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Getting started

1. Sign in. The first screen you'll land on is your Jobs queue — empty at first.
2. Open the Companies tab. Add 5–10 companies whose careers pages you want to watch. Each company is a name, a website, and (optionally) a careers-page URL. We auto-detect the careers page if you leave it blank.
3. Click Find me jobs. We scan the careers pages you added plus the public aggregators we support, dedupe everything, and surface the queue.
4. Triage the queue with keyboard shortcuts (j/k to move, a to import, x to dismiss, e to edit). Press ? for the full list.
5. For roles you import, click Analyze fit to get a structured evaluation against your CV.

Bookmarklet — capturing from gated platforms

LinkedIn, Indeed, StepStone, and XING actively block server-side fetches, so Helpmefindthejob doesn't try to scrape them from our side. Instead, the bookmarklet runs in your own logged-in browser and captures a job's URL + title with one click.

1. Open Settings → Bookmarklet. The card walks you through it.
2. Make sure your bookmark bar is visible. On Chrome / Edge / Safari press ⌘+Shift+B (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows / Linux).
3. Click and hold the green button on that card, drag it up to the bookmark bar, let go.
4. When you're on a job page anywhere, click the bookmark. We add the job to your queue, return you to the same tab.

AI modes — your choice, your billing

You pick how the Analyze fit button reaches a model. Three options:

Manual

We prepare the prompt and the input. You paste it into your existing ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini browser tab. No API key needed; uses your existing subscription. Free to use within Helpmefindthejob.

Bring-your-own key

You paste an API key (OpenAI sk-…, Anthropic sk-ant-…, Gemini AIza…, or OpenRouter sk-or-…) once. We auto-detect the provider, save the key encrypted, and call directly. Cost goes to your provider, not us.

Managed AI (waitlist)

We bill, we provide the key, we set quotas. Currently a Stripe waitlist — sign up from Settings → AI provider.

You can switch any time. The system re-prompts for consent when you switch providers, because the data processor changes.

Billing

Two paid plans (operator-managed during the pilot):

• Free — three saved searches, Manual AI mode, 30-day retention. No card.
• Pro — unlimited saved searches, Managed AI, 90-day retention, daily digest. Monthly or annual.

Stripe handles the subscription lifecycle — you can self-manage, see invoices, and cancel from the Stripe Customer Portal link inside Settings → Subscription. We do not store card data; we store only Stripe customer + subscription IDs.

GDPR & data control

• Export everything you own. Settings → Backup & restore → Export backup. The download is JSON; everything we have on you is in it.
• Delete individual records. Companies, discovered jobs, imported jobs are user-deletable from the app. Saved searches, push subscriptions, and AI provider preferences too.
• Delete the whole account. Settings → Privacy → Request deletion. We email a confirmation; after a 7-day grace window you can cancel, the account hard-deletes. Backup tarballs are pruned per the configured retention.
• What we never store: raw AI provider keys (only env-var names in the UI), payment card data, your browsing outside the app.

The full data inventory and retention windows live on Data retention. Privacy-first stance lives on Privacy.

Troubleshooting

The queue is empty even after Find me jobs

Either no companies added (check Companies tab), or quota was hit (check the day counter in the sidebar — defaults are 50 scans/day, 50 AI calls/day). Quotas reset at midnight UTC.

Bookmarklet does nothing on a LinkedIn page

LinkedIn changes its DOM frequently. Open the browser console; if you see a JS error, send a screenshot to support — we ship bookmarklet fixes inside the app, you don't have to re-install.

I switched language but UI didn't change

The app reloads on locale switch. If you saw old strings momentarily, that's a stale browser cache — a hard refresh (⌘+Shift+R) clears it.

Login fails with the right password

Account may have been deactivated, or rate-limited (5 wrong attempts = backoff window). Wait 15 minutes; if still locked, contact support@helpmefindthejob.org.