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Your first ten minutesThe three things that make everything else work: your resume, a few saved jobs, and one tailored application.Read it →3 ways to add a jobFrom your iPhone in two taps, a pasted link, or one click in Chrome. Discover can also find jobs for you.Read it →Your execution plan for a jobGancho researches the company right now and writes the 5 to 10 moves that most raise your odds. Tick them off, change them, add your own, and let Gancho draft the documents.Read it →
Getting started
Making an account, signing in, and what to do in your first ten minutes.
4 articlesCreating your accountWith Google, with Apple, or with your email and a password, and what you get the moment you sign up.→Signing inWith Google, Apple or your password, how long you stay signed in, and what a wrong password looks like.→Resetting your passwordHow the reset link works, how long it lasts, and what happens to your other devices.→Your first ten minutesThe three things that make everything else work: your resume, a few saved jobs, and one tailored application.→
Saving jobs
Every way to get a job into Gancho: a link, by hand, the Chrome extension or your phone.
8 articles3 ways to add a jobFrom your iPhone in two taps, a pasted link, or one click in Chrome. Discover can also find jobs for you.→Discover: let Gancho find jobs for youRoles picked for you every day, plus over 20,000 open jobs to search yourself. One click saves any of them to your pipeline.→Searching and filtering jobsSearch over 20,000 open jobs by role, company or place, and narrow them by country, company, pay and remote.→Importing a job from a linkPaste a posting's link and Gancho fills in the title, company, pay and the whole description.→Adding a job by handFor a role someone told you about, or a posting you cannot link to.→Installing the Chrome extensionOne-click saving from LinkedIn, Greenhouse, Lever, Workday and company careers pages. About a minute to set up, on a computer.→Saving jobs with the Chrome extensionOpen a posting and click the icon. It lands in Saved with the full description.→Saving jobs on iPhoneShare a posting straight from Safari or LinkedIn, or paste a link.→
Your pipeline
Stages, moving jobs along, everything inside a job, more than one pipeline, and comparing offers.
5 articlesMoving jobs through stagesDrag a card, or pick a stage from inside the job. Every move is dated, so you know when you applied.→Inside a jobWhat each tab in a job is for: research, your plan, people, your resume, your story, application questions, the posting, notes and details.→Editing and deleting a jobFix the details, paste in a better description, move it to another pipeline, or remove it.→Pipelines and stagesRename stages, add your own, and keep separate pipelines (full-time and contract, say).→Comparing jobsPick up to five jobs and see them side by side: fit, pay, work mode, location and every benefit, in the order you choose.→
Research and outreach
The research on every job, a plan of moves to get it, finding the people who hire, writing to them, and never forgetting a follow-up.
7 articlesResearching a jobWhat Gancho finds out about every job you save (pay, the company, benefits, the real must-haves) and how well you fit.→Your execution plan for a jobGancho researches the company right now and writes the 5 to 10 moves that most raise your odds. Tick them off, change them, add your own, and let Gancho draft the documents.→Finding the people who hireGo around the application portal: find the hiring manager, recruiters and team for a role, and why each one matters.→Writing messagesA connection note, a message, an intro request or a follow-up, written for this person and this job. You send it yourself.→Tracking who you've contactedSix statuses, and why Messaged is the one that matters.→How follow-ups workGancho reminds you to nudge anyone who has not replied, writes the nudge, and lines up the next move on every job.→TasksYour own to-dos, like a thank-you note or interview prep, in the same list as your follow-ups.→
Resumes and the coach
Your resume, a tailored version for every job, cover letters, and the coach.
5 articlesUploading your resumeUpload it once. Every job is scored against it, and every tailored version starts from it.→Tailoring your resume to a jobA resume rebuilt around what one job wants, using only true things, with a map of what it covered.→Writing a cover letterA short letter written for the company and the role, from your resume and the research.→Asking the coachAn AI coach that knows your resume and every job you are tracking. Ask about a role, your resume, an interview or pay.→Editing a resume or cover letterThe full-page editor: templates, color and size, shortcuts as you type, Rewrite with AI, and opening it in Word or Google Docs.→
Practice interviews
Mock interviews for the jobs you save: typed or spoken, with a whiteboard, feedback, and as many sessions as you like.
3 articlesPractice interviewsMock interviews for a job you saved: a real back-and-forth, typed or spoken, hints and frameworks when you are stuck, coach notes as you go, a shared whiteboard, and a score at the end.→Speaking your answersAnswer out loud, see your words as you speak, and get scored on pace, confidence, conciseness and clarity.→Starting, picking up and reviewing interviewsEvery role keeps all its practice sessions. Start a new one, finish one you left, or read back an old one.→
Working together
Sharing a pipeline with a partner, friend or coach, and what stays private.
3 articlesYour account
Password, emails, and closing your account.
4 articlesChanging your passwordFrom the account menu, with your current password.→The emails we sendWhat we send, when, and how to turn the tips off.→Deleting your accountHow to close your account, and exactly what goes with it.→TroubleshootingQuick fixes for imports, uploads, the extension, sign-in, the microphone and plans, plus the daily limits.→
The iPhone app
Gancho on your phone, free on the App Store.
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Ask the coach: the round button at the bottom right of the app. It knows your jobs and your resume, and it can walk you through any of this.