How I Automated My Job Application Process. (Part 1)
It's this soul-crushing cycle of copying and pasting the same information over and over again, tweaking your resume for the 100th time, and writing cover letters that make you sound desperate without actually sounding desperate.
So I did what any sane developer would do - I built a system to automate the whole damn thing. By the end, I had sent out 250 job applications in 20 minutes. (The irony? I got a job offer before I even finished building it. More on that later.)
First challenge: getting job listings at scale. I tried web scraping but quickly realized something: job boards are like snowflakes - each one is uniquely annoying to scrape.
So I went old school - manual HTML copying. Yes, it's primitive. Yes, it works. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best solution.
Pro tip: You can just show ChatGPT a sample of your HTML and the output format you want, and it'll write the parsing script for you. Work smarter, not harder.
