Job search, minus the forty tabs and the spreadsheet.

Five things, one window

1. It finds the openings. Straight from more than 370 employers' own career pages: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, plus Amazon and Netflix. No job board in the middle, so nothing reposted and nothing that closed three weeks ago. Sorted into internships, new grad, part-time and everything else.
2. It ranks them against your resume. Which postings talk about the things your resume already talks about, and which words a posting keeps using that your resume never mentions.
3. It tells you who sponsors. Company H-1B history from the public USCIS data, and a separate read of each posting for the phrases that rule you out regardless of history.
4. It fills in the application. Your browser opens on the real form and the fields fill in. Anything it cannot work out, it asks you in plain words, once, and remembers the answer. Then it stops and leaves the form open for you.
5. It keeps track. Anything you have applied to moves to its own tab with the date, and stops being offered to you again.

Not a fit score. Something you can act on.

Plenty of tools will give you a number out of a hundred and leave you none the wiser. This one tells you which words the posting keeps using that your resume does not contain, which is roughly what a keyword-matching ATS is looking for before a person ever reads it.

Said plainly, because it matters: this is vocabulary overlap, not a judgement about whether you can do the job. A low number on a role you could clearly do usually means your resume is worded differently, and that is the useful thing to find out.

Sponsorship, and the question every form asks

Two different questions, and the app answers both. Which employers sponsor comes from the public USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, per company. Whether this particular posting is open to you comes from the posting itself, because a cleared role at a company with five hundred approvals is still closed to an F-1 student. Every verdict shows the phrases that produced it, because a tag saying NO SPONSORSHIP without saying why is not something you can act on.

Then there is the question on the form. Almost every application asks whether you are authorized to work in the United States and whether you will need sponsorship. If you are a citizen that is yes and no, and it is still easy to tick the wrong box at two in the morning on your fortieth application. On F-1, OPT, STEM OPT or H-1B the right answer is different and not always obvious. CareerKernel works it out and shows you why, then deliberately does not type it. You answer that one yourself, because a mistake there surfaces later, at I-9, rather than on the form.

H-1B approvals are a lagging signal and the app says so where it shows them. A company that sponsored two years ago may not this year.

It already knows the answers to these

Every application asks the same things in a slightly different order. These are filled in before you even look at the page:

That last row is voluntary on the form and stays voluntary here: it is filled in only if you have said what you want it to say. And "why do you want to work here" is left blank on purpose, because a generic answer there reads worse than no answer at all.

What it does not do

Everything it knows about you sits in one folder on your own computer, %APPDATA%\CareerKernel. You can open it, read it, or delete it. The full detail is here.

Where it is today

This is a private beta, and it is worth being plain about the edges. Windows 10 and 11 only. US roles only for now. Some employers are harder than others: Workday wants you to sign in once per employer before the form can be filled, and a few of its dropdowns still need doing by hand. Free while the beta runs.