Your job search, run properly

Career OS gives you one place for everything to do with your job search: a desk that ranks what needs your attention today, a fit score and a short read on why a role suits you the moment you add it, a CV vault, and application tracking. It sits on the same network CIS keeps for introductions elsewhere — but your search itself is yours alone. Nobody else sees it, and it never affects the connections you make or receive.

Opens to a short greeting from your coach, three honest stat tiles (roles tracked, warm paths, apply-ready), and a “Today — approve & send” queue: a role gone quiet, a strong-fit role worth applying to, and — when a real, verified contact is waiting at one of your target employers — a featured warm door card naming them and the evidence for the tie. Each item carries one plain action (log it, mark it applied, open the dossier to draft an approach); nothing sends on your behalf. A warm-paths tile that shows “coming online” instead of a number means your workspace's own-network matching isn't switched on yet — never a fabricated zero.

Right under the coach cockpit, an early-version chat panel reads your whole desk — profile, today's list, roles, applications and your CV summary — and answers questions like "what should I focus on today?" or "which roles should I chase and why?" in a short list of tap-to-ask prompts, or your own free-text question. It is honestly labelled: this version reads your desk, it doesn't act on it yet — no drafting, no applying, nothing sent on your behalf. The conversation isn't saved between visits.

Your feed searches where you say, in this order: a place you give in the request (for example “jobs in Nottingham”), then the town or city in your profile. If there is no place yet, it asks you for one rather than guessing. The job boards cover the UK only, so for a place outside it you get a plain answer instead of results.

Every role you're tracking, sorted by fit, with quick filters for "New this week" (landed on your desk in the last 7 days — proof your feed is actually running), "warm path" and "score 55+". Tap any card to open its full dossier.

A score plus an "Assessment" — a short, specific list of the real reasons this role suits you, drawn from your goals and your CV, not a generic blurb.

Career OS never calls a bare shared employer “warm”. A contact only shows as verified — with the real date you were last in touch — when there's actual evidence you know them. Anyone else who simply works at the same company is shown separately, flagged plainly as a company match, not a relationship: worth a look, never a promise. If nothing verified exists for a role, the dossier says so rather than dressing up a stranger as a warm door.

A short read under the fit score and the warm path, drawn only from what's actually known about the role and who you do or don't have a real tie to — never a guess about the employer itself, and never sent anywhere without you.

One tap drafts a short, honest note: a light, peer-to-peer message when there's a verified contact to write to, or a brief cold opener otherwise — a bare company match is never used to address a "warm" draft to a stranger. You copy it, edit it if you like, and send it yourself from wherever you'd normally message someone — Career OS never sends anything on its own.

If a role's dossier doesn't have the job description text yet, you can paste it in from the “Add the job description” button. Once it's there, Career OS shows you the terms it genuinely emphasises, ranked by how often it says them — real words, from the text you gave it, not a guess. It's honest about what it isn't yet: it doesn't hold your CV's text to check those terms against, so it never claims something is “missing from your CV” — only what the role itself is asking for.

Your desk's Today tab collects the warm door, the next role worth applying to, and any gone-quiet follow-up in one ranked queue, each with a single action. The queue opens each item's dossier to draft an approach rather than composing inline yet — full edit-in-place is still coming.

Drag a CV in (PDF, .docx or .txt) and get a short, grounded read back in seconds — what fits, what's a genuine strength, what's a gap — plus it's stored as a version you can reuse across applications afterwards.

Before any CV can be attached to a real application, Career OS scans its text for leftover internal placeholders — things like [Add: ...], “TBC”, an unfilled template bracket, a bit of corrupted/scrambled text, or our internal business phone line appearing where your own contact number should be. If it finds one, the save is blocked and you're shown exactly what was found and where, so you can fix the actual document and try again. It's a safety net against sending an employer a document that still carries a note-to-self, never a formatting critique, and it never edits or strips anything on your behalf — you always fix the source.

A CV that passes the gate on upload becomes your active CV straight away — marked with a green “active CV” tag — so it's the one an approach draft is grounded in. Uploaded a variant you don't want live yet? Every other version in your vault has a “Set as active CV” button, so you can switch back in one click — that button runs the same safety gate first. If nothing in your vault is marked active, you'll see an amber banner saying so at the top of this tab.

Every application you've logged — which CV version, which channel, current status — in one list, with the newest activity first. Update its status as things move; nothing is submitted or advanced on your behalf.

A standing view of every role where the graph has found someone at that employer, ranked by fit — verified contacts and evidence dates shown separately from a bare company match, the same honest split as the dossier.

Warm-path matching against your own imported network (rather than the wider graph) is being switched on workspace by workspace. Until it is, this tab shows an honest "coming online" message instead of a placeholder result — your contacts stay private to you throughout, and nobody else's network is ever shown in their place.

A "help others get connected" option is designed for Career OS but has not shipped. Once it does, here is what it will mean — locked in before any build starts, not decided afterwards:

Switching it on shares that you're open to helping — never your actual contact list. Nobody browses your network; a specific introduction is only ever suggested, and only ever with your say-so.

Nobody in your network is ever approached without you agreeing to that introduction, specifically, first. No blanket permission, ever.

Helping others get connected and your own search are kept completely apart. Nobody you help sees that you're job-hunting, and nothing about your search ever surfaces through this feature.

Off by default, and you can switch it back off at any time — nothing already agreed is undone, but nothing new happens either.

Career OS is your own private workspace — the roles you're chasing, your CV, your applications, and the fact that you're searching at all, stay visible to you only. Full detail on what CIS holds and your rights over it: see Your data & privacy.