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Researching a job

What Gancho finds out about every job you save (pay, the company, benefits, the real must-haves) and how well you fit.

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It starts on its own

Save a job and Gancho reads the posting and searches the web for the company. It takes about a minute, sometimes a few. If your resume is uploaded, it also scores how well you fit.

The Overview tab when the research is done
The Overview tab when the research is done

The three tiles

  • Pay: the range from the posting, or Estimated pay marked est., with how sure Gancho is. Pay always shows with a $ sign; Canadian and Australian pay add the currency, like $150k–$185k CAD.
  • Your fit: a score from 0 to 100 against your default resume, and a one-line verdict.
  • Company: its logo, name and size.

How you fit

One piece of advice, then two lists: You match and Gaps to address. The gaps are what to cover in your resume, your message and your interview.

How you fit: what matches and what is missing
How you fit: what matches and what is missing

About the company

What the company does in a line, with its industry, size, stage, headquarters and the year it was founded, when those are known. The ↗ next to the name opens its website.

About the company
About the company

Benefits and the job itself

Benefits covers health, retirement, equity, bonus, time off, parental leave, a remote stipend and learning, and says whether each came from the posting or from research, including what the posting does not mention. Worth checking flags anything that looks off. Then what you would do, the must-haves, the nice-to-haves, and the skills and keywords to use.

Benefits, and what the job really involves
Benefits, and what the job really involves

Where it came from

The Sources list links every page the research used, so you can check anything that matters. Refresh insights, at the very bottom, runs it again. Do that after uploading a new resume.

Sources, and Refresh insights
Sources, and Refresh insights

Want to know what to do with all this? Your execution plan →

In the app

The same research on iPhone
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