# JobShifu

> JobShifu is an AI job search agent and mentor: Shifu tailors a resume to each job from experience the person confirmed and fills the whole application for them to submit, without fabricating content.

Every line of a tailored resume cites the confirmed experience it was built from, and a
line with no source is removed. Before tailoring, JobShifu shows the gaps between the job
and the person's Vault and asks; it never guesses an application answer, and it saves
each answer the person gives for the next form. Tailored resumes get about 2x the
interviews of generic ones (Huntr, Q3 2025, 1.61M applications). JobShifu also crawls
employer career sites directly and shows when each posting was first seen.

## Key pages

- [About JobShifu and its founder](https://jobshifu.com/about): Meet Chris Cheng, the engineer building JobShifu: a job search mentor that connects employer postings, resume tailoring and experience you can reuse.
- [JobShifu](https://jobshifu.com/): Search jobs from employer career sites without signing up. Compare roles, tailor your resume, autofill applications and track your job search with JobShifu.
- [Resume tailoring](https://jobshifu.com/resume-tailoring): Find relevant experience your resume leaves out. Confirm it once, tailor your resume to the job description, and reuse it for your next application.
- [CV tailoring (UK, Ireland, New Zealand)](https://jobshifu.com/cv-tailoring): CV tailoring for the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Match your CV to a job description using only experience you have confirmed, on A4, in British English.
- [Fresh job index](https://jobshifu.com/fresh): Find jobs sourced from employer career sites. Browse without an account, check posting history, and follow application links to the employer.
- [Is this job still open?](https://jobshifu.com/is-this-job-still-open): Check a job posting for ghost job signs: when it first appeared on the employer's page, whether it is still listed or was reposted, and whether it lists pay.
- [Does this company sponsor H-1B visas?](https://jobshifu.com/does-this-company-sponsor-visas): Look up any employer's H-1B petition history from USCIS records, and what its open US job postings say about visa sponsorship. Free, no signup.
- [Will an ATS read my resume?](https://jobshifu.com/will-an-ats-read-my-resume): See what an applicant tracking system pulls out of your resume: the text, contact details, sections and dates, plus layout problems to fix. Free, no signup.
- [Why you're not hearing back](https://jobshifu.com/ats-truth): Almost no applicant tracking system rejects a resume by itself. The sourced reasons applications go quiet, and the two things worth doing about it.
- [Laid off? What to do first, and how to stand out](https://jobshifu.com/laid-off): The first week after a layoff, in order. Then how to stand out when hundreds of people from your old company apply to the same jobs. Sourced, free, no signup.
- [Calibration Engine: how the non-fabrication check works](https://jobshifu.com/calibration): Review resume changes against your confirmed experience. JobShifu checks source citations and flags issues for you to review before exporting.
- [Pricing: free tier and Pro plans](https://jobshifu.com/pricing): JobShifu pricing: free forever with no credit card, Shifu in every account, and Pro from about $20 a month yearly. Cancel any time, no countdowns.
- [FAQ](https://jobshifu.com/faq): How JobShifu works: browse jobs without an account, tailor resumes, autofill applications and track your search. Learn about free features and pricing.
- [JobShifu vs Jobright, compared](https://jobshifu.com/jobshifu-vs-jobright): Jobright has no public pricing page. Turbo is $39.99/mo, $89.99/quarter or $17.99/week (in-app, Aug 2026). How JobShifu compares on price and sourcing.
- [JobShifu vs HiringCafe: search and application workflow](https://jobshifu.com/jobshifu-vs-hiringcafe): Compare JobShifu and HiringCafe on employer sourcing, job filters, free access and tracking. See how JobShifu connects job search with resume tailoring.
- [JobShifu vs Simplify: autofill, Submit and tailoring](https://jobshifu.com/jobshifu-vs-simplify): Compare JobShifu and Simplify on application autofill, who presses Submit, resume tailoring, tracking and price. Both are free to start.
- [Research: hiring data from a live crawl](https://jobshifu.com/research): Findings from JobShifu's live crawl of employer job boards: what employers actually post, how long it stays up, and how often it comes back.
- [How long job postings stay open](https://jobshifu.com/research/how-long-jobs-stay-open): Rechecked daily on employers' own career pages, 56% to 69% of postings were still listed 27 days after they first appeared, measured to 2026-09-15, so the common "30 days" answer is a listing limit, not a lifespan. Between 1 in 6 and 1 in 3 are gone within two weeks, and there is no day when postings suddenly drop off.
- [How often job postings are reposted](https://jobshifu.com/research/relisting): Across 1,344,995 open roles crawled directly from employer job boards, 4.3% came down and were listed again between seven and 30 days later.
- [Years of experience entry-level jobs ask for](https://jobshifu.com/research/experience-required): Of entry-level roles that state a minimum, 44.7% ask for two years or more and 20.9% ask for three or more, measured from a direct crawl of employer job boards.
- [How many job postings state the pay](https://jobshifu.com/research/pay-disclosure): 40.7% of 1,479,575 examined postings state a salary, from 35.2% of lead roles to 51.7% of staff roles.
- [How many job postings say they will sponsor a visa](https://jobshifu.com/research/visa-sponsorship): 34 postings say they will not sponsor a visa for every one that says it will, and 93.7% say nothing either way.
- [What day of the week most jobs are posted](https://jobshifu.com/research/when-jobs-are-posted): Weekends carry 2.8% of new US job postings, and Monday to Friday each carry 17.5% to 21.9%. Measured on 1,131,492 postings from employers' own job boards.
- [Application autofill](https://jobshifu.com/autofill): Free Chrome extension that autofills job applications on Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and 25+ more platforms from your profile. You review, then press Submit.
- [Chrome extension](https://jobshifu.com/extension): The JobShifu Chrome extension saves any job posting to your vault and fills applications from your profile. Free, and it never presses Submit.
- [Cover letters](https://jobshifu.com/cover-letters): An AI cover letter built from achievements you confirmed, in an angle you choose. JobShifu flags anything that does not trace back to real work.
- [Interview prep](https://jobshifu.com/interview-prep): Walk in with STAR stories drawn from work you actually did, a company dossier, and questions worth asking. Every story checked against your record.
- [Job tracker](https://jobshifu.com/job-tracker): Keep each job application with the exact resume you sent. Track progress from saved jobs to interviews and offers with JobShifu.
- [Visa sponsorship job search](https://jobshifu.com/visa-sponsorship): Filter your job search to employers with a real H-1B petition history, from public USCIS records. Past filings, not a promise about your application.
- [Shifu, the AI job search agent](https://jobshifu.com/ai-job-search-agent): Shifu, the AI job search agent in JobShifu, finds live jobs, tailors your resume from experience you confirmed and fills the application for you to submit.
- [Watch Shifu, the AI job search agent (two films and a transcript)](https://jobshifu.com/shifu-film): Watch Shifu, the AI job search agent in JobShifu, find live jobs, check a posting and a visa record, tailor your resume and fill the form. You press Submit.
- [Blog](https://jobshifu.com/blog): Field guides for a smarter job search from the team building JobShifu.

