Product updates
The 26 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
Your LinkedIn tab and your Applystead website now show their search scores the same way, with the next fix and how much it adds. Both pages are split into short sections, the sidebar shows each profile's score, and your Dashboard shows how employers find you, with a link to each next fix.
Some employers ask screening questions that mention licences, certifications or credentials. We were sometimes pausing on those even when the answer was one of the simple options the employer offers. Those applications now go ahead as usual, so more of your queue keeps moving without waiting on us.
When an employer's career site moves to a new address, its jobs now stay in your matches until we've checked they're gone from the new address. A job we've read as on-site from its own description now stays on-site when its listing is refreshed, unless the description itself changes. We also re-read the locations of about 1,800 older job listings with our improved location reader.
We now match roles from more job boards, including job boards in Sweden and Switzerland and boards for school and government jobs, to the same job on the employer's own careers site, so your application is prepared for that job and sent to the employer directly. When a board lists a role that the employer's own posting already shows, the two are now treated as one job.
Job titles that end in I or 1 after the job name, such as Software Engineer I or Analyst 1, now count as entry level instead of mid level. If your Seniority choice includes entry level but not mid level, these jobs can now show up in your queue; with mid level but not entry level, they count as one level below yours. Titles with Level 1, L1 or Tier 1 are unchanged.
Record a minute of your voice in Account and your assistant can answer recruiters' calls in a copy of it. Callers are told it is your assistant, and it says it is AI if they ask. If the copy cannot speak on a call, the usual voice takes over. Turn it off or remove it any time.
Several employers' own career sites draw their questions off to the side of the page, so our form reader skipped them and those applications could not be prepared. It reads them properly now, and a resume an employer re-types after upload no longer stops the send. More of the jobs we match can be applied to for you.
When finishing setup also changed your search, your first queue could show fewer of your matching jobs than it should. Every job your search still includes is now listed the moment you arrive.
On the free résumé checker, keyword checker and cover letter tools, "Get matched to jobs like these" now brings the résumé and job you just used into your new account, so you don't need to add them again. When you allow analytics, our homepage, pricing and plan pages also note which sign-up button you chose, so we can make them clearer.
Visits that come from your website's own www address now count as coming from your own site, so your own address no longer shows up among the other websites that sent you visitors.
If your search has no job titles while you set up your account, the setup page now asks you to add one instead of saying matching is unavailable. Once you've started your setup review, changes you save to your search in the app now show up in that review too.
Our servers now spend far less computing power cleaning up memory, and the services that gather and check new job listings reserve less spare capacity, so Applystead runs on fewer machines. We also stopped keeping a second copy of routine logs from our own systems. Pages answer at least as fast as before, and your applications and everything you see work exactly as they did.
The background work that matches roles from job boards to the same job on the employer's own careers site now runs to the end every time, instead of sometimes stopping partway while our servers rebalance. More of your matched roles move on to their applications each hour.
Connect your LinkedIn account and the LinkedIn tab now shows your recent messages and who viewed your profile, read once a day. Your password stays encrypted and nothing is sent for you.
Otto now sits at the top of the Help page. Ask him how something works, what your plan includes or why you're not hearing back, and he answers from your own account and settings, can take you straight to the right page and, if something isn't working, can pass the details to our team once you say so.
We now check job listings from many staffing agencies throughout the day, and more than 2,000 of their jobs were read again in the first hour, so their details stay up to date.
Our public salary pages now show pay from the latest job postings and cover about 267,000 roles, companies and places, so you can compare what employers offer today. We also made the updates behind these pages steadier, so they keep up as new postings come in.
Linking Applystead in Google's Gemini app now asks for three permissions: see your account; change your setup, profile and settings; and send email from your mailbox. Gemini reads your matches, queue, applications, interviews and mail, tailors a résumé and answers employer email; it can't apply, switch Auto apply, change your plan or delete your account. You can't add Applystead in Gemini today.
When you leave an industry out, our matching needs to know what industry each job is in. We taught it the words employers use in Europe as well as the American ones, and placed thousands more employers it could not place before: almost twice as many of the jobs we hold are now sorted into an industry, so leaving one out hides the right jobs instead of guessing.
If you review applications before they go out, Apply to all now does less work in your browser for each job, so it finishes sooner when you have a long list of ready jobs.
Some job boards list roles without a link to the employer. We now add those roles to your queue once we've matched them to the same job on the employer's own careers site, so your application is prepared for that job and sent to the employer directly.
The new LinkedIn tab compares the profile you import with the skills recruiters search for in the roles you want, and lists each change to make. Fix all for me writes your headline, About section and skills from your own experience, ready to paste. A search visibility score, also on your Dashboard, tracks how easy you are to find over time.
Your Applystead website now counts its visits: how many people came, which pages they read and where they came from, such as a search engine, LinkedIn or another website, without tracking anyone. A search score shows how ready your site is to be found for the roles you want, and Otto can fix what needs work. Your Dashboard shows your visits over time.
Our homepage now shows what Standard and Premium include beyond applying and interviews: the people hiring for your applications, an address at your own domain, queue refreshes when you change your search and Applystead in your AI assistant. It also covers Premium's email campaigns, interview playbooks (US jobs), recruiter phone number (US) and personal website, which joins Premium's plan list.
Applystead has a fresh, simpler look. Pages are centred and easier to read on phones, tablets and computers, with clearer headings and fewer distractions. On phones, a bar at the bottom takes you to your Queue, Applications, Mailbox and Otto in one tap, and setting up your profile fits in one column with much less scrolling.
The engine that writes and double-checks each application for you moved to a newer, faster model with more headroom, so tailoring and quality checks keep up when a lot of applications are in flight at once.