Supercharge your next job search with Clay AI

In today’s tough job market with widespread layoffs and fierce competition, AI can be your secret weapon to landing something new. Leveraging AI tools can enhance your resume, streamline your job search, and even prepare you for interviews, giving you a significant edge.

Clay is one useful tool for job search, as it acts like a super-powered spreadsheet – automatically importing useful data from various sources like LinkedIn and other platforms to .You can also perform automated, AI-powered outreach from the platform as well.

Ben’s Bites have a useful tutorial on to use Clay AI to accelerate your job search and build a data-driven strategy to land your next role.

You can use it to find relevant job listings, identify potential networking contacts within your target companies, contact them to set up insight interviews, and easily apply to job listings.

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This is a summarised shortened version of the tutorial, in four simple steps.

Step 1: Set up your job search

  1. Create a free Clay account
  2. In My Workspace, create a new Table
  3. Use the “Find Jobs” template
  4. Enter your criteria (job titles, locations, etc.)
  5. Set a search limit and preview jobs


It’s a good idea to experiment with filters to target your ideal positions.

Step 2: Import the job listings

  1. Once you’re happy with the preview, click “Import” and “New table”
  2. Choose additional data enrichments if you want

Step 3: Find potential contacts

Next you can find people at your target companies, to enrich the data you have.

  1. Under “Actions”, select “Find people at these companies”
  2. Specify their job titles (e.g., “Developer”)
  3. Set limits and preview results
  4. Import to a new table with desired enrichments

You could also enable “Include Past Experiences” to widen your network.

Step 4: Leverage the data you have gathered

Once you have all this data you can:

  1. Apply to jobs, using the company LinkedIn URLs
  2. Network with contacts at target companies
  3. Add data and insight details to job listings or contacts, as needed
  4. If you want to, draft outreach emails directly in Clay

This approach saves time, gathers crucial information, and gives you a competitive edge in your career journey.

Use the full tutorial to get more detail and leverage Clay to the fullest.

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