Job market heating up + JobsCopilot auto applying for you

Hey,

I'm Sergio Pereira, and this is the Remote Work newsletter 👋

Last week, I wrote about how I manage my time while working remote. Especially challenging these days, with the launch of JobsCopilot's Auto Apply, amidst Fractional CTO demand going up.

Today I'm very happy to write this newsletter, as I have great news to share.

The job market is officially back. Big Tech is all hiring again, thousands of job openings each:

You might say that many of those are office jobs, and not remote. That's true. But the most important takeaway here is the bandwagon effect this creates. When layoffs started, Big Tech did it first, and then thousands of other companies followed that "trend".

Now, Big Tech is hiring in full force again, and the rest of the market is starting to hire as well. Some are companies who cut too deep during layoffs, others are new startups in growth mode, others are just a myriad of market segments that are growing steadily without much public notice.

I love to see this from the frontlines, as I'm starting to create reports on the jobs I'm scraping weekly from 400k+ career pages, for JobsCopilot.AI. Check this out:

I'm starting to generate some reports from the JobsCopilot database, on a weekly basis. See this sample of ~145k jobs openings from last week. Certainly most of them are in the office (50%) or hybrid (22%). But there are more than 22k job openings were created for remote jobs, including over 6k that are fully remote without geographical constraints.

Of course you can't manually find and apply to all these jobs, and that's why I created JobsCopilot.AI. It started as a fun personal project where I used AI to collect and analyse job market data. But it's now a fully fledged copilot, ready to finally fulfil the vision of "Getting job interviews booked, while you sleep".

All features are now fully available to everyone, you can simply access them at JobsCopilot.ai, select your plan and enjoy the product. There isn't any free trial, but I have a 7-day refund policy, just in case it disappoints you.

This is what you can expect inside the Premium plan of JobsCopilot:

1/ Your auto-application profile

Once you switch to the Premium plan, you'll be prompted to fill in a profile section with your replies to common demographic questions found in job application forms:

2/ Your auto-apply flow

Besides that initial setup, you'll now find this new button in the jobs card. Just click the "Auto Apply" button on the jobs that are relevant to you, and that will trigger the auto-apply backend flow (no application is sent before your final revision):

3/ Application form is fetched and pre-filled for you

All jobs you've ticked "Auto Apply" are moved to the "Jobs to Apply" tab. And for each of them our backend pulls the application form, and our AI generates replies to each of the form questions based on the job description and your profile. Within a couple minutes you can find the pre-filled job application form in each job card:

4/ One-click confirmation

For now, I'm requiring you to review and click this submit button for every job, as I want you to feel in control of your applications, and I want to capture feedback on quality of this flow. I might make it more automated upon some configs in the future.

Once you submit a job for Auto Apply, the copilot will submit your application in the following minutes/hours (depending on work load). You'll get these messages on your email on a frequent basis, like I'm receiving for the past couple weeks during testing:

I'm very happy for this launch. Developing JobsCopilot under such aggressive bandwidth constraints has been hard work, but I'm thankful for your feedback, and for all positive messages and engagement. You truly are an amazing bunch :)

If you have any issues or questions about JobsCopilot, just drop me a message on jobscopilot@sergiopereira.io, for faster response. I count on your feedback to make this product the best in the market and help us all find great jobs!

Thanks for reading this newsletter until the end. You can read all past editions here. Make sure to share it with your friends and colleagues so they can read it too.

See you next Friday,

Sergio Pereira, 
Startup CTO & Remote Work Lover