The Job Market Is A

Dumpster Fire

A job-search operating system for people who are done feeding the machine.

Job boards and ATS's are where good candidates disappear. Dumpster Fire scans boards, company pages, and targeted sources, surfaces likely hiring contacts, and helps you reach out with your work examples and voice.

Stop applyingStart pursuing

Is the Job Market a Dumpster Fire?

Yup. Sending 100 resumes a day into the ATS black hole is no way to pay the bills. Outside of a direct reference, the best bet is to make that connection yourself.

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Build your profile

Turn your resumes, work examples, and voice into the profile every message is built from.

02

Scan real sources

Scan live job boards and company career pages, so your search is not trapped inside one portal or one watchlist.

03

1:1 custom outreach

Dumpster Fire finds the person to contact and drafts a powerful, informative message in your voice. Editable, never auto-sent.

04

Track your pursuits

Keep every role, contact, and message in one place as you follow up.

How Dumpster Fire works

Five steps between you and a real person reading a message that actually sounds like you. Not a portal. Not a resume black hole. A person.

Submit your profile

Hand over your resume as a clean PDF so the scan reads it right. We pull the substance out and toss the file. Then add work examples: what you built, where it lives, and the dent it made.

Resume scanned

Text captured. File discarded. Your history stays yours.

From your resume
Senior Producer · Topo Chico2022 to 2025
  • Led national launch production across 40+ SKUs; shipped in one quarter.
  • Owned it from first render to shelf date; beat the sell-in target by 22%.

Line up your pursuits

Scan the boards we watch, rated against your profile. Or found a posting in the wild? Paste the link. Either way, a job stops being a listing and becomes a pursuit: something you go after on purpose.

Senior Producer · Liquid Death

Fit: Good / 88. Strong overlap on creative production and launch delivery.

Or paste a job you found on your own
Paste a job posting linkPursue

We find a human to contact

Job postings hide people. Dumpster Fire works out who actually owns this role, hiring manager to recruiter, and you pick who receives your message.

Found 2 reporting-chain contacts.

Sam LewisVP, Brand & Creative · Hiring Manager★★★★☆ · 82% confidence · VerifiedOwns the function this role reports into; confirmed current at Liquid Death.
Willem BlomSenior Recruiter · Recruiter★★★☆☆ · 64% confidence · Unverified leadConfirm this person before reaching out.

A message in your voice

Written from your profile in your tone, with your work examples doing the talking. Copy it, then paste it into your message to the recruiter or hiring manager. It reads like you because it is you.

Sam LewisCopy

Hi Sam, I produced Topo Chico's launch end to end and shipped it across 40+ SKUs in a quarter. Liquid Death's Senior Producer role looks like the same problem at a louder volume. Worth a short conversation?

Save it for your records

Every pursuit keeps its own paper trail: who you messaged, what you sent, what happened next. When the recruiter finally calls back in three weeks, you will know exactly where you left off.

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Two ways to pursue.

Both plans give you the whole workflow. The difference is how many pursuits you run a month, and whether you can take your history with you.

Smoldering

Keep a steady burn under your search.

$22/ month
  • 20 Apply Wizard pursuits a month
  • Career profile in your voice
  • Scan real job boards and career pages
  • Match ratings on every role
  • Saved jobs and pursuit tracking
  • Contact discovery and custom outreach in your voice

One pursuit counts only when a search lands at least one useful contact. How a pursuit is counted

Start Smoldering
Top plan

Roaring

Go all in when the search gets hot.

$32/ month
  • 45 Apply Wizard pursuits a month
  • Markdown export of your full pursuit history
  • Career profile in your voice
  • Scan real job boards and career pages
  • Match ratings on every role
  • Saved jobs and pursuit tracking
  • Contact discovery and custom outreach in your voice

One pursuit counts only when a search lands at least one useful contact. How a pursuit is counted

Start Roaring

Billed monthly. No free tier, no setup fee, no overage charges, and nothing rolls over. Cancel whenever you want; it takes effect at the end of the period you already paid for. Taxes may apply.

When the market is noisy, the workflow has to be calmer.

Start with the profile. Every better pursuit needs a better source of truth.

Build my profile