## What JobShifu will not do

- Submit an application. Autofill and Shifu fill the form and stop; the person presses Submit, and a job is marked applied only on the employer's confirmation page.
- Put experience on a resume that the person did not confirm. A tailored line with no source in their Vault is removed before they review the draft.
- Guess an application answer. A question with no answer in the person's confirmed profile is left for them or drafted for their approval, and demographic questions are never inferred.
- Change an account through Shifu without approval. Each Shifu action is a card the person applies, and the log in Settings offers Undo where the earlier state can be restored.
- Solve CAPTCHAs or sign in to job sites on the person's behalf.

## Job search

Open jobs taken from employers' own career sites, searchable and filterable without an
account. Each job links to the employer's application page.

The pages under https://jobshifu.com/jobs are server-rendered HTML with JobPosting markup: read
these. Each open job has its own page at https://jobshifu.com/jobs/<job id>.

- [Browse jobs by role and location](https://jobshifu.com/jobs): Directory of role and city pages, each listing current openings.
- [Software Engineer jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/software-engineer)
- [Registered Nurse jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/registered-nurse)
- [Project Manager jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/project-manager)
- [Accountant jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/accountant)
- [Data Analyst jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/data-analyst)
- [Customer Service Representative jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/customer-service-representative)
- [Administrative Assistant jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/administrative-assistant)
- [Sales Representative jobs in Canada](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/sales-representative)
- [Jobs in Toronto, ON](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/toronto-on)
- [Jobs in Montreal, QC](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/montreal-qc)
- [Jobs in Vancouver, BC](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/vancouver-bc)
- [Jobs in Calgary, AB](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/calgary-ab)
- [Jobs in Ottawa, ON](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/ottawa-on)
- [Jobs in Edmonton, AB](https://jobshifu.com/jobs/edmonton-ab)

