I turned my daily job hunt into a semi-automated workflow in Cursor.

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.

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. So I documented the whole process in a resume + application workspace: What the agent does What I still do What’s in the repo base-resume.md — single source of truth RUNBOOK.md — step-by-step daily batch jobs/<company-role / — JD, analysis, tailored resume, PDF applications.csv + queue — no duplicate applies One prompt to start the day: Run today's job application batch per RUNBOOK.md It’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. If you’re job hunting with Cursor, I’d start with a runbook + a base resume + a hard rule: never submit without you.