career-ops

<p align="center"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="docs/wordmark-dark.svg"><img src="docs/wordmark-light.svg" alt="career-ops" width="250" height="56"></picture></p> <table align="center"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"><a href="https://github.com/santifer"><img src="docs/avatar-santifer.png" width="72" height="72" alt="santifer"></a></td> <td valign="middle"> <strong>Months of sending CVs into silence.</strong> So I built the filter I needed.<br> <strong>740 listings. 68 applied. 12 interviews. 1 offer.</strong><br> I was its first user. <strong>I got the job.</strong> Then I open-sourced it. </td> </tr> </table> <div align="center"> <details> <summary>🌍 Read this in 17 languages</summary> <div align="center">

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</div> </details> </div> <p align="center"> Companies use AI to filter candidates. <strong>I just gave candidates AI to <em>choose</em> companies.</strong><br> On your machine, it tells you which jobs are real, which ones fit, and <strong>never applies in your name.</strong> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://x.com/santifer/status/2041403685696053741"><img src="docs/demo.gif" alt="The author's own search: listings marked do not apply, in red, before a CV went out" width="800"></a> </p> <p align="center">_{That red tab is the product. <em>Do not apply.</em> <a href="https://santifer.io/career-ops-system">The full story →</a>}</p> <br> <p align="center"><a href="HIRED.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fsantifer%2Fcareer-ops%2Fmain%2Fdocs%2Fhired-count.json&query=%24.count&label=%F0%9F%8E%89%20HIRED%20WITH%20CAREER-OPS&suffix=%20verified&color=2ea44f&style=for-the-badge&labelColor=2b3137" alt="Hired with career-ops: verified count"></a></p> <p align="center">The people who came after me wrote down how they got hired.</p> <p align="center"> <a href="HIRED.md"><img src="docs/hired-wall.svg" alt="Hired stories you can open and read" width="800"></a> </p> <p align="center">_{Every card is a public issue you can open. Landed yours? <a href="https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops/issues/new?template=i-got-hired.yml">Leave your card →</a>}</p> <br> <p align="center"> <a href="https://wired.com.gr/article/to-ai-ergaleio-pou-fernei-epanastasi-ston-tropo-pou-psachnoume-douleia/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="docs/press/wired-dark.svg"><img src="docs/press/wired.svg" alt="WIRED" height="32"></picture></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-i-built-tool-filter-job-listings-landed-head-ai-2026-4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="docs/press/business-insider-dark.svg"><img src="docs/press/business-insider.svg" alt="Business Insider" height="32"></picture></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/santifer-io?utm_source=badge-featured&utm_medium=badge" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="docs/press/producthunt.svg" alt="Featured on Product Hunt" width="206" height="54"></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/25195" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/repositories/25195" alt="GitHub Trending: #1 repository of the day (Trendshift)" width="250" height="55"></a> </p>

Your turn

Paste one job you were about to apply to tonight. If it comes back <em>do not apply</em>, you just got the night back. If it comes back with a plan, you know what to do next.

npx @santifer/career-ops init

<p align="center">_{Open source. Local. In the AI CLI you already use. <a href="docs/RUNNING_ON_A_BUDGET.md">Free and local models included.</a>}</p>

You don't have to search alone

The silence after you hit send is not about you. Enough people saw the same thing to write the practice down, in six lines:

Apply better to fewer. Signal over volume. Evidence over keywords. A human decides. Local-first. Dignity on both sides of the table.

<p align="center"><a href="https://career-ops.org/manifesto?utm_source=readme"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/regex?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fcareer-ops-hq%2Fcareer-ops%2Fmain%2FSIGNATURES.md&search=n%3A(%5Cd%2B)%5Cs*%24&replace=%241%20signatories&label=THE%20CAREEROPS%20MANIFESTO&color=DD7627&style=for-the-badge&labelColor=2b3137" alt="The CareerOps manifesto: live count of signatories"></a></p> <p align="center">A few of them, in their own words.</p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://career-ops.org/manifesto?utm_source=readme"><img src="docs/manifesto-wall.svg" alt="Three signatures of the CareerOps manifesto, in their own words" width="800"></a> </p> <p align="center">_{Every signature is a commit you can audit. <a href="https://career-ops.org/manifesto?utm_source=readme">Read them all, or add yours →</a>}</p> <br>

Hiring will not fix itself. The people going through it can, and they are already in the room, comparing notes and fixing each other's setups. This is where the fix gets written. A room, not a club. Let's build together.

