JobAudit is built on 11,000,000 real applications and thousands of real job-search stories, turned into feedback that’s about you.

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Find out where you stand.

You’re sending applications into the void with no feedback on where you’re going wrong. JobAudit draws on a database of 11,000,000 real applications and thousands of job search stories to give you personalised feedback and help you land your next role.

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You tell us about your search.

The role you're after, where you've been applying, and what's been coming back. A few minutes, in your own words.

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We run it against the market.

Your search, set against 11,000,000 real applications and thousands of job-search stories from people hunting the same roles.

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You get feedback that's about you.

Where your search is losing you interviews and what to change, specific to your role and your city.

Swipe to see a sample report.

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1 in 3

listings in SF tech have no real hire behind them.

LinkedIn27% ghost
Indeed22% ghost
Company pages5% ghost

A posting over 30 days old, or one that never appears on the company's own careers page, is probably a ghost.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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You apply on day 3 to 7. Shortlists are built in 48 hours.

Most shortlisting for SF engineering roles happens in the first two days after a posting goes live. A decent application on day 1 beats a great one on day 5.

Do this

Set a 24-hour alert, and apply before you have perfected it.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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About 200 applications, nearly all through the most crowded door.

LinkedIn takes 9,500 applications a minute. Direct applicants are 12% of the pool and 23% of hires, close to double the conversion.

Do this

Check whether the company has its own careers page before applying anywhere else.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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41%

of SF software roles still say Software Engineer.

Software Engineer41%
Product Engineer28%
Full Stack Engineer19%
Applied Engineer12%

Miss the title and you get filtered out before a person ever reads your resume.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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88%

of SF engineering postings ask for Python.

React79% saturated
TypeScript64% saturated
RAG / LangChain38% rising
MLOps29% rising

Lead with a saturated keyword and you land in the biggest pile. Far fewer people are searching the rising ones.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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Four years in, and the market is paying up for the rising half of that list.

Engineers with LLM or MLOps experience are getting hired faster and earning 15 to 25% more at the same level. SF is rewriting job descriptions to ask for it faster than anywhere else.

Do this

Move any AI work you have already done up your resume. If there isn't any, pick one way to get some in the next 30 days.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco

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Your qualifications are not the problem. The way you're searching is.

You're applying late, on the most saturated platform, to a fraction of the market open to you, and a third of it was never real.

Do this

Changing how you search will do more than another 200 applications through the same channels.

Sample read · Software Engineer, San Francisco