How It Works

Your next career move, simplified. Here is exactly what happens from the moment you sign up to the day you accept an offer.

1

Create Your Account

Sign up with your email and a secure password — that is it. No credit card, no subscription. Every job, note, and AI session you create is private to your account and never shared with other users.

Your data stays yours — all jobs and activity are scoped to your account alone.
Bring your own API keys so you control costs and rate limits.
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2

Connect Your Sources

WaypointCareer pulls opportunities from nineteen job boards and aggregators simultaneously. Eleven work instantly with no key — including direct-from-employer ATS feeds across the US and EU; the rest accept your own free API key for higher limits and broader results. Sources are grouped by region so EU/UK boards activate automatically when you add a matching location.

No key needed — works out of the box

Remotive
No Key

Curated remote-only software development roles. Works out of the box.

Jobicy
No Key

Remote-friendly engineering positions filtered to the U.S. market.

Arbeitnow
No Key

European and global remote-friendly listings across all engineering disciplines.

RemoteOK
No Key

Open JSON feed of remote tech, design, and marketing roles with salary data.

Greenhouse
No Key

Direct-from-employer listings at top tech companies (Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase) via their public ATS boards.

Lever
No Key

Open roles from companies like Netflix, Spotify, and Atlassian — filtered by team, location, and commitment.

Ashby
No Key

Ramp, Linear, Notion, PostHog, Replicate and other fast-growing tech companies — direct from their Ashby boards.

Workable
No Key

Global SMB coverage with strong EU presence — Revolut, Ecosia, Blueground and more.

SmartRecruiters
EU · No Key

Enterprise EU boards — Bosch, IKEA, Atos, Publicis, Société Générale. Activates when you add an EU location.

Recruitee
EU · No Key

Dutch and European scale-ups — Channable, Picnic, Catawiki, Polarsteps. EU-gated.

Personio
EU · No Key

DACH-focused boards — GetYourGuide, Freeletics, Raisin, Scalable Capital. EU-gated.

Free API key — sign up once, search unlimited

Adzuna
API Key

Aggregates millions of listings across 16 countries. Free tier gives you 250 calls per month.

The Muse
Optional Key

Curated roles at top companies with detailed culture profiles, office photos, and employee reviews.

USAJobs
API Key

Every U.S. federal government position — completely free with unlimited calls.

JSearch
RapidAPI

Real-time aggregator pulling from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and dozens more boards.

Reed.co.uk
API Key

The UK's largest job board. Keyword, location, and salary filters with full pagination.

Jooble
API Key

Global aggregator spanning 70+ countries and all industries. Free partner key.

Careerjet
Affiliate ID

Worldwide aggregator covering 90+ countries with keyword, salary, and contract-type filters.

Findwork.dev
API Key

Curated tech and startup roles with tags, remote flags, and full job descriptions.

More sources are on the way — we are always expanding the network.

3

Set Your Preferences

Tell WaypointCareer exactly what you are looking for. Every preference you set sharpens the results the scheduler brings back.

Keywords

Add the titles you want — “VP Engineering”, “Staff SRE”, “Director of Platform”. These drive every search across all sources.

Locations

City or region filters — also decide which regional sources activate. Add a European city to unlock SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, and Personio.

Minimum Salary

Set a USD floor. Jobs below the threshold land on the Filtered tab where you can review and reclassify rather than disappearing silently.

Current Job Status

Tell us where you are — unemployed, actively looking, passively open, or just monitoring. Drives your Daily Plan recommendations.

Schedule

Choose when fetches run — the default is every morning at 7 AM. The profile form has an inline cron help popover with common schedules.

AI Model

Pick Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT for interview prep, role tips, and search-firm suggestions. Bring your own API key — the setup modal lists pricing and quotas for each.

4

Your Jobs, Delivered Automatically

Once your sources and preferences are set, the scheduler takes over.

Personal cron fires

Your schedule is independent of every other user. No shared queue.

Region gating

Sources outside your configured regions are skipped — no wasted calls to EU-only boards if you’re US-based.

Sources are queried

Each enabled provider is called with your keywords and locations. ATS fetchers fan out across every active curated company.

Filters applied (transparently)

Jobs below your salary floor or that don’t match your keywords are tagged with a reason and moved to the Filtered tab — never silently dropped.

Deduplication

The same role posted on multiple boards appears only once.

Fetch log recorded

Every run produces a detailed log grouped by source category (Public / Keyed / ATS) with exact start time and per-source health.

5

Review, Track & Take Action

Every fetched job lands as Pending Review. Move it through your pipeline:

Pending Review
Interested
Applied
Interviewing
Offer Received
Filtered tab — see everything the scheduler auto-filtered, why (salary floor or keyword mismatch), and reclassify anything worth keeping back to Pending Review in one click.
Notes — attach up to 5,000 characters of research or reminders.
Deadlines — set application deadlines with color-coded urgency alerts.
Search & filter — narrow by source, remote type, posting date, or free-text.
Export — download your pipeline as CSV for offline analysis (Pro).
Free vs Pro — free accounts use 4 public sources, 3 keywords, 1 location, and 30-day retention. Pro unlocks all 19 sources, unlimited keywords and locations, CSV export, and full AI access.
6

AI-Powered Career Tools

Every tool runs on your choice of Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT — BYO API key, and WaypointCareer falls back across providers automatically so you’re never blocked by a single outage. When a provider does error (invalid key, quota exhausted, rate limit), the app shows an exact, actionable message with the billing / status URL to fix it.

Role Tips

One click generates an AI breakdown: responsibilities, what hiring managers look for, concerns to address, and questions to ask. Results are cached globally by normalized title — the second person to ask about a role reads the cached answer for free.

