The advice is everywhere. Reach out to the hiring manager. Don't just be another resume in the pile. Make a human connection before the decision is made.
The data is clear too. LinkedIn research shows 85% of jobs are filled through networking. Candidates sourced directly are 8 times more likely to be hired than those who simply apply. Personalized outreach sees a 45 50% response rate versus 15 20% for generic messages.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Viktor, co-founder of HirePilot.
I didn't spot a market opportunity. I lived this problem.
I sent over 80 applications in a month. Heard back from 3. Not because my profile was weak, because most of them never reached a human. ATS filtered them out before anyone could read my name.
The rest of the time I was copy-pasting the same information into every form, losing track of follow-ups in messy spreadsheets, and sending outreach that felt like shouting into the void.
At some point I stopped and thought: I'm not just looking for a job. I'm building the tool I wish I had.
That's HirePilot.
After talking to 25+ job seekers, one thing became clear: people spend more time fighting the process than actually getting hired. The job search has turned into a full-time admin job. We built HirePilot to remove that admin tax completely.
Here's what's new today:
→ Job Board. Find roles and apply directly from HirePilot
→ Autofill on LinkedIn, Indeed, and now Workday
→ Job Tracker. Every application, interview, and follow-up in one pipeline
→ Outreach. Find the hiring manager behind every role and reach them directly
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We'll be here all day. Would love to hear:
What's the most painful part of job searching for you?
If you could fix one thing about the process, what would it be?
Let's make job searching feel like progress, not a chore. 💬
@vik_sh It's like you read my conversations. My aunt asked me to find a product exactly like this
@kutlwano_melamu, happy we can help, Kultwano! Which HirePilot feature would be the most valuable for your aunt?
Auto filling applications is great but can you add a salary range filter or at least show expected comp based on the role and location before I apply. Saves time chasing jobs that are way off on pay.
@kerimova89863 Thanks for the feedback, Metehan! You're totally right - avoiding underpaid roles is a huge time-saver!
We do have a 'Desired Salary' filter on the Vacancies page. You can set your target pay, and it will instantly filter the feed to match your expectations. Would you find it more helpful to see the salary range (min/max) filter? Always looking to improve the UX!✨
@kerimova89863 Totally agree this saves a lot of time. We already support salary filtering for jobs where compensation is provided. The tricky part is that many companies don’t publish salary ranges, so we avoid guessing when we can’t provide a reliable estimate.
Besides salary, are there any other criteria you’d want to filter by before applying?
@kerimova89863 Great point, Metehan. Salary fit matters a lot. Adding salary filters or expected compensation by role/location is exactly the type of feature that could help job seekers avoid wasting time on roles that are misaligned from the start. Would you prefer seeing the salary range directly in the job card, or as a filter before browsing?
Used to manage my whole job search in a Google Spreadsheet and it was such a pain. Switched to HirePilot and it's so much easier, the dashboard plus the autofill saved me a ton of time. Wish I'd found it sooner!
@stanislavlysenko, this is exactly the story we built HirePilot around. Spreadsheets get messy fast once you're tracking more than a couple of applications. Glad the dashboard and autofill are actually saving you time.
So the concept is not a million miles removed from proposal automation software (which I am very familiar with). If the product can automate the repetitive data input (name, address, job history, qualifications) then that frees up time to focus on the qualitative responses (the why/how/what etc). In my opinion that still needs human in the loop (albeit the platform could be used to give a good starting point). But you would have significantly more time if the boring repetitive data has already been completed. So yes I like the concept.
@martin_tanner Martin, exactly! that’s the core idea. We don’t want to remove the human from the process, especially for the qualitative parts where judgment, context, and personalization matter.
HirePilot is built to eliminate the repetitive work first: profile details, job history, education, application fields, tracking, and outreach prep. Then the job seeker can spend more time on the parts that actually move the needle. Appreciate you seeing the concept so clearly.
@martin_tanner That's a really good analogy, proposal automation is basically solving the same underlying problem: eliminate the repetitive data entry so humans can spend their time where it actually matters. Completely agree on the human-in-the-loop point too. We're not trying to automate the "why this company, why this role" part, that still needs a real person thinking it through. Our goal is just to clear out the boring stuff (personal info, work history, etc.) so people actually have the time and energy left to focus on what makes them stand out. Really appreciate the thoughtful take!
What I find most underrated in job searching, reaching out to the hiring manager the same day you apply. Most people skip it because it feels like too much effort after filling out a form. HirePilot makes it the obvious next step. Find the right person in one click, message already written. Just send.
Excited to hear what you think.
@sofiia_havryliuk Sofiia, exactly. Applying is only half the motion - the follow-up is where a lot of people lose opportunity..
That same-day outreach habit is something we want to make feel natural, not heavy. Find the right person, get a solid draft, review it, then send manually when it feels right.
@sofiia_havryliuk 100% agree - that same-day outreach is such a small action but it's the difference between "another application in the pile" and actually getting noticed. We built the outreach feature specifically because we saw how much of a bottleneck the "who do I even contact" question was for people. Removing that friction was the whole point.
Really excited for people to try this part especially
Michael here, I'm co-founder and CTO of HirePilot.
The hardest thing we shipped is autofill on Workday. If you've ever applied through it, you know the drill: a new account for every company, a resume upload that parses nothing, then dozens of fields to retype by hand. Those forms are multi-step, dynamically rendered, and slightly different for every employer - which is exactly why most tools quietly skip Workday. We didn't, and I'm genuinely proud of the team for that.
Under the hood, HirePilot is one pipeline: job board, autofill, tracker, and outreach all share the same data. You enter your information once, and it follows you through the entire search - no more copy-paste between tabs and spreadsheets.
If autofill breaks on a form you care about, tell me here or in-app. Edge cases are gold for us right now.
One question back: which ATS makes you close the tab the moment you see it? Asking for our roadmap.
@datysho 100%, Michael! I appreciate your and your team's leadership while engineering HirePilot!
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What an exciting product - how are you planning to work with employers?
@val_avdeenko1 Val, good question. Right now we're focused on one side of the market, the job seeker. Employers are a completely different audience with different needs, so it's not our focus today, but it's something we could build toward down the line, opening up the job board for employers to post directly.