Targeted applications: prioritize roles with the highest odds

Spray‑and‑pray wastes your best hours

You don’t need more applications—you need better ones. Prioritize roles where your experience and the team’s needs overlap cleanly. A targeted application reads like an inside referral: it speaks the team’s language and answers their problem on page one.

Signals worth weighing

Look for concrete overlap you can prove in two sentences. Then layer in company momentum and hiring velocity to avoid dead ends.

• Role match: responsibilities mirror projects you’ve shipped.
• Company momentum: product launches, hiring in adjacent teams, or recent funding.
• Hiring velocity: interviews happening now, not six months from now.
• Location/remote fit: a practical match to your constraints.

Write one great application

Once you’ve picked the top roles, write a single, tightly tailored application each day. Mirror the job post language and lead with a proof point that answers their first problem. Then move on—tomorrow has its own target.

Where Compin helps

Compin surfaces role fit signals so you can sort your pipeline by “most likely to convert.” It pulls details from job posts into your cover letters automatically, so recruiters see a clear match in seconds.