Ah, Jason Koebler. That guy from 404 media – one of the many blogs I read on a daily basis. But this one sticks out. If not because of their abundant use of fluorescent typograhics. To me, Jason is has become the hero we didn’t know we needed but also probably didn’t ask for.
You see, Jason has tried a new approach to job hunting, which is a little different.
Instead of updating his resume, putting on his “interview blazer”, and sending heartfelt cover letters to AI based Applicant Tracking Systems, which immediately sort you out, because you just lack that one particularly important skill that was a requirement for the job. You never hear back from the recruiter of course. You spent hours writing those letters and with zilch response.. That is mondern day job hunting.
But now, Jason, he took the high-tech route. He let the AI do all the work while he sat back in a diner, probably sipping coffee and scrolling through memes. Welcome to the rise of AI-powered job application bots. Finally the antidote against the AI powered recruiting ATS’s. Because who needs to waste precious Netflix time actually applying for jobs.
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Jason was tired of all the corporate jargon, the endless writing of cover letters, the rounds of interviews where you jump through flaming hoops and just-to-end-up-being-ghosted-by-HR.
So, what he did, is he unleashed AI Hawk’s Auto Jobs Applier on LinkedIn.
With one simple command on his terminal, and 💥BAM💥 this bot starts firing off applications. A lot faster than you and I could, no doubt.
He had 12 jobs applied to before his toast even cooled down.
Jason didn’t have to craft any emotional, “I’m passionate about your company’s mission” letters. Nope-sure-ee. AI Hawk was busy telling companies that Jason was the perfect video marketing guru while Jason was texting his mate about last night’s game.
The bot army is ready to serve
I just like asymmetrical warfare. The recruiters started this war, and we’re sure gonna finish it ! So that’s why amma gonna give you a whole list of bot-friends to play with.
Now, if you’re thinking, Wow, I need an AI wingman like this, hold your keyboard. The market is hot with AI bots that are eager to join the battle for job application. Jason’s Auto Jobs Applier is just the tip of the iceberg.
Let me introduce you to some other contenders in the AI bot wars. They might not wear capes, but they’re here to apply for jobs you don’t want to.
1. ApplyBotski
URL: www.applybotski.com
Cost: Free-ish (just your soul and a few OpenAI tokens)
Tagline: Apply while you nap(ski)
Description: Need 150 applications sent out before breakfast, then ApplyBotski’s is your go-to solution. It will fill out those tedious forms and tell hiring managers how you once saved a company $50K by rearranging…. the coffee machine or some’n. It is fully customizable with a touch of charm, but beware, it may tell them you are fluent in Klingon by accident cause it knows that you went to Comicon last summer.
2. RésuméWiz
URL: www.resumewiz.ai
Cost: $9.99/month or your sanity, whichever comes first
Tagline: Because robots can (re)write your life better than you can
Description: RésuméWiz get a few of your random thoughts and somehow molds them into a coherent cv that maybe convince an ATS to put you on the shortlist. I’ve even seen that it can even insert random achievements (“turned coffee into code”) to improve your chances at landing your job. No need for a weekend cv overhaul anymore. Pay, click and go.
3. CoverLetterCzar
Cost: Pay in job offers (or, ya know, PayPal)
Tagline: We craft your future… vaguely
Description: This little beauty of a bot writes you your cover letters which are so vague and flattering that they work for pretty much any job. YadaYada…“Your company’s innovative approach inspires me”. Not the bot I would want to represent myself. It doesn’t matter if you are applying to be a social media manager or the next James Bond villain. It will make sure you sound like you’re the perfect fit – albeit in generic tone-of-voice.
4. InterviewPrepBuddy
URL: www.prepbuddy.ai
Cost: Your will to live (free trial available)
Tagline: We make sure you don’t sweat the questions… literally
Description: Jason would be proud of this one. After the bot applies for a million jobs, InterviewPrepBuddy steps in. It runs mock interviews with AI-generated questions so you can practice answering gems like, “If you were a sandwich, what kind would you be, and how does that reflect your work ethic?” Pure gold this one
Jason’s Bot
Here is a video of the inner workings of his bot:
Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk is the name of the tool, because naming things is hard. The tool is currently trending on GitHub. It is one of the most popular new projects there, because who is not into automating human effor out of existence.
At time of writing, thousands and thousands are using it to have AI automatically apply for jobs on LinkedIn at scale.
Yes, because spamming recruiters is the way to land your dream job.
Right?
It is just a simple Python program that sashays through LinkedIn and uses an LLM (that’s fancy talk for something like GPT or Gemini, pick your poison) to generate some custom cover letters and resumes. And they are all based on biographical tidbits that you plug into a script. And then it tweaks them to match the job description and whatever fluff the company has posted on LinkedIn.
Personalized touch has gone out of style, cause who needs it anyway!
Surely not them bots on the other side of the ATS
You can get it running in a jiffy. There are tutorials and guides aplenty for those who can’t resist jumping on the bandwagon. All you need to do is install Python, fiddle with some code following a template (hope you like debugging!), insert your OpenAI API key (API calls are fun), and log in to LinkedIn.
Voila!
I had it up and running in 15 minutes. Because spending a quarter-hour setting up an AI to avoid writing cover letters is time well spent.
AI Hawk has gone viral, because of course it has, and now has clones and forks popping up like tumble weeds. One of them is JobMagic, with the oh-so-original tagline: Apply for jobs while you sleep.
Genius.
But it’s basically AI Hawk for those who find running Python code to be rocket science. Because automating laziness shouldn’t be limited to the nerds and geeks among us..
His Big Break
So Jason was riding along with his trusty steed Auto Jobs Applier, and he had applied to over 2,843 jobs. And out of it, he’s got four interviews.
FOUR.
Not bad when you’re up against a sea of bots spamming the system
He has got an offer for a Senior Data Engineer role, which is currently pulling in 100k US. He’s also waiting for feedback on another one. The guy is basically playing job-application roulette and winning, well, occasionally.
But here’s where it gets good. Jason ran his bot overnight and applied to 150 jobs while he slept. Some people need eight hours of sleep, but Jason’s bot needs eight hours to wreak havoc on HR inboxes everywhere around the globe.
But what did LinkedIn do….They banned him. Yep, LinkedIn decided Jason’s robotic rampage was a little too much.
In their words, they want to “keep it real”, but who’s keeping it real when bots on the recruiter side are sifting through our cover letters?
LinkedIn is all about their “new AI tools” for Premium members, but if Jason uses a bot, than it is a NOPE, that’s crossing a line.
LinkedIn draws the line somewhere, apparently.
At least not when it comes to illegally using our resume data to train their AI…(LinkedIn siphons user information to Train AI, skips disclosure)
Just give it a shot yourself.
Signing off – Marco
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