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How to use ChatGPT to find jobs
What ChatGPT is good at in a job search
- Searching the web. ChatGPT can search the web on every plan, within that plan's usage limits. Describe the work you want in a sentence and ask it for current postings.
- Reading postings for you. Paste a posting or its link and ask how it fits the role, place and pay you want. Ask what the posting leaves out.
- Finding the titles you did not think of. The same work goes by different names at different employers.
- Remembering you. ChatGPT has memory. It can save details you tell it and refer to your past chats, so you do not have to repeat what you are looking for. You can see and delete what it saved in its settings.
- Preparing. Ask for the questions an interviewer is likely to ask for one specific posting, then practice your answers.
What to check yourself
- Whether the job is still open. A posting found through any search may have closed. Open the employer's own posting and check its date before you spend time on it.
- Anything in your name. Read a cover letter or a message before it goes anywhere.
Keep the jobs themselves in one place
Memory helps ChatGPT know you. A job search also needs a record of the jobs: each posting, whether you saved or passed it, where your application stands, and your notes. Jobs.Dog keeps that record on a page you can open on any device, and ChatGPT can read it once you connect the two. On the Early Adopter plan, ChatGPT can also add the jobs it finds and make changes for you. The same record is there for any other AI app you connect.
- Add Jobs.Dog to ChatGPT.
- Open Settings, then Security and login, and turn on Developer mode.
- Go to Plugins, press +, name it Jobs.Dog and paste your address.
Your address:
https://jobs.dog/mcp - Sign in and approve.
Press Create, sign in with your Jobs.Dog account and press Approve.
- Let it remember your answer in each chat.
Then ChatGPT works without stopping to ask. ChatGPT checks with you the first time it changes something in Jobs.Dog. Let it remember your answer and it carries on for the rest of that chat. It checks once more in each new chat.
If ChatGPT offers Always allow for the three Jobs.Dog tools, choose it. A run on a schedule has nobody there to answer a prompt, so without this it stops at the first one.
As tested in September 2026.
A first message that works
Look at my saved jobs in Jobs.Dog. Which three should I apply to first, and what does each posting leave out?
On the Early Adopter plan, it can also add what it finds:
Find five more jobs like the ones I saved, skip anything like the ones I passed, and add them to Jobs.Dog for me to review.
What Jobs.Dog does not do
Jobs.Dog does not apply for you, and it does not check or guarantee what an AI app does. You apply on the employer's site.
Jobs.Dog keeps your search in one place.Every job you save keeps its stage, your notes and the posting's text, and new jobs that fit your search arrive each day to save or pass.
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