Interactive search, for a person to open (an app page that needs JavaScript, so fetching
it returns an empty shell):

- [Search jobs](https://app.jobshifu.com/find-jobs): Build a link with `q` (role or keywords), `loc` (city), `country` (ISO alpha-2, e.g. US, CA, GB) and `wt` (work arrangement, comma-separated: remote, hybrid, onsite). Example: https://app.jobshifu.com/find-jobs?q=registered%20nurse&loc=Toronto%2C%20ON&country=CA

## Blog posts

- [How to get a job without a degree or qualifications](https://jobshifu.com/blog/get-a-job-without-a-degree): Of 95,312 open US entry-level postings, 13.3% mention a bachelor's degree, and under 2% in retail and customer support. Which fields ask, and what to do.
- [Is the hidden job market real? Where the 80% came from](https://jobshifu.com/blog/hidden-job-market): The claim that 80% of jobs are never advertised traces to a 1966 article and a pilot survey of 27 Rochester employers. What is real about unposted jobs today.
- [How to find entry-level jobs that are actually entry level](https://jobshifu.com/blog/how-to-find-entry-level-jobs): Only 20.4% of entry-level postings state a minimum, and 44.1% of those ask for 2+ years. Three checks that tell a real entry-level job from a mislabelled one.
- [Changing careers? The first thing a recruiter reads is your old job](https://jobshifu.com/blog/career-change-resume-first-read): Keep your official title, add the market term beside it, put a one-line headline above, and lead with the bullet that transfers. Without faking a title.
- [We sorted Reddit's most upvoted job search advice. Here is what holds up](https://jobshifu.com/blog/reddit-job-search-advice-sorted): Fourteen busy r/jobsearchhacks threads, sorted into advice that holds up, advice that depends on your situation, and advice to skip, with reasons.
- [Rewrite your first bullet before you rewrite your resume](https://jobshifu.com/blog/rewrite-your-first-resume-bullet): Lead with the line that proves the job's main requirement, not your biggest number. Which bullet goes first, three orders we tested, and invented numbers.
- [Your resume gets about seven seconds. Here is where the reader looks](https://jobshifu.com/blog/where-recruiters-look-on-a-resume): About 7 seconds on the first pass, spent on four spots: latest title, company, dates, first bullet. What to put on that path, and what makes a recruiter skip.
- [Will recruiters know I used AI on my resume?](https://jobshifu.com/blog/will-recruiters-know-i-used-ai-on-my-resume): An ATS does not flag a resume for being written with AI. Recruiters notice generic wording and claims you cannot back up. What reads as AI, and the fix.
- [Can AI agents apply for jobs? Meta Muse, ChatGPT, LinkedIn, Indeed and Jobright compared](https://jobshifu.com/blog/can-ai-agents-apply-for-jobs): Which AI agents find jobs, tailor, fill forms and submit for you, and which stop first. Meta Muse, ChatGPT agent, LinkedIn, Indeed and Jobright, sourced.
- [Ghost job laws in 2026: Ontario, New York, New Jersey and California, with Ontario measured](https://jobshifu.com/blog/ghost-job-laws-tracker): Only Ontario requires postings to say whether a vacancy exists. JobShifu checked 58,194 Ontario postings: half carry the statement, a third carry it with pay.
- [Which UK visa sponsors are hiring now? The Home Office register, joined to live jobs](https://jobshifu.com/blog/uk-visa-sponsors-hiring-now): 64% of live UK postings JobShifu crawls sit at a licensed visa sponsor. Of sponsor postings that state pay, 28% start at the £41,700 Skilled Worker threshold.
- [Does remote mean you can work from anywhere?](https://jobshifu.com/blog/does-remote-mean-work-from-anywhere): No. In a JobShifu audit, 64% of US, 54% of Canadian and 54% of UK remote postings had no region label. Check country, state, hours and travel.
- [How to tailor your CV to a job description, by hand](https://jobshifu.com/blog/tailor-cv-to-job-description): A guide for the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Work from the person specification, lay out two sides of A4, and cut what British readers skip.
