Form Systems

Most job applications go through an applicant tracking system (ATS): Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workday and dozens more. Each one builds its forms differently, and each has its own traps: a field that looks filled but doesn't save, an upload that freezes the tab, a phone widget that rewrites the number.

Seekter keeps one file per system in reference/ats/, written from real applications and dated. Before every form, the run works out the system from the URL and reads that file first, so it doesn't relearn a trap the hard way.

Filled Without You

No account needed; Seekter fills the form, submits it and checks the confirmation:

• The big ones: Greenhouse (including forms embedded in a company's own site), Ashby, Lever, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor, Recruitee, Personio.
• Smaller systems: Pinpoint, PeopleForce, Gem, Talemetry, Cezanne HR, Rippling, Breezy, Factorial, Manatal, Talentics, Heroty, Peoplise, Bizneo, Traffit, Trakstar, Sage HR, ReachMee, Recruitly.
• Others: Dayforce through its "apply without an account" path, Apple's careers site, Indeed SmartApply (the form Glassdoor's Easy Apply opens, once you're signed in to Glassdoor), Google Forms and Airtable forms.

A single tenant can still break the pattern: a page script that won't run, a bot check, a domain the browser extension isn't allowed on. Those come back to you as a hand-off with everything else filled.

Filled Once You've Signed In

These need an account. Seekter never creates one and never types a password, but once you've signed in yourself, it fills the rest:

• Workday. Every Workday employer needs its own account. You create it or sign in; Seekter fills every step after that.
• iCIMS. Only the first screen is yours: you create the account, or sign in, and set the password. Seekter fills every step after that, the resume upload included.
• Oracle Cloud HCM and Taleo. You sign in; Seekter fills the form.
• SAP SuccessFactors. You create the candidate profile or sign in; Seekter fills the application, work history, education and languages included, and saves it as a draft so you can look before you apply.
• amazon.jobs. You sign in to your amazon.jobs account; Seekter fills the application. Amazon remembers your answers, so the next application is shorter.
• JOIN. Once you have a JOIN account, Seekter signs in through the login link JOIN emails you, read from your inbox. It never creates the account.

Handed Back to You

• Account walls Seekter can't pass on its own: systems that need a new account before anything else and haven't been filled after a sign-in yet.
• A visible CAPTCHA. BambooHR and JazzHR are the common ones, and Recooty and GlobalLogic's own careers site end the same way: the form is filled, and you tick the box and submit. An invisible check that passes on its own is fine.
• Phenom. On the employers measured so far, attaching any file from the browser extension freezes the tab, so these forms come back to you from the start.
• A consent that also accepts the platform's terms of service, as Dueto's and HRPanda's do, or a submit button that does it, as Gem's and Indeed SmartApply's do. Seekter fills everything else and leaves that click to you, because accepting terms is yours.
• A required declaration, such as Spott's "I certify that all information provided is accurate". The form is filled; you tick it and submit.
• Questions with no truthful answer, and forms that ask candidates not to use AI. Only the factual fields are filled.
• cord, which has no application form at all: the only way in is a message to the hiring manager, and Seekter never sends messages for you.

Every hand-off is left open in its own browser tab and listed in the Needs you table at the top of applications/README.md, with the exact next step.

Never

LinkedIn Easy Apply is never filled, whatever the settings. Those postings come back to you as a list to send yourself. See Guardrails.

When a System Behaves in a New Way

When a run meets a form that doesn't behave the way its file says, the lesson goes into that file, so the next run starts from it. A system with no file gets one. You can send those lessons back to everyone with /seekter-git.