Know when to pass.
ArcLens is the job fit tool that reads each posting against your career and tells you which to skip, and why.
Two let go. About four hours back.Sample reads. Hours assume two per tailored application.
Arc is your career. Where you're headed is the Lens.
Most people own more than one pair of glasses. Most careers have more than one next move. Keep a Lens for each, and every posting is read through all of them.
Not everyone is climbing. ArcLens reads for the move you're making.
Read the job behind the posting.
Postings all say roughly the same things. Flip this one to see what the job really is, what's broken, and what kind of hire they need.
Genuinely missing experience. If most of your gaps read like this, it isn't your role, and ArcLens says so.
For example: FinTech or financial services experienceYou have the capability. The résumé just needs to say it in the posting's language.
For example: Driving cross-functional delivery across engineering teamsClose it by bringing in a role you haven't surfaced yet, then score again.
For example: Interpreting system designs and technical trade-offsEvery gap on a read is sorted one of these three ways. Sample gaps from one posting.
Stop scrolling job boards.
Follow the employers you'd actually work for. Every morning, Openings checks their job sites and brings back the few that fit your Lenses, with what it skipped and why.
Skipped: Pay tops out at $140,000, under your $160,000 floor · and 140 more, each with its reason.
Build only for the ones worth it.
When the verdict says go, ArcLens tailors the résumé you already have, in your own words.
Nothing invented: the 400 teams and the cadence come from the original bullet. A free résumé checker once suggested adding “PMP Certified” to a résumé whose owner holds no PMP. ArcLens never adds a claim your history can't back.
Built to level with you.
Most AI career tools are built to encourage you. I built ArcLens while job searching full time. Running my own past applications through it, I found more than a few jobs I never should have touched; ChatGPT had been my optimistic partner. ArcLens reads the posting the way a trusted advisor would, without a stake in your hope, and makes it okay, even smart, to pass.
Lee Duncan, founder · The full story