Jobdork – job leads from employers' career sites, ranked by your resume

A developer publishing as jessn-dev released jobdork, a downloadable macOS and Windows application that scans 420 employer job boards — 338 of them US employers across 27 industries — on Workday, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, Eightfold, Taleo Business Edition, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Breezy and employers' own careers sites, then filters and ranks the results against the user's resume. The tool runs locally with no account, keeps resumes and searches on the user's machine, and invokes an AI model only when the user configures one — Ollama locally or Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI or Groq with a user-supplied key — or connects a coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or GitHub Copilot through jobdork's MCP server. Posts older than 90 days are dropped as ghost listings, and every AI-written cover letter or tailored resume claim is checked against the resume and the advert.

jobdork finds job posts for you, on your own computer. It reads employers' own hiring systems and job boards, keeps only the posts that pass the rules you set job titles, place, pay, dealbreakers , ranks them against your resume, and keeps track of what you did with each one. An AI model can read the best ones against your resume and draft a cover letter or a tailored resume; every claim it writes is checked against your resume and the advert. It is not a job board and has no account: nobody posts to it, and your resume and searches stay on your machine. Start with the download https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/releases/latest for macOS or Windows, or another way to run it https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/README.md : from source, in a terminal, in Docker or on a home server. The user guide https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/overview/ then walks through every page of the app with pictures. CONFIG.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/CONFIG.md has every setting, PRIVACY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/PRIVACY.md what jobdork keeps and every address it contacts, and SECURITY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/SECURITY.md how releases are checked and how to verify a download. For how it works underneath: where its coverage comes from SOURCES.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/SOURCES.md , what each source answers and where it falls short PLATFORMS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/PLATFORMS.md , what a scan reaches region by region REGIONS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/REGIONS.md , how the pipeline and the AI reader fit together ARCHITECTURE.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md , the choices behind it DECISIONS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/DECISIONS.md and how it got here HISTORY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/HISTORY.md . Every change, and what is still outstanding, is in the changelog https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/CHANGELOG.md . - Reads where jobs are posted. 420 employer boards ship built in 338 of them US employers, across 27 industries on Workday, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, Eightfold, Taleo Business Edition, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Breezy and employers' own careers sites. Keyword sources need no account: Workable's search, Himalayas remote work , Kalibrr Philippines, Indonesia , Germany's employment agency and Arbeitnow. Adzuna and USAJOBS work with a free key of your own, and jobdork discover adds any other employer by reading the board off their careers page. Where the jobs come from https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/SOURCES.md - Screens with your rules, and says why. Every post dropped is counted with its reason. Only pay the employer states can hide a post: one with no pay is kept and marked, since most posts state none. The rules https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/CONFIG.md - Cleans up the list. Copies of one job are shown as one post; each post is aged from the board's own dates, with old ones ranked lower and ghost listings over 90 days dropped; an Adzuna post the employer's own board does not carry is flagged. - Ranks against your resume , offline: Match title, place, pay and Fit the advert's skills you have and lack . Scores https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/scores/ - Checks your resume , offline: how an applicant tracking system reads the file and what to fix, how its lines are written, and each post's ATS match keywords, required skills, title, sections, dates, out of 100 . The Resume page https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/resume/ - Uses an AI model only when you set one up. Ollama on your own computer, or Anthropic, Gemini, OpenAI or Groq with your key, held in memory or, if you choose, in your computer's keychain; never in a file. Or your own coding agent Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop does the writing through jobdork's MCP server or command line, with no key, within guardrails: jobdork checks and keeps what it writes, and what it adds to your record waits for your OK; the AI page and the Dashboard say when it last used jobdork's tools and what it did Coding agent https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/ai/ coding-agent . It can judge posts Job posts marks which ones each run judged, and sorts and filters by its score , write a cover letter, review your resume, and write a tailored resume as a PDF and a Word file in a sans or serif face , held to Indeed's length advice one page up to ten years , interview prep fifteen likely questions, with STAR outlines and a recruiter message. Eight more tools help you prepare: a tailoring report, an interview story, a thank-you email, offer negotiation, an