Built for UK job seekers

Your job search,
quietly under control.

WhimApply reads your CV, surfaces the UK roles genuinely worth your time, then tailors your CV to each posting and autofills the application. Less chaos. More interviews.

sponsored roles live
9,214
sponsored roles live
median CV setup
6 min
median CV setup
more interviews / 100 applications
3.1×
more interviews / 100 applications

Candidates hired at

GoogleMicrosoftAmazonMetaSpotifyMonzoRevolutDeliverooWiseStripeAirbnbAtlassian

The problem

Job hunting has become a second job. An unpaid one.

None of this is your fault. The tools were built for volume, not for people. We started WhimApply to put the person back in charge.

  1. 01
    6 boards

    Your search is scattered everywhere

    The average UK job seeker juggles six job boards, forty browser tabs and a spreadsheet they secretly hate. Every board shows the same stale roles under different paint.

  2. 02
    76%

    Applications vanish into silence

    Three in four applications get no reply at all. Not a rejection. Nothing. You deserve to know where every application stands, the way you'd track a parcel.

  3. 03
    1.2m

    Sponsorship is a guessing game

    “Do you sponsor Skilled Worker visas?” shouldn't take a written cover letter to find out. For over a million international candidates in the UK, it does.

  4. 04
    7 sec

    Tailoring eats your evenings

    A recruiter spends seven seconds on your CV. You spend forty minutes tailoring it. That arithmetic broke the moment applying became a volume game.

How it works

Five stops between you and your next role.

Hiring is a black box. WhimApply works every stage of it for you, from the first search to the introduction that gets your name said in the room.

Stop 1

Give us your CV. Just once.

Upload the CV you already have. No forms, no re-typing your life story. WhimApply reads it properly: your skills, your level, what you're clearly good at even where you were too modest to say so.

amelia-hart-cv.pdf

Skills found: 12 · Roles matched: 38

Stop 2

See only the roles worth your time.

Every live UK role is scored against your actual experience, and we show our working. Filter by sponsorship, setting, salary, or just ask in plain English. No more scrolling past the noise.

Senior Product Designer

Skyscanner · Edinburgh · Hybrid

94%

“Your design-system leadership at Hattrick maps onto their first requirement.”

Stop 3

A CV rebuilt for the posting. A letter to match.

For each role, WhimApply reworks your CV around the job description: reordered skills, sharper bullets, the outcomes they ask for. Then it drafts a cover letter that sounds like you, not a template. You approve every word.

CV, tailoredfor: Senior Product Designer

Worked on subscription and payment flows.

Redesigned subscription flows handling £3.2m/month, lifting checkout completion 11%.

Cover letter drafted · 240 words · every line editable

Stop 4

Apply in minutes. Track to offer.

The extension autofills the employer's application form with your tailored documents, so applying takes minutes, not an evening. Every application then sits on one line, from applied through interviews to the offer you say yes to.

Applied2
Interview1
Offer1

Next: portfolio review with Octopus Energy, Thursday 10:00

Stop 5

Don't arrive as a stranger.

For every role, WhimApply finds the people you already share: former colleagues, university alumni, and the recruiters hiring for it. A warm introduction moves your application off the pile, and we draft it for you.

People you shareat Monzo
  • BW

    Ben Whittaker

    Worked with you at Copperline

  • FE

    Farah El-Sayed

    Leeds design graduate, two years above you

  • JO

    Janet Osei

    Recruiting for this role

An intro drafted for each; send when you’re ready.

Senior Product Designer

Starling Bank · London · Hybrid

Match94%
  • Your six years across fintech and marketplace products map directly onto their business lending flows
  • They need design-system leadership; you built and ran one at Hattrick for 40+ engineers
  • Hybrid London matches your relocation plan; they sponsor Skilled Worker visas as a backup

CV-based matching

A match score that shows its working.

Most job sites match keywords. WhimApply matches careers: your trajectory, the level you’re ready for, the domains where your experience actually lands. And instead of a mystery percentage, you get the reasons in plain English, so you can decide in ten seconds whether a role deserves ten minutes.

