Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by CajuM on Sunday May 25, 2025 @03:57AM
(#44086298)
You can then use the following prompt on ChatGPT for the top results: "are there job openings at this url: {url} answer in at most one word, either yes or no"
Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by tobr on Sunday May 25, 2025 @12:47AM
(#44085595)
How does a submission with no comments, a handful of points, posted by a completely new account, linking to a barely used GitHub repo… go straight to the top of HN?
Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by CajuM on Sunday May 25, 2025 @03:28AM
(#44086187)
If I recall correctly the GitHub API for fetching organizations is authenticated and was worried I'd get banned. Either that or the rate limiting was more lax on the web-site.
Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by CajuM on Sunday May 25, 2025 @03:23AM
(#44086168)
You can also ssh into your wireless router and if it's OpenWrt do a `ifdown wan && ifup wan`. It just happened that I own a Banana PI that used to have ArchLinux ARM on it.
Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by tombert on Sunday May 25, 2025 @01:03AM
(#44085657)
I ended up writing a browser plugin to autofill a lot of fields in job applications. It’s extremely inelegant, just a bunch of hackey jquery stuff to automatically set fields, a few conditionals for slightly less obvious stuff, and that’s pretty much it.
I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me.
I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money.
Re:Job Hunting Scripts
by tombert on Sunday May 25, 2025 @09:43AM
(#44087786)
Yeah I think even big companies are doing this now.
To some extent they’ve been doing this for a long time specifically to qualify people for H1B visas; they post applications in obscure places so that they can tell Immigration that they “can’t find anyone in the US to do this job!”, but I think now they realized that it basically cost them nothing to have posts that they have no intention of actually answering to.
I get it, having lots of job posts signals growth and it’s not illegal but it’s annoying how much of my time they waste.
You could Google "site:{domain_from_url} careers" and filter them that way with a script. You'll still need a sorry.sh script for that.
I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me.
I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money.
I guess time is wasteable for us peons.
To some extent they’ve been doing this for a long time specifically to qualify people for H1B visas; they post applications in obscure places so that they can tell Immigration that they “can’t find anyone in the US to do this job!”, but I think now they realized that it basically cost them nothing to have posts that they have no intention of actually answering to.
I get it, having lots of job posts signals growth and it’s not illegal but it’s annoying how much of my time they waste.