At Second Ladder, we spend a lot of time tracking how AI is reshaping work: what it's replacing, what it's creating, where the leverage is.

Today we want to talk about a place that shift is showing up that doesn't get talked about enough.

Hiring.

Companies have quietly rebuilt how they hire around AI. 87% of companies now use AI for hiring, and at most large employers, only the top 10 to 15% of resumes ever reach a human.

The way companies hire has changed. The way we job hunt hasn't.

So we built something to fix that.

A little transparency before we get started. Today's edition is a product announcement. It's something we've been quietly working on for some time now and feel it's much needed in today's job market.

Let's get into it.

Finding a job has gotten harder. Part of that is the market. Layoffs keep coming, companies are hiring more cautiously, and good roles can attract hundreds of applicants almost immediately.

Companies have gotten much better technology for hiring.

Recruiting teams now have AI tools that help them source candidates, sort through applications, compare backgrounds against what they're looking for, and narrow a huge pool of applicants much faster than they could before.

Most job seekers are still doing roughly the same thing they've always done:

Eventually the job search starts feeling like a numbers game where the only answer is to keep clicking "Apply" on LinkedIn.

Everyone's walking through the same door. You've probably watched hundreds of applicants pile up within minutes of a job going live.

Sending the same resume to 100 openings doesn't give you 100 chances.

If your experience isn't being translated into the language of that particular role, you can get passed over before you've had a chance to explain why you're actually a fit.

A lot of people are starting to see this, so they're asking ChatGPT to update their resume.

But the biggest issue with this path is AI fabricating your resume. It tends to slip in skills or experience you never actually had.

The resume reads well on paper. But it also makes you look dumb the second an interviewer asks you to walk through something you've never done before.

We ran into this exact problem helping our own clients' job search, and it turns out it's a massive pain point for others out there too.

It's a job-search copilot built to help you improve your odds at every step of the process.

It starts by helping you find the right opportunities.

We match you with jobs straight from the company career sites where you have a 3.5x higher chance at landing an interview than applying through job boards.

Then, when you find one you want to apply to, Tailr creates a tailored resume without fabricating anything. Every resume update is tied back to your career profile.

Tailr can help you reframe what you've actually done. Sharper language, better emphasis, the right keywords for that role. It won't add a skill or a claim that isn't true, and that's the whole point.

Tailr also finds you insider connections at the companies you want to join, and keeps all your job search organized in one place.

Tailr can also connect directly to your AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity through the MCP connector.

You can ask things like:

And because it's connected to Tailr, your AI can work with your actual job-search information instead of making you copy and paste everything into a new conversation every time.

If you're job hunting, we'd love for you to be one of the first people to put it through its paces.

Since you're part of the Second Ladder community, we would like to give complimentary credits for signing up.

Simply use the code LAUNCH30 during onboarding and we'll automatically add your launch credits to your account.

Try out Tailr and let me know your thoughts.

I read every reply.

-San