For experienced professionals
Get hired through people, not job boards.
You have been good at your job for years. Now you apply and hear nothing back. It is not you: the jobs go to people the company already knows. FutureDay gets you known, and puts you back in control.
It runs the entire job search with you, from sharpening your resume and optimising your LinkedIn to showing you each day who to contact, what to say, and what to do next.
Get more conversations. Get more interviews.Get hired sooner.
Sound familiar?
You apply. You hear nothing. “What am I doing wrong?”
“I applied for 100 jobs and got 2 responses.”
244 people apply for the same job. Only 3 in 100 cold applicants get an interview.Greenhouse; Ashby, 38 million applications
“I don’t think a person is even reading it.”
88% of employers agree their systems screen out qualified people.Harvard Business School, Hidden Workers
“I did the interviews, and they just disappeared.”
More than half of job seekers were ghosted by an employer in the last year.Criteria, Candidate Experience Report
“Half these jobs aren’t even real.”
1 in 5 job posts are ghost jobs, with nobody hiring behind them.Greenhouse
“I’m starting to think it’s my age.”
Only 56% of HR professionals are open to hiring people aged 50 to 64 “to a large extent”.AHRI and the Australian Human Rights Commission
“Everyone says network. I don’t know where to start.”
It’s the one that works. Referred people get an interview 40% of the time. Cold, 3%.Ashby, Talent Trends: Referrals
It isn’t you. It’s the way you’ve been told to look for work.
Why it matters
The longer your job search drags on, the more it costs you.
Losing your job is one of the ten most stressful things that can happen to you. (Holmes and Rahe stress scale)
It costs you money
About $2,300 a week on a $120,000 salary. You never get it back.
It costs you your edge
You start doubting yourself, and applying for jobs a level below.
It costs you at home
“Any luck yet?” becomes the question you dread at dinner.
It costs you sleep
Awake at 4am, doing the maths on how long the savings last.
How long can you afford to be out of work? Do the maths →
How we fix it
Four moves to get hired through people, not job boards.
Be Ready
Get the basics right once, properly.
- Get clear on where you're going and how to win
- Build a resume you're proud to send, built to the standard recruiters look for
- Optimise LinkedIn to signal your value, so recruiters come to you
- Create a master resume you can tailor and send in moments
Be Connected
Turn the people you know into introductions.
- Get introductions and referrals through people you already know
- Know exactly what to say, how to say it and when, every time you reach out
- Find the companies to target, and the people inside them
- Never lose track of who you've contacted or when to follow up
Be Seen
Be the name they already have in mind.
- Build a content plan you'll stick to, that shows your expertise
- Post with confidence on LinkedIn so the right people come to you
- Send messages that get responses, and create relationships in DMs
- Show up every week, without having to think about what to write
Get Hired
Only chase the roles you can win.
- Apply for roles where you are a good fit so you stop wasting time
- Build a tailored resume in minutes, not hours
- Write a cover letter that gets read
- Walk into every interview with confidence, knowing what to say
The people who get hired are not better than you. They are better known.
Why it works
Don’t take our word for it.
Ashby, the recruiting software company, looked at 38 million job applications. Here’s what they found:
of referred applicants
get an interview
of cold applicants
do
Source: Ashby, Talent Trends: Referrals
How to start
Three ways to get hired through people. Pick the one that fits you.
Find out how the modern job search is won
Stop Applying, Start Getting Hired: why the jobs you want go to people the company already knows, and how to become one of them. 130 pages.
Get the book
Know exactly what to do each morning
Five things a day: who to contact, what to say and what to do next. The book comes with your plan.
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Get hired with Grant in your corner
Four weeks with Grant: a small live group, or executive one to one. The app and the book come with it.
See coachingAll prices in US dollars.
Knowing what works is one thing. Doing it every week is where most searches drift.
That’s why I built FutureDay: so you never wonder what to do next, and never stop.
