Welcome to Tailr

Here’s the thing nobody warns you about when you start looking for a job: the applying is the job.

You find a posting you actually want. You open your resume. You read the posting again, properly this time, and you start moving things around — pulling the relevant project up, rewriting a bullet so it uses their words, cutting the line about the thing they clearly don’t care about. Twenty minutes later you’ve got a version that fits, and you send it.

Then you find the next one. And you do it again.

The tab problem

Most tools that promise to fix this put themselves somewhere else. Another site, another login, another place to paste your resume and the job description and wait. By the time you’ve done that dance you could have made the edits yourself.

So Tailr doesn’t live anywhere else. It lives on the posting you’re already reading. You find a job, you hit the button, and the tailored version is there — built from the resume you already have, pointed at the thing in front of you.

What it won’t do

It won’t make things up. Tailr works from what you’ve actually done, because a resume that claims experience you don’t have falls apart in the first ten minutes of an interview and you’ll feel terrible the whole time.

It also won’t send anything for you. You read it, you change what you want to change, you decide. That part stays yours.

Where we’re going

Tailr is in early access and free while it is. We’re using this stretch to find out where it’s genuinely useful and where it’s still annoying — so if you try it and something’s off, tell us. support@trytailr.com goes to a person.

More soon. In the meantime, go apply to the one you’ve been putting off.