Interview Prep

Multi-turn AI conversation with focus areas, 10-15 likely questions, resume talking points, and gap analysis — tied to the exact job description and your resume.

Resume Upload

Upload your PDF or DOCX once. The parsed text feeds into every AI session automatically.

Search-Firm Suggestions

Tell the AI your target title and region; it returns 8–15 relevant executive-search firms with likely contact titles and focus areas, ready to bulk-import into your firms roster.

7

Run the Day — Daily Plan, Networking & Search Firms

The job board is only half the work. Your Daily Plan translates your current status (unemployed, actively looking, passively open, market-awareness only) into a concrete daily cadence and tracks what you actually do.

Status-Tailored Plan

Unemployed gets a 6-hour plan across search, networking, search firms, skill-building, and interview prep. Passively open gets a 20-minute maintenance cadence. Everyone gets one that fits.

Activity Logging

Log minutes against five activity types — search, skills, interview prep, networking, search firms. Today’s total vs target, current streak, and a weekly per-type summary make progress visible.

Networking Roster

Keep contacts — name, title, company, email, LinkedIn — in one place. Log a Networking activity linked to a contact and their “last contacted” date updates automatically.

Search Firms (Executives)

Track executive search firms and their contact people with focus area, region, and last-contacted date. AI can generate a shortlist of firms for your target title and region with one click.

Roadmap

Here’s what’s already shipped in the last few weeks, and what we’re building next.

Recently Shipped

19 Job Sources (from 7)

Added RemoteOK, Reed, Jooble, Careerjet, Findwork, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, and Personio.

Region-Based Gating

EU/UK sources activate automatically when you add a matching location. No wasted API calls.

Filtered Jobs Visibility

Auto-filtered jobs now land on a dedicated Filtered tab with the reason shown. Reclassify to Pending Review in one click.

Daily Plan & Activity Logging

Status-tailored daily cadence, activity-type logging, streak tracking, and weekly per-type summaries.

Networking & Search Firms

Contact and executive-firm rosters with last-contacted dates that update automatically from your activity log.

AI Firm Suggestions

One click generates a shortlist of executive-search firms relevant to your title and region, ready to bulk-import.

Free + Pro Subscription

Stripe-powered monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual tiers. Discount codes with cycle limits supported.

Three AI Providers + Fallback

Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT all supported. Configured-provider is preferred; WaypointCareer falls back automatically if a key is missing.

Actionable AI Errors

Quota exhausted, invalid key, rate limit, or outage — every error shows a clear explanation with billing / status URLs instead of raw SDK text.

Deadline Tracking

Set an application deadline on any job; color-coded urgency tags surface it across the pipeline.

Resume Upload & Parsing

Drop a PDF or DOCX once; parsed text feeds every AI session automatically.

Fetch Logs Revamp

Per-day view with DatePicker, absolute start times, and source-category grouping so you can audit exactly what ran.

Coming Soon

Career intelligence tools for every stage — whether you are making a move, growing in place, or planning your next level.

Career Intelligence Tools

Company Watchlist

Follow target companies and get alerts when they post roles matching your profile.

Salary Trend Tracker

See how compensation for your target titles changes over time across regions.

Skills Demand Heatmap

Which skills are trending up or down in your field — based on live job data.

Market Position Report

AI-generated quarterly analysis of where you stand vs the market for your role.

Career Journal & Reflection

Builds on Daily Plan activity data — AI-prompted weekly reflections on wins, growth, and goals. Turn your streaks into a career narrative.

Personal Brand Audit

Analyze your profile against what top companies look for at your level.

AI-Powered Growth

Resume Scoring

AI scores your resume with an actionable improvement roadmap — not just a number.

Mock Interview Simulator

Timed AI interview rounds with scoring, feedback, and improvement tracking.

Skills Gap Analysis

Compare your resume against any job description — see exactly what to strengthen.

Career Roadmap Builder

Map your path from current role to target role with skills, timeline, and milestones.

Total Comp Calculator

Compare offers across base, equity, bonus, and benefits — apples to apples.

Application Templates

AI-generated cover letters and outreach messages tailored to each role.

Networking Outreach Templates

Personalized intro and follow-up messages generated against each contact in your roster — past context, current role, and your ask.

Smart Contact Reminders

Follow-up nudges tied to last-contacted dates on your contacts and search firms — ping before the trail goes cold.

For Every Career Level

Beginners & Career Changers

  • Guided keyword suggestions based on your background
  • Resume-to-role matching with confidence scores
  • “First 90 Days” onboarding prep module

Mid-Level Professionals

  • Career path visualization and progression mapping
  • Networking prompts and outreach templates
  • Promotion readiness assessment

Senior & Staff Engineers

  • Technical leadership self-assessment
  • System design interview prep with AI feedback
  • Team-building and org-design scenario practice

Directors & Executives

  • Board-readiness evaluation and coaching
  • Executive presence and communication drills
  • Compensation negotiation playbooks
  • Strategic vision frameworks and stakeholder mapping

Executive Transition Modules

First 90 Days — Directors

  • Stakeholder mapping and relationship building
  • Team assessment and quick wins identification
  • Communication cadence and org politics navigation

First 6 Months — VPs / SVPs

  • Strategic plan development and cross-functional alignment
  • Team restructuring playbook and hiring strategy
  • Board and executive presentation prep

First Year — C-Suite

  • Vision-to-execution roadmap and transformation planning
  • Investor and board relationship building
  • Culture shaping strategy and succession planning

Platform & Collaboration

  • Email and Slack notifications on new matches
  • Saved search presets to switch between strategies
  • Collaborative career board — share progress with a mentor or coach
  • Mobile app (iOS + Android)
  • Browser extension — save jobs from any site into your pipeline
  • API access for power users

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