Introducing Career Care: Stay Job-Ready All Year (Plus a Stack of New Tools)

When I built Past the Bots, I had one moment in mind: the all-in, panicked job search. You're laid off, or you're done, and you need a new role now. That's what the Job-Hunt Pass is for — unlimited everything for three months, one flat price, no subscription trap.

But here's what I kept hearing after launch: "I'm not really looking… but I'm always kind of looking."

That's most of us. You're employed and mostly content, but you keep half an eye on the market. A recruiter pings you. A dream company opens a role. A reorg makes you uneasy. The opportunities that actually change your career rarely arrive on the tidy three-month schedule you planned for — they show up when you're busy and unprepared.

So we built something for exactly that: Career Care.

A plan for people who are always a little bit looking

Career Care is a low-cost recurring plan — $8/month or $80/year — that keeps every premium Past the Bots tool at your fingertips all year. We call the people who use it Career Stewards: folks who tend their careers continuously instead of cramming a search into a frantic few weeks.

Same tools as the Pass. Different rhythm. The Pass is a sprint; Career Care is staying in shape.

What you get — including a stack of new tools

We didn't just add a price tier. We shipped a whole set of new tools alongside it:

• Per-vendor ATS simulation — The free audit shows three generic parsing strategies. This goes further: it shows how Workday, Greenhouse, Taleo, iCIMS, and Lever each read and score your résumé, so you can see exactly where the same file sails through one system and gets shredded by another. (/ats-simulator)
• Truthful keyword coach — For every keyword a job wants that your résumé is missing, it asks you a pointed question to find out whether you genuinely have that experience — and only then drafts an honest way to say it. It will never put words in your mouth.
• Résumé variants + A/B — Save named versions ("PM — fintech," "PM — startup"), tag each application with the one you used, and watch your real response rate per variant. Stop guessing which résumé actually works.
• Apply Kit — Paste your résumé once and several job descriptions, and get a tailored résumé, cover letter, and outreach message for each — in one run. (/apply-kit)
• Interactive mock interview + STAR bank — A realistic interviewer that asks one question at a time and gives feedback, plus a place to save your best Situation–Task–Action–Result stories so you walk in ready. (/mock-interview)
• Follow-up autopilot — Drafts the right follow-up email for each application based on where it stands and how long it's been.
• Salary & negotiation — A market-informed range and a negotiation script for the moment an offer lands. (/negotiate)
• Premium .docx templates — Three clean, fully ATS-safe designs to export.

Plus the originals: unlimited résumé checks, AI tailoring, cover letters, interview prep, and saving your LinkedIn optimizations.

Every one of these holds the line we always have: we never invent experience. Tailoring means saying what you've really done in the language the job uses — not bolting on skills you don't have.

Just need one thing? Buy a credit.

Not ready for a plan? You can now buy à-la-carte credits — a small pack that unlocks individual premium actions (a tailored résumé, a cover letter, the keyword coach…) with no subscription. Spend one when you need it.

Recruiters got upgrades too

On the hiring side, there's now an employer profile so talent-pool outreach comes from your company (not an anonymous "a recruiter"), a team analytics dashboard with pipeline and false-reject metrics across your roles, and a weekly pipeline digest that flags strong candidates you haven't triaged yet.

Which one's for you?

• Actively searching right now? The Job-Hunt Pass — $29, three months, unlimited, no auto-renew.
• Always keeping an eye out? Career Care — $8/mo or $80/yr, cancel anytime.
• Just one task? Grab a credit.

Become a Career Steward at /career-care, or see everything side by side on the pricing page.

The best opportunities don't wait until you're ready. Now you can be ready anyway.

Past the Bots is the ATS résumé toolkit at pastthebots.com. The audit is always free, no signup.