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Simplify & Speed-Up Career Support Services​

AI career tools that enable collaboration between staff and job seekers and speed up the job application process

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Increase your impact while saving time

Hardly is the only AI career tool platform built specifically for collaboration between staff and job seekers.

Save 10+ Hours Per Week

Reduce resume writing time by 80%, eliminate file juggling and finicky formatting, and keep communication centralized.

Increase Placement Rates

When it only takes a few minutes to ATS-optimize a resume and cover letter, your job seekers apply to more jobs and have a higher chance of landing an interview.

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Track Important Data

Easily monitor jobseekers’ employment statuses and other data by customizing and exporting csv reports.

Customize to Your Needs

Every organization’s needs are different. You can easily customize features on Hardly to shape the right career tool platform for your job seekers. 

Hardly serves many types of organizations

Workforce Development Organizations

College Career Centers

Veteran Transition
Programs

career development

Apprenticeship & Training Programs

All the tools you need in one place

Increase Resume Effectiveness

  • • Comment & collaborate with clients directly in the resume builder
  • • Syncs resume to a job description
  • • Auto-generate relevant skills for a job title
  • • Fixes grammatical errors or confusing speech
  • • Refocuses resume on specific skills
  • • Hardly template is guaranteed to be ATS friendly
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Resume Builder

Keep Applications Organized & Track Progress

  • • Track statuses of all applications
  • • View statistics and progress
  • • Collect key contacts for each resume
  • • Easily track which resume versions are working well and use them for reference before interviews.
  • • Set reminders for when to follow up with key contacts
 

Generate custom cover letters in seconds

  • • Select a job description from the job application tracker & select a resume. In 5-10 seconds, you’ll have a first draft of a cover letter specific to the job!
  • • Staff and job seekers can easily comment and collaborate on the cover letter
 

Cover Letter Builder

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Prep for the job interview asynchronously

  • • Prompts common interview questions and user can add custom questions

  • • Records answers with immediate playback

  • • Job seeker can comment and rate their response, and staff can comment on the response

 

Easily Locate & Send Important Documents

  • • Customize library items to your organization
  • • Can contain pdfs, links to articles, & videos
  • • Easily send clients to-do items that include library resources
  • Tags can be added to make the library easily searchable. For example, an “interview tips” tag can help clients find items applicable to interviewing
 
 

Schedule & Host Virtual or In-Person Events/Appointments

  • • Connect your Calendly account to easily schedule events/appointments on Zoom, Hardly, or in-person. 
  • • Host workshops, 1-on-1s, or meetings with coworkers
  • • Google Calendar invites are sent automatically containing the link or location
  • • Events are listed on your Hardly dashboard
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Consolidate communication on Hardly

  • • Message groups or individual clients on Hardly
  • • Clients receive an email notification when a new message is received and daily email reminders when they have not read the message
  • • Messages can include links to resource library items
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Easily access clients’ assessments and results 

  • • Clients have easy access to a workstyle assessment, O*Net’s interest profiler, and a personality assessment
  • • Add ANY custom assessment results across the web to Hardly, so you clients can keep them all in one place.
  • • Our assessments are connected to the O*Net Database to ensure up-to-date information about career paths
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Hardly optimizes resumes and cover letters to a specific job description in a few minutes

"Drives our employment placement outcomes even higher"

"Hardly has significantly sped up our career readiness services at JobWorks Education & Training. Before, our team would spend countless hours writing resumes and cover letters with our students. Hardly has made it easy for students to apply to jobs, leading to an increase in overall job applications, which will drive our employment placement outcomes even higher. They've also set up a custom resume template so our students have relevant skills pre-loaded in their resume on day 1."
John Casella JobWorks
John Casella National Director, JobWorks Education & Training

"Powerful, yet user-friendly platform"

"We are thrilled to offer access to Hardly to PA Women Work participants. The powerful, yet user-friendly platform has empowered our job seekers with cutting edge technology to update their resumes and best showcase their pertinent skills, while removing the extensive time commitment required for traditional resume customization. We are so grateful to have Hardly as a partner in our work!"
Heather Coleman Manager of Participant Learning & Employer Engagement, PA Women Work

"This is a game changer for anyone on the job hunt!"

“Hardly takes the guesswork out of resume building. They have built in best practices to ensure that everything is ATS friendly while also making it simple to utilize AI in a way that helps you to customize your resume quickly for each job. This is a game changer for anyone on the job hunt! I would be remiss not to mention that everyone at Hardly has been wonderful to work with. They have a broad array of experience and can provide a wide range of professional development support through the various features of the platform.”
Diana Avart Gizmology Apprenticeship Program

"Tremendous!"

"The feedback we are getting from our customers on the Hardly system is tremendous!"
Gayle Williams Regional Program Manager, WorkOne - Northern Indiana

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Our Founders

Allison Braund-Harris

Chief Executive Officer

Why I Hardly Work:

Throughout my career, I heard so many people complain about the job application process. As applicant tracking systems grew in popularity, the amount of complaints for job seekers grew as well. We created Hardly first and foremost for the job seeker in mind, but along the way, we found that the organizations that served job seekers had their own needs— collaboration, organization, etc. Hardly is the only platform that can better the job seeker experience and make it easier on job centers, career centers at colleges, and other workforce organizations.
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Roger Harris

Chief Operating Officer

Why I Hardly Work:

It's not uncommon for people to question whether they've made the right career decision. I changed my major multiple times until I settled on programming, and even then I didn't realize that my real passion was working with and helping people. Having moved from programmer to technical manager, I know that was the right move for me. We built Hardly so people can get the career assistance they need at any stage, and it's so satisfying to work with organizations who want to help others.
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How to Start a Cover Letter That Gets You Noticed

08 Apr 2026

You’ve probably heard that your first cover letter matters and it’s true. If you’re wondering how to start a cover letter in a way that stands out, you’re not alone. Staring at a blank page and not knowing where to begin is one of the biggest hurdles for entry-level job

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