<p align="center"><a href="https://discord.gg/8pRpHETxa4"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscord.com%2Fapi%2Fv10%2Finvites%2F8pRpHETxa4%3Fwith_counts%3Dtrue&query=%24.approximate_member_count&label=Discord&suffix=%20members&color=5865F2&style=for-the-badge&labelColor=2b3137&logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Discord: live member count of the career-ops server"></a></p>

Sponsors

career-ops is free for candidates, forever. The companies below fund the maintainer's time and keep it that way.

<p align="center"> <a href="https://serpapi.com/career-ops-org" title="SerpApi"><img src="docs/sponsors/serpapi.svg" alt="SerpApi" height="48"></a> </p> <p align="center"><strong>SerpApi</strong> · Build a portfolio project with live search data. SerpApi gives developers structured JSON/Markdown from Google Search, Maps, Shopping, and other engines through a simple API call.</p>

Sponsorship buys clearly labeled visibility, never influence: no amount of money changes the roadmap or places anything in the product. Sponsors never appear in evaluations, rankings or recommendations.

What career-ops does for you

Paste a job. It tells you whether that night is worth it.

• Fake or stale? It flags ghost jobs and scams before you write a word.
• Not you? It scores the role against your real CV and tells you to skip a weak fit. You can override it.
• Worth it? It drafts the CV, the cover letter and the answers. You read them. You send them.
• Who do I talk to? It finds the person and drafts the note. It never sends it.
• Where does it all go? Every application stays on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to us.
• What should I learn? After a run of noes, it names the gap.

The first runs are rough. It does not know you yet. Talk to it: your CV, what you want, what you refuse. Think of it as a recruiter's first week.

On first launch it asks for all that in chat. Nothing to configure by hand.

What career-ops will not do

• Auto-submit an application. It drafts the answer to every field; you review and click Submit. The script never POSTs (prepare-application.mjs).
• Send an email. Drafts only. There is no mail transport anywhere in this codebase.
• Phone home. No telemetry, no backend of ours. Your CV goes from your machine to the AI provider you chose, and nowhere else. The only public ledger is this repo: HIRED.md and its issues.
• Push you to apply below 4.0/5. It will tell you not to. You can override it, and it will say so.

It reformulates your CV; it must never fabricate it. Today that rule lives in the prompts, not yet in an enforcing gate. Read every CV before you send it. Details in the FAQ.

Features

| Feature | Description | | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | A-H Evaluation | Role summary, CV match (with how much each requirement matters for this posting, and whether that weight came from the JD's own wording, its structure, or an estimate — labelled per requirement, and an estimate can never be top-band), level strategy, comp research, personalization, interview prep (STAR+R) -- plus a Block G posting-legitimacy check that flags scams and ghost jobs, and a Work-Auth signal that flags an explicit no-sponsorship JD as a hard blocker | | Human-in-the-Loop | AI evaluates and recommends, you decide and act. The system never submits an application -- you always have the final call <!-- hitl: absolute guarantee. Do not add "automatically", "by itself", "without your permission" or any other hedge when translating this row. --> | | ATS PDF Generation | Keyword-injected CVs with Space Grotesk + DM Sans design | | Cover Letter Generator | Research-backed cover letters with keyword mirroring, four interactive angle prompts (why/problems/approach/tone), draft-in-chat approval gate, and A4 PDF via the same HTML + Playwright pipeline as CVs. Auto-drafts on every evaluation; complete and generate on demand via /career-ops cover | | Beyond the CV | Company research (deep) surfaces AI strategy, recent moves, engineering culture, and the angle your profile should take. Contact discovery (contacto) identifies the hiring manager, recruiter, or team peer worth reaching out to and drafts a ≤300-character LinkedIn message tuned to each contact type. Formal application email drafts (email) turn an evaluated report or pasted JD into a subject line, body, and attachment checklist without sending, submitting, or clicking anything. Applications get you in the queue; research gets you a conversation. | | Pattern Analysis | Rejection patterns and per-ATS-channel advance rates (analyze-patterns.mjs), lifetime funnel stats (stats.mjs), repost/ghost-job detection (detect-reposts.mjs) |

<details> <summary><b>Everything else it does</b></summary>

| Feature | Description | | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Auto-Pipeline | Paste a URL, get a full evaluation + PDF + tracker entry | | Interview Story Bank | Accumulates STAR+Reflection stories across evaluations -- 5-10 master stories that answer any behavioral question | | Negotiation Scripts | Salary negotiation frameworks, geographic discount pushback, competing offer leverage | | Application Email Drafts | Formal recruiter/referral/cold application emails from a report or pasted JD, with subject line, attachment checklist, source-backed fit poi