AI-Powered Job Search Automation

How I Built a Free Job Search Agent Using Make.com + SerpAPI

This reduced my search time from 10 hours to 30 minutes per week (a 95% reduction) and ensures I apply within 24 hours of jobs being posted instead of 5-7 days later. The best part - the system costs under £2/month.

📊 Results

Metric	Before	After	Improvement
Time spent searching	10 hrs/week	30 min/week	95% reduction
Jobs discovered	~20/week	~140/week	7x increase
Application speed	5-7 days after posting	Within 24 hours	6x faster
Monthly cost	£0 (time = £400 value)	£1.67	240x ROI

🎯 What I Built

An automated system that:

Searches 4 job categories daily (Chief of Staff, Operations, GTM, Strategy)
Sends formatted emails with clickable "Apply Now" buttons linking directly to applications
Costs under £2/month
Runs completely on autopilot

🏗️ System Architecture (Make.com)

Schedule (every 2 days at 9am)
    ↓
Router (splits into 4 parallel paths)
    ↓
├─ HTTP (SerpAPI) → Iterator → Text Aggregator → Gmail [Chief of Staff jobs]
├─ HTTP (SerpAPI) → Iterator → Text Aggregator → Gmail [Operations jobs]
├─ HTTP (SerpAPI) → Iterator → Text Aggregator → Gmail [GTM jobs]
└─ HTTP (SerpAPI) → Iterator → Text Aggregator → Gmail [Strategy jobs]

Each path independently searches Google Jobs and emails me 10 relevant listings within each category.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Make.com (Free Tier)