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AI job application tools compared
“AI job application tool” covers four quite different kinds of product. Some send hundreds of applications through LinkedIn and Indeed. Some fill in forms while you watch. Some only write your résumé. A few find jobs and apply on employers’ own websites for you. Here is what each kind does, what it’s good for and where it falls short, so you can pick the one that fits how you want to search.
The four kinds at a glance
| Where it applies | Your résumé | Form questions | Your time per job | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job board auto-apply bots | LinkedIn Easy Apply, Indeed and similar one-click forms | Usually the same one | Guessed or skipped | None |
| Autofill browser extensions | Any form you open yourself | Whatever you upload | Suggested, you check | Several minutes |
| AI résumé and cover letter writers | Nowhere: you apply | Rewritten for the job | You answer them | The whole application |
| Assistants that apply for you | The employer’s own website | Rewritten for the job | Answered from your profile | None, or a yes per job |
Job board auto-apply bots
These are the tools most people mean by “auto-apply”. You set a job title and a location, and the bot clicks through one-click application forms on LinkedIn, Indeed and other big job boards, often hundreds a day. LazyApply is a well-known example.
Good for: sending a lot of applications with no effort.
Where it falls short: one-click postings are the most crowded ones, because applying takes seconds for everyone. The same résumé goes to every job, questions the bot can’t answer are guessed, and nothing happens after the application is sent. LinkedIn’s User Agreement also forbids using bots on its site, so an account used this way can be restricted. Many people who mass-apply hear back from almost nobody, and the reason is volume without fit, not bad luck.
Autofill browser extensions
An extension such as Simplify fills in your name, work history and common answers when you open an application form. You still find the job, check every field and press Submit yourself.
Good for: people who want to choose and check every application but are tired of typing the same details.
Where it falls short: it saves typing, not time spent searching. Long employer forms, such as Workday’s five-step applications, still take you several minutes each, and the questions specific to the job are still yours to write.
AI résumé and cover letter writers
These tools rewrite your résumé or draft a cover letter for a job you paste in. Many job sites and general AI chat assistants now do this too.
Good for: making a strong application for a job you really want.
Where it falls short: you still find every job, fill in every form and follow up yourself. A great résumé doesn’t help much if you only have time to send a few a week.
Assistants that apply for you
The newest kind does the whole application, the way a good applicant would. It finds jobs that fit what you asked for, rewrites your résumé for each one, answers the form’s questions from what you’ve told it and applies on the company’s own website. Sixthacre is one of these.
Good for: people who want many good applications, not many identical ones, without spending their evenings on forms.
Where it falls short: a careful application takes the assistant longer than a one-click bot takes, so you get dozens to a few hundred good applications a month rather than hundreds of quick ones a day. Some employers’ sites block automated applications with a CAPTCHA, and those still need you.
What to check before you pay for any of them
- Where does it apply? One-click forms on job boards, or the employer’s own website? The employer’s site is where recruiters do their work, and where the most crowded postings aren’t. Why the company’s site matters
- Is the résumé written for each job? Or is the same file sent everywhere?
- How are the form’s questions answered? From your real experience, or guessed? Does it ask you when it doesn’t know, such as your notice period or salary?
- How do you know it really applied? A list that says “Applied” is not proof. The employer’s confirmation page or email is.
- What happens after it applies? A short note to the hiring manager often does more than ten more applications. How to email a hiring manager
- Can you choose the jobs? Look for a mode where it finds jobs and only applies to the ones you pick.
- Does it work where you live? Many tools only search the big job boards, in a few countries. Check that it reads the job sites and employers in your country and city.
- What does one application cost? Divide the monthly price by the number of applications it really sends.
Where Sixthacre fits
Sixthacre is an assistant that applies for you, anywhere in the world. It reads tens of thousands of employers’ careers pages, and the local job sites of whichever country and city you choose, every day and applies on the company’s own website, through hiring systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and iCIMS, creating an account and entering email codes when the site asks. Each job gets a résumé written for it and answers from your profile, and it never makes up experience. After applying, it emails the hiring manager a short note from you and follows up once a week later. An application only counts as sent when the employer confirms it.
You choose how far it goes: Find only, where it finds and checks jobs and you pick which to apply to, or Find and apply. Jobs it can’t apply to, such as ones behind a CAPTCHA, come to you in one email a day with every answer already written.