What this site is
GetJobTools is a collection of 15 small, single-purpose tools for the weeks when you are applying for everything at once: counting the words in a personal statement, compressing a headshot that a portal rejects for being 200 KB too large, working out whether a job offer in another city is actually a raise, turning a rambling set of notes into a cover letter you can then edit into your own voice.
They split into two kinds, and the difference matters for your privacy:
- Browser tools — the word counter, QR code generator, image compressor, words-to-pages converter, essay length checker, and the pay raise, job offer comparison and notice period calculators. These run entirely in JavaScript on your device. Nothing you type or upload is transmitted anywhere, there is no account, and there is no limit.
- AI tools — the email writer, cover letter generator, paraphrasing tool, text summarizer, interview answer generator and counter-offer email generator. These need a verified account because they cost real money to run, and they send your text to a third-party language model (Groq by default) to produce a draft.
Who runs it
This site is built and run by one independent developer, the operator of getjobtools.com, who runs GetJobTools as an independent project. There is no company behind it, no investors, no content team, and no support desk — one person with more than a decade of professional PHP and Laravel experience writes the code, writes the articles, answers the contact form, and pays the hosting bill.
That is worth saying plainly because it sets your expectations correctly. Replies to the contact form come from a human, usually within a few days rather than a few minutes. Outages get fixed when they are noticed. And when this page says we do not sell your data, there is no growth team who might quietly decide otherwise next quarter.
Why it exists
Every one of these tools already exists somewhere online, and most of those versions are unpleasant to use. You search for "word counter", land on a page carrying six ad units and an interstitial, paste in a personal statement you would rather not upload to a stranger's server, and get a number. Or you search for a cover letter generator and hit a "free" tool that writes three paragraphs and then asks for a card to reveal the rest.
The idea here is narrower and more boring: make the ten or fifteen things an applicant actually needs, make them fast and free, run the ones that can run locally locally, and charge only the small group of people who want more AI capacity than advertising can pay for.
The site is written for job seekers and students in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Examples, salary figures, date formats, notice-period rules and hiring conventions follow those four markets, and where the rules differ — statutory notice periods, for instance — we say which country we are describing rather than quietly assuming the US.
How the site makes money
Transparently, and in three ways:
- Advertising. Free pages carry Google AdSense ads. That is what pays for the AI runs that free accounts use, and for hosting. Pro subscribers see no ads. We do not accept ads that impersonate the site's own interface, and we never ask anyone to click one.
- A Pro subscription, at the price shown on the pricing page: more AI runs per day, a stronger model, longer inputs, saved history, exports and no ads. It is not on sale yet — there is a waitlist, and no payment method is connected to this site today.
- A job board, later. Once the site has enough traffic to be worth an employer's money, the plan is to aggregate relevant graduate and early-career listings and sell featured placements. If and when that launches, sponsored listings will be labelled as sponsored.
If an article ever contains an affiliate link — to a resume builder or a course, say — it will be disclosed in that article. What we do not do: sell or rent user data, share your email with anyone, use your text to train a model, or email you marketing you did not ask for. The privacy policy spells all of that out in detail.
Our editorial and AI policy
We publish articles about job applications, notice periods, pay negotiation and student writing, and we use AI to help write them. Here is exactly how that works, because you deserve to know what you are reading:
- Drafts may be AI-assisted; published articles are not left as the model wrote them. A human decides the topic and the argument, checks every figure, date, statute and link, rewrites the parts that read like filler, and takes responsibility for the result.
- Facts that can be checked, are. Statutory notice periods, tax thresholds and salary figures are sourced from the relevant government or survey source and dated, because they go stale.
- No medical, legal, immigration or financial advice. Employment and immigration rules differ by country and by contract. We explain how something generally works and tell you when to check with a qualified professional or your own contract. We will not publish "one weird trick" content, guaranteed-income claims, or anything promising a job offer.
- The tool output is yours to edit, not to send unread. Our AI tools write a first draft from the facts you supply. Models invent achievements, dates and qualifications that you never mentioned. Every generated page on this site says so, and the AI use disclaimer explains what typically goes wrong and how to catch it.
- Corrections. If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did.
What we do about privacy
Browser tools never upload anything — that is an architectural decision, not a promise, and you can verify it by opening your browser's network tab while you use one. For the AI tools, we log what the request cost us (tool, model, token counts, timing) and never what it said. We store your input and output only if you are on a plan with History and have switched it on. Saved API keys are encrypted. Deleting your account deletes everything attached to it, immediately, from your own profile page. Details in the privacy policy.
Get in touch
Found a bug, spotted an error in an article, want a tool that does not exist yet, or have a partnership idea? Use the contact form, or email support@getjobtools.com. Tool requests are genuinely welcome — several of the calculators on this site exist because someone asked.