Devlog · Job Scout

Cleaner locations, employer links, and a headline for each job

  • Job listings outside the US stop slipping through. The filter checked a listing's location against about 45 country names, so jobs in Bengaluru, Dubai, Ottawa or "San Jose, CR" (Costa Rica) passed as US. It now knows ~90 countries, foreign cities and their local spellings (Warszawa, München), and country codes, and it reads US state codes ("Dublin, OH") and big US cities, so a listing for "Chicago, Toronto" stays. A city the US shares a name with, like Dublin or London, is never dropped: its card says "location may be outside the US — check". Checked against four days of saved listings before shipping: every newly dropped place was outside the US.
  • A job's card links to the employer's own careers page when the same listing also came from a job board that copies postings. Before, when both copies listed the same pay, whichever arrived first won, so some cards sent people to an aggregator.
  • Every drafted résumé and cover letter gets its own headline, the line under the person's name, written for that job. The documents copy their look from the newest résumé the person has sent, so the template never goes stale.
  • The triage prompt now says a degree requirement can count, but never decides a skip on its own, since nearly every listing asks for one.