Matching & alerts
Scraping brings jobs in. Matching decides which of them are worth your attention, by scoring each one against your profile.
Two things shape what you end up looking at: the filters in Match Config, which decide what gets scored at all, and your profile, which decides how well each one scores. This page is about the first. The second is Getting the best results.
Match Config
These are your standing preferences, separate from the filters on any individual Import Task. A task's filters decide what a search fetches; these decide what counts once it's here.
- Job types — Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance, Internship.
- Work location — Remote, Hybrid, On-site. Required.
- Preferred locations — only appears once you've picked Hybrid or On-site, because it's meaningless for remote work. Worth knowing: location is compared as text, not geography. "Amsterdam" does not match "Noord-Holland" and neither matches a coordinate. Write the words you'd expect to see in a posting.
- Experience levels — Entry-level through Executive. Optional, and leaving it empty includes everything, which is usually the right start.
Everything saves as you change it.
A job has to clear these before it's scored at all: at least one skill in common with your profile, plus your job type and work location. Anything that doesn't is filtered out rather than scored badly — which is why a job you can see in the list may have no score against it.
Jobs other people imported
Also score jobs imported by other users is the setting most worth understanding, because it's the one that gets you jobs you didn't pay to scrape.
Other people run their own searches on their own devices. With this on, the jobs they brought in are filtered and scored against your profile too. It costs less per job than importing one yourself, and your own jobs are always scored first.
You can limit it to jobs collected within a recent window, which is usually what you want — a posting somebody imported four months ago is generally closed.
Email digest
Email Digest sends your top matches to you instead of waiting for you to come and look.
- How often, in days — the default is every 7.
- A minimum score, so it only writes when there's something worth reading — the default is 70.
- A timezone, so it arrives at a sensible hour.
- Which address — your profile's email or your account's.
A digest with the threshold set too low turns into noise you learn to ignore, which is worse than no digest. If yours is arriving full of jobs you don't open, raise the score before you turn it off.