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Inside a job

What each tab in a job is for: research, your plan, people, your resume, your story, application questions, the posting, notes and details.

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Click any card to open its panel. At the top: the stage menu, Open posting, and ✕ to close it (or press Escape). Under the company's logo, the title and company can be changed right there; click and type. Then the pay, your fit score, the level and where the job is, and whether the posting is still up.

A job, open on its Overview tab
A job, open on its Overview tab

Nine tabs:

Overview

The research at a glance: three tiles for pay, your fit and the company, then a short summary, How you fit, About the company, benefits, and what the job really needs. More →

Execution

Your plan to get this job: fresh research on the company and the 5 to 10 moves that most raise your odds, ready to tick off. More →

People

The hiring manager, recruiters and team, with a message written for each. More →

Resume

A resume and cover letter written for this job. More →

My story

Your answer to “Tell me about yourself” and “Why here?”, written for this role. It’s the first two minutes of most interviews.

  1. Pick the resume to use. Your main one is picked for you.
  2. Under About me, tick anything that applies to this job: why you’re moving, what you want next, a side project. Click + New about me to add one. They’re saved for every job, and only you see them.
  3. Click Generate. It takes about 30 seconds.

You get a spoken answer of about 60 to 75 seconds, a short answer to why this company, three beats to remember, a 30-second version, and Why it works: what the role needs, what to stress and a likely follow-up. It only uses your resume, the About me items you ticked and the research on the job, never anything made up.

To change it, add a line under Add context or direction (or tap Shorter, More specific or More confident) and click Regenerate. Edit lets you change the words yourself, Copy copies one part or all of it, and Previous versions keeps your last 5, each with what it used, so you can go back to one. On a shared pipeline, everyone has their own story.

Questions

Answers to the questions on the application form, like “Tell us about a time you handled a tight deadline” or “Why do you want to work here?”, written for this job.

  1. Paste the question. If the form has a word limit, add it. Otherwise answers stay under 150 words.
  2. Click Draft answer. In under a minute you get a first draft built on your resume, your About me items from My story and the research on this job.
  3. Under the draft, Gancho asks for one or two details only you know, like the deadline or what you chose to cut. Reply in your own words, even roughly, and click Update answer.
  4. When it reads like you, click Copy answer and paste it into the form.

Gancho never makes up facts. When a detail is missing, it asks you instead of guessing. You can reply as many times as you like to add a detail or change the angle, and Edit lets you change the words yourself. Each job keeps its last 20 questions. Only you see them, even on a shared pipeline.

Description

The whole posting, cleaned up and easy to read.

Description
Description

Notes & activity

Your own notes (they save as you type) and the dated history of every stage change, the research and your tailored resume.

Notes & activity
Notes & activity

Details

Location, pay, the posting link, which pipeline it is in, and the description. Editing and deleting →

Still posted, or not

Every day Gancho checks whether each job in your pipeline is still posted. Under the job's title you see Still posted and when it was last checked. If the company takes it down, the card and the job get a gray No longer posted label, with the date it went, and the person who saved it gets one email about it.

  • If you had not applied yet (it was still in your first stage), it moves to a Closed column, so your board stays about what is still open. Gancho adds that column the first time it is needed.
  • If you had applied, it stays where it is. A posting coming down usually means they have stopped taking new applicants, not that you are out.

Either way the job keeps all your notes, people and research. Move it anywhere you like.

A job whose posting was taken down
A job whose posting was taken down
Jobs you had not applied to move to Closed
Jobs you had not applied to move to Closed

In the app

A job on iPhone; the ••• menu has Edit details and Delete.
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