My name is Nick, and I'm a hobbyist programmer! Several years ago after applying to hundreds of jobs began to recognize that companies had been using tools to help make the hiring process more efficient from their end and realized candidates lacked really any tools similar so decided to make one! I figured that, like me, other job seekers were stuck manually applying to online jobs by repetitively filling out the same information over and over again with really no good tools to do it for them.
So, I built AA (aka AutoApply)... and it's almost finished!
AA is a 1000% free, fully autonomous, open-source agent that discovers, vets, and applies to jobs for you. Here is how the program is broken down and works
Discovery: It reads and extracts information from search engines, job boards, and company career pages to find available jobs.
Vetting: It utilizes local NLP (SpaCy) to ensure a "Two-Way Fit" meaning is this a job the candidate finds fit and does the candidate align with what the company is looking for. It checks if attributes like salary, location/commuting distance, and required skills match your profile information!
Apply: It can upload resumes, cover letters, CV's, handles multi-page forms, logins, and even uses a local offline AI (GPT4All) to write personalized answers to open-ended questions such as "Tell us about a challenge you over came at specifically 6 years old and why you didn't graduate from Harvard".
I designed this with a few core philosophies in mind that I'm really proud of
-Worst-Case First: It designed to be run on a 2GB RAM library computer with zero admin rights.
-Flash Drive Capability: I don't own nor can afford a laptop so can download AA onto a USB stick(flash drive) and run it completely portably.
-Undetectable: It has a built-in evasion framework. It spoofs lots of browser information and human behavior (Bezier-curved mouse movements & parabolic typing delays).
-Accommodate Everyone: I hate when things don't work so throughout the entire build I always wanted to accommodate to every and all users NOT them accommodate to or for me!
-Everything Customizable: I mentioned it can work autonomously but can be run other ways such as with user supervision "Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)" which means you can set checkpoints for where you wish AA to stop to input specifically personal information if you'd like.
-The Research Platform: Nearly all hiring/job market data is owned and released by employers. AA has an opt-in, strictly anonymized (Zero-PII) research module to perhaps offer a new perspective on that data. It recognizes and reports things like ghosting rates, biases, various forms of discrimination, unethical business practices, and plenty more. My goal was and is to build a candidate-side dataset on the hiring market that is academically publishable.
I'm almost done with the project so if you're job hunting and think you could/would use this please leave a note or comment! If you are a developer/engineer, I'd love your feedback on anything from the architecture (strict Hexagonal Ports & Adapters design) to the safety and security production level code for a project like this and even just professional insight would be amazing! If you are a Mathematician, my Math Subsystem utilizes spatial geometry to break down webpages for the autonomous feature and I'd like all my Math to be deterministic, pure mathematical algorithms for the research and "open-ended questions" code and finally my Research Signal Detectors use things like Wilson's score interval, Fisher's exact test, Kendall's Tau, etc.! If you are a Researcher or in Academics, I truly have no idea what I'm doing nor if anything is correct so any review or help or insight would be phenomenal!
I second this man’s take. I’ve been using it consistently for a few months to give it a try and is definitely subpar. It can give really good answers at times however isn’t worth the time, energy, or luck to get it there.
Correct me if I’m wrong but the dumb thing was literally but to help people find and apply to jobs. I login then to go search for jobs in my city and the 1st 200 pages of recommended jobs are all labeled US. We really need to mass delete our LinkedIn’s and all agree to utilize indeed because unlike LinkedIn they’ve gotten significantly better at helping the user.
Also, if anyone hates LinkedIn and the current hiring process with a burning passion. I’ve been working on a software that auto applies to jobs for users and could use help. I’ve been working on it for 2 years and am honestly almost done but want to make it divine. The idea you ask? A user fills out 1 job application and just waits for emails to come in.
The resources a PhD student has vs. a guy who works construction has significantly more tools at their disposal than I do. I have zero so any more than that from my perspective is seen as unlimited.
Also, my mom was a secretary assistant for a professor at UCLA so I’ve seen the labs and students throughout the years and will say their lack of resources is part of the reason they become experts in their field.
I got caught cheating in my very last college course so can never get my PhD. I use to be atrocious at school bc I had adhd and was about to drop but did a complete 180 and finally learned how to learn which changed everything. I discovered my love for Math and my immediate and only goal from that point forward was to get my PhD.
My temple became the library and would go there immediately after class and every weekend at 8am. I graduated at the brink of COVID so could no longer go to my favorite and on my very last final of my college career couldn’t take the noise of my roommates cheering me on and also just wanted to be done to used chegg on a small part of my test and got caught.
Do I deserve to get my PhD? No. Why? I showed my academic integrity can’t be trusted. Do I still want my PhD? 1000% Yes. Do I regret my decision? No.
My school told me I could either not be awarded my degree or receive it with the exception that “cheater” be branded everywhere on it. I originally wanted to go with no degree at all but figured I’d own up to my mistake and use the label to rebrand myself as someone who learned their lesson and won’t make the same mistake again.
During COVID I obviously couldn’t find work so utilized my spare time to pick up a new hobby and landed on tinkering. That lead into my discovery of software and the rest is history. I fell in love with software engineering and have been doing it for the past 4+ years.
