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# Job Search with Exa

> Tutorial for simple Exa searches on our front-end.

## What This Doc Covers

* The problem with traditional job search tools
* How to use Exa, an AI-powered search engine, for job hunting
* Other cool ways to use Exa beyond job searching

Finding a job is way harder than it should be. Tools like LinkedIn, Handshake, or traditional search engines are supposed to solve this problem, but they're filled with too many noisy results to actually be useful.

Here's how you can use AI to find hundreds of hidden job listings in less than 5 minutes.

At a high level, Exa is a search engine that understands your query. So, when searching for "ML internships for new grads in San Francisco" here's what gets returned:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=69c0445ee6a92ada1eef02a2cfa7bf4d" alt="" data-og-width="1706" width="1706" data-og-height="1596" height="1596" data-path="images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png" data-optimize="true" data-opv="3" srcset="https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=280&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=b6d435f30264fb9855e9cb05e43daf8d 280w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=560&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=d3210bef12498b88f4fff8a0e9841782 560w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=840&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=91be0f8ee663f9c3b9d904a86e80b916 840w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=1100&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=d541231da353c644543513aef09049ee 1100w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=1650&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=a89f08eec9d559e32dd26bf05df1fded 1650w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/5d5309c-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.44.34.png?w=2500&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=894553c79389eb09556043910a66650c 2500w" />

And, by filtering for only things that were posted recently, you can make sure that the positions were new and not-filled.

But, there's actually an even better way to take advantage of Exa. You can just paste a job posting and get similar ones:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=8fd3a8a4448a7ed7f5917c07e0aeeec5" alt="" data-og-width="1706" width="1706" data-og-height="1596" height="1596" data-path="images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png" data-optimize="true" data-opv="3" srcset="https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=280&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=330ab8ce1d71f3bfe59a75d3f0377fc7 280w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=560&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=4461ce355f399c8e8facb5b0aba99a54 560w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=840&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=e29b895d7a46f0bdcbcbfddc05bc47dc 840w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=1100&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=ce2d38a266387070594c70333d385251 1100w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=1650&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=d56e556cb40097a93f3eb064021b6a94 1650w, https://mintcdn.com/exa-52/tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC/images/eb97595-Screenshot_2024-07-18_at_12.40.27.png?w=2500&fit=max&auto=format&n=tmzyKnsgpKLGddKC&q=85&s=7c19b835a8dcbc3a3f2f30223ca4c5f0 2500w" />

## More than just jobs

Job search is really just one use case of Exa. Exa is a search engine built using novel representation learning techniques.

For example, Exa excels at finding similar things.

* **Shopping**: if you want a similar (but cheaper) shirt, paste a link to your shirt and it'll give you hundreds like it
* **Research**: paste a link to a research paper to find hundreds of other relevant papers
* **Startups**: if you're building a startup, find your competitors by searching a link to your startup