You commented REMOTE. Here's the whole plan: five sites, ten applications a day, and the Claude setup that does the tailoring so the volume doesn't break you.
The short version: five remote-only sites that are free to apply on. A 45-minute morning block. One Claude setup that already knows your CV. Ninety days, four phases, and a log that shows you what's working by week six.
Why most remote job searches die
Same two big apps as everyone else. One CV that never changes. Forty applications on a Sunday, then nothing for a month.
Wrong pool, wrong document, wrong rhythm. This fixes all three, and hands the part that makes people quit, tailoring every single application, to Claude.
Don't read it and feel productive. Do Phase 1 today, in one sitting, before you apply to anything. Then open this page every morning and run the phase you're in.
The five sites
All five only list remote jobs, and all five are free to apply on.
Himalayas: filter by timezone and location, with salary shown on most listings. There's an optional Plus plan for extra AI tools. Skip it; Claude does that job.
RemoteOK: filter by benefits like async, a four-day week or equity. The paid tiers are extras you don't need.
Remote4me: pulls roles from 20+ boards and strips out "occasionally remote" jobs, then sends you straight to the employer.
Working Nomads: remote-only, free, no paywall.
EU Remote Jobs: remote-only with an EU timezone filter. Start here if you're in the UK or Europe.
Bonus for startup roles: Wellfound's remote filter shows salary and equity ranges on listings.
Why not We Work Remotely or Remotive? Both are good, but both put part of the site behind a paid plan (WWR Pro is $14.95 a month for unlimited applications). You don't need either to run this.
Split your 10 a day across the five, two each. No single site's algorithm gets your whole week.
The maths
Days 8 to 30: 23 days × 10 = 230. Days 31 to 60: 30 × 10 = 300. Days 61 to 90: 30 × 6 = 180.
That's 710 applications, every one logged. The log is what tells you what to change.
Phase 1 · Days 1 to 7 · Build it once
You're not applying this week. You're building the thing that makes the next 83 days bearable.
Step 1. Set Claude up. On Claude Pro or above, create a Project called "Job Search" and paste the rules below into its instructions. Claude's pricing page lists Projects as a paid feature. On the free plan, keep the rules and your CV in a note and paste both at the top of a new chat each morning. Same result, one extra paste.
You are my job search partner. Everything you write for me follows these rules.
1. Never invent a skill, tool, employer, job title, date or number. If a role asks for
something my CV doesn't show, tell me it's a gap and ask whether I have it.
2. Use the job description's own words wherever they're true of me.
3. Plain English. Never write "passionate", "excited about the opportunity",
"results-driven" or "synergy".
4. Every CV bullet starts with an outcome. Use my numbers. If there isn't one, ask me for it.
5. My non-negotiables are in "standards". Flag any role that breaks one before you tailor anything.Step 2. Load it. Add your current CV, three job descriptions you'd genuinely accept, and a short note called "standards": your salary floor, the timezones you can work, and any industries you won't.
Step 3. Get rejected on purpose. Ladders' 2018 eye-tracking study put a recruiter's first look at a CV at 7.4 seconds. Let Claude be that recruiter first.
Review my CV as the hiring manager for [job title]. Give me the 10 reasons you'd reject it
in the first few seconds, worst first. Then rewrite those sections. Don't add anything that isn't true.Step 4. Build the master CV.
Using everything you flagged, write one master CV. Outcome first on every bullet.
If you need a number I haven't given you, stop and ask.You'll never send this one unedited, but everything else gets built from it.
Step 5. Make the log. One spreadsheet, these columns: date · company · role · site · link · tailored (y/n) · message to a human (y/n) · reply (y/n) · days to reply · stage.
You'll know it worked when you paste any job description and get a tailored CV back without explaining who you are.
Phase 2 · Days 8 to 30 · Volume
Ten a day, two per site. Morning block, 45 minutes, timer on. When the timer goes, you stop.
Paste the job description's text, not the link. A lot of job boards block Claude from reading their pages.
Job description: [paste]. Using my master CV, give me (1) a tailored CV that uses their language
where it's true of me and cuts every line that doesn't earn its place, and (2) a four-line
application note saying why me, in plain English. List any gaps separately.Log every one, including the ones you rushed. The trap is polishing: a tailored application that took 4 minutes beats a perfect one that took 40 and never got nine siblings.
You'll know it worked when your log has 200+ rows and the morning block feels boring instead of heavy.
Phase 3 · Days 31 to 60 · Signal
Keep 10 a day. Now add the part almost nobody does: find the human.
Company and role: [paste]. Write one message to the hiring manager, under 80 words, that mentions
one specific, real thing about this team and ends with one question. No flattery. If you can't
find something real and specific, tell me instead of making something up.Read it out loud. If it doesn't sound like you, tell Claude what's off and have it fix it.
The Sunday review:
Here's my log for the last [N] days: [paste]. By site, role type and seniority, show me
applications, replies and reply rate. Tell me what's getting replies, what's getting nothing,
and how to split next week's 10 a day.Rule of thumb: if a site has 40+ applications and zero replies, cut it to one a day and give its slots to the site with the best reply rate. Change the split every Sunday. A log that never changes what you do is just a diary.
You'll know it worked when replies are coming in and you can name the site that produced them without guessing.
Phase 4 · Days 61 to 90 · Convert
Drop to 6 a day. The time you free up goes into the conversations you're now having.
Before every first round:
Mock interview for this role: [paste job description]. Ask one question at a time, in the order
a real first round would. After each answer, score it the way the hiring manager would and tell me what to cut.After every interview:
My notes from the interview: [paste]. What did I fumble, what did I over-explain,
and exactly what should I say next time?Before the money conversation:
Play the recruiter. I want [number]. Push back like a real one: the silence,
"that's above our band", all of it. Don't go easy on me.Say that last one out loud until the number stops feeling rude.
The honest part
710 applications doesn't guarantee a job. Nothing does.
What it does guarantee: you stop wondering whether volume was the problem, and you end up with a log that shows you what the real problem is.
One rule: Claude writes, you click submit. Don't hand the applying to a browser agent. Application forms are full of your personal data, and Anthropic's own guidance for Claude in Chrome says to avoid sensitive personal data.
Start Phase 1 tonight. And reply with the role you're going for; I'll tell you which of the five sites I'd start on.