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Huunt is an AI-powered application assistant built for the German-speaking job market. At the center is the AI agent Ethain, who guides job seekers through the full application process: finding jobs, evaluating listings, preparing ATS-optimized resumes, writing tailored cover letters, and sending a finished application package in just a few clicks. Users keep full control throughout the process: Ethain prepares, the person decides and sends.

The platform was validated in a public beta with more than 7 million real job-ad evaluations, supports more than 30 languages, and translates every job listing, a targeted approach for helping international professionals integrate into the German labor market. Huunt is a purely applicant-focused B2C tool and does not take employer-side placement fees or recruiting commissions.

Job search is a full-time job. On average, job seekers spend about 19 hours per week on job research and application writing, and among academics the number rises above 21 hours. Source: SECO, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, 2022 At the same time, the success rate is sobering: university graduates need a median of 40 applications before they receive their first interview invitation. Source: Stepstone Hiring Trends, 2025

The problem starts even earlier: 95% of German companies use applicant tracking systems that sort applications by keywords before a human ever sees them. Source: DGFP / HTWK Leipzig / Wollmilchsau, Recruiting Structures Benchmark, 2025 According to a Harvard Business School study, 88% of companies themselves admit that their filters reject qualified candidates, not because they are unqualified, but because their documents do not mirror a requirement list precisely enough. Source: Harvard Business School / Accenture, Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent, 2021

Huunt addresses exactly this gap: ATS-compliant documents, keyword-optimized resumes, and tailored cover letters, generated automatically for each individual job.

The German labor market is going through a structural shift that is pushing millions of people into active job search at the same time. In the 2025 annual average, 2,948,000 people were registered as unemployed, an increase of 161,000 compared with the previous year. Source: Federal Employment Agency, 2025 Year in Review At the same time, German industry alone announced 124,100 job cuts in 2025, equal to a 2.3% decline in total industrial employment within just twelve months. Source: EY Industry Barometer Q4/2025

There is also a growing frustration problem: 64% of job seekers in Germany have been ghosted during the application process and received no response after applying. Source: Stepstone Hiring Trends Index, 2025 At the same time, dissatisfaction inside companies is historically high. According to Gallup, only 9% of German employees still feel strongly emotionally engaged, while 78% are doing the bare minimum. Source: Gallup Engagement Index Germany 2024 In parallel, 68% of employees think about changing jobs several times per month, a new record high. Source: Stepstone Hiring Trends Update, 2025 For many of them, the only thing stopping a move is the amount of effort involved.

Huunt closes exactly that gap.

One central problem is the cover letter. 50% of applicants describe it as the most exhausting part of the entire application process. Source: Indeed application study, 2016 And for good reason: 86% do not know how to clearly communicate their own value compared with other candidates. Source: Joblift, Unloved Cover Letter, 2022 One third of respondents say they would simply apply more often if no cover letter were required.

This is not an individual failure. It is a systemic problem. The application process demands self-marketing skills that most people were never taught. Anyone who can afford professional application coaching pays for it, with market data pointing to 128 euros per hour on average for that support. Source: Coaching market data Everyone else has to navigate alone.

Huunt democratizes exactly that support as an AI-powered copilot that understands which keywords a job requires, how a resume needs to be structured for ATS screening, and what a convincing cover letter should express for this exact role.

Huunt covers the full application workflow:

• Autonomous job search: Ethain continuously scans the market for relevant roles and evaluates listings against the user's profile.
• ATS-optimized resume: Each resume is adapted with the relevant keywords for the specific role, machine-readable and still convincing for humans.
• Tailored cover letter: No copy-paste, but a role-specific cover letter that follows DIN 5008 standards and reflects the job requirements.
• HR contact research: Ethain autonomously researches the relevant contact person and inserts the correct email address into the application email.
• Review and send: Users still decide where to apply and must review the completed application before anything is sent.

What Huunt explicitly does not do: send applications without the user's knowledge or control, prioritize employers in exchange for fees, or pass applicant data to companies for recruiting purposes. Huunt works exclusively for the person who is applying.

Job boards show vacancies, but they do not help people apply successfully. General AI tools like ChatGPT can write text, but they do not know the current keywords of a job unless someone copies them in manually, they cannot export ready-to-send application documents as PDFs that match German application standards, and they do not send the application email.

Huunt combines all of this in one specialized agent. It finds jobs, scores how well they fit, reads the requirement list, optimizes the resume and cover letter for the specific role, and prepares the complete application package for approval. A process that normally takes hours takes minutes with Huunt.

For applicants with limited German skills, Huunt also produces professional application documents in fluent German, making it a targeted tool for labor-market integration of international professionals.

Huunt is built for anyone looking for a new job in Germany, and by any realistic measure that means millions of people. The platform is especially relevant for:

• Experienced professionals ready for a move, who want to change jobs but avoid the effort and often lack time because of their current role.
• People after layoffs or restructuring, who need to re-enter the market quickly and with focus.
• Career starters, who are facing ATS systems for the first time and have no experience with application standards.
• International professionals, who want to apply in German without native-level German skills.
• Career changers and reskilled applicants, whose profiles do not map neatly onto a traditional job description and are therefore more often filtered out by ATS systems.

Huunt was founded by Kevin Gallas Mayer and Dmytro Kabyshev in December 2024 and registered as Huunt GmbH in Berlin. The team combines decades of experience across consumer software, machine learning, user experience, product design, and digital marketing.

The platform received an endorsement from Dr. Frank-Jürgen Weise, the former chairman of the Federal Employment Agency: "Im Markt einiger durch Künstliche Intelligenz getriebener Entwicklungen erscheint das Angebot von Huunt.AI herausragend. Im Rahmen einer Bewerbung für eine Arbeit bekommt man laufend eine umfassende und genaue Auswertung des Angebotes im Markt und zu den konkreten Unternehmen. So präzise, dass es mit den Stärken und Schwächen des eigenen Qualifikationsprofils verglichen werden kann. Entsprechend überzeugend ist dann die gegenseitige und direkte Ansprache. Die Treffsicherheit müßte sehr hoch sein und vor allem die langfristige Freude an der richtigen Wahl."

The technology was validated in a public beta with more than 7 million real job-ad evaluations.

For coverage requests, product tests, background conversations, expert commentary on AI and the labor market, or interview requests, the team is available:

Press contact:
Jessica Matijevic, Marketing & PR — press@huunt.ai

Interview requests / founders:
Kevin Gallas Mayer — https://cal.eu/huunt / +49 (0) 30 253 236 79

Logos, screenshots, product material, and company information are available for download on the press page: https://huunt.ai/press