Welcome aboard

Let’s get you applying.

You’re all set with a subscription. Nice. This guide walks you through your very first run, from signing in to watching Karmik apply to jobs on Seek for you. It takes about ten minutes, and you only do most of it once.

~10 minutes to your first runNo API keys, no setup filesmacOS & Windows
The setup

Six steps to your first run

Do these in order the first time. After that, launching a run is just two clicks. Everything below is remembered for next time.

01

Sign in

Open Karmik. After a brief “Starting Karmik” splash, you’ll land on the sign-in screen. Sign in the same way you did on the website:

  1. Tap Continue with Google. A browser window opens, you pick your Google account, then come back to the app. It’ll say “Finish in your browser” while it waits.
  2. Or use your email and password and press Log In.

Karmik checks your subscription automatically, and since you’re subscribed you’ll go straight through. (No account yet on a device? Everyone signs up at karmik.ai first; the app is sign-in only.)

First time in
A one-time Welcome card greets you with three reminders: save your Seek session, fill your profile and resume, and pace yourself at 20 to 30 jobs a day. Read it and hit Got it.
02

Tell Karmik about you

This is My details in the menu. Karmik uses these answers on every application: your name, contact, location, the roles you want, and the questions Seek asks on almost every job (work rights, experience, licence, availability, and so on).

You’ve got two shortcuts:

  1. Press Sync from Karmik (or Pull from Karmik on first run) to pull the profile you already built on the website. It only fills blanks, so it won’t overwrite anything you’ve typed.
  2. Or answer the short guided wizard: 16 quick questions, one at a time. Anything marked optional can be skipped.
The more you fill in, the better
The roles Karmik searches come straight from your Desired job title and Target location here. There’s no separate search box. Fuller answers mean stronger, more accurate applications.
03

Upload your resume

On the Run automation screen you’ll see a Resume section. Press Upload resume and pick your file. PDF, DOCX, or TXT all work. Once it’s in, the filename shows with a Replace button if you ever want to swap it.

A resume is required, so the run buttons stay greyed out until one is attached. Karmik reads it to tailor your cover letters and answers.

04

Connect your Seek session

Karmik works inside a real Seek session, your own. You log in once, in a browser window Karmik opens, and it remembers you for weeks. On the run screen, find Seek session and press Save session. A window titled Save your Seek session explains it, then:

  1. Press Open Seek. A Chrome window opens at seek.com.au.
  2. Sign in to your Seek account in that window.
  3. Wait for your Seek dashboard to finish loading.
  4. Come back to Karmik and click I have logged in.

When it reads Session ready with a green tick, you’re connected. There’s a small Re-save button for later, if you ever need to refresh it.

You log in once
On a full run, the apply step reuses this same session, so you usually won’t be asked to sign into Seek a second time.
05

Set your run preferences

Three simple controls on the run screen shape how a run behaves:

  1. Jobs to apply to: how many to apply to in one run. Default is 10 (you can set 1 to 200). Start around 10 to 20 while you get a feel for it.
  2. Auto-submit applications: on by default. Karmik submits each application for you. Turn it off if you’d rather it pause on Seek’s review page so you can hit submit yourself.
  3. Keep computer awake while running: on by default. Stops your Mac dozing off mid-run so a batch finishes cleanly. Leave it on.
06

Press Full run

This is the one. Full run does everything in a single pass: it finds fresh quick-apply jobs that match you, writes a tailored cover letter for each, and applies. A short “here’s what to expect” card appears. Press Got it, start.

If Seek ever asks you to sign in during the run, a prompt shows in the app. Log in inside the Chrome window, then click Continue. Otherwise, sit back and watch it work (next section).

Keep the Chrome window open
Karmik is driving that window. If you close it mid-run, the run stops. Just leave it be until it’s finished.
The run buttons

Every button, explained

“Full run” is all most people ever need. But each step is also its own button, so you can run just one part when you want to. Here’s what each does.

