FAQ
Where the roles come from, how to filter them, and what happens when you apply. For longer notes, read the guides.
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JobLookout is a job list built from openings posted on company career pages. You filter by the kind of work you want, the countries you will work in, and how you want to work, then open the role on the employer's own site to apply. It is a reading list of companies that are hiring, not another feed of sponsored ads.
Listings come from career pages on company websites. A lot of openings are posted there first, and many of them never get a second life on the big boards. JobLookout collects those postings into one list so you do not have to keep a private document of career-page links.
Some companies post in both places. Many do not. A role can sit on a careers page and never be copied to a board, or it can show up on a board days later, already crowded. JobLookout starts from the company page, which is also where you apply. If a listing is only an advertisement on a third-party site, it is not the kind of record this list is built from.
The catalog covers a wide set of functions: software and data, product and design, sales, marketing, support, healthcare, finance, legal, operations, trades, education, and others. The first time you open the job list you pick the functions you want. Inside the dashboard you can keep narrowing by title, and you can type a role or a company name into search.
You choose the countries you want to see, and you can change that list later. Listings are mainly postings written in English on company sites, across many countries rather than a single region. The useful check is the job list itself: open a function and a country and see what is actually there for your search.
Yes. Work mode is its own filter: remote, hybrid, or on-site. That is separate from the country filter, because a remote role can still be limited to a country for payroll, time zone, or legal reasons. Set both. A remote search that ignores country tends to fill up with roles you cannot actually take.
Yes. Experience runs from intern and new grad through entry, mid, senior, lead, and director. Employment type covers full-time, part-time, contract, and internship. Use them together. An entry-level search that still includes director postings, or a full-time search full of contracts, wastes the hour you meant to spend applying.
No. You apply yourself, on the company site. The product finds the opening and gives you the link. You still read the posting, decide if it fits, and submit. That is deliberate. The person who hits submit should be you.
On the employer's career page. Open a role, follow the apply link, and complete whatever form that company uses. There is no recruiter form in the middle and no second account required by JobLookout to submit. After you apply, mark the role applied in your list so you do not do it twice.
The dashboard keeps three states for roles you have already judged: liked, applied, and hidden. Like a role you want to come back to. Hide one you have ruled out. Mark applied once you have submitted on the company site. Hidden roles drop out of the recommended list, so the next session starts on what you have not seen.
Match sort orders the list by how close a role is to the functions, countries, work mode, and level you set. Use it when you want the best fit first. Date sort orders by how recently the role was posted. Use it when you only want what showed up lately and you are willing to skip anything that is not new. You can switch between them. Neither one changes the underlying list, only the order.
New postings appear as they are collected from company career pages. There is no promise of a fixed number per day, because hiring itself is uneven. If you care about freshness, sort by date and check the posted time on the role. A short daily pass beats leaving the tab open all afternoon.
The list is mainly postings written in English. A company in Germany or Brazil can still hire in English, and those roles can appear when you include that country. If you need another language, read the career page itself before you invest time in the application. The source posting is the one that counts.
Yes. Dashboard search matches the job title and the company name. If you already know the employer, type the name and open the matching roles. You can also add an application you submitted somewhere else, with the company, title, and link, so that search and the roles you already sent live in one place.
Mark the role applied before you go back to the list. If you also tailored a resume for that company, keep it with the application rather than overwriting your base version. Then return to the shortlist. The goal of a session is a few real submissions, not a feeling that you scrolled enough.
A recruiter is a person who represents roles, often for a fee paid by the employer, and they prefer candidates they can place. JobLookout is not a recruiter and does not sit between you and the company. You see the posting the company published and you apply on their site. Some employers would rather receive that direct application than pay a third party to forward it.
Hide it and move on. Career pages are written by the company, and some are vague, stale, or a poor match once you read the team and the location. The list cannot know that before you do. Hiding a mismatch is part of the search, not a failure of it. The next role is one click away.
