Creating Campaigns
A campaign is a targeted email outreach to businesses in a specific location. Here's how to create one by talking to the assistant and approving it in the chat.
A campaign is how you tell ThanksImHired who to contact. You describe the type of job you're looking for and where, in a conversation with the assistant — then the platform finds matching local businesses and generates personalized emails for each one.
There is no campaign form. You create a campaign by approving a proposal that the assistant shows you inline in the chat.
What Makes a Good Campaign?
The more specific your campaign, the better the results:
- Specific job title — "Graphic Designer" works better than "Creative"
- Specific location — "Manchester" rather than "UK"
- Relevant industry — target industries that actually hire your role
Creating a New Campaign
Start a conversation
On your first visit the workspace greets you by name and asks what kind of work you're looking for. To start another campaign later, click New Campaign at the top of the sidebar. It opens a fresh set-up conversation, which appears in the sidebar with a Setup badge. You can Resume or Discard a setup from there.
Describe the work you want
Type the specific role you're looking for and where. The assistant asks for your name, your target role, your location and your country, and can ask for optional background such as why you want this work, your experience and the kinds of employer you prefer. This is used to personalise the emails the AI writes.
The more specific the location, the better — "Birmingham City Centre" will find different businesses than "Birmingham". If you don't name an industry, the proposal marks any industry it assumed as "Assumed, not stated by you", so you can correct it before you approve.
Add your resume, or add it later
A CV panel opens beside the chat. Click Upload CV (PDF) — the file must be a PDF of 10 MB or smaller — or choose Add it later. The AI reads your resume to personalise each email, mentioning your specific experience where relevant, and you can correct or exclude any fact it reads from your CV. If you have no experience on file yet, a CV makes the biggest difference to the emails.
Connect your Gmail
When Gmail is the next step on the Setup card above the message box, click Connect Gmail. Full guide →
Approve the generation
When everything is in place, the assistant proposes a generation approval card in the chat. It shows the role, location, country, industry, what it knows about you, whether your CV is attached, the Gmail account it will send from, the tone, the template and the number of usable drafts it expects. Use the Campaign size slider to choose how many emails to write, then click Approve — the button shows the number you chose.
Approving holds that many of your send credits. A hold is not a charge: a credit is spent only when Gmail accepts an email. The same conversation then becomes the campaign's thread.
Review and approve the send
Open the campaign from the sidebar to read the drafts in its Emails tab and choose what to send in its Review tab. Nothing sends until you approve an exact batch. How the emails are written →
The steps don't have to happen in this order. The Setup card always shows what is still open, and steps you have already done carry over to your next campaign.
What the Assistant Uses
| Detail | What it does |
|---|---|
| Campaign goal | The work you want the campaign to find |
| Name, target role, location and country | Used to find relevant businesses and personalise the email content — city names work best |
| Optional background | Your motivation, experience and preferred employers, used when the emails are written |
| CV | Used by the AI to write personalised emails based on your experience, or added later |
| Sending account | The verified Gmail account the emails are sent from |
| Campaign size | Set with the slider on the approval card, up to your plan's per-campaign limit and your unreserved send credits |
| Template | Optional. Add one in the campaign's Template tab; leave it empty and drafts follow your conversation |
Tips for Better Results
- Run multiple campaigns — target different industries or locations by clicking New Campaign, up to your plan's limit on active campaigns
- Check your Gmail for replies — ThanksImHired sends from your Gmail, so replies arrive in your own inbox
- Start with a modest campaign size — gives you time to respond to interested employers without being overwhelmed