outreach message, a LinkedIn headline and About, changing field, and a 30-day search plan. A second model checks each output, claim by claim, against your whole resume and the advert, and anything unsupported is flagged: 2.9% of claims with the recommended local model, measured on seven resumes in six fields models compared https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/AI-MODELS.md . A flagged claim is then taken out or rewritten, and checked again, before you see it. It never applies or sends for you. The AI page https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/ai/ - Keeps track. Statuses from new to offer , notes, a check for posts that have closed, scans on a schedule, notifications a click opens jobdork , and an email digest. My applications keeps every job you applied to, by stage, with each status dated, the next step and its date, the contact, the resume and letter you sent uploaded, and read by that job's AI tools , and notes. One Add a job post form adds a post from its link, already applied or not. My applications https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/applications/ - Reaches past what it can read. A Search Google Jobs link opens your search in Google's job results, and jobdork dork builds Google searches for sites that cannot be read automatically LinkedIn, Indeed and others . docs/DORK.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/DORK.md - Works outside the US. A place list of 70,026 places in 245 countries, any country you name, and distances in miles or kilometres to match. What reaches each region is measured in docs/REGIONS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/REGIONS.md . | | A job board Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter… | An AI job app matching, auto-apply | jobdork | |---|---|---|---| | Where the jobs come from | Its own listings, and copies of other sites' | Usually a job board's feed | Employers' own hiring systems and careers sites, and keyword searches, side by side | | What decides what you see | The site's ranking, often paid listings first | A match score you cannot inspect | Rules you set, with every post dropped counted and named; an AI verdict sits beside the score and never hides a post | | Copies and ghost jobs | One job reposted under several listings; old posts left up | Inherited from the feed | Copies grouped into one; posts aged from the employer's own dates; ghost listings dropped | | What the AI writes | n/a | Applications, often sent for you | Drafts you read, each claim checked against your resume and the advert. It never applies for you | | Your resume and searches | On their servers, with an account | Uploaded to their servers | On your machine. The AI can run locally; with a hosted model, your contact details are not sent | | Cost | Free, paid for with your attention and data | Usually a subscription | Free and open source; a hosted model's own fees if you choose one | What it is not good at: it takes some setting up; it reaches fewer employers outside North America docs/REGIONS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/REGIONS.md ; it does not work around sites that refuse automated readers; and an advert that arrives cut short Adzuna sends 500 characters cannot be screened fully. Limits limits has the list. | | For | Guide | |---|---|---| | Desktop app | macOS Apple Silicon or Intel , Windows, and Linux on x86-64 or ARM64 an AppImage, or a .deb for Ubuntu and Debian : an installer, its own window, scheduled scans, notifications, and updates from inside the app | docs/run/desktop.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/desktop.md | | From source | Any system with Python 3.10 or newer, ARM Linux older than 2024 included | docs/run/source.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/source.md | | In the terminal | Every command without the dashboard: scripts, cron jobs, servers with no screen | docs/run/cli.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/cli.md | | Docker | The published image on your computer, or always on a NAS | docs/run/docker.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/docker.md , docs/run/nas.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/nas.md | From source, in three lines: git clone https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork.git && cd jobDork python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -e '. pdf ' .venv/bin/python -m jobdork serve opens setup in your browser The first start opens setup, one question per screen: your resume your master resume, if you keep one , an AI model optional , the job titles to look for, where you are, pay and job sources. It ends with a first scan. Getting started https://jessn-dev.github.io/jobDork/getting-started/ Your settings live in config.yaml , which is not in the repository it is gitignored, with .env , data/ and out/ , so your search stays yours. The installers are not code-signed , so macOS and Windows warn the first time you open one; the desktop guide https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/desktop.md the-first-open-warning says how to get past it and how to check a download instead, and gives a one-command install for the Mac that checks the download itself and skips the warning. Every installer carries a build attestation from this repository's release workflow, and the app's Update button opens a new installer only after that attestation verifies SECURITY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/SECURITY.md how-the-app-checks-an-update-before-opening-it . - jobdork sends nothing to its makers. It goes on the network only to do what you set up read job sources, use the AI provider you chose, send feedback when you press Send and, once a day unless you turn it off, to check for a newer release. Every destination: PRIVACY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/PRIVACY.md . - The dashboard is yours alone. It listens on this computer only in Docker, on the addresses you name and no others and needs a token made fresh for each run; a job post's text and links are treated as hostile what a job post cannot do https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/SECURITY.md what-a-job-post-cannot-do . - Releases are checked before they are published: tests, vulnerability and secret scans on every change, dependencies pinned by hash, the Docker image signed cosign and the installers attested, and each release approved by hand. SECURITY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/SECURITY.md - Found a problem? Report it privately: SECURITY.