PostcheckThe Job Search Field Kit

Postcheck

The job search field kit. Set your profile once. Then work jobs, not forms. None of it leaves your browser.

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How Postcheck works
  1. Your profile holds who you are and what you are looking for. You set it once and nothing asks you again.
  2. Scout turns that profile into a brief you hand to Claude or free ChatGPT. It comes back with a ranked shortlist and a payload block this app loads directly.
  3. Decide runs the gates, screens the posting for ghost job signals, maps their ask against your proof, and returns one call. Apply, Investigate First, or Pass.
  4. Apply shows what the scanner loses and which requirement lines your resume never answers.
  5. Connect writes the message to the hiring manager or to someone you know at the organization, and sets the follow up dates.
  6. Prepare builds the evidence cards, the questions you ask them, the debrief, and the offer comparison.
  7. The Board remembers all of it, tells you what is due today, and shows which sources and which resume are actually producing interviews.
What this app will not do
  • It does not scrape job boards. There is no server here to scrape from.
  • It does not autofill applications or submit anything anywhere.
  • It does not look up a person, guess an email address, or touch a data broker.
  • It does not write your resume. It tells you which lines are not answered.
  • It does not report a rate until it has enough applications behind it to mean something.
  • Nothing you enter is uploaded, ever. Your profile, your resumes, your board, and every message sit in this browser on this device. One button backs all of it up and one button erases it.
  • The page itself loads Google Analytics and Google Fonts, so anonymous counts of which stations get opened reach Google. Nothing from your career file goes with them.
Your career profile Set this once. Every station reads from it and nothing asks you twice.

This replaces the setup questions that used to sit inside the Scout builder. Fill it once and it drives the scout brief, the decision gates, the message drafts, and the interview prep. Change it whenever the search changes.

Your resume

The one in use fills in this profile, it is what the Apply station checks each posting against, and the Board reports which version is getting replies. Every version you have sent is kept, behind View all. PDF is fine. No resume is uploaded and no file leaves your browser. Print a clean copy rebuilds the one in use into the structure a scanner reads, without changing a word.

Add a resume

or paste the text below

Who you are

The scout speaks as you. These lines are what it reasons from.

Numbers, scale, named programs, and outcomes beat adjectives. These become the opening line of your outreach messages.

What you are looking for

Titles and geography drive every search that runs.

Number one is the job you want most. The scout leads with the top of this list. Start typing and take a suggestion, or type your own title and add it. Anything you type is kept. Several at once is fine: separate them with commas, or paste a list.

    Nothing here yet. Every search that runs starts from this list, so add at least three.

    Check this list before your next scout run. It was read from the titles you had typed before, and more than one title was found on a single line. Those were titles no search ever ran on.

    Most wanted first. Start typing and take a suggestion, or type your own industry and add it. Anything you type is kept. Several at once is fine: separate them with commas, or paste a list.

    Add common ones

      Nothing here yet. Industry decides which employers the scout even looks at, so name at least two.

      Check this list before your next scout run. It was read from the industries you had typed before, and more than one was found on a single line.

      Name them. Without a list the scout invents a commute radius.

      The county list says which areas count. This says how far inside them you will actually drive. Give both and the scout uses both. Leave these blank and it uses the county list alone, which is how it worked before.

      Numbers, not sentences. The floor is a hard gate and nothing below it is ever surfaced. The range and the minimum are scoring inputs.

      Check these before your next scout run. They were read from the salary text you had typed before. Nothing here reaches a scout run until you confirm it.

      One line. This becomes your level gate. Example: Senior Manager equivalent scope or above.

      Your deal breakers

      Anything listed here never reaches your shortlist again.

      One per line, with a short reason.

      Where to search

      Employer career pages beat job boards. Fresher postings, and no staffing firm in the middle.

      Organizations you would actually work for, by name. The scout opens three of these before it touches a board. Government and institutional pages belong here too, and they carry senior seats the boards never show.

      Not sure who belongs here?

      The app sends nothing anywhere. Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, then paste the answer back below. Your resume text is built into the prompt so the answer fits your actual background, which means you are handing it to that tool yourself, on purpose.

      The first six are Priority 1 and get searched on every run. Everything below the sixth line is Priority 2 and is only reached once those are done. Reorder by retyping the list. Put sites that serve a plain page to an assistant at the top. Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter block automated readers hard, so a run that spends its Priority 1 slots on those four opens nothing and comes back empty. They still belong on the list, lower down, where a block costs nothing.

      Add common ones

      These six block automated readers hard. A run that spends its Priority 1 slots here opens nothing, so keep them below the sixth line.