- [Stop rewriting the same job application answers](https://jobshifu.com/blog/stop-rewriting-job-application-answers): The 10 questions employers re-ask most, measured on 152,857 application forms, plus a free answer bank template. Save facts once, adapt the wording.
- [Can application questions automatically reject you?](https://jobshifu.com/blog/can-application-questions-reject-you): Yes. We read 152,929 application forms: 68% ask about work authorization or sponsorship, 30% ask for salary. Which answers can reject you.
- [Your resume is missing experience you already have](https://jobshifu.com/blog/find-experience-missing-from-your-resume): 59% of JobShifu users who tailored a resume confirmed a fact while reading a posting. Use the job description to recover work you left out.
- [Is a three-week-old job still worth applying to?](https://jobshifu.com/blog/is-a-three-week-old-job-worth-applying-to): 62% to 76% of job postings are still listed three weeks after they first appear. Check the employer page, deadline and fit before you apply.
- [Which Claude model is best for resume writing? Sonnet, Opus or Fable, and which plan you need](https://jobshifu.com/blog/claude-resume-tailoring): Sonnet on the free plan can write a resume. Opus 5.5 on Pro is the sweet spot for tailoring it. Fable 5.1 is overkill for most job searches, and here is why.
- [Does one-click resume tailoring work? What it writes when it has nothing of yours](https://jobshifu.com/blog/one-click-resume-tailoring): One-click resume tailoring sounds like a gift. A tool that demands nothing from you has nothing of yours to write with. Where the words come from instead.
- [Best AI for resume tailoring? What Teal, Jobright, Simplify and JobShifu did with one test resume](https://jobshifu.com/blog/resume-tailoring-tools-benchmark): Best AI for resume tailoring? What four tools did with one controlled test resume. One marked real skills missing and rewarded an invented one.
- [How to tailor your resume to a job description, by hand](https://jobshifu.com/blog/tailor-resume-to-job-description-by-hand): No tools, no model, no account. A twenty minute pass with a highlighter, and the one measurement that tells you which requirements are worth answering.
- [ChatGPT prompts to tailor a resume to a job description, free](https://jobshifu.com/blog/tailor-resume-to-job-description-with-ai-free): Fourteen copyable ChatGPT prompts that tailor a resume to a job description for free, plus the eight checks that catch what a chat model invents.
- [The skills that pay vs the skills in demand: 500,000 job postings, measured](https://jobshifu.com/blog/we-analyzed-500000-job-descriptions): JobShifu read 500,000 live job postings and pulled out every skill employers ask for. The highest-paying and most in-demand skills have zero overlap.
- [Which H-1B sponsors are actually hiring right now? USCIS records, joined to a live crawl](https://jobshifu.com/blog/h1b-sponsors-hiring-now): 40% of open US jobs JobShifu crawls are at a past H-1B sponsor, 10% at one with 100+ approvals. USCIS records joined to live postings, 4 October 2026.
- [Is JobShifu legit? Who runs it, what it does, how to check](https://jobshifu.com/blog/is-jobshifu-legit): What JobShifu is, who is behind it, what it will not do, and how to verify every claim on this page yourself.
- [Is JobShifu worth it? An in-depth comparison](https://jobshifu.com/blog/is-jobshifu-worth-it): Is JobShifu worth it? Compare free features, Pro pricing, resume tailoring, job search and autofill with Jobright, Simplify, Teal and Huntr.
- [Why 244 applicants beat your resume before it was read](https://jobshifu.com/blog/first-48-hours): The average role drew 244 applications in 2025 while recruiting teams halved. Here is what that queue does to a late application, and what actually still works.

