct-from-employer ATS listings only.
3

Every role gets an honest 0–10 score against your profile.

Structured matcher pulls must-haves, partials, and missing. Gap-ceilings cap roles where you don’t meet a hard requirement — a role where the eligibility (visa, remote, location) blocks you will never read as 9/10. You see the caps, the rule that fired, and the coverage.

We don’t average eleven black boxes. We score once, cap the result when a must-have is missing, and show the rule that fired.
4

One click turns a job into a tailored package.

Resume rewritten bullet-by-bullet against the JD. Cover letter drafted from your intake, not a template. Outreach message ready to paste. Streamed live so you see drafts as they’re written and can abort if it’s off.

DOCX + PDF downloads, rendered server-side with python-docx. Your formatting, your voice.
5

Your agent picks up the grunt work.

Your personal job-search agent remembers your profile, shortlist, drafts, and preferences. It can prepare application packages, draft follow-ups, watch for new roles over $180k, and brief you before interviews. Anything that sends a message or submits a form waits for your explicit approval.

It never applies as you without your say-so. The default is review first, send second.
6

Interview prep, three documents, in minutes.

On phone-screen or final round, one click produces a Basic dossier (15–20 pages, scannable), a Detailed decode (“what they’re really asking” + follow-ups), and a 1-page Cheatsheet for the desk. Live research pulls in fresh company context.

Built on Nora-style templates from a real-world coaching flow.
7

Your data stays yours.

Export everything as one JSON blob (including artifact manifest) from Setup. Delete-my-data wipes per-user tables, per-user files, and optionally your account record — with a typed-confirmation guard so one click can’t do it. No sale, no training, no sharing.

See our Privacy Policy for the full processor list.
Under the hood

What powers Job Lobster.

Every moving part is chosen for quality first, cost second. No opaque middleware, no mystery ranking.

Model-agnostic AI workflows

Different tasks use the model path that fits the job: careful drafting, structured scoring, live research, and high-throughput follow-up help are routed separately for quality and cost.

Structured scoring, not keyword matching

Every JD is parsed into must-haves, partials, missing, and eligibility blockers. Scores reflect real fit, and gap-ceilings cap roles where hard requirements are missing.

Per-user data isolation

Applications, outreach, coaching, profile, artifacts: every table and file path is scoped to your user ID. Multi-tenant since day one — no leakage between accounts.

Want to see it end-to-end?

Sign in with email. We’ll walk you through the intake, score your first shortlist, and hand you the keys to your agent.

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