Scrape jobs

Step 1

Searches Seek for quick-apply roles that match your profile and saves them to your list. Doesn’t apply to anything, just gathers.

Generate cover letters

Step 2

Writes a tailored cover-letter PDF for each saved job. No Seek login needed, handy to prep letters before applying.

Apply only

Step 3

Applies to the jobs already sitting in your list marked Ready. This is how you work through your backlog without scraping again.

Full run

All 3

Scrape → cover letters → apply, on a fresh batch, start to finish. The everyday button.

Recommended jobs: auto-match & apply

Seek picks

Pulls the jobs Seek recommends for you, matches them against your resume, and applies to the good fits. A nice change of pace from keyword search.

Full run vs. Apply only
Full run only applies to jobs it scraped in that run. To act on jobs already in your list from before, use Apply only (or Generate cover letters), which work through your existing backlog.
While it runs

Watch it work

Once a run starts you’ll see a live screen with a progress bar and an activity feed, a real-time window into what Karmik is doing right now.

6 appliedof 10 jobs
karmik · live activity
Opening Seek, waiting for session to sync…
Found 10 jobs ready to apply.
Applying: Barista at Southbank Coffee Co.
Answering application questions…
Submitted. 6 of 10 done.
Applying: Café All-rounder at Dawn & Co.

The progress bar counts this run’s applications: “6 applied of 10 jobs.” The activity feed streams what’s happening line by line. Want to stop early? The red Stop button halts things instantly, and any job that was mid-apply is simply handed back to your list to try again next time, never lost.

Your job list

Managing your jobs

Everything Karmik finds and applies to lives under My jobs. Filter, review, and tidy up from here.

Filter the list with the tabs across the top:

AllActiveAppliedFailed

Each job carries a status badge so you always know where it stands:

ReadyAppliedNeeds reviewTimed outScraped

Retry failed

Flips every Needs review job back to Ready, so your next Apply only picks them up again.

Clear applied

Removes jobs you’ve already Applied to (and their cover-letter PDFs) to keep the list clean.

Clear all

Wipes the whole list and every generated cover letter. Asks you to confirm first, and it can’t be undone.

View on Seek →

Every job card links straight to the original Seek posting, so you can double-check any application yourself.

Your daily pace
Karmik shows a small Today counter (e.g. 12/30). A steady 20 to 30 applications a day works best, then give it around three days to let replies come in before your next run.
Good to know

A few habits that help

No keys, ever

You never enter an OpenAI or any other key. All the AI, cover letters and application answers, runs on your Karmik subscription automatically.

Leave the window alone

While a run is going, don’t close the Chrome window Karmik opened. That’s its workspace. You can use other apps freely.

Stay online

Karmik needs internet for sign-in, the AI, and Seek itself. A dropped connection will stop a run early.

Pace beats volume

20 to 30 a day, then wait about three days between runs to follow up on replies. Steady and human-looking wins.

If something’s off

Quick fixes

“Session required”

You haven’t saved a Seek session yet, or it lapsed. Press Save session (or Re-save), log into Seek in the window, click I have logged in, and run again.

Asked to log in mid-run

Seek sometimes wants a fresh sign-in. Log in inside the Chrome window, click Continue, and Karmik carries on. If a run stops for this, just re-save the session and restart it.

First launch is slow

The very first time you open Karmik it can sit on “Starting Karmik” for 10 to 20 seconds while it unpacks. That’s normal, and only happens once.

“Backend stopped”

Rare. Restart the app to continue. If it repeats, use Report this crash on that screen so we can jump on it.

We’re right here

Stuck? We’re one message away.

Real people, quick replies. Tell us what’s happening and we’ll sort it, whether it’s a question, a snag, or an idea for making Karmik better.

Inside the app you’ll also find Chat with the Karmik team in the menu, and a Report a bug shortcut (⌘⇧B) that attaches recent logs for us, with no screenshots or personal data sent automatically.