career-ops

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<p align="center">The open-source AI job search agent.</p>

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<p align="center"><a href="https://github.com/santifer"><img src="docs/avatar-santifer.png" width="48" height="48" align="middle" alt="Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Created by <a href="https://github.com/santifer"><strong>@santifer</strong></a></p>

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<strong>Months of sending CVs into&nbsp;silence.</strong><br>
So I built the filter I&nbsp;needed.
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<strong>740&nbsp;listings&nbsp;evaluated. 68&nbsp;applied. 12&nbsp;interviews.&nbsp;1&nbsp;offer.</strong><br>
I was its first user. I got the&nbsp;job. Then&nbsp;I&nbsp;open-&#8288;sourced&nbsp;it.
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Paste a job. On your machine, it tells you if it's still&nbsp;open and if it&nbsp;fits.<br>
It tailors your CV and drafts your&nbsp;answers. <strong>You&nbsp;press&nbsp;Submit.</strong>
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  <img src="docs/demo.gif" alt="The author's own search in the career-ops dashboard: scored listings, a red count of the ones marked do not apply, then a full evaluation report" width="800">
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<p align="center"><sub>My own search, partway through, with&nbsp;the&nbsp;UI&nbsp;in&nbsp;Spanish.</sub></p>

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  Companies use AI to filter candidates.<br>
  <strong>I just gave candidates AI&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>choose</em>&nbsp;companies.</strong>
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<p align="center">
  Six months later, <strong>I left that job.</strong><br>
  Now we build career-ops, so&nbsp;you&nbsp;can&nbsp;land&nbsp;yours.
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<p align="center"><a href="#your-turn">Try it on one job&nbsp;↓</a> · <a href="https://santifer.io/career-ops-system">Read the full&nbsp;story&nbsp;→</a></p>

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<p align="center"><a href="HIRED.md"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fcareer-ops-hq%2Fcareer-ops%2Fmain%2Fdocs%2Fhired-count.json&query=%24.count&label=%F0%9F%8E%89%20HIRED%20WITH%20CAREER-OPS&suffix=%20on%20the%20record&color=2ea44f&style=for-the-badge&labelColor=2b3137" alt="Hired with career-ops: public stories on the record"></a></p>

<p align="center">The people who came after me wrote down how they got hired.</p>

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  <a href="HIRED.md"><img src="docs/hired-wall.svg" alt="Hired stories you can open and read" width="800"></a>
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<p align="center"><sub>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></sub></p>

<p align="center">⭐ <strong>If career-ops helped you, a star helps the next person find&nbsp;it.</strong></p>

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  <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>
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## 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.

```bash
npx @santifer/career-ops init
```

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

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  <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>
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<p align="center"><sub>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></sub></p>

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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.

<p align="center"><a href="CONTRIBUTING.md"><img src="https://warpchart.dev/api/builders?lang=en" alt="Animated wall of contributors' GitHub avatars, filling in order of arrival since April 2026, with the next square left open." width="100%"></a></p>

[This is where the fix gets written](CONTRIBUTING.md). 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. These companies sponsor the project:

<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.

- **Still open?** It checks that the posting is still live 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. A check in code stops a PDF whose numbers or facts appear in neither your CV nor your article digest, but it cannot judge every rewording yet. Read every CV before you send it. Details in the [FAQ](#faq).

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