I’m extremely proud of myself and all that I’ve accomplished because with absolutely no incentive or motivations or even help I managed to learn a new subject completely on my own. A cheater can post code that isn’t theirs’ to their GitHub over the course of 4 years however a cheater can’t show you 4 years worth of work. Also if you think a tech job might’ve been my motivation, I did try to obviously get a job but failed at yet another goal and quit several months ago. I’m working construction but still learning and coding each and every day.
A PhD is becoming an expert in a specified subject and then thinking up an idea no one has ever had before and backing up your ideas with proof. In a PhD program you are given unlimited resources to make that happen. I think (big emphasis on think) I can do that completely on my own. If I’m being honest I’ve actually already begun and don’t know if it’ll work out, come to fruition, or even be read but at least I tried. If I try the only cost is my time but if you’re in a program it costs time and money.
I applied for the Junior Software Engineer position and passed the take home test and initial interview then just kept getting emails from Bruno saying someone will contact me yet never heard anything. Is there any way you can help me pick up where I left off?
About Me: Self-taught Software Engineer with my BS in Applied Mathematics. Looking for my first job in the field however have 3 YOE as a Data Analyst working with GIS Systems. Been coding for 4+ years and as I said, am self-taught but not the YouTube, mentored, or bootcamp kind; I went back in my colleges catalog and read all the textbooks for all the classes necessary to obtain an SE degree so hope that speaks for my work ethic. Worked on many vastly different projects as I consider myself more of a tinker and have yet to use previously learned languages or technologies on something new. Not a fan of tests; I prefer practical demonstrations of my skills, whether through discussing my projects, coding together, or just asking if I know specific technologies. I believe reading my code will provide the best insight into my skill-set and capabilities so will also put a link to my current project below.
Web_Scraper (not a web scraper):
The project is broken down into 3 parts and will put the percentage completed next to the names. Currently working on the server using this tech stack --Ansible, ArgoCD, Cloud-init, Ubuntu, K3S, containerd, Flannel, CoreDNS, HA Proxy, Metal LB, Ingress NGINX, Traefik, Linkerd, Longhorn, Minio, Cert-manager, Hashicorp Vault, External Secrets Operator, Keycloak, OAuth2.0 Proxy, Velero, Restic, Prometheus, Fluentd, Fluentbit, Loki, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Tempo, Grafana--
About Me: Self-taught Software Engineer with my BS in Applied Mathematics. Looking for my first job in the field however have 3 YOE as a Data Analyst working with GIS Systems. I've worked on many vastly different projects as I consider myself more of a tinker. Most of my projects/work can be found on my GitHub (https://github.com/Liebmann5)
My name is Nick, and I'm a hobbyist programmer! Several years ago after applying to hundreds of jobs began to recognize that companies had been using tools to help make the hiring process more efficient from their end and realized candidates lacked really any tools similar so decided to make one! I figured that, like me, other job seekers were stuck manually applying to online jobs by repetitively filling out the same information over and over again with really no good tools to do it for them.
So, I built AA (aka AutoApply)... and it's almost finished!
AA is a 1000% free, fully autonomous, open-source agent that discovers, vets, and applies to jobs for you. Here is how the program is broken down and works
Discovery: It reads and extracts information from search engines, job boards, and company career pages to find available jobs. Vetting: It utilizes local NLP (SpaCy) to ensure a "Two-Way Fit" meaning is this a job the candidate finds fit and does the candidate align with what the company is looking for. It checks if attributes like salary, location/commuting distance, and required skills match your profile information! Apply: It can upload resumes, cover letters, CV's, handles multi-page forms, logins, and even uses a local offline AI (GPT4All) to write personalized answers to open-ended questions such as "Tell us about a challenge you over came at specifically 6 years old and why you didn't graduate from Harvard".
I designed this with a few core philosophies in mind that I'm really proud of
-Worst-Case First: It designed to be run on a 2GB RAM library computer with zero admin rights. -Flash Drive Capability: I don't own nor can afford a laptop so can download AA onto a USB stick(flash drive) and run it completely portably. -Undetectable: It has a built-in evasion framework. It spoofs lots of browser information and human behavior (Bezier-curved mouse movements & parabolic typing delays). -Accommodate Everyone: I hate when things don't work so throughout the entire build I always wanted to accommodate to every and all users NOT them accommodate to or for me! -Everything Customizable: I mentioned it can work autonomously but can be run other ways such as with user supervision "Human-in-the-Loop (HITL)" which means you can set checkpoints for where you wish AA to stop to input specifically personal information if you'd like. -The Research Platform: Nearly all hiring/job market data is owned and released by employers. AA has an opt-in, strictly anonymized (Zero-PII) research module to perhaps offer a new perspective on that data. It recognizes and reports things like ghosting rates, biases, various forms of discrimination, unethical business practices, and plenty more. My goal was and is to build a candidate-side dataset on the hiring market that is academically publishable.
I'm almost done with the project so if you're job hunting and think you could/would use this please leave a note or comment! If you are a developer/engineer, I'd love your feedback on anything from the architecture (strict Hexagonal Ports & Adapters design) to the safety and security production level code for a project like this and even just professional insight would be amazing! If you are a Mathematician, my Math Subsystem utilizes spatial geometry to break down webpages for the autonomous feature and I'd like all my Math to be deterministic, pure mathematical algorithms for the research and "open-ended questions" code and finally my Research Signal Detectors use things like Wilson's score interval, Fisher's exact test, Kendall's Tau, etc.! If you are a Researcher or in Academics, I truly have no idea what I'm doing nor if anything is correct so any review or help or insight would be phenomenal!