How Jobdownup works

Jobdownup is an AI job-search platform that finds roles on employers’ own career pages, scores them for fit and for winnability, and helps you prepare tailored applications and interviews. It works for one person — the candidate — and it never sends anything on your behalf.

Below is the whole flow, in the order it happens. You can read all of it without an account.

The seven steps

1. 1

   You give it your CV, and your terms

   The CV once, and separately what you are actually looking for: seniority, which countries, remote or on-site, and the pay you will not go below. Two different things — what you have done and what you will accept — because a role can match one and fail the other, and a single profile that blurs them produces a list full of near-misses nobody can act on.

2. 2

   It reads employers' career pages, not job boards

   Jobdownup crawls company career pages and the applicant tracking systems behind them — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SuccessFactors and a dozen more, sixteen systems in all. A role is usually visible on the employer's own page before it syndicates out to the boards, and every posting keeps a link back to the page it was read from so you can check the source yourself.

3. 3

   Every role gets two scores, not one

   Fit is how closely the posting matches what your CV says you have done, and it names the specific gaps rather than handing you a percentage. Winnability is separate: whether that employer is still in a position to say yes, read from how long the posting has been open, how often it has been reposted, and how both compare to the median for that employer and that market.

4. 4

   The list arrives as a morning batch

   Not everything at once. The first hunt ranks up to 50 roles on day one so the first list is a list; after that, ten newly scored roles are released each day on the free plan. When roles are being held back, the app says so and says how many — a short list you cannot explain reads as an empty market, and it usually is not one.

5. 5

   You choose. Nothing is sent for you

   You shortlist, skip, or park a role. Jobdownup never applies on your behalf and there is no setting that turns that on — mass auto-application is a large part of why employers stopped reading applications, and a product that did it would be making its own users' problem worse.

6. 6

   It builds the application for the role you picked

   For a role you decide to pursue: a CV tailored to that specific posting, a cover letter, the questions that interview is likely to turn on, and a negotiation pack for the offer stage. Tailoring reorders and rephrases what is already in your CV — it refuses to run on an empty one, and it checks every figure in the generated text back against your original, flagging anything unsupported instead of shipping it quietly.

7. 7

   It keeps the record while the search runs

   Every application, note, draft and follow-up is filed against the role it belongs to, and the tracker is on the free plan. A search that lasts six months is won by the version of you that can still remember what was sent to whom in week three, which is a filing problem before it is a motivation problem.

What it does differently

• One customer, and it is the candidate. There are no advertisers and no employer customers. Job boards are paid by the people posting the roles, so their incentive is more postings and more applicants per posting; that is a different business with a different definition of a good day.

• Winnability, not just fit. Almost every tool in this category scores how well you match. Matching is close to a commodity now. Whether the employer can still say yes is read from posting history, and history compounds — a tool that starts watching career pages tomorrow cannot tell you a role has been re-advertised three times since spring, because it was not there.

• It says what it does not know. A winnability score with weak evidence behind it is shown as what was observed rather than as a verdict, and an unsourced statistic is deleted rather than reworded. Where an application needs information Jobdownup does not have, it asks rather than silently making it up.

The second one is the argument the product rests on, and it is written out in full — including the three cases where it is wrong — on the winnability page.

What it does not do

The limits are part of the description, not a disclaimer under it.

• It does not apply to jobs for you. Nothing is ever sent on your behalf, and there is no hidden setting for it.

• It does not invent CV content. Tailoring works from your own CV and flags unsupported figures. It will not run on an empty one.

• It does not sell your data or show you ads. No advertisers, no employer customers, and your CV is not a product.

• It does not promise you a job. Winnability is an estimate read from a posting's history, and there are three cases where it is wrong — all three are published.

• It does not claim customers it does not have. There are no testimonials on this site because Jobdownup is early and there is nobody to quote yet.

Where the jobs come from

From the employers. Jobdownup reads company career pages and the applicant tracking systems behind them — sixteen systems, including Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and SuccessFactors — rather than re-listing paid job-board inventory. That has one consequence worth knowing before you rely on it: coverage is deepest where the employers in your field publish on systems that can be read directly, and thinner where a large employer hides its openings behind a search box that returns nothing to a crawler. That is a property of the employer, not of the profession.

Every posting keeps the link back to the page it was read from, so the source is always checkable.

What the free plan covers

A plan rather than a trial. No card is taken to start, and there is no clock on it.

• Matches, scored for fit and for winnability

• Roles read from the employer rather than a job board

• Up to 50 ranked roles on your first hunt, then 10 new each day

• A fresh look at the market each day

• An application tracker for the whole search

• Your first application free end to end: CV, letter, prep, follow-up

• Five free coach messages

What paying adds

• Every application tailored, not just the first

• Every relevant role ranked, with no daily limit

• A hunt that keeps looking through the day, not once a day

• Widen the search yourself whenever you want more

• Interview prep and practice

• Negotiation help and company research

• The coach whenever you need it

Start free — matches, fit and winnability. No card. Upgrade when you want a tailored CV, a letter, or coach.

Which markets and which jobs

Markets are the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Both scores run across twenty professional families rather than software roles only — among them healthcare, trades, education, finance, the built environment, sales, engineering, insurance, legal, operations, administration and real estate.

How long a search takes in each of those markets, with the figure from the statistics office that published it, is on the job market page.

Questions people ask at this point

Published 2026-09-05. Who builds Jobdownup and who pays for it is on the about page; every statistic quoted anywhere on this site is listed with its citation and retrieval date on the sources page.