## Datasets

Open data from JobShifu's own crawl of employer job boards and its own published
measurements, under CC BY 4.0. Free to quote, replot or reuse with attribution. Each
file is the exact source the matching report or post is rendered from, so there is no
figure in the report that is not in it.

- [Years of experience requested by seniority band](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/experience-required.json): Across 1,487,584 postings, how many years of experience each seniority band asks for, and how often one is stated at all. Method changed on 2026-09-13; not comparable with editions before 2026-09-13. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/experience-required. Cite as: JobShifu. Years of experience requested by seniority band. https://jobshifu.com/research/experience-required
- [How long job postings stay open](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/lifespan.json): Kaplan-Meier survival of job postings on employers' own career pages, rechecked daily: the share still listed on each day after first sighting, in three source tiers, for postings first seen 2026-07-01 to 2026-08-15. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/how-long-jobs-stay-open. Cite as: JobShifu. How long job postings stay open. https://jobshifu.com/research/how-long-jobs-stay-open
- [Pay disclosure rates in job postings](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/pay-disclosure.json): Of 1,479,575 postings from 16,216 employers, 40.7% state pay. Method changed between 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-29; not comparable with editions before 2026-09-29. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/pay-disclosure. Cite as: JobShifu. Pay disclosure rates in job postings. https://jobshifu.com/research/pay-disclosure
- [Job posting relisting rates by function and seniority](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/relisting.json): Across 1,344,995 open roles crawled directly from employer job boards, 4.3% came down and were listed again between seven and 30 days later. Method changed on 2026-10-19; not comparable with editions before 2026-10-19. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/relisting. Cite as: JobShifu. Job posting relisting rates by function and seniority. https://jobshifu.com/research/relisting
- [Visa sponsorship statements in job postings](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/visa-sponsorship.json): Of 1,482,236 postings from 16,244 employers, what share say they will sponsor, will not, or stay silent. Method changed on 2026-10-01; not comparable with editions before 2026-10-01. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/visa-sponsorship. Cite as: JobShifu. Visa sponsorship statements in job postings. https://jobshifu.com/research/visa-sponsorship
- [When new US job postings are published, by weekday and hour](https://jobshifu.com/research/data/posting-days.json): Across 1,131,492 new US postings from 10,265 employers, August 3 to October 25, 2026, the share published on each day of the week and in each hour (US Eastern), with each employer also counted once. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/research/when-jobs-are-posted. Cite as: JobShifu. When new US job postings are published, by weekday and hour. https://jobshifu.com/research/when-jobs-are-posted
- [Ontario job posting disclosure rates, 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/ontario-posting-disclosure-2026-10-03.json): Share of 58,194 Ontario job postings first seen 26 June to 3 October 2026 that state whether a vacancy exists, state pay, both, or disclose AI screening, with every other province for comparison. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/ghost-job-laws-tracker. Cite as: JobShifu. Ontario job posting disclosure rates, 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/ghost-job-laws-tracker
- [UK licensed visa sponsors with live job postings, October 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/uk-sponsors-hiring-2026-10-03.json): The Home Office register of licensed sponsors (2 October 2026 edition) joined to 55,895 open UK job postings on 3 October 2026, with per-employer counts, category shares and pay against the Skilled Worker threshold. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/uk-visa-sponsors-hiring-now. Cite as: JobShifu. UK licensed visa sponsors with live job postings, October 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/uk-visa-sponsors-hiring-now
- [Remote job postings with and without a stated region, by country, October 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/remote-region-coverage-2026-10-04.json): Share of 10,776 open remote-classified posting records in the JobShifu Posting Corpus with and without an extracted remote-region label, for all countries and for the US, Canada and the UK, with the share restricted to the posting's own country. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/does-remote-mean-work-from-anywhere. Cite as: JobShifu. Remote job postings with and without a stated region, by country, October 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/does-remote-mean-work-from-anywhere
- [Screening questions on job application forms, by ATS, October 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/application-questions-2026-10-03.json): Share of 152,929 open postings' application forms (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Rippling) that ask about sponsorship or work authorization, relocation, on-site work, salary and years of experience, per posting and per employer, plus Rippling's employer-set knockout flags. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/can-application-questions-reject-you. Cite as: JobShifu. Screening questions on job application forms, by ATS, October 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/can-application-questions-reject-you
- [Resume tailoring tools benchmark, August 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/tailor-benchmark-2026-08-27.json): One control resume and one job posting run through Teal, Jobright, Simplify and JobShifu, with term counts, scores and generated content observations checked against the source document. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/resume-tailoring-tools-benchmark. Cite as: JobShifu. Resume tailoring tools benchmark, August 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/resume-tailoring-tools-benchmark
- [H-1B sponsors with live US job postings, October 2026](https://jobshifu.com/blog/assets/h1b-sponsors-hiring-2026-10-04.json): USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub approvals (FY2021 to 2023, plus the FY2026 ranking to 30 June) joined to 942,964 open US job postings on 4 October 2026, with approval thresholds, per-employer counts, coverage flags, category shares and sponsorship statements. JSON. Report: https://jobshifu.com/blog/h1b-sponsors-hiring-now. Cite as: JobShifu. H-1B sponsors with live US job postings, October 2026. https://jobshifu.com/blog/h1b-sponsors-hiring-now