There is a moment every job seeker knows. You finish the fourteenth form of the week, you hit submit, the page goes white, and something appears that says Thank you for your interest.

Then nothing. For weeks.

And you cannot tell the difference between they read it and passed, they never opened it, and it never arrived at all. Three completely different situations, one identical experience.

I build a product that applies to jobs on your behalf. So I had to decide what my product is allowed to call sent. That decision turned out to be the entire product.

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