Ilia Rychagov

CareerBoard starts as a workspace for job seekers, but I think the bigger opportunity is much larger than that.

Today, job search is fragmented for both sides.

Candidates jump between job boards, resumes, spreadsheets, emails, notes, LinkedIn messages, and application portals. Companies, on the other hand, receive a lot of applications that are hard to evaluate quickly because the signal is often buried or missing.

I started CareerBoard as a product for people looking for jobs.

But the more I worked on it, the more I realized that the same problem also exists for people who help others find jobs.

Career coaches, mentors, bootcamps, universities, recruiting agencies, outplacement teams, and communities often repeat the same work many times: review a candidate s profile, check which roles might fit, help improve the resume, prepare for interviews, and keep track of progress.

I am a solo founder and full-stack engineer, and I have been building CareerBoard as a product for people who want to make their job search more organized and less stressful.

The idea came from a pretty simple observation: applying to jobs is not just about sending a resume.