How WaypointCareer Works

WaypointCareer is a career intelligence platform — not just a job board. Set your trajectory, score your readiness, run a daily practice, build your network, and (when you’re ready to move) tune a precision job radar — all in one place. Here’s how the pieces fit together.

1

Create Your Account

Sign up with email and a secure password — that’s it. No credit card, no upfront subscription. Every job, contact, evaluation, and AI session you create is private to your account and never shared with other users.

Your data stays yours — every record is scoped to your account alone.
Bring your own AI keys (Claude / Gemini / ChatGPT) so you control quotas and costs.
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2

Set Your Career Direction

Tell WaypointCareer where you’re going. These few settings drive everything downstream — from your readiness rubric to your daily cadence to which postings reach you.

Target Career Level

Manager, Director / Head, VP, SVP, or C-Level — the level you’re aiming for next. Drives the Self Evaluation question set, the level-specific roadmap content, and AI prep tone.

Current Job Status

Unemployed, actively looking, passively open, or market-awareness only. Tailors the Daily Plan cadence — six hours of focused work for unemployed, a 20-minute maintenance loop for passively open.

Salary Expectations

Set a USD floor. Postings below it are auto-suppressed with the reason recorded so you can re-filter later if you change your mind.

AI Model

Pick Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT for interview prep, role tips, search-firm suggestions, and content summaries. Configure once, switch any time.

3

Score Your Readiness with Self Evaluation

Before chasing the next role, know where you stand. WaypointCareer ships a 150-question rubric — six domains (Technical, AI / ML, Operational, Organizational, Executive, Strategic) by five career levels — and walks you through one question at a time. Each prompt comes with a behavioural anchor describing what a 5/5 looks like, so the evaluation stays honest.

One Question at a Time

Stepper UI with Previous / Skip / Next. Skip leaves the question for later; per-domain progress chips let you jump directly to the section you want to tackle.

Per-Domain Scoring

The system aggregates your scores by domain on completion, with bar-chart visuals. Re-run on a cadence to watch your trajectory shift.

Sustainable Cadence

Cadence scales with your tier — Free yearly, Managerial every 60 days, Leadership every 30 days, Executive every 14 days. Cooldowns are surfaced clearly so you always know when the next eval unlocks.

Curated Question Catalog

Admins keep the question set fresh as the bar shifts in each domain. Your historical responses stay anchored to stable IDs — admin renames never break your past evaluations.

4

Run a Daily Practice + Set Goals

Career growth is a cadence, not a campaign. Your Daily Plan translates your current status into a concrete daily target — minutes by activity type — and tracks what you actually do. Goals layer on top with measurable targets across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly cadences. Streaks, today vs target, weekly per-type summary, and goal hit-rate over time all make momentum visible.

Status-Tailored Plan

Unemployed gets a 6-hour plan across search, networking, search firms, skill-building, and interview prep. Passively open gets a 20-minute maintenance loop. Everyone gets one that fits.

Activity Logging

Log minutes against five activity types — search, skills, interview prep, networking, search firms. Today vs target, current streak, and a weekly per-type breakdown visualize progress.

Goals (Daily → Yearly)

22 exec-focused templates plus custom metrics. Pick what to measure (search time, applications, books finished, board meetings, thought-leadership artifacts, …) and a cadence. Most metrics auto-track from your existing activity.

Content Summarization

Paste a transcript or article up to 100,000 characters; your configured AI digests it into a one-paragraph summary you can revisit alongside the original log entry.

5

Build Your Network & Watchlist

The right job rarely arrives via a public board. Track the people, firms, companies, and reading you’re cultivating in one place — and let activity logging keep the signals fresh.

Networking Contacts

Name, title, company, email, LinkedIn URL, and a last-contacted date that updates automatically when you log a Networking activity linked to that contact.

Executive Search Firms

Track firms and contact people with focus area, region, and last-contacted date. AI generates a curated shortlist of firms for your target title and region with one click.

Favorite Companies

Follow target companies through the global directory. New postings from them surface higher in your pipeline so the brands you care about don’t get lost in the wave.

Reading List

Curated articles, videos, and links you want to come back to. Pair with content summarization in the Daily Plan to keep the wisdom captured, not just bookmarked.

6

AI Career Tools

Every AI tool runs on your choice of Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT — BYO API key, with automatic fallback when a provider has an outage. When a provider does error (invalid key, quota exhausted, rate limit), the app shows an exact, actionable message with the billing / status URL to fix it.

Role Tips

One click generates an AI breakdown of any role: responsibilities, what hiring managers look for, concerns to address, and questions to ask. Cached globally by normalized title — the second person to ask reads the cached answer for free.

Interview Prep

A flat per-user question bank at My Question Bank for default answers, plus per-round prep inside each Job's Interview Prep tab — pick questions from the bank, edit per-round answers tailored to that round's audience, and export the answered set to PDF. AI drafts your bank-default answer grounded in your resume and the job description.

Resume Upload & Parsing

Drop a PDF or DOCX once. Parsed text feeds every AI session automatically — no copy-paste between tools.

Search-Firm Suggestions

Tell the AI your target title and region; it returns 8–15 relevant executive-search firms with likely contact titles and focus areas, ready to bulk-import into your firms roster.

7

Tune the Job Radar

When you’re ready to look, dial in the radar. Add the keywords, locations, and exclude words that shape what reaches you. The platform handles the rest — 27+ sources fed continuously into a shared catalog, then matched against your filters twice a day.

Keywords

Title fragments — “VP Engineering”, “Staff SRE”, “Director of Platform”. The matcher uses these to decide which catalog rows surface for you.

Locations

Cities, states, regions, or “Remote”. Postings that don't match are tagged LOCATION_MISMATCH and suppressed (one-click flip to Remote if a row is actually remote-eligible).

Exclude Words

Don’t want fintech? Don’t want junior? Add the words; matching titles are tagged TITLE_EXCLUDED and suppressed — never silently dropped.

No Schedule to Set

The matcher fires twice daily — 5 AM and 2 PM PST — for everyone. New postings land on Pending Review on the next wave.

How the catalog is built

Stage 1 — Platform ingest

Each source fires on its own cadence into a shared catalog: public APIs hourly during the daytime window, rate-limited paid providers twice daily, Apify on the cadence the admin sets.

Catalog dedup

The same role posted on multiple boards becomes a single catalog row. A re-listing within 90 days bumps the freshness timestamp instead of duplicating.

Stage 2 — Per-user matcher

Twice daily the platform walks the catalog for every active subscriber and applies their keywords, locations, exclude words, and salary floor.

Transparent filters

Suppressed jobs land with the reason recorded — LOCATION_MISMATCH, SALARY_BELOW_MIN, TITLE_EXCLUDED, TITLE_NOT_RELEVANT. Use Re-filter last 30 days to bring them back if you adjust the rules.

Plan gating

Free and Managerial see the public catalog. Leadership and Executive unlock Apify-sourced jobs (LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Built In, ZipRecruiter, Dice, Google Jobs) plus higher caps on keywords, locations, AI usage, and retention.

Logs at every step

Each ingest run writes a row to Fetch Logs grouped by scheduler wave. Per-source health and freshness live on Job Catalog.

8

Review & Take Action

Every match lands as Pending Review. Move it through your pipeline — drag-and-drop on the Kanban view, scroll-per-column so a busy “Applied” lane doesn’t stretch the page:

Pending Review
Interested
Applied
Interviewing
Offer Received
Re-filter on demand — change your salary floor or exclude words, hit Re-filter last 30 days, and the system re-classifies recent postings against your new rules.
Notes — attach up to 5,000 characters of research or reminders to any role.
Deadlines — set application deadlines with color-coded urgency alerts.
Search & filter — narrow by source, remote type, posting date, or free-text.
Export — download your pipeline as CSV for offline analysis (every paid tier).
Four plans — Free is a limited demo (3 keywords, 1 location, 1 active goal, 30-day retention). The three paid tiers stack from Managerial ($19/mo) through Leadership ($39/mo) through Executive ($69/mo) — caps and capabilities scale with the tier. See /pricing for the full comparison.

Where the jobs come from

Coverage is platform-managed — there's nothing you need to connect or configure. The catalog is fed continuously by 27+ sources across four categories. Listed here so you know what's in the mix.

Public remote-focused boards

Remotive
Public

Curated remote-only software development roles.

Jobicy
Public

Remote-friendly engineering positions filtered to the U.S. market.

Arbeitnow
Public

European and global remote-friendly listings across all engineering disciplines.

RemoteOK
Public

Open JSON feed of remote tech, design, and marketing roles with salary data.

Direct-from-employer ATS feeds

Greenhouse
ATS

Stripe, Airbnb, Coinbase, and other top tech companies — direct from their public boards.

Lever
ATS

Netflix, Spotify, Atlassian, and dozens more — open positions with team and location filters.

Ashby
ATS

Ramp, Linear, Notion, PostHog, Replicate and other fast-growing companies.

Workable
ATS

Global SMB coverage with strong EU presence — Revolut, Ecosia, Blueground.

SmartRecruiters
ATS · EU

Enterprise EU boards — Bosch, IKEA, Atos, Publicis, Société Générale.

Recruitee
ATS · EU

Dutch and European scale-ups — Channable, Picnic, Catawiki, Polarsteps.

Personio
ATS · EU

DACH-focused boards — GetYourGuide, Freeletics, Raisin, Scalable Capital.

BambooHR
ATS

SMB and mid-market employers across industries via BambooHR-hosted career sites.

Workday
ATS

Fortune 500 / enterprise — strong coverage at large public companies.

iCIMS
ATS

Large enterprise footprint via public RSS feeds at supported tenants.

Oracle Cloud HCM
ATS

Oracle Recruiting Cloud (HCM) — covers Oracle-hosted enterprise career sites.