Grant Kratz, founder
See it for yourself
The real app, screen by screen. Pick where you want to start.
What changes
Same you, same experience. A very different outcome.
Every day
You always know what to do next
No more sitting at the laptop wondering where to start. You close it knowing you moved forward today.
Be Ready
A resume and LinkedIn that get read
No more second-guessing every line, or wondering if your resume is the reason nobody calls. You send it with confidence.
Be Connected
Known before the job is advertised
No more applying into silence. People reply, and conversations replace the rejection emails.
Be Seen
Front of mind with the people who hire
You stop feeling invisible. Your name comes up before you've had to ask.
Get Hired
Ready for every application and interview
No more evenings lost on jobs you were never going to get. You walk into the interview calm, not scrambling.
You
You’re back in control
You can see it working, and the 6am doubt goes quiet. You stop dreading “any luck yet?” at dinner. And one day soon, the answer is “Yes, actually.”
What is at stake
Your job search: two versions of the next six months.
If applying worked, you’d be hired by now.
Keep doing what you’re doing
- Still invisible. No interviews to show for it.
- Still doing it alone, with a method from twenty years ago.
- Still guessing what to do next.
- And it’s costing you your health. The stress builds, the sleep goes, and it starts to show at home and in the interview.
Six months from now: same inbox, same silence, and $60,000 lighter.
Do something different
- Back in control. You always know what to do next. Five things a day, and a nudge on the days you’d rather not.
- More conversations. People reply, and your name gets passed on.
- More interviews. Often for roles that were never advertised.
- Hired sooner. Fewer months of pay lost, less strain at home.
Six months from now, you’re sleeping through the night, and “any luck yet?” is a question you want to answer.
Now open
Stop guessing. Get your job search back under control.
For experienced professionals looking now. Try everything FutureDay does for 14 days, for $1.
What you get back
FutureDay gives you back what the job search takes from you.
Visibility, control and confidence: what you need to get more conversations, more interviews, and get hired sooner.
Visibility
The right people know your name before the job is advertised.
Control
You always know what to do next: who to talk to, and what to say.
Confidence
You can see it working, as the silence turns into conversations.
In their own words
What people say.
I went into it with what I thought was an absolutely bulletproof resume that was written a thousand times by Claude. … Your system gave me better feedback than Claude.
After two and a half years underemployed, with a small network, asking for help is the hardest part, and my confidence takes a beating every day. The guide's idea of regaining confidence through structure really helped, and I can use about 80% of it straight away.
One of the things that I thought was a very strong point in my resume was my 20 years experience, but your system suggested that that might throw up an age bias, and Claude agreed.
I can just go back home and then it will tell me exactly what I need to do. … Oh my God, this tells you what to do.
It tells you, contact this guy, contact that guy. This guy you've contacted that much ago, it's time to contact again. … I wouldn't bother manually managing all that, like doing Excel tracker or something and spending a lot of time updating that all the time.
Have something that just takes your hand and goes, okay, now do this, is really a nice little ray of light in the day. … I think this is hugely invaluable.
Where do I pay you …? How do I do this? I'm like, seriously, you've sold me.
I know people who would use this and I would recommend this to anyone.
You're showing me a lot of stuff that I had in the back of my mind, but I just couldn't visualize it. … You've kind of visualized some of those things for me.
It's definitely allowing me to have a proper structure in the whole process, which before was pretty much find ad, slap cover letter or have AI write your cover letter based on the ad.
What I got back from your FutureDay section for my LinkedIn, I fed back into Claude, and Claude said the preference is to use the FutureDay version. … So how good is that? I was just blown away because I thought mine read very well.
Very, very powerful … and very, very useful about keeping those job seekers motivated and on track.
Platform is very logically laid out and, while it might look a bit overwhelming at start, the process is very logical and easy to get into, once you start using the platform. Highly recommended!
