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Where it works#

Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and BambooHR, where HitApply fills the whole form. On other sites, press Apply ↗ and the extension fills the form while you watch. We'll add sites as they become reliable.

Turn it on (once)#

The first time you press Auto-apply, HitApply asks for three things:

1. Your application answers. Everything under Needed for autofill in your profile: name, address, work authorization, education, work preferences (with expected pay and start date), LinkedIn and the self-ID questions. Auto-apply submits with no one watching, so it never guesses these. "Prefer not to say", "Open to discussion" and "As soon as possible" are fine answers.
2. One choice for the forms: whether to remember answers to new questions. Auto-apply ticks the "I agree" and "I certify" boxes a form requires, as the Terms say. It never ticks optional ones, like marketing emails.
3. Your agreement that auto-apply submits for you, through a cloud browser run by Browser Use.

Auto-apply to a job#

1. Open a job whose documents are ready, in Applications or its editor.
2. Press Auto-apply and confirm. It uses one of your plan's auto-applies.
3. If another application is going, the job shows Up next and starts on its own when it's its turn. You can Cancel a queued one, and it isn't counted.
4. It takes a minute or two. The job is marked Applied when the site confirms it.

While it works, a chip beside the job's title in Applications says how it's going: Up next, Applying, Needs you, Didn't submit or Auto-applied. Home shows a short summary, and a job that needs you goes to the top of To do. Your assistant in the bottom corner types on its laptop while a job is applying, and waves when one needs you.

What was sent#

On a job auto-apply submitted, open its timeline and press What was sent under Applied. It lists every answer in the form as it was submitted. Answers the AI wrote (for questions your saved answers didn't cover) are highlighted, so you can check them.

Your demographic, disability and veteran answers are filled in by HitApply's own code and are never sent to an AI model.

What counts against your plan#

Only applications that go through. A run that stops before submitting is never counted. See Plans.

When it needs you#

Auto-apply tries to clear a CAPTCHA by itself, with a solver built into the cloud browser. Some job sites may not allow automated solving. Some things only you can do: a CAPTCHA it couldn't clear, a sign-in, or a question it can't answer. It also hands over if it's still working after 8 minutes, or if Submit didn't go through after two tries. Job sites can also email a code or link before they accept an application, which you can hand to Auto-apply. The run then shows Needs you, on the job and on Home, and we email you (turn that off in Settings › Auto-apply). The email's link opens the Autopilot page with the browser ready to take over. The cloud browser waits for you for 15 minutes. If the job has been taken down, it stops by itself and the auto-apply is refunded.

Press Take over to see the browser, live, right in HitApply. Then:

• Finish it yourself: fill what's left, press the site's Submit, then I submitted it… and confirm. It's marked applied and counted.
• Hand back to the agent: it carries on from where the page is, ahead of anything queued. You can hand a run back once.
• Give up on this job: it stops, nothing is sent, and it isn't counted.

On a phone, Open full screen opens the browser in its own tab, where you can zoom in.

If nobody takes over within 15 minutes, it stops and isn't counted.

Let Auto-apply use emailed codes#

Some job sites, like Greenhouse, email a security code after you press Submit. Without this setup, the run waits for you to enter it. With it, Auto-apply finishes by itself.

You'll need a computer and a Gmail address, and it takes about 3 minutes. Open Settings › Auto-apply › Email verification and follow the steps:

1. Choose your job email. We recommend your Gmail with +jobs before the @, like you+jobs@gmail.com. Gmail ignores the +jobs part, so this mail still lands in your normal inbox, and it lets us forward job-site emails and nothing else. Application forms use this address. Your résumé keeps your normal email.
2. Add HitApply as a forwarding address in Gmail.
3. Confirm it with the button that appears.
4. Add the filter. It forwards only emails to your job email with a code or verify subject. Recruiter replies stay in Gmail.
5. Send the test. When it comes back, you're done.

School and work Google accounts often block forwarding, so use a personal Gmail. You can use a separate Gmail just for job hunting, but employers will reply there, so check it often.

To stop, click Turn off under Manage, then delete the filter in Gmail.

Autopilot#

Autopilot is for applying to new matches from a saved search without pressing anything. It comes with Pro.

Open Autopilot in the sidebar. It's your assistant's own page: its status, what it's doing in its own words, its log, and the searches it's watching. If it can't start yet, it lists what's missing: your answers to the usual form questions, then a saved search and its rules. Choose a saved search, set your rules, then review which jobs matched last week for the profile you picked. It can start with the last 7 days or only new matches, and when one role is listed in several cities it uses your preferred locations. It then sends up to your daily limit, and at most 3 per company in 30 days.

• Minimum match compares a job with your profile by keywords, so it's a rough guide. 50 is about a typical job in your field, and most good fits score 60 or more.
• Most per day caps how many it sends for that search. A job that didn't go through doesn't count.
• Hours and companies to skip holds your active hours and the companies it must never apply to.
• The Autopilot switch at the top stops anything new from starting. A job already applying finishes.

On Free and Plus, the Autopilot page shows what it would have sent from one of your saved searches last week.

Click your assistant's picture to change its name, make it a dog or a cat, and pick its colour.

It looks for matches as soon as you turn it on, then every hour during your active hours. Each time, it lines up to 3 good matches and writes their documents, so a backlog goes out as fast as it can apply, up to your daily limit. It has one browser, so it applies to one job at a time, and if it gets stuck it waits for you there. Strong, recent matches go first: a newer job can go ahead of a slightly better older one. Each job shows in Applications and in the log on the Autopilot page. It applies to a company at most 3 times in 30 days, counting applications you sent yourself, and when one role is listed in several cities it applies once.

It only works on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and BambooHR. You can use it on up to 3 searches.

While it applies, its picture turns into the browser it's using, live. You can watch but not click it: press Take over if it needs you. Under each search in What I'm watching, it says how many jobs it has looked at, how many were good and how many are up next, and Why not the others? says why the rest weren't sent. You get an email after its first application, and one if nothing has gone out a day after you turned it on. Each morning you get one email with what it sent, if anything happened. You can turn it off in Settings › Auto-apply, along with the Needs you email.

If it sends something that isn't right for you, press Not a good match? on that row. You can stop it applying to that company, raise the minimum match, or change the search. It can't unsend the application, but it changes what comes next.

If a job didn't go through, press Try again in the Autopilot log. That uses one auto-apply, the same as pressing the button yourself.

Autopilot pauses by itself after 3 applications in a row don't go through, when you mark an application as an offer, and when you end a job hunt. The Autopilot page says why. Press Resume when you're ready.

When it stops#