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Track my whole job hunt and score every posting against my résumé

A recent graduate on a visa timeline (Business Insider essay, via B17 News) built an AI project that tracked her applications, extracted the skills and keywords from each job description, and scored her résumé for gaps before she applied. The dashboard she had the AI build shows the funnel that ended in a job: 186 applications, 44 cold outreaches, 19 interviews, six take-home assignments, three final rounds and one offer.

How it works

  1. Build an application tracker inside an AI project
  2. For each posting, have the AI extract the main skills, keywords and themes
  3. Run her second automation in the same project: paste posting plus résumé and ask what top keywords she is missing
  4. Fix a bullet or skip the posting based on the gaps
  5. The AI turns the tracker into a dashboard showing the full funnel

Why it’s worth knowing

She treated rejection as data: the same system that scored her résumé also showed her 186 applications were a funnel, not 185 failures.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on b17news.com. See the original ↗

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