There's a lot of stuff in here that I haven't and haven't even thought about. So I think this is invaluable.
A lot of stuff I haven't seen before, actually. … This interview prep stuff, definitely haven't seen that before.
I took your feedback, and I pasted it into Claude. … And they said, no, the FutureDay feedback is correct.
Eventually you'd probably end up spending more time managing process than actually doing the process.
It's all systematically laid out as to what they need to do for that particular day, which is good.
It's extremely comprehensive. It is impressive.
I think it's a fantastic tool.
A lot of things that this platform does provide wouldn't even cross my mind. … And now I know what I didn't know about the approach.
Who is behind it
I’ve been out of work more times than I’d like to remember. I’ve also been the one doing the hiring.
I’ve run my own companies, led sales teams for more than 20 years, and I’ve hired a lot of people. Here’s what I learned sitting on the hiring side of the table: the resume rarely decides it. What gets someone a call or tips them over the line is a person I trust saying, “You need to talk to Amelia.”
I’ve hired more people from warm introductions than any other way, and every job I’ve ever had, bar one, came to me exactly that way.
Here’s the funny part. I’m an introvert. Networking has never come naturally to me. What worked was a method: small steps, every day, until it was just what I did.
And from both sides of the table, I’ve seen the same thing. The people who get hired sooner aren’t the loudest or the best qualified. They’re the ones who keep showing up, do the simple things, and tell people they’re looking. Finding a job is a job.
So I wrote it down, in my book Stop Applying, Start Getting Hired.
Then I built FutureDay to keep you doing it.
Grant Kratz · Founder, FutureDay · Read my story →
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Questions
Questions people ask before they join.
Who is FutureDay for?
Experienced professionals and leaders, usually ten or more years in their field, from manager to the C-suite, who are back in the market and finding the old way does not work. It works in sales, engineering, finance, marketing, HR, customer success, operations, product, legal and general management: the app is tuned for ten of them plus a general track. Still in a job? That is the best time to start: conversations are easier when you are not under pressure, and nothing you do signals that you are looking. It is not for you if you want a resume rewritten and nothing else, or you would rather not message another person about your search.
I am over 50. Will this work for me?
Yes. It was built by someone in his 50s, for people with a long career behind them. Your experience is the asset: the people who know your work are the ones most likely to vouch for you, and FutureDay helps you reach them, one step at a time.
I have tried everything. Why would this be different?
Most people have tried applying harder: more applications, a better resume. FutureDay is a different way in, through people, with the next step shown every day. If applying worked, you’d be hired by now.
Does FutureDay send messages for me?
No. You send every message yourself, in LinkedIn, a text or an email. FutureDay suggests who to contact and drafts the words; you change them, approve them and send them. Nothing goes out in your name without you.
Is my information safe?
Your information is never sold and never used for advertising. We follow the Australian Privacy Principles, and you can ask us to delete your account and everything in it at any time. More on the privacy page.
How is this different from ChatGPT?
A chatbot will improve your resume forever and never tell you the resume was not the problem. FutureDay knows your whole search, follows written rules instead of making things up as it goes, and runs the part a chatbot cannot: who to contact, what to say, and what to do next. You approve everything before it goes out.
I am not a natural networker. Can I still do this?
This is built for you. You do not have to be an extrovert, and you never have to pitch yourself. You follow simple steps, one at a time, in your own words. The app tells you who to talk to and drafts the message. You decide what to send.
What does it cost?
Three ways. The book, Stop Applying, Start Getting Hired, is $9.99. The app is $1 for fourteen days, and the book comes with your plan. Coaching with Grant is from $750, with the app included. The app’s plans are on the pricing page, and coaching is on the coaching page. All prices are in US dollars.
Book, app or coaching: which is right for me?
The book teaches the Off-Market Method. The app runs it with you every day, in about 20 minutes a day, and most people start there. Coaching is the app plus Grant for four weeks, in a small group or one to one. See coaching.
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