Let’s be honest: the default job hunt turns smart people into ticket-writers. It feels like a hamster wheel, and depending your CV-to-market fit, it might be. You sit there feeding the machine: copy-paste your resume, tweak the same cover letter for the 43rd time, fill in the same “What excites you about this role?” box until your brain is soup. Two hours disappear and you’ve applied to… maybe three roles. And worse? You have no real system. Just tabs, vibes, and a vague hope that “something hits.” What I want you to do is flip that. Instead of being the cog, you treat the job hunt itself as your first live automation project. A citizen-developer project. A workforce-readiness asset. Recognize that by not doing this, you leave it to your competitors to do so. You’re not just “looking for a job.” You’re building a Job Search Agent that works with you (Template below) Step 1: Build a Job Search Recipe (So You Stop Spraying and Praying) Most people start with “Indeed… search… scroll.” You’re going to start with a recipe: Role keywords: e.g., “junior data analyst,” “coordinator,” “implementation specialist,” “Salesforce admin,” “learning designer.” Locations: remote, hybrid, specific cities, visa-friendly locations if that matters for you. Salary ranges: your realistic floor + your stretch. Filters: visa sponsorship, early-career roles, specific tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Figma, Python, n8n, etc.). Nothing fancy yet. This can literally live in a Google Doc or Notion page called: Job Search Recipe – v1 The point: you’re telling your future agent exactly what “good” looks like. You’re thinking like a system designer, not a desperate applicant. If you're struggling with creating this, feed your CV into GPT and ask it to. Step 2: Build a Simple Tracker (Your Pipeline, Not Just “Applied”) If your job search lives in your inbox, you’ve already lost. Make a very dumb, very powerful tracker. Sheet, Notion, Airtable – doesn’t matter. Columns like: Job title

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