Product updates
The 30 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
Employers can now only text you if you allow it. Your account has a switch, "Let employers text me", which starts off, so texts and WhatsApp messages from employers are turned down for you. You can turn it on or off whenever you like.
Otto now keeps the technical details of applying out of his answers. Ask him to preview a search change before you save it, find an application by company, or help with a reply, an interview, your resume, a custom domain or an offer.
The live view our team uses for Applystead's numbers now shows, for each AI service we run on, when its usage allowance resets, when its subscription charges, and how the current cloud bill is going, so renewals and top-ups are planned from real dates instead of guesses.
In Otto's job count, a role's experience level now sits on its own line inside its chip, so nothing wraps around a stray dot on a phone. On a computer the page stays put when the count arrives instead of shifting, and the lines around the count break where they read best.
When you compare plans, the plan names now stay at the top of the screen as you scroll through the table. On a phone, the plans you haven't picked take up less room, so starting your plan is a shorter scroll, and the plan you picked is easier to spot at checkout.
Some applications were waiting on employer questions we could not answer yet, such as background-check acknowledgements, legal status in the USA, or the level of a language you list. We answer those now, so more of your applications go out without delay. Nothing changes in what you see.
The target salary beside your job count now comes from matching jobs across your whole country, so the city on your résumé no longer changes it. Your job count still follows the places you name.
We taught your applications how to answer more of the questions employers ask: company and government-work acknowledgements, work-location and sponsorship wording, preferred schedules, your degree level and field of study, and names on employer forms. Fewer applications wait on us, and more of them go out without anything needed from you.
When the same remote role is posted once per city, it counts as one job with one application instead of filling your queue with copies.
If you upgraded to Premium and it is not the right fit, Membership now offers Essential instead of leaving you stuck with the larger plan.
We made the work behind a large job list run in parallel, so big searches are built faster and your first page of jobs arrives sooner. Counts and lists are unchanged.
Some outreach campaigns ended without finding any contacts because of a technical fault in how their job listings were stored. Those campaigns are being rebuilt for the members they belong to, so people research resumes where it can still help. Nothing you need to do.
If a job asks for a qualification and your own answer to it is No, we no longer prepare and send that application: it is set aside instead of wasting one of your applications. Answers we fill in for you, and requirements a posting marks as preferred or optional, never cause this.
On a phone or tablet the Tailor panel folds into one row until you open it, and what you asked for scrolls into view on your resume. If a request cannot be tailored, the reason and the way forward stay on screen with your text given back, instead of being cut off.
When an employer's assessment or pre-screen asks you to confirm with a code, that email now appears in your Inbox so you can finish it. Every other sign-in code is still handled for you out of sight, and a code that is not from a step you started stays hidden.
Roles listed on a startup job board now go through the same tailored application as every other match, so more of the jobs in your queue are prepared and sent the same way as the rest of your applications.
More employers' job pages are now read in full, including pages that only appear after a sign-in or on a company's own careers domain. More of your matches carry the whole job description, so your applications are tailored to more of what the employer actually asks for.
Otto can now read the conversations in your Mailbox and tell you what an employer said and when it is due, instead of answering that it cannot retrieve your mail. Long threads keep their newest message, and a message from an unverified sender reaches Otto with its links removed.
When an employer's confirmation email names the job, it is now linked to that application even when the same role was posted in several cities, so the confirmation shows against the application it belongs to instead of staying unlinked.
When your resume's dates cannot be read on import, setup now says which entries need checking instead of quietly guessing them.
Pop-ups, the weekly digest, the thank-you card and every step of the welcome tour now close from the same close button in the corner, as well as Escape and a press outside. On a phone the Calendar's close button is a full-size tap target.
Queue, Applications and Mailbox lead the menu for everyone now, with everything else one tap away under More, so the app is quicker to find your way around. Promotions no longer stack: at most one suggestion shows on a screen, and dismissing it brings the next one in its place.
Your Applied list now has chips for Replied, Interviewing, Rejected and No reply yet, each with its count, so you can see at a glance which applications heard back. And an empty queue now leads with Add a job, which takes a job's link and adds it to your queue.
After every update, search engines and AI assistants are now told which job, salary and guide pages are new or changed, so they reach you sooner. Every page also shows the date it really last changed, rather than the date of an unrelated site update.
Behind the scenes: our systems now recognise a few more employer career-site hosts and the shared mail service some employers use, so employer messages are attributed to the right employer and never mistaken for an employer's own site. Nothing changes in how you use Applystead.
We reworked how we count the jobs you can apply to, so the number appears faster and always matches the list below it.
The plan page compares plans side by side, with less to scroll: only what differs between plans, under one list of what every plan includes. On a phone, plans you don't pick fold to one line, so Start my free trial sits a third of a page closer. The comparison is up to date too: job titles per search, and Premium's cold emails go out once you approve them.
Applystead now asks you for a few facts only you can give, such as your citizenship, your education dates and your LinkedIn profile, so more of your applications can go out.
Applications to staffing agencies' own job pages now go through more smoothly. When one of those pages asks for a quick security check, we complete it for you automatically, so there is nothing extra for you to do.