Rules you can read. No AI judging you.
Every match comes with its reasons. A person makes every hiring decision, and Scout never rejects anyone automatically.
- Step 1 · 61,508 rolesEvery open roleFrom 1288 companies' own job boards, refreshed daily. Closed roles disappear.
- Step 2 · what you asked forHard filtersRole, level, work setup, pay floor, dealbreakers and blocked companies.
- Step 3 · fit rulesRight job, right placeThe title is the kind of job you want, and the location actually works for you.
- Step 4 · each one markedMust-have checkMet, missing or can't tell. Two misses and the role is never shown.
- Step 5 · up to 10Your weekly listRanked by fit, with caps so no company or stretch role crowds it.
1 · What you tell us
Your profile and what you want.
- Your profile: jobs, skills and education. You approve it before anything is used.
- What you want: the roles and levels you're after, how and where you'll work, when, and any dealbreakers.
- A pay floor, stored separately. It filters roles and is never shown to anyone.
2 · Which roles are considered
A role has to pass all of these.
What you asked for
- It's open, and its title fits one of the roles you want.
- It's at a level you picked, or the listing doesn't state one.
- Its posted pay reaches your floor, or the listing doesn't post pay.
- It doesn't mention one of your dealbreakers.
- The company isn't one you've blocked, including your current employer. Blocking a company covers its parent and sister companies too: block Google and Waymo never sees you.
Right job, right place
- The title carries the core of a role you want (engineer, designer, manager, scientist) and isn't another function, so a sales role never shows up as an engineering one.
- If you only want remote work, you never see office roles.
- Hybrid and on-site roles have to be in one of your cities.
- If you're in the US, remote roles limited to other countries are left out.
3 · The must-have check
Every requirement, marked one of three ways.
Scout reads each role's must-haves from its listing and checks every one against your profile. It only judges what a profile can show: years, degrees and named tools.
“5+ years of backend experience”Met: you have 9 years.
“Go, Java or Python in production”Met: any one of them counts, and you list Go.
“BS/MS in Computer Science or a related field”Met: a list of degrees asks for the lowest one.
“5+ years of experience with Swift”Missing: the years count only with the skill named.
?“Experience with MySQL or other relational databases”Can't tell: tools given as examples never count against you.
?“Strong written communicator”Can't tell: a profile can't show this, so it never counts against you.
A match
You meet every must-have Scout can check.
A stretch
You miss exactly one. It's labeled, and you get a few stretch picks a week.
Not shown
You miss two or more. This keeps companies from being flooded with people who don't qualify.
4 · Picking your weekly list
Ranked by fit, with caps.
- Roles are ranked by how many must-haves you meet, how many of your skills the role uses, how closely the title and level fit, and whether pay is posted.
- You get up to 10 roles a week if you're actively looking, or 5 if you're open to the right role.
- No more than two from one company (one when you're open to the right role), and only a few stretch roles.
- A job posted for several cities takes one slot, not several.
- You're never shown the same role twice.
5 · Interest, briefs and answers
What happens when you're interested.
Limited picks
15 a week (25 when actively looking), so each one means something to the company.
An anonymous brief
Roles, skills, degrees and how you meet the must-haves. Never your name, employers, schools, links or pay floor, and every brief is checked for identifying details first.
7 days to answer
Yes or no. No answer and your pick comes back, and the miss counts against the company's response rate. If the company never opens the role on Scout, your interest is withdrawn after 21 days.
Mutual yes
Only then does that one company see who you are, and we introduce you by email.
Questions
About the rules
Does Scout use AI to judge me?
No. Matching runs on the rules on this page. If a model is ever used to help read listings, it will say so here first, and it will never make a decision about you on its own.
A must-have was marked wrong. What now?
Unclear items never count against you, so the usual fix is on your profile: add the skill or the dates. If a rule reads a listing wrongly, tell us; the rules change based on exactly that kind of report.
Why didn't I see a role I know I'd be great for?
Most often it missed two must-haves on paper, didn't fit your location or setup, or its title didn't match the roles you asked for. Widening those in your preferences brings in more.
Does the company see my score?
No. They see the brief and which of their must-haves you meet. Scores only order your own list.
See your own list.
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