Looking for a new job has always been, generally speaking, a massive pain in the ass. These days, this pain is often inflicted bureaucratically, through firms’ opaque and mysterious hiring systems and the online platforms job seekers use to find them in the first place. The basic complaint spans industries: Sparse listings on exploitative sites are overwhelmed with applicants who, after applying, never hear back, not even with a rejection (were the listings even real?). This ad for Sorce, a job-application app that recently joined start-up incubator Y Combinator, captures that part pretty well:

Given that we’re talking about a start-up in 2025, you can probably guess the proposed solution involves AI. After funneling users through a Tinder-style swipe interface, Sorce says it will sim

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