Why I built Got Your Back

Most people run a job search with no one on their side of the table.

A good recruiter changes that — but only for the candidates they're paid to place. Everyone else gets the job boards, the keyword games, and the silence. I built Got Your Back to close that gap.

So what is this, exactly? It's the recruiter in your corner for every application you take seriously. Not a resume writer — it doesn't hand you a prettier file and disappear. Not a coach, not a recruiter-for-hire. It holds your whole career in one place, reads each job the way the hiring team will, asks the questions that surface what the resume missed, and keeps track after you hit send — which company has which version of you, what's open, what went stale. The relationship doesn't end at submit.

I know the hiring side. Nearly ten years recruiting — I know how candidates get found, how resumes get searched and skimmed, and how thin the line is between "not qualified" and "never really seen."

Then I lived the other version of a career: stuntman, circus strongman, performer. Those years weren't a detour — they're why this exists. Performing taught me what no resume can capture: that what makes someone right for the room is rarely what's on the page. I came back to a search with two real careers that didn't fit one clean line, and felt exactly what my candidates used to feel. Sometimes the problem isn't that you can't do what the job wants. Sometimes nobody has asked you the right question yet.

If AI is going to be part of hiring, it should be on the candidate's side too — not to fire off a hundred applications, but to do what a good recruiter does: slow down, look at the job, look at the person, and make the honest case. It won't invent experience you don't have. It won't pretend every job is a fit. If you wouldn't say it in the interview, it doesn't go on the resume.

My old colleagues used to give me shit for trying to help everybody find work. That's not the part of recruiting that pays.

So I built a way to do it anyway.

— Josh Keeler, Founder

Depth compounds. Volume doesn't.