      How the scout should score

      Defaults are ready to use. Adjust the weights only if you know why.

      The Board in this app is your tracker. Change this only if you keep your history somewhere else.

      THREE MOVES

      Run your scout

      Pick who runs it. Everything below changes to match.

      1. 1

        Copy the prompt.

      2. 2

        Open a new chat, paste it, and send. The search starts on that message.

      3. 3

        Copy the whole report it writes you and paste it into Decide. Every role lands on your board at once, with the facts and the requirement lines already filled in. You retype nothing.

      RUN SETTING

      Your active pipeline

      This is what stops the same role coming back every week. It is pulled from your Board and written into the prompt, so there is no separate file to export and no tracker to upload.

      Your plan file

      
      

      Updates live as you type.

      The record

      Fit, how well you match
      0
      Worth, does it earn the hour
      0
      Ghost risk
      0
      Match rate on required lines
      0%
      Required lines rated
      0
      Missing on required
      0
      Unknown, unresolved
      0

      Resolve before you apply

      Nothing open yet.

      
      

      The summary board covers every role on your Board at once, sorted by Worth.

      What an applicant tracking system actually does
      • It parses your file into fields. Name, contact, employers, titles, dates, education, skills.
      • It filters and ranks only when a recruiter asks it to, using terms the recruiter chooses.
      • It does not assign your resume a score out of a hundred. No such score is produced anywhere in the system.
      • It does drop, scramble, and merge content it cannot parse. Tables, text boxes, multiple columns, and anything sitting in a document header are the usual causes.
      • It matches strings, not meaning. Grant administration and grants management are the same work and two different strings.
      PART 1

      The posting

      Paste the full text of the job posting. The tool pulls the lines that read like requirements and ignores the boilerplate. If Decide already carries requirement lines for this role, they are here waiting.

      PART 2

      Which resume you are sending

      Your resumes live in your profile so you add each one once. Tag this role with the version you are sending, and the Board reports which version is getting replies.

      PART 3

      Coverage, line by line

      Every line from the posting, marked Required or Preferred, with the coverage the tool computed from your text. Override any call you disagree with.

      Auto leaves the call to the tool. Covered, Partial, and Absent are yours.

      No lines yet. Paste a posting above and pull the requirement lines.

      PART 4

      The document itself

      These are the layout choices that break scanners. Answer them about the file you are about to send, not about the text you pasted.

        Every fault in this part is layout, not writing. Print a clean copy, on the card at the top of this station, fixes all of them in one press without changing a word, and hands you a PDF to send.

        What your pasted text shows

        • Add a resume in your profile to run these checks.
        PART 5

        Hand it to an assistant

        This app cannot rewrite your resume. There is no model in it and it never sends your text anywhere. What it can do is build the entire request for you, so an assistant gets the posting, the requirement lines, the coverage call on each one, the document flags, and your full resume in a single paste.

        What the packet already tells it
        • Which lines are covered, partial, and absent, and the exact terms missing from yours.
        • The document faults to fix in the file itself, kept separate from the language work.
        • Never invent an employer, a date, a number, or an outcome. Name an honest gap instead of writing around it.
        • Return the whole revised resume ready to paste, then a log of every line it changed, added, or removed.
        • Nothing may vanish. Every bullet comes back, word for word where it was not changed.

        Use ChatGPT, the same place the free scout runs. The packet works in any assistant, but what comes back varies, and some will not run it at all. That is why the packet ends with a self check the assistant has to run on its own draft before it answers you. Read what comes back against your own resume either way.

        Open ChatGPT

        Read this before you paste. This is the one step where your text leaves this device, and it leaves only because you paste it. Every other part of Postcheck stays in your browser. The packet carries your whole resume, so use an assistant you would trust with the file itself.

        What to do with what comes back

        The packet asks for the whole revised resume, not a pile of loose bullets, so what comes back is ready to paste into your profile as a new version. It also asks for a log of every line that changed, because a full document hides its own edits and things go missing quietly. Read the log first.

        The return trip, in order
        • Read the change log first, before the resume. It lists every line the assistant touched. Check each one against what you actually did, and put back anything it cut that you want kept.
        • Paste the revised resume into your profile as a new version. Your resumes, Add a version, paste it in, press Add it. No Word required.
        • Open Print a clean copy in your profile. That fixes the layout faults, which are the ones no rewrite can close, and prints the PDF you send.
        • Come back here. The check reads whatever text your profile holds, so the coverage numbers move the moment the new version is in. Nothing to press.

        When the gap will not close

        A rewrite closes a partial, because a partial is their wording for something you already did. It cannot close an absent line. Absent means the work is not in your history, and the packet forbids inventing it. Running the same request a second time returns the same answer, and a third returns it again.

