Automating Job Search with AI
This is a personal experiment that uses LLMs to rank unstructured job posting data based on user-defined criteria. Traditional job search platforms rely on rigid filtering systems, but many users lack such concrete criteria. One of the superpowers of LLMs is understanding unstructured data, like the job postings in the monthly "Ask HN: who's hiring" threads. So I built a little tool that lets you define your preferences in a more natural way and then rates each job postings based on the relevance. You can define what you're looking for in simple terms and get a custom list ranked by…
Automating Job Search with AI launched on September 1, 2023 with 34 votes, #1,328 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Automating Job Search with AI uses language models to rank unstructured job postings from sources like "Ask HN: who's hiring" threads based on user-defined preferences. Rather than relying on rigid filtering systems, users describe what they're looking for in natural language, and the tool scores each posting by relevance. It's designed for job seekers who lack concrete search criteria and want to process hundreds of listings more efficiently than manual searching.
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From the sources
An experiment to automate job search with LLMs. Contribute to AdrianKrebs/datalens development by creating an account on GitHub.
In the maker’s words, at launch
This is a personal experiment that uses LLMs to rank unstructured job posting data based on user-defined criteria. Traditional job search platforms rely on rigid filtering systems, but many users lack such concrete criteria. One of the superpowers of LLMs is understanding unstructured data, like the job postings in…
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