How LandEarly applies to your jobs

1. Whose application it is

Every application belongs to a person with a LandEarly account who gave us their own resume and contact details and asked us to apply on their behalf. We do not create candidates, and we do not apply for anyone who has not signed up. The resume and cover letter are tailored to your posting from that person’s real experience: every claim has to trace back to something they gave us, and a tailored document that adds experience they do not have is rejected before it can be sent.

Before an application is written, your posting’s hard requirements (work authorization, location, licenses, years of experience) are checked against the person’s profile, and a disqualifying mismatch stops it. Automatic applications never go below a fit score of 50 out of 100, and one person can hold at most 3 active applications at your company in any 30 days.

2. How the application is submitted

We fill in the same public application form a candidate would see on your careers page, in a browser we run in the cloud on a residential internet connection. The one exception is Recruitee, which publishes an open application endpoint for careers sites: there we send the same fields to that endpoint directly. We do not use a private API, we do not scrape your candidate data, and we do not submit anything your form does not ask for. On Greenhouse and Ashby this usually runs from start to finish without the candidate. On other systems we fill the form and hand it to the candidate whenever a step needs them.

By default, a new LandEarly account applies to its strongest matches automatically, without the candidate approving each application first. Candidates can turn on review before every submission. Either way, they can apply to at most 25 jobs a day through us.

Some systems, such as Workday, ADP, and UKG, need an account before you can apply. Where they do, we create that account in the candidate’s own name and email address, only after they have agreed to it, and we keep its password encrypted. We never sign in to LinkedIn, Indeed, or any other job site as the candidate.

3. Which email address you will see

The candidate’s own. When the candidate has connected their inbox and their email provider supports it (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, and a few others), the address carries a short random tag, like jane+le7f3a2b9c@gmail.com. Mail to that address lands in the candidate’s normal inbox; the tag only tells us which application your reply belongs to. It is the same person and the same mailbox, it is not meant to get around your duplicate-candidate checks or your limits on applications per person, and we treat it as the same candidate.

We have built, but not switched on, an option to apply from an address on our own domain (apply.landearly.com) that forwards everything to the candidate. Nothing is sent from it today. If we switch it on, the address will make plain that it is a LandEarly address, each candidate will get one address per employer rather than one per application, and this page will say so before the first application uses it.

4. Verification codes

Some application forms email a code to the candidate and ask for it before they accept the submission. If the candidate has connected their inbox, we read that one email and enter the code. If they have not, we ask the candidate for it and they type it in themselves.

Why we think that is fair: the code proves that the person applying controls the email address on the application, and they do. It is their own inbox, which they connected so that we could do exactly this, and the application is their own. We only open the security-code email for an application that is waiting on one, we never read codes from an address that is not the candidate’s, and the code is never used for anything but the application it was sent for.

5. CAPTCHAs and bot checks

When an application form shows a CAPTCHA, the browser service we use tries to solve it. We then check the page again, and if the challenge is still there, the candidate completes it themselves. We do not try to get past a block page, a rate limit, or a refusal: if your system turns the application down, it is recorded as not submitted and the candidate is told.

Why we do it: a CAPTCHA asks whether a person is behind the application. Here one is. Each application is a single real candidate applying to a single posting they were matched to, at the pace one person applies, not a script sending the same resume to every job on your board. We know some applicant tracking systems and employers see any automation on their forms differently, and that is your call to make. If you do, the next section is for you.

6. If you would rather we did not apply automatically

Write to legal@landearly.com from an address at your company, and name the careers site or applicant tracking system board. We will stop listing those postings, which stops every automated application to them. The same address is the place to report an application that looks wrong to you: a candidate who does not exist, a document that misrepresents someone, or a volume of applications that does not look like one person.

Candidates can always apply to you directly, and their LandEarly documents stay theirs to send.