{"slug": "i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor", "title": "I turned my daily job hunt into a semi-automated workflow in Cursor.", "summary": "The author automated parts of their daily job search by creating a structured workspace in Cursor, including a base resume, a runbook, and organized job folders to streamline the process. The system prepares applications at machine speed while requiring human approval before submission, preventing duplicate applications and reducing context-switching. The goal is to combine efficient preparation with deliberate, human decision-making for each application.", "body_md": "Every morning used to look the same: scroll LinkedIn alerts -> open a JD -> tailor my resume -> Easy Apply or an external form -> repeat. Lots of context-switching, easy to miss steps, and hard to track what I already applied to.\nSo I documented the whole process in a resume + application workspace:\nWhat the agent does\nWhat I still do\nWhat’s in the repo\nbase-resume.md\n— single source of truth\nRUNBOOK.md\n— step-by-step daily batch\njobs/<company-role>/\n— JD, analysis, tailored resume, PDF\napplications.csv\n+ queue — no duplicate applies\nOne prompt to start the day:\nRun today's job application batch per RUNBOOK.md\nIt’s not “auto-apply everything.” It’s prep at machine speed, decisions at human speed - which is how I want to job search as a PM.\nIf you’re job hunting with Cursor, I’d start with a runbook + a base resume + a hard rule: never submit without you.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/buildandcodewithraman/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor-5ahm", "published_at": "2026-05-21 08:56:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-21 09:02:32.396104+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Cursor", "LinkedIn"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/i-turned-my-daily-job-hunt-into-a-semi-automated-workflow-in-cursor.jsonld"}}