Everything you need to know about Hired — the AI-powered job search and interview prep platform for bilingual job seekers.
Hired is an AI-powered job search management platform that helps you track applications, prepare for interviews, research companies, and compare offers — all in one place. Unlike simple job trackers, Hired combines a Kanban-style pipeline with deep AI interview preparation (including mock interview simulations) and bilingual support for English and Japanese job markets.
When you save an opportunity, Hired performs live web research on the company using the Tavily search API, then uses Claude (Anthropic's LLM) to generate an interview-ready report covering the business model, recent news, common interview questions, and likely behavioral prompts. You can then run mock interview sessions where the AI plays the interviewer, evaluates your answers, and gives you a readiness score.
Yes, Hired has a free tier that includes up to 10 opportunities, 3 stories in your Story Bank, CV upload, and basic pipeline tracking — no credit card required. Paid plans (Basic at $9/mo and Premium at $19/mo) unlock unlimited opportunities, AI interview prep, mock interview simulations, and resume tailoring.
Huntr and Teal HQ are primarily job trackers and resume builders. Hired goes beyond tracking by generating AI-powered interview prep reports, running full mock interview simulations with scoring, maintaining a STAR-format Story Bank, and supporting both English and Japanese job searches natively. If you only need a kanban board, Huntr is fine — if you want to actually prepare for interviews, Hired is purpose-built for that.
ApplyArc markets itself on breadth — around 18 different AI tools covering most micro-steps of job search. Hired takes the opposite bet: fewer tools, but tightly integrated around one Story Bank, CV, and opportunity context. In Hired, a single STAR story you write feeds directly into Interview Prep, Mock Interview, and Resume Tailor — one source of truth. Hired is also fully bilingual (EN + JA) with native Japanese-style interview support (志望動機, 自己PR, 逆質問), while ApplyArc is English-only. Pricing is simpler too: Hired Premium is $19/month. If you want depth and bilingual support, choose Hired; if you want a broad toolkit of individual utilities, ApplyArc is a legitimate alternative.
Jobscan is the 20-year specialist in ATS keyword matching, and its vendor-specific insights remain among the deepest in the category. Hired's Resume Tailor now includes a full ATS score (0-100) across five dimensions — keyword_match, hard_skills, title_match, format, and measurable_results — with a prioritized list of issues to fix. For most candidates that's enough, and it comes embedded in a complete job search platform that also handles pipeline tracking, AI interview prep, mock interviews, company research, and offer comparison. Hired Premium is $19/month compared to Jobscan Pro at $49.95/month — less than half the price for significantly more workflow coverage. Jobscan is still the right call if ATS scoring at maximum vendor depth is literally the only feature you need. For everyone else, Hired is the better value.
Absolutely. Hired is industry-agnostic. The pipeline tracking, company research, Story Bank, and mock interview tools work for any white-collar role — product management, sales, consulting, marketing, finance, design, and more. The AI tailors its interview questions and research to the specific role you save.
Yes, Hired has full bilingual support. The entire UI, AI interview prep, mock interviews, and company research work in both English and Japanese. Japanese users can access the platform at hired-app.com/jp, and the AI understands Japanese-style interviews including 自己PR, 志望動機, and 逆質問. This makes Hired unique among job search tools — most competitors only support English.
Hired's mock interview simulator uses Claude to role-play as a real interviewer for the specific company and position you're targeting. You answer questions via text or voice, and the AI responds with follow-ups just like a real interviewer would. After the session, you get a detailed breakdown: what went well, what to improve, and a readiness score from 0-100 so you know where you stand before the real interview.
Story Bank is Hired's library for your STAR-format career experiences (Situation, Task, Action, Result). You write each story once — for example, 'How I led a migration that cut costs 40%' — and Hired's AI automatically matches the right stories to behavioral questions during mock interviews and interview prep reports. This eliminates the scramble of trying to remember examples under pressure.
Hired's company research combines live web search (via Tavily) with Claude's reasoning to produce reports based on real, recent sources — not hallucinated information. Each report cites the URLs it pulled from so you can verify facts. Coverage is strongest for companies with an active web presence; early-stage startups with minimal online footprint will naturally have thinner reports.
Yes. Hired's Salary Diagnosis tool analyzes your role, experience, and location to give you a realistic compensation range, and the Offer Comparison feature lets you score multiple offers with weighted criteria (base, equity, benefits, growth, WLB). Together these give you objective data to negotiate from, rather than relying on gut feel.
When you reach the offer stage, Hired lets you enter compensation details (base, bonus, equity, benefits) for each opportunity and compare them side-by-side with a weighted scoring model. You choose which criteria matter most to you — salary, growth, culture fit, remote flexibility — and Hired produces a recommended ranking. This is especially useful when you're juggling 2-4 offers with tight deadlines.
Hired's Position Search feature uses AI to find real, currently-open job listings from across the web, including roles surfaced from LinkedIn, Indeed, company career pages, and niche boards. You can save any listing directly into your Hired pipeline with one click. There is no official LinkedIn API integration (LinkedIn doesn't offer one for this use case), but the search-based approach reaches the same listings.
Yes. Hired uses Clerk for authentication and Supabase with row-level security (RLS), meaning your opportunities, stories, and interview notes are isolated to your account at the database level. Hired does not sell your data, does not share it with recruiters, and you can export everything to JSON or delete your account at any time.
Sensei AI and similar 'interview copilot' tools generate answers in real-time while you're in a live interview — which many candidates consider ethically gray and which interviewers are increasingly able to detect. Hired takes the opposite approach: it helps you prepare thoroughly before the interview so you can answer authentically from your own experience. You build real skills with Hired, not a dependency on AI during the call.
Position Search uses the Tavily search API combined with Claude to query company career pages, job boards, and the broader web in real time. The AI filters out expired or duplicate listings and structures the results so you can save promising ones directly to your pipeline. Because it searches live, results are as fresh as what's publicly posted.
Yes. Hired offers full JSON export of all your opportunities, stories, interview prep reports, and notes from your account settings. There is no vendor lock-in — if you ever want to leave, you take everything with you.
Hired is a responsive web application, so it works in any mobile browser (Safari, Chrome, etc.) on iOS and Android. You can track opportunities, view interview prep reports, and review Story Bank entries on your phone. Full mock interview sessions are most comfortable on a laptop due to the typing involved, but all other features are mobile-friendly.
Hired uses Anthropic's Claude for all language generation tasks — interview prep reports, mock interview role-play, scoring, and career advice — because Claude is consistently rated highest for reasoning and nuanced feedback. For live web search, Hired uses the Tavily API, which is optimized for LLM retrieval and returns fresh, citation-ready results.
After each mock interview session, Hired scores your performance from 0-100 based on answer completeness, structure (STAR format), relevance to the question, and alignment with the target company's values. The score is accompanied by specific feedback — what you nailed and what to sharpen — so you can re-run sessions until you consistently score above 80 before the real interview.
Yes. Hired is one of the few AI job search platforms built from day one with Japanese interviewing norms in mind. The mock interview simulator handles 自己紹介、自己PR、志望動機、強み・弱み、and 逆質問 naturally, and the AI understands the formality expectations of 敬語 communication. For bilingual job seekers targeting Japanese companies or 外資系 roles in Japan, this is a major advantage over English-only tools.
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