24 July 2026
Why keyword job alerts fail
Every filter-based alert has the same two failure modes, and they pull in opposite directions — which is why tightening your filters makes one worse while fixing the other. What actually breaks the trade-off.
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How job search actually works
Notes from building a matching engine: what the pile of postings is really made of, why filters can't fix it, and what we got wrong on the way.
24 July 2026
The jobs you never see
A role's journey from "we're hiring" to a job board has four steps, and plenty of roles stop at step one. Where those postings live, and how to reach them without refreshing thirty career pages.
24 July 2026
What a 1–10 match score should mean
Ask a language model to rate a job out of ten and it will rate almost everything a 6 or 7. Why that happens, why it makes a score useless, and how to anchor a scale so it stays honest.
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