I'm a test automation engineer with ~12 years in Java/Selenium/Playwright. Last year I went back on the job market — and I was reminded how genuinely bad the job-search loop is.

You open LinkedIn/Indeed/Naukri, scroll 200 listings, and maybe 5 are actually a fit. Then for each of those 5 you re-tailor your resume, guess at the ATS keywords, and fire it into the void. The filtering work — "is this even worth applying to?" — falls entirely on you, the person with the least time.

So I built the thing I wanted: Shashiworks — a free job search that pulls real, live listings and ranks them by how well they match your resume, plus an ATS optimizer to fix the resume before you apply.

The core idea: rank jobs by resume fit, not keywords

A keyword search gives you everything containing "automation engineer." Useless. What I actually wanted was: given my resume, sort these openings by how likely I am to clear the screen.

So the live search does three things:

1. Pulls real listings (LinkedIn / Indeed / Naukri) for your query — not a stale scraped database.
2. Scores each one against your uploaded resume — overlap of skills, seniority, stack.
3. Shows you the skills gap per listing, so you know exactly what's missing before you waste an application.

It turns "scroll 200, apply to 30, hear back from 1" into "look at the top 10 ranked, fix the 2 gaps, apply to 5 good ones."

The resume side: stop guessing at ATS

The other half is the AI Resume Optimizer. You paste a job description, it scores your resume against it (ATS-style), tells you which keywords/requirements you're missing, and the rewriter helps you close the gap without keyword-stuffing nonsense.

There's also a LinkedIn profile builder for the headline/summary, because that's the other thing recruiters actually read.

What I learned building it

• Ranking is the product, not search. Anyone can return listings. The value is the ordering — and the per-result "here's your gap" is what makes people trust the order.
• Real-time beats big. A smaller set of current listings beats a huge stale index every time for job seekers.
• AI is best as a second opinion, not an author. The optimizer that points at gaps gets used; the one that auto-writes your resume gets distrusted.
• Keep the core free. Friction kills a tool people use while anxious and time-poor.

If you're job-hunting right now, try it — upload a resume, run a search, and see your top-ranked matches: shashiworks.com. Feedback from devs especially is gold; tell me where the ranking gets it wrong and I'll tune it.

What does your ideal job-search tool do that nothing on the market does today? Genuinely curious — drop it in the comments. 👇