# Founder Bio

## Short bio

Mike is the creator of North Star Job Hunt, a UK-built AI-assisted career platform developed from his own experience of a difficult job search. Based in Colne, Lancashire, he built the platform to help candidates organise applications, understand opportunities, and use AI without giving up control.

## Founder story

Back in October 2025, Mike was in the middle of a miserable job search. He was registered on multiple job sites, trying to track applications, rejections, ghosting, and follow-ups across spreadsheets and browser tabs.

Although he works in IT, he had never considered himself a professional coder. After hearing about AI-assisted development and "vibe coding", he began experimenting with OpenAI Codex in his spare bedroom to build a simple tool to organise his own search.

The first version helped enough that he found a local role, and the project was almost forgotten. Months later, while clearing old files, he reopened the app and tested it with a newer AI model. That experiment turned into a deeper collaboration with AI, adding features to address the "job search fog" he had experienced personally.

North Star Job Hunt is the result: a candidate-first workspace built to help people find direction, prepare better applications, and keep control of their job hunt.

## Attribution line

North Star Job Hunt was created by Mike in Colne, Lancashire.
