career-ops — AI Job Search Platform 🚀

The all-in-one, self-hosted, AI-powered job search command center. Evaluate job descriptions with Claude AI, generate ATS-optimized PDF CVs tailored to every role, scan Greenhouse / Ashby / Lever portals automatically, track every application, draft LinkedIn outreach, prep interviews, and analyze rejection patterns — all from a single multi-user web app you can host on AWS, your own VPS, or any Node.js server.

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⚡ Why career-ops

Sending hundreds of generic applications doesn't work anymore. career-ops uses Claude AI to find the right roles, tailor your CV to each one, and track every step — turning the modern job hunt from a soul-crushing slog into a focused, data-driven pipeline.

Originally built and used to evaluate 740+ job offers and land a Head of Applied AI role, it's now a self-hostable web platform you and your friends can run privately. No SaaS lock-in, no monthly subscription, no data leaving your server.

🎯 What it does

🌐 Multi-user Web App (web/)

A single Node.js server gives every user their own private workspace:

Feature	Description
🔐 Multi-user accounts	bcrypt-hashed passwords, session cookies, fully isolated per-user data
📊 Dashboard	Applications tracker with status, scores, filters, statistics
⚡ AI Job Evaluation	Paste any JD or URL → get a 7-block A–G analysis (fit, comp, gaps, red flags, posting legitimacy) streamed live
📄 ATS-Optimized PDF CV	Claude tailors your CV to each JD, Playwright renders a clean PDF that passes ATS parsers
🆚 Compare Multiple Offers	10-dimension scoring matrix to rank competing offers
🔍 Deep Company Research	Structured intel brief — AI strategy, recent moves, culture, tech stack
✉️ LinkedIn Outreach Generator	Three-sentence framework for recruiters, hiring managers, and peers
📚 Interview Prep Engine	Glassdoor / Blind / LeetCode pattern analysis + STAR stories
📋 Course / Certification ROI	"Should I take this course?" → MAKE / SKIP / TIMEBOX verdict
🚀 Portfolio Project Evaluator	Scores project ideas across signal, uniqueness, demo-ability
✍️ Apply Assistant	Paste form questions → get tailored answers ready to copy-paste
📡 Portal Scanner	Zero-token scan of Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever APIs to discover new roles
⟳ Pipeline Auto-Process	Paste 10 URLs, get 10 evaluations + reports + tracker entries in one click
📊 Rejection Pattern Analyzer	Detects what's working and what's wasting time, recommends targeting changes
📬 Follow-up Cadence Tracker	Calculates which applications need a follow-up and drafts the message
◎ Profile & CV Editor	Edit CV, archetypes, scoring weights, application tracker — all from the browser

💻 CLI mode

The original career-ops CLI is also available — every mode is exposed as a Claude Code slash command (/career-ops, /career-ops oferta, /career-ops scan, etc.). See CLAUDE.md for the full command list.

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🛠 Quick start

Run the web app locally (5 minutes)

git clone https://github.com/PunithVT/career-ops.git
cd career-ops

# Install root deps (Playwright for PDF generation)
npm install
npx playwright install chromium

# Install + run the web app
cd web
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — add your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY (get one at console.anthropic.com)
npm start

Open http://localhost:3000, register an account, paste your CV during onboarding, and start evaluating roles.

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☁️ Deploy to AWS EC2 (production)

# On a fresh Ubuntu EC2 instance:
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs git

git clone https://github.com/PunithVT/career-ops.git
cd career-ops
npm install
npx playwright install --with-deps chromium

cd web
npm install
cp .env.example .env
nano .env   # paste your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY + a long random SESSION_SECRET

# Keep it running with PM2
sudo npm install -g pm2
pm2 start "node --env-file=.env server.mjs" --name career-ops
pm2 save && pm2 startup

Open port 3000 in your EC2 security group (or front it with nginx + Let's Encrypt for a proper HTTPS domain). Share the URL — friends register their own accounts with their own private data.

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🧠 Architecture

┌─────────────────┐
│  Browser (SPA)  │  ←  vanilla HTML / CSS / JS, dark theme, no build step
└────────┬────────┘
         │  fetch + Server-Sent Events (streaming)
┌────────▼────────┐
│  Express server │  ←  bcrypt auth · session cookies · per-user data dirs
│   (Node.js 22)  │
└────────┬────────┘
         │
         ├──→ Anthropic API (Claude Sonnet 4.6)   ←  all AI modes, with prompt caching
         ├──→ Playwright (Chromium headless)      ←  HTML → ATS-clean PDF rendering
         └──→ Greenhouse / Ashby / Lever APIs     ←  zero-token portal scan

Each user has an isolated data directory (CV, profile, applications, reports, PDF output). The 13 AI prompt modes in modes/ are loaded as Claude system prompts with prompt caching enabled to reduce token costs.

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🔧 Tech stack

• Backend: Node.js 22 · Express 4 · express-session · bcryptjs · js-yaml
• AI / LLM: @anthropic-ai/sdk — Claude Sonnet 4.6, prompt caching, SSE streaming
• PDF rendering: Playwright — Chromium headless, ATS-parseable output
• Frontend: Vanilla HTML / CSS / JS — no React, no Vue, no build pipeline, no bundler
• Storage: File-based — markdown + YAML, per-user directories. No database, no Docker required
• Job portals: Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever (direct REST APIs, zero LLM tokens spent)
• Deployment: Single Node process · works on any VPS · AWS-ready · Docker-friendly

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🚀 Comparable to / better than

career-ops gives you the power of paid AI career platforms, self-hosted and free:

• Better than ChatGPT job search — automated portal scanning, persistent tracker, multi-user
• Better than Teal / Huntr — AI-tailored PDF CVs, deep evaluation, interview prep, all integrated
• Better than Resume.io / Kickresume — your CV is a markdown file, AI tailors it per role
• Better than LinkedIn Premium — outreach scripts that actually convert, no monthly fee
• Better than Final Round AI / Glider — interview intel pulled from real Glassdoor / Blind / LeetCode data

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🤝 Contributing

This is a fork of the excellent santifer/career-ops CLI with a custom multi-user web app added. Pull requests, bug reports, and feedback welcome.

📜 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

🙏 Credits

• Original career-ops CLI, prompt logic, archetypes, and scoring system by Santiago Fernández de Valderrama
• Multi-user web app, AWS deployment, and platform engineering by Punith VT

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