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/SECURITY.md reporting-a-problem . - Employers on systems with no reader UKG, iCIMS, Jobvite, BambooHR, ADP and others are reached only when their own careers site marks its posts up for search engines, or through jobdork dork . docs/PLATFORMS.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/PLATFORMS.md - Sites with no public way in, or that refuse automated readers LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, SEEK are not worked around: the Google Jobs link and jobdork dork cover them. - Salary: only a minority of posts state pay, so a pay floor filters that minority and the rest are kept, marked unconfirmed salary . - Right to work: a post that states its sponsorship position is flagged; most state nothing, so treat an unflagged post as unknown. - An empty answer from a board is not proof it is hiring nobody: some answer the same way when throttling, and jobdork reports those as unknown. - Jobs never posted online in a system it can read, common for small local employers, cannot be found. Why was a post dropped? jobdork list --flags , then how a title is matched https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/CONFIG.md how-a-title-is-matched and the salary rule https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/CONFIG.md the-rule . Why did a source return nothing? Failure usually looks like success https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/PLATFORMS.md failure-usually-looks-like-success . Contributions are welcome: CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md , and the code of conduct https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/CODE OF CONDUCT.md for everyone taking part. Issues start from a form: a problem, an idea or a question. pip install -e '. dev ' pytest, ruff, and sigstore for the update tests pytest the whole suite; none of it goes online ruff check . lint python tests/run all.py the same tests, without pytest python packaging/build.py builds the desktop installer for the machine it runs on how https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/run/desktop.md building-the-installers-yourself . Dependencies are pinned with their hashes in requirements.lock the Docker image and requirements-desktop.lock the installers . . ├── jobdork/ │ ├── cli.py every command │ ├── core/ config, setup, schedule, notifications, updates, telemetry │ ├── db/ SQLite store, migrations, grouping copies of a job │ ├── fetch/ one reader per source, robots.txt, the paced HTTP client │ ├── search/ scan, screening, built-in boards, discover, freshness, places, resume, ATS match │ ├── ai/ the model, judging, the hallucination check, letters and reviews │ ├── writing/ drafts by Claude Code, tailored resumes, the checks every draft gets │ ├── web/ the dashboard server, its API, the desktop window, and a coding agent's tools MCP │ ├── output/ the static page and the email digest │ ├── dork/ the Google search builder │ └── data/ built-in boards, the place list, the dashboard page, humanizer rules ├── guide/ the user guide MkDocs ├── docs/ the documentation above ├── packaging/ the desktop build: PyInstaller spec, icon, Windows installer ├── scripts/ board list, place list, guide pictures, release notes, image check ├── tests/ ├── Dockerfile, compose.yaml └── .github/workflows/ checks and releases docker.yml, desktop.yml , the user guide, the weekly board re-check docs/ARCHITECTURE.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md explains each part; guide/README.md https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/guide/README.md how the user guide is built and its pictures taken. - humanizer https://github.com/blader/humanizer by blader MIT : the rules for spotting signs of AI writing, drawn from Wikipedia's "Signs of AI writing" guide. Its SKILL.md is copied into jobdork/data/humanizer/ https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/jobdork/data/humanizer with its licence; drafting models are given it, and jobdork/writing/humanize.py checks drafts for the patterns a script can find. - HalluLens https://github.com/facebookresearch/HalluLens Bang et al., arXiv:2504.17550 https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17550 : the method the hallucination check follows, splitting an output into single claims and checking each against its source. Only the method is used; none of its code, prompts or data CC BY-NC is included. - Resume Matcher https://github.com/srbhr/resume-matcher by srbhr Apache-2.0 : the resume readability check jobdork/search/readable.py , the writing rules jobdork/writing/style.py and the ATS match jobdork/search/ats.py follow its parse check, writing check and ATS score, their rules, thresholds and weights, and the interview prep and recruiter message its prompts' parts, rewritten for jobdork; none of its code is copied. The Resume page's layout follows its dashboard. - Place names from GeoNames https://www.geonames.org/ CC BY 4.0 ; icons from Lucide https://lucide.dev/ ISC . GNU General Public License v3.0 or later https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/LICENSE : you may use, change and share jobdork, and anything you distribute that is built from it must be shared under the same licence, with its source. The humanizer rules keep their MIT licence jobdork/data/humanizer/LICENSE https://github.com/jessn-dev/jobDork/blob/main/jobdork/data/humanizer/LICENSE .