Free career tools for job seekers and students
Applying for a job or a university place is a pile of small tasks. Fit the personal statement under the word limit. Shrink a photo for the upload form. Work out which of two offers pays more. Get a first draft of a cover letter down. GetJobTools has a tool for each of those, so you can get them done and get back to the applications.
The tools fall into three groups:
- Browser tools: resume builder, resignation letter generator, job offer comparison calculator, pay raise calculator, notice period calculator, ai writing checker, character counter, word counter, words to pages calculator, essay length checker, QR code generator and image compressor. They run in your browser, on your device. What you type or upload is not sent to us, and you can use them without an account. The resume builder needs a free account only to download your PDF or Word file, and it saves a resume to your account only if you ask it to.
- AI tools: ATS resume checker, ghost job detector, cover letter generator, website improvement analyzer, interview answer generator, email writer, counter offer email generator, paraphrasing tool and text summarizer. They need a free, verified account. Your text goes to an AI provider, which writes a first draft for you to review and edit.
- Account tools: portfolio builder. It saves your work to your free account, and nothing goes public until you publish it.
Alongside the tools, we publish practical guides and run free boards of job listings and career events. Everything is written for job seekers and students in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, and where the rules differ between those countries, as with legal notice periods, we say which country we mean.
Who we are
GetJobTools is an independent project with no outside investors. Behind it is more than a decade spent leading the design and development of complete software systems, from planning and architecture through launch and the daily running afterward. Nothing is outsourced. The tools, the guides and the replies to your messages all come from the same small team. Guides are published under the "GetJobTools Editorial team" byline and follow the standards below.
How we keep the tools free
- Advertising. Free pages show ads from Google AdSense, which pay for hosting and for the AI runs on free accounts. Ads are always clearly separate from our content, and we never ask anyone to click them.
- Pro. For people who need more, Pro adds more AI runs per day, a stronger AI model, longer inputs, saved history and no ads. Prices and plans are on the pricing page, and the refund policy explains refunds.
- No hidden business. We don't sell or rent personal data. We don't share your email address. We don't train AI models on your text. Should a guide ever carry an affiliate link, or a listing ever be sponsored, you'll see a label on it. The privacy policy has the details.
How we list jobs and events
We do not post jobs or run events ourselves. Our boards collect listings that employers, job boards and organizers publish, and every listing links to its original source.
- Jobs come from the public feeds of job boards: Adzuna, which supplies most of our jobs, plus Arbeitnow and Remotive. Each job page names its source, and Apply takes you to the original listing.
- Events come from university and career service calendars, organizers' own feeds, events organizers list on Eventbrite, and events submitted through our page for organizers. We are not affiliated with Adzuna, Arbeitnow, Remotive or Eventbrite.
- Checks. New listings arrive daily. Right now nothing goes live on its own. Each new job and event sits in a review queue until we approve it. Every event a visitor submits is reviewed before it appears.
- Our own words. The event summaries and the job insights (the "At a glance" box, the reality check, the skills and pay comparisons) are ours. The job ad is the employer's text, and it's labeled as theirs.
- A closed listing keeps its page, so a saved link still opens. The page says the job has closed or the event has ended, and no ads show on it.
- Report a problem. If a listing asks for a fee, looks fake or has wrong details, use the "Tell us" link on the listing or the contact form. We review every report. Never pay to apply for a job.
Editorial standards
- Useful first. Each guide answers a real question job seekers ask and is read in full and approved before it is published.
- Checked facts. Legal notice periods, tax thresholds and pay figures are taken from the official body or survey behind them, dated, since they change.
- General information rather than advice. We explain how things usually work, and we say when to check your contract or ask a qualified professional. Nobody here promises you a job, an offer or an income.
- Responsible AI. Our AI tools draft from the facts you give them. AI gets details wrong, so each tool reminds you to review the draft, and the AI disclaimer spells out what to look for.
- Corrections. Spotted a mistake? Tell us. We fix it and note what changed.
Your privacy
Browser tools keep your text on your device, and you can confirm this in your browser's network tab while you use one. With the AI tools, your input and the result are kept in two cases only: your plan includes History and you've switched it on, or you file the draft to an application. Your account can be deleted any time from your profile page. The privacy policy explains everything we collect.
Contact us
A bug? A mistake in a guide? A tool you wish we had, or an idea for working together? Use the contact form or email support@getjobtools.com. Replies usually take under two business days. Several of our calculators exist because a visitor asked.