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jobs situation in software (but also elsewhere) is going to continue to be somewhat broken.
people will be able to submit an all time high volume of applications - likely with automation workflows and ai
employers are going to screen all of these applications with yet more automated tooling.
it seems like so much of getting jobs is just going to come down to meeting people IRL and networking -- basically derisking that you are interacting with a party that actually wants to participate in the transaction (hiring or looking for work).
this tool derisks that the employer is actually serious about hiring, which is for sure a step in the right direction. Im not sure this tool would prevent someone from non-specifically spamming a job listing of
https://ghostjobs.io/web-extension