Product updates
The 32 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
Jobs that hire from anywhere now count as matching your places on one more job site, and applications set aside there are being prepared again. When your sign-in on that site was never fully set up, Applystead now sets it up afresh at your next application, so more of your applications go out.
Membership now shows the address your applications go out from, explains that a personal inbox like Gmail or Outlook can't be used to apply, and says why a domain in your name helps. Send email from in Account now says it only sends the emails you approve to recruiters and hiring contacts, with a quick way to Membership.
You can now choose a new Applystead address, such as one with your name, in Mailbox settings. New applications use the new address, and mail sent to your earlier address still arrives in your Mailbox.
When you review applications before they go out, a job that links to the employer's own site now reads its description right away, so it appears in Ready to apply for you to approve instead of waiting unseen.
When a job site shows a security check while Applystead sets up your sign-in there, Applystead now completes it for you at every step, so fewer applications wait on it.
Starting a reply in your Mailbox now takes a fraction of a second instead of a second or more, even when the email you are answering came with large attachments.
Messages where a recruiter reaches out to you about a new role stay in Updates, where you can read them any time, instead of moving to your Inbox.
When someone at a company you applied to invites you to interview or writes back to you, other than to turn you down, from the company's own email address, Auto now applies to nothing new there for 60 days, even when the message doesn't say which application it is about.
When a job posting doesn't say which country the role is in, questions about your right to work and visa sponsorship are now answered from the country you live in, so more applications go out without waiting on you. Applications already prepared with a different answer are prepared again before they are sent.
When an employer asks you to record a video interview or answer video questions, that email now shows under Next steps in your Mailbox (or under From people when a person wrote it), and your Interviews tab and Applications list mark it Action needed. Reminders and confirmations of interviews you already booked no longer show as new invitations.
When we forward employer email to your own inbox, we no longer forward messages that only confirm your application was received. Replies from people, interview invitations and emails that ask you to take a next step are still forwarded.
In Your answers you can now keep a short list of claims about your work that you approve, such as results you're proud of. We use them to ground the résumés, cover letters and written answers we prepare for you, never to answer legal or eligibility questions, and you can edit or remove them at any time.
An appointment confirmation or reschedule that a scheduling service sends, even when a recruiter signed it, is no longer listed under 'From people' as a message a person wrote: that section lists only mail with a person's own words, while the appointment still arrives in your Mailbox and still counts as progress on your application.
Companies to exclude are now a list you add to one at a time, by pasting several or importing a file, and matching jobs update as you change it. The Skip jobs that list lower pay switch sits beside your pay in both Criteria and Your answers, and Otto can suggest keeping your search to jobs posted in the last 30 days when your queue holds older ones.
Job titles across your queue, applications and Mailbox no longer carry stray links or site names. A number or a page heading shown in place of a company now reads Company not listed, an impossible posting date is no longer shown, and older listings are checked with the employer again before an application is prepared.
When we tailor your résumé for a job, work you're still doing stays in the present tense, and a role you hold now is no longer described as finished. If a rewrite would change that, your own sentence is kept.
Each application's Resume tab now shows the lines tailoring changed beside your own. Importing your résumé keeps sections that used to be dropped, lets you include older roles and projects it set aside, and tries a failed import again. Résumés sent to employers show your applying address, and Resume studio keeps work you're still doing in the present tense.
When you save a change to your search, such as a company or job title to exclude, a pay floor or a posting window, prepared applications that no longer fit leave your list right away instead of being sent. Apply to all now lists the jobs it will send before you confirm, the Re-checking note always finishes, and the job map reloads after a save.
A role an employer takes down while your application is being prepared is now recognized as closed straight away, so your queue moves on to roles that are still open.
We fixed several things that held applications back. Applications waiting on something no longer hold up others that are ready to send, more employer form questions are answered from the details you gave us, more job board listings now lead to the employer's own application, and more employers' confirmation emails are recognised.
Cold emails can now go out from your Applystead address, keeping your personal inbox out of hiring conversations. You still approve every draft yourself, Otto can offