Why I built Sift

The first version of Sift came out of a very ordinary frustration: my own job search was a mess. I had LinkedIn open in one tab, Indeed in another, a Greenhouse posting I meant to come back to, a Y Combinator company page, a few bookmarked career pages, and a Google Sheet that was supposed to keep the whole thing organized. It did not.

The sheet was always stale. I would forget whether I had applied, whether I had tailored the resume, whether the role was actually a good fit, or whether I had just saved it because it sounded vaguely interesting at 1 a.m. I sent the same resume to almost every role because tailoring each one felt too slow. I heard back from maybe five percent of applications, which was just enough to keep going and not enough to feel like the system worked.

At first, I thought the answer was reach. More job boards, more alerts, more applications, more volume. That is the promise most job search tools make: get in front of more companies faster. But the more I applied, the less signal I had. Good roles got mixed in with bad fits. Strong matches disappeared under a pile of maybe. I was not getting leverage; I was getting noise.

The realization was simple: the problem was not reach, it was precision. You do not need to apply to more jobs. You need to apply to the right ones, with the right resume, at the right time. A job search should help you decide where your attention is worth spending, then help you show up well when you choose to apply.

That meant the tool I wanted was not another job board. It was a system. Something that could pull roles from everywhere, score them against who I actually was, help me tailor the application, and keep the pipeline current without turning into another spreadsheet chore.

So I built Sift. It connects 14 sources, scores every job against your profile, tailors your resume per role, and tracks everything in one place. One system instead of six tools. One ranked list instead of six browser tabs. Craft over volume.

Sift is still early, but the philosophy is clear: a better job search is not about sending more applications. It is about sending fewer, better ones.

If that sounds like the job search you want, give Sift a try — it's free.