Every part of the board explained in plain language, including the bits with odd names. Nothing here is required reading. Skim it, or come back when something puzzles you.
Every morning at 5:00 AM Chicago time, your board reads the careers feed of every company you watch, scores whatever is new against the roles you asked for, and files it. You wake up to a list rather than a search box.
It reads each employer's own feed directly, not a job site's copy of it, which is why postings often show up here before they appear anywhere else. Nothing is ever applied to on your behalf. The board finds the jobs, you decide.
Every job gets a number out of 100. It is a sorting aid, not a verdict, and it is worth knowing exactly what it does and does not see.
Hover or tap any score to see the reasons behind it in plain sentences.
Your board is split into tabs, set up from your answers. Most people have a main tab for the roles they want and an Outreach tab. A "track" is just the label underneath that decides which tab a job lands in.
The three buttons above the list filter by where you are with each job.
Archived jobs are never deleted. They collect at the bottom of the page and can be restored at any time.
The ๐ To-do strip at the top is your shortlist for today. Drag any job row onto it, or use the pin on the row. Tick things off as you apply. It follows your account rather than the device, so a shortlist made on your laptop is there on your phone.
โก Scan now does the morning sweep immediately instead of waiting for tomorrow. Useful right after you add companies, or when you know a company just posted something.
It also scores any jobs you added by hand, which otherwise arrive without a number. There is a ten minute cooldown between scans, because each one opens dozens of connections to employers' job boards and hammering them is both rude and a good way to get blocked.
๐ฉบ Check links reads each open posting and archives the ones that are gone, so you stop clicking into dead listings.
It reads the page body rather than trusting the status code, because job sites lie about this constantly. Plenty of them return a perfectly healthy looking response for a page that says "this job could not be found". Some sites block automated reading entirely, and those are reported as unverifiable rather than quietly assumed to be fine.
This is the one nobody guesses from the name, so here it is plainly.
The fringe is the near misses. Jobs at the companies you watch that your filter threw out, but only just. Either the title used words outside your list, or an exclusion caught it.
It exists because no filter is perfect. A job called "Associate, Capital Markets" might be exactly right for you while matching nothing you typed. The fringe is where you go looking when your main list is thin, or when you suspect you are being too strict.
It is view only. Nothing from the fringe joins your board until you tap Bank on it, and only then does it get scored and start being tracked. Think of it as a second opinion rather than a second inbox.
๐ข Companies lists every employer you watch and how fresh their feed is. Tap one to preview what it has posted recently without leaving the board.
This is also where you add companies later. You are not stuck with the list you picked at signup, and adding more is the single most effective thing you can do when the board feels quiet. More companies means a wider net.
Most employers publish a job feed we can read automatically. Some do not, usually because their site blocks automated readers or they use a system with no public feed at all.
Those companies still appear on your board as outreach cards: a card with a link straight to their careers page. It is a reminder to check them by hand rather than a job listing, and it is why a card can sit there with nothing under it. We would rather tell you the truth about a company we cannot read than quietly drop it and let you assume they are not hiring.
๏ผ Add job takes any job link, from anywhere, including companies you do not watch. Paste one link, or paste a whole pile of them at once and each becomes its own row.
Jobs added this way arrive unscored, since nothing has looked at them yet. They get a fit score the next time you run a scan.
๐ Resume lab is a resume editor built for this specifically. You can keep several versions, tailor one to a particular job, and export a clean PDF.
The grader scores your resume out of 100 on the things automated screening systems and recruiters actually look at: length, contact details, standard section headings, how many bullets open with a real verb, how many carry a number, and how much of your target vocabulary appears. The export is a text layer PDF, not a picture of a page, which is what keeps applicant tracking systems able to read it.
Usually one of three things, in order of likelihood.
If none of that explains it, send us a message. We can see how your board is set up and tell you exactly which of these it is.