  • Scored against your CV, not your search history
  • Every score explained with evidence, not vibes
  • Learns from the roles you save and dismiss

Search that speaks your language

Ask for what you want. In actual sentences.

Structured filters when you know exactly what you’re after. Plain English when you don’t. WhimApply shows you how it understood you, and lets you correct it with a tap.

whimapply.co.uk/app

senior software engineer roles in London over £90k that sponsor visas

Understood asRole: software engineeringLocation: LondonSalary: £90k+Visa sponsorship: required

Senior Software Engineer

Revolut · London · Hybrid

93%
£95,000–£115,000Sponsors visasposted 2 days ago

+ 6 more roles match everything3 posted this week

UK visa sponsorship

One toggle. Only employers who will actually sponsor you.

We cross-reference every role against the Home Office register of licensed sponsors and the employer’s real hiring history, not just what the job ad claims. If sponsorship matters to you, it’s the first filter you see, not a question you’re afraid to ask at the final interview.

9,214
sponsored roles live today
100%
checked against the sponsor register
Visa sponsorship only
  • Software Engineer

    Arm · Cambridge

    Sponsors
  • Data Scientist

    AstraZeneca · Macclesfield

    Sponsors
  • Business Analyst

    BBC · Salford

    Sponsors

Licence-checked · updated daily

The application tracker

Every application, on one line.

The spreadsheet, retired. Applications move themselves the moment the extension confirms one went in, with next steps and nudges when something’s been quiet too long. Glance once, know everything.

All5Applied2Interviewing1Offer1Rejected1

Software Engineer

Wise · Fintech

Offer£82,000 · respond by 11 Julyapplied 16 days ago

Senior Software Engineer

Ocado · Grocery technology

InterviewingTechnical interview with the platform team, Thursday 10:00applied 8 days ago

Backend Engineer

Trainline · Rail travel platform

AppliedConfirmed by the browser extensionapplied yesterday

CV tailoring & cover letters

Forty minutes of tailoring, done in forty seconds.

For every role, WhimApply drafts the edits that make your CV land: reordered skills, sharper bullets, measurable outcomes, and a cover letter that sounds like you on a good day, not a robot on its best behaviour. You review every word. Nothing is sent without you.

Every suggestion is editable, traceable, and yours to reject.

CV suggestions · 3

for: Senior Product Designer

Professional summary

Worked on subscription and payment flows.

Redesigned subscription flows handling £3.2m/month, lifting checkout completion 11%.

Why: their posting emphasises measured outcomes; quantify yours.

Skills order

Lead with design systems, the first requirement in the role.

Cover letter · draft 1

Dear Fenwick & Vale hiring team,

When a bakery owner applies for £20,000 at midnight, the design has to feel as safe as their bank and considerably more human. That sentence, from your own job posting, is why I’m applying…

Tone: warm-professional · Length: 240 words · Editable before sending

From people who were where you are

I'd been firing applications into the void for four months. WhimApply's tracker showed me I was applying to the wrong stage of company; one filter change and I had three interviews in a fortnight.
Dami AdeyemiData Engineer · London
The visa filter alone is worth it. Every other site made me open twelve tabs to find out a company doesn't sponsor. Here it's just… a toggle. I found my sponsored role in three weeks.
Ananya Krishnan · Robotics Engineer, Cambridge
As a career changer at 41, tailoring my CV for every application was the thing I dreaded most. WhimApply's drafts kept my voice but did the restructuring. I stopped dreading Sundays.
Gareth Llewelyn · Project Manager (ex-Royal Navy), Cardiff
Graduated into the worst market in years. The natural-language search understood 'junior role at a company that won't make me pretend to love hustle culture' better than my careers office did.
Rosie Whitfield · Graduate Sustainability Analyst, Bristol
It's the calmest piece of software I've ever used for the most stressful thing I've ever done. That sounds small. It is not small.
Tomasz Zieliński · Senior Accountant · Edinburgh

The next stop is yours

Start the calm version of your job search.

Free to start. Your CV, ten minutes, and a clearer picture of the UK market than you’ve ever had.

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