Career Connect is a Chrome extension that helps you send personalized AI-crafted emails to company insiders to 3x your interview rates. Overcome the job application black hole. Get your resume seen by company insiders.
Hello Product Hunt!
The team at Pathrise is so excited to launch the Career Connect extension, our first free product.
Over the last 6 years, Pathrise has helped over 2400 job seekers land new roles. We’ve learned that nothing improves interviews rates more than strategic outreach to company insiders.
Career Connect solves the hardest parts of outreach for job seekers: Finding the right contact to email and customizing the email message to optimize your chances of getting an interview, all with just a few clicks. Now you can send effective emails within a tenth of the time.
Since launching Career Connect internally to our paid user base, our users have easily doubled their outreach volume. We wanted to open up this amazing product for free to help more job seekers.
We hope you’ll test it out and share your feedback! Hope to hear from you there or in the comments.
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@derrick_mar1 cool. Hope it actually works as predicted?!
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I'm curious, are the emails sent directly from my inbox?
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@cory_higgins It looks like they are, because the email button says send from Gmail, but I'm not sure.
@cory_higgins, you're right. Emails will be sent directly from your Gmail inbox. Our data shows that emails sent this way tend to have higher response rates, as recipients see they're coming directly from you. To enable this, you must grant Career Connect explicit permission to send emails on your behalf. Happy networking!
This has been the culmination of a yearlong effort to build SaaS tools that consistently boost application-to-interview conversion rates. There were multiple different services that needed to be built in order to create this product, including:
- A neural engine built from the ground up to identify and rank ideal contacts for cold outreach
- A GPT-powered content generator to craft the perfect cold outreach email, given your resume and the job description
- Custom code for company name to domain resolution
- Mailer service using Google OAuth (took a year to get approved)
- Building custom web scrapers for the top 10 job boards (and continually updating them as the sites change)
Super fun project to work on, happy to see it through. This team was great to work with and I'm excited to see what they build next!
I'm excited to put this free product out into the world! It was such a blast to build. In the 5 years I've spent at Pathrise, it's always been clear to me that the number one problem with job searching is how time consuming it is. When done right, job searching can be a full-time job.
In the current world of tech, most job seekers must treat their search like sales by developing strong prospecting strategies and custom pitches.
Career Connect does this hard work for you. Can't wait to get your feedback!
Derrick and our team have been super hard at work to release this. At this point, we've tested it across a few hundred job seekers and seen how much of a game changer it can be. We're really excited to open this up for anyone to use and benefit from!
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Congrats on the launch! Quick question, how do you source your contact information?
@techguy557 We find contact information through a variety of sources including our own proprietary database and third-party sales intelligence services like Apollo. Career Connect also analyzes job descriptions to identify members of the hiring team, when available. We’re always looking for ways to improve the relevance and accuracy of contacts we provide. If you have any suggestions or feedback, please share with us!
@techguy557 here are a few other notes on the contact finder feature:
* Users can "thumbs up" contacts they find relevant
* Career Connect includes the functionality to add your own contact if none of the ones shown are relevant for you
* We choose which contacts to show based on factors like company size (e.g. messaging a CEO of an early stage startup can be a great tactic whereas it would obviously be a waste of time at a massive company like Amazon)
Hope that helps!
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