Job Counselor

Job Counselor acts as a blunt advisor for your job search. Instead of providing listings, it helps you audit the companies you are already talking to by comparing their behavior against your personal dealbreakers. It analyzes job adverts for scope creep, monitors interview processes for unlawful questions or excessive rounds, and reviews final offers for hidden small print like non-competes or training clawbacks. The tool also features 'The Mirror' to help users avoid sunk cost fallacies and rationalization during negotiations. HOW IT WORKS • Set your rules: your salary floor, your dealbreakers, your limit on interview rounds, what went wrong at the last job you left, and the habits you fall into when you want something. • Audit the company: before you apply, while they are interviewing you, and again before you sign. • Read the verdict: a red flag score out of 100, every warning spelled out, and the reason it fired. THREE AUDITS, THREE MOMENTS • The Job Ad, before you apply. Salary transparency, scope creep, the language they chose, and who the employer actually is. • The Process, while it happens. Rounds, unpaid tasks, what they said about the hours, and the questions they should never have asked you. • The Offer, before you sign. The number against the advert, the small print, the exploding deadline, and how they reacted the moment you negotiated. WHAT IT CATCHES • Hard stops the moment a company crosses a line you drew yourself • Bogus self-employment, unpaid trials, non-competes and training clawbacks • Interview questions that are unlawful in most of Europe • Ghost jobs, reposted for months, that nobody is ever hired into • Scope creep: the role that grows between the advert and the offer • The Mirror, which catches YOU too: sunk cost, rationalising, never negotiating ALREADY IN THE JOB? Mark a company as your current job, and the hiring audits step aside for one that asks whether it is still worth staying: the money against the market, the manager, the hours, whether you can take your leave, and the things you tell yourself to stay. Including the hardest one in the app: knowing everything you know now, would you take this job again? THE SCAM RADAR Bank details before a contract. Paying for your own equipment or training. A cheque to deposit and forward. A process that only ever happens on WhatsApp. Sixteen answers force the maximum score on their own. Those are not badly run companies. They are crimes. THE DOSSIER Every name, email, and phone number. The salary they quoted out loud, which is rarely the one they printed. Every meeting, and what each person promised you. It keeps the original advert too: text and screenshot, because adverts get quietly edited. YOUR HUNT, COUNTED The unpaid hours you have given employers. How many processes went silent. How often your own rules got broken. A rule broken by five companies in a row is a market condition, not a personal failing. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign-in, no cloud • Your profile never leaves your phone • No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no third parties Everything runs on your device, in airplane mode if you like. Optional anonymous figures let you see how common something is, and count only your answers about employer behaviour: never your profile, never the company, and never anything about your health. SIMPLE, HONEST PRICING Audit your first company free. Unlock the rest with a single payment. No subscription, ever. A job hunt is episodic, and a monthly bill for it would be an insult. A NOTE Job Counselor is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. A score reflects your own answers measured against your own rules; it is not a finding of fact about any company. If something you record looks unlawful, speak to a union or an employment lawyer where you live. Stop applying in the dark. Audit them before you sign.