New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- A developer has turned his wife's prolonged job search into an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) project, building a tool designed to simplify the process of finding vacancies, preparing applications and tracking their progress.

The developer, who posts on Reddit under the username u/aientech, said his wife, a junior software engineer, had struggled to find a job for almost 10 months. With multiple job portals to navigate and resumes to tailor for individual openings, the application process was taking considerable time.

He built an application called Dossier to bring these tasks together. After his wife landed a job using the tool, he made the project open-source so that other job seekers could use it.

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