Auto Apply

How Auto-Apply works

Matching, review, and why nothing is submitted without you.

Auto Apply takes the repetitive part of a job search (finding roles that fit, tailoring a resume for each, filling in the same details over and over) and does it for you. How much it does on its own is your choice.

The process

1. Set your preferences: target roles, locations, salary floor, and anything non-negotiable.
2. Jobwhisper scans listings and matches them against those preferences and your resume.
3. Each match shows the role, why it matched, and the tailored resume prepared for it.
4. You choose how applications go out: pick the matches to apply to yourself, or turn on the daily schedule (see below).
5. Questions an application asks that only you can answer come back to you as Needs review; everything else is filled from your profile and resume.

Applying yourself, or on a schedule

There are two ways to run Auto Apply, and nothing is applied for until you choose one.

• Pick the matches yourself. Only the jobs you choose are applied to.
• Turn on the daily schedule. It is off until you switch it on. Each day, from the start time you set, Auto Apply applies to your matches up to the daily limit you choose, without asking you about each one. Applications you made yourself that day count towards the limit.

Choosing matches yourself is worth it while you are tuning your preferences: an application carries your name, and a posting can satisfy every filter and still be wrong for reasons no filter captures. Once your matches look right, the schedule saves you the daily routine.

What "successful application" means

Auto Apply is charged per successful application, meaning the application was actually submitted to the employer and their system confirmed it. If a posting closes, a portal rejects the submission, a security check cannot be passed, or the site never confirms the application went in, the charge is given back. You pay for applications that landed, not for attempts.

What it cannot do

• Answer employer screening questions it cannot verify from your profile: sponsorship status, notice period, specific certifications. Those come back to you as Needs review. You answer once: the answer is saved to your profile and reused on every later application that asks the same thing, however it is worded.
• Guess things only you know. Work authorization and sponsorship come only from your profile. Pronouns are filled only if you stated them, never inferred from gender. Equal-opportunity questions you have not answered get the form’s decline option.
• Get through every portal. Some employers require an account, an assessment, or a login that only you can complete.
• Find roles that are not posted. It works from public listings, not from a hidden market.

How questions are answered

1. Your earlier answers, including to the same question worded differently.
2. Your profile: work authorization, location, education, references, salary expectation and the like.
3. The AI, for questions your resume and the job can answer. It writes an answer only when it is confident; otherwise the question comes back to you.

A closing acknowledgement ("I certify the information above is true") is agreed to, since the application cannot go in without it. Where a form asks you to sign by entering your initials or typing your name, that is what goes in. If an employer requires a document other than your resume, such as a transcript, you are asked to upload it in the web app and the application continues with it.

Emails from employers

Some employers send a code during the application (a Greenhouse security code) or ask you to create an account (Workday). For those, the application uses a Jobwhisper forwarding address for you. Codes are entered automatically, and every other email the employer sends there is forwarded to your own inbox, so you will not miss an interview invitation.

Security checks

Many forms include a CAPTCHA or a "verify you are human" check, and Auto Apply handles these where it can. If a check cannot be passed, the application stops, nothing is sent, and you are not charged.