Run your job search from one chat

Job hunting is mostly tabs. A posting on one site. The same posting on three others. A spreadsheet you meant to keep current. An email to a stranger that may or may not have been read. None of it is hard. All of it is tiring.

We can't do anything about the job market. We can do something about the tabs.

Alexandria has job data, open roles from job boards and company career sites. It also has people data. Put the two together and you can build almost any job search workflow you want, for yourself or for the agent helping you. As of today, it works in ChatGPT and Claude through the Firecrawl plugin.

A few things you could build, or just ask for.

• A morning digest. Build an agent that watches for new postings that match what you want and sends you the short list each morning.
• A watch list. Keep a list of companies you'd like to work for. Have your agent flag when one of them posts a role that fits.
• A map of who's hiring. Ask which companies are hiring for a role across a region, like data engineers around Toronto, to see where the demand is.
• Team first. Start from a team you'd want to join, find its open roles, then find who leads it.

The rest of this post walks through one workflow, from resume to outreach. It does three things.

• Match your resume to 7M+ open roles
• Find the execs to email from 250M+ professional profiles
• See what they've said publicly about their work before you reach out

When you ask, your assistant calls Firecrawl. Firecrawl searches Alexandria, the part of Firecrawl that holds structured data for agents. For jobs, that's roles posted in the last 30 days across job boards and company career sites. For people, it's 250M+ professional profiles with names, titles, companies and work contact details. The results land back in the same chat.

That's it. No new app to learn. The full list of jobs tools, and what each one costs in credits, is at alexandria.firecrawl.dev/categories/jobs.

Paste in your resume. Say what you want. You get a short list of recent roles, with a reason each one made the cut.

Then narrow it the way you would with a friend who read your resume. "Drop anything that needs relocation." "Which of these use the data work from my last job?" "What am I missing for the second one?" When one looks right, ask for the original posting and apply there.

Postings close. Check the listing is still up before you spend an evening on a cover letter.

A posting says what the job is. It rarely says who you'd report to.

Ask who leads the team. You get professional profiles with names, titles and, when there is one, a work email. It's for professional outreach, and that's all it's for.

Before you write, ask what they've said publicly about their work, in talks, posts or company news. That's how "I'd love to pick your brain" turns into "I saw your talk on moving support onto agents. I ran that migration at my last company." One of those gets read.

Please don't turn this into a mail merge. Write a few thoughtful notes to people whose work you actually know. No automated sequences. If someone says no, or doesn't answer, that's the answer. Some of them were job hunting not long ago.

1. Add the plugin. In ChatGPT, open Plugins and search for Firecrawl. In Claude, add Firecrawl from the connectors directory.
2. Connect your account. Sign in to Firecrawl and approve the connection. In ChatGPT, start a new chat so the plugin loads.
3. Ask. Mention Firecrawl in your first message so your assistant uses it.

A few prompts to start with.

• "Here's my resume. Find roles posted this month that fit it, in Toronto or remote."
• "For the top three, who leads the team I'd join? Names and titles."
• "What has she said publicly about her work lately, in talks, posts or company news? Help me write a four-sentence note that mentions something real."

It won't get you hired. It won't send anything on your behalf. You pick who to contact, and the words should be yours.

What it does is take the tab-switching off your hands. That leaves more of you for the two parts nobody can do for you. Deciding what you want, and talking to people.

A lot of people are looking for work right now. If you're one of them, we're sorry it's this hard. We hope this saves you a few hours.

Add the Firecrawl plugin, paste in your resume, and start at alexandria.firecrawl.dev/categories/jobs. If you build something with it, we'd like to see it. If you know someone who's looking, send this their way.

One more thing. We're hiring too. If you're looking, our open roles are at firecrawl.dev/careers.