Resume in, applications out.   

The Problem

Job searching runs across too many tabs. You have the posting in one window, your resume in another, a blank cover letter doc open somewhere, and no consistent way to decide if a role is even worth applying to before you've already spent an hour on it.

lazyhire is built around one loop: build your profile once, add a job, get a fit score before writing anything, then generate what you need if you decide to apply. Everything stays local. Nothing requires leaving the terminal.

Features

Build your profile once

On first launch, import a hosted resume PDF or fill in your profile manually. lazyhire pulls out your experience, skills, targets, and deal-breakers and saves them locally. Every evaluation and every generated document draws from that profile, so you're not re-explaining yourself for each role.

Triage by score before spending time

Add a role from a URL or a pasted job description. lazyhire runs it against your profile and returns:

• an overall fit score
• matched and missing requirements
• seniority and role-fit breakdown
• a plain recommendation: apply, consider, or skip

That happens before you write anything, which is the point.

Generate tailored application material

For any saved job, generate a tailored resume PDF and cover letter PDF. Resume generation has multiple bullet-length presets and accepts an optional angle to steer the framing. Generated files attach back to the job record.

Prep interview answers

The answers workspace takes a question, classifies it, drafts a response in whatever tone you pick, and lets you refine it with follow-up instructions. Answers save to the job record so you can build a set before a screen or loop.

Source Jobs

Using Greenhouse/Ashby company slugs, find relevant jobs based on your resume criterias.

Workflow

Resume → Profile → Add Job → Evaluate Fit → Generate Resume / Cover Letter → Prep Answers

The tool works best when your profile is accurate and the job descriptions you paste are complete.

Install

Prerequisites

• Chrome (or a Chromium-based browser) — used for PDF generation. Set CHROME_PATH if yours isn't in a standard location.
• Claude Code installed and authenticated — evaluation and document generation run through it.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snesjhon/lazyhire/main/install.sh | bash

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
a	Add a job
Tab / Shift+Tab	Move between panels
[ / ]	Cycle filters or config tabs
1 2 3	Jump between major panels
ctrl-q	Quit

Data

Everything is stored locally under ./.lazyhire:

• .lazyhire/candidate.json
• .lazyhire/jobs.json
• .lazyhire/answers.json

Generated PDFs attach back to the saved job records.

Development

Requirements

• bun - opentui requires bun (for now) requires it
• a working Claude Code setup, since evaluation and generation use @anthropic-ai/claude-code

Inspirations

• lazygit: I always loved this approach to git, simplicity over everything.
• career-ops: lazyhire started from looking at how career-ops covered the job search operations, but the scope was broader than what I needed. I wanted something more streamlined: one candidate, one terminal, a straight line from job description to application materials. That's what lazyhire is.

License

MIT