Breezy HR
ATS

SMB / mid-market boards — Docebo, Knock, Dollar Flight Club, and the long tail of ~17K Breezy tenants.

ApplyToJob (JazzHR)
ATS

JazzHR-hosted careers boards on {slug}.applytojob.com — SMB through enterprise tenants like Hyundai Autoever America.

Phenom
ATS

Fortune 500 careers SaaS — Intuit, Boeing, Bank of America, Pfizer, and other enterprises with custom careers domains powered by Phenom.

Aggregators & specialty boards

Adzuna
Aggregator

Millions of listings across 16 countries.

JSearch
Aggregator

Real-time aggregator drawing on LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, and dozens more.

USAJobs
Federal

Every U.S. federal government position.

Reed.co.uk
UK

The UK's largest job board — keyword, location, and salary filters with full pagination.

Jooble
Aggregator

Global aggregator spanning 70+ countries and all industries.

Careerjet
Aggregator

Worldwide aggregator covering 90+ countries.

Findwork.dev
Tech

Curated tech and startup roles with tags, remote flags, and full job descriptions.

The Muse
Curated

Roles at top companies with detailed culture profiles, office photos, and employee reviews.

ZipRecruiter
US

Large-scale US aggregator via the ZipRecruiter Partner API.

Premium scrapers via Apify (Leadership and Executive tiers)

LinkedIn
Leadership+

The world's largest professional network — postings normally locked behind login, surfaced via Apify.

Indeed
Leadership+

Massive aggregator — strong long-tail SMB and contract coverage.

Glassdoor
Leadership+

Employer-aware listings with company ratings and salary data context.

Built In
Leadership+

Tech-focused city-specific boards — Built In NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, Austin, Boston.

Dice
Leadership+

US tech jobs — long-running specialty board for engineers, IT, and infra.

Google Jobs
Leadership+

Catch-all coverage via Google's structured-data jobs index.

ZipRecruiter (via Apify)
Leadership+

Backup path to ZipRecruiter listings when the partner-API path is rate-limited.

More sources are on the way — we are always expanding the network.

Coming Soon

Career intelligence tools for every stage — whether you are making a move, growing in place, or planning your next level.

Career Intelligence Tools

Salary Trend Tracker

See how compensation for your target titles changes over time across regions.

Skills Demand Heatmap

Which skills are trending up or down in your field — based on live job data.

Market Position Report

AI-generated quarterly analysis of where you stand vs the market for your target level — a complement to your in-app Self Evaluation.

AI Career Journal

Builds on the reflection field already shipped with Self Evaluation — AI-prompted weekly reflections on wins, growth, and goals using your Daily Plan activity data. Turn your streaks into a career narrative.

Personal Brand Audit

Analyze your profile against what top companies look for at your level.

Watchlist Alerts

Push / email notifications when one of your Favorite Companies posts a role that matches your radar — today the surfacing is on-page only.

AI-Powered Growth

Resume Scoring

AI scores your resume with an actionable improvement roadmap — not just a number.

Mock Interview Simulator

Timed AI interview rounds with scoring, feedback, and improvement tracking.

Skills Gap Analysis

Compare your resume against any job description — see exactly what to strengthen.

Career Roadmap Builder

Map your path from current role to target role with skills, timeline, and milestones.

Total Comp Calculator

Compare offers across base, equity, bonus, and benefits — apples to apples.

Application Templates

AI-generated cover letters and outreach messages tailored to each role.

Networking Outreach Templates

Personalized intro and follow-up messages generated against each contact in your roster — past context, current role, and your ask.

Smart Contact Reminders

Follow-up nudges tied to last-contacted dates on your contacts and search firms — ping before the trail goes cold.

For Every Career Level

Beginners & Career Changers

  • Guided keyword suggestions based on your background
  • Resume-to-role matching with confidence scores
  • “First 90 Days” onboarding prep module

Mid-Level Professionals

  • Career path visualization and progression mapping
  • Networking prompts and outreach templates
  • Promotion readiness assessment

Senior & Staff Engineers

  • System design interview prep with AI feedback
  • Team-building and org-design scenario practice

Directors & Executives

  • Board-readiness coaching layered on top of Self Evaluation
  • Executive presence and communication drills
  • Compensation negotiation playbooks
  • Strategic vision frameworks and stakeholder mapping

Executive Transition Modules

First 90 Days — Directors

  • Stakeholder mapping and relationship building
  • Team assessment and quick wins identification
  • Communication cadence and org politics navigation

First 6 Months — VPs / SVPs

  • Strategic plan development and cross-functional alignment
  • Team restructuring playbook and hiring strategy
  • Board and executive presentation prep

First Year — C-Suite

  • Vision-to-execution roadmap and transformation planning
  • Investor and board relationship building
  • Culture shaping strategy and succession planning

Platform & Collaboration

  • Email and Slack notifications on new matches
  • Saved search presets to switch between strategies
  • Collaborative career board — share progress with a mentor or coach
  • Mobile app (iOS + Android)
  • Browser extension — save jobs from any site into your pipeline
  • API access for power users

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