        Three honest endings, and no fourth
        • Write the bullet yourself. Only if you did the work and it is simply not on the page. Open the fix list, read the line in their words, and write one sentence about what you actually did. That is the one case an assistant could not help with, because it never knew.
        • Apply with the gap. One absent line out of twelve is not a wall. Name it in your note to a human in Connect, before a scanner names it for you. The board records what you sent and which version you sent it with.
        • Close the role out. If the absent line is the heart of the job, that hour is worth more on a seat you can win. Closed roles stay on the board with the reason on them, so the next scout run does not hand you the same posting again.

        The station stops asking for a packet once a revised resume has come back and a required line is still absent. That is not the tool giving up. It is the tool refusing to send you around the same circle a third time.

        The scout has nothing to do with this. It finds roles and it never reads your resume, so a rewrite is no reason to run it again.

        The record

        Required lines rated
        0
        Covered
        0
        Partial
        0
        Absent
        0
        Document flags
        0 of 7

        Fix before you send

        Nothing open yet.

        
        

        The fix list is the block to keep. The term gap shows their phrasing against yours. The rewrite packet is the whole request for an assistant, posting lines and resume included, written to forbid any claim you cannot back. Part 5 on the left copies it in one press.

        The rules baked into every draft
        • Lead with a result that carries a number, not with a request.
        • One line proving you actually looked at the organization.
        • Ask for fifteen minutes. Never ask for the job, and never lead with a referral ask.
        • Seventy five to a hundred fifty words. Longer gets skimmed and then dropped.
        • Two follow ups, then stop. A third is not persistence, it is noise.
        • This app never looks up a person. No scraping, no data brokers, no guessed email addresses. It gives you the search path and writes the message once you name the recipient yourself.
        PART 1

        Who are you writing to

        Find the name yourself. These open the usual places in a new tab.

        One line, and it has to be real. This is the sentence that separates your note from a template, and its absence is why most cold notes die.

        PART 2

        Pick the message

        Thirteen templates. Each one is a different door, and they are not interchangeable.

        PART 3

        Tune it

        Pick a template above.
        PART 4

        Mark it sent

        This is the part that makes the Board work. Log the send and both follow up dates get set for you. Four business days, then seven days after that, then stop.

        Message history for this role

        This role

        Messages sent
        0
        Follow ups used
        0 of 2
        Next touch due
        none
        Proof points available
        0

        What to lead with

        Rate a required line Strong in the Decide station and its proof appears here.

        Proof points come straight from the evidence map you built in Decide. If nothing shows here, the message has nothing concrete to carry, and that is worth fixing before you send it.

        What this station will not do
        • It will not feed you answers during an interview. Live answer coaching through an earpiece or a second screen is cheating, it is detectable, and in a sector this small it ends more than one hiring process.
        • It will not write your stories. You lived them. It only demands that you attach the number and name the decision.
        • It will not tell you what they want to hear. Every question here shows what is actually being tested underneath it.
        PART 1

        The seat

        The stage and the lane decide which questions you get. Change either one and the set rebuilds. Title and organization come from the role you selected above.

        PART 2

        Your evidence

        One card per question, the posting's own required lines first, then the generic set for this stage and lane. The number field is the point of the whole exercise. Volume, budget, headcount, percentage, count of findings, days to stand up. A card with no number is a story, and a story loses to the candidate who brought arithmetic.

        PART 3

        What you ask them

        Grouped by what the answer actually reveals. Pick four or five. The ones you choose tell them as much as your answers did.

        0 selected.

        One per line. These print with the rest.

        PART 4

        What to listen for

        Check these during or right after the conversation, not before. Three or more and you are looking at a seat that will not hold.

          PART 5

          The debrief

          Fill this within an hour of walking out, while you still remember what they actually said. It saves to the role and prints with the rest.

          PART 6

          The offer

          A number is not an offer. Nine things are. Rate each one from what you actually know, and leave anything unknown at the middle mark rather than guessing high.

          Open this once an offer is real. Everything here saves to the role, and every role sitting at the Offer stage appears side by side on your Board.

          Quote the terms. Start date, reporting line, review cycle, anything conditional.

          Write it before you negotiate, not during. A number and a condition.

          The record

          Cards complete
          0
          Cards carrying a number
          0
          Cards untouched
          0
          Questions you will ask
          0
          Warning signs marked
          0
          Total opportunity
          not scored

          Before you walk in

          Nothing open yet.

          
          

          Print the prep sheet the night before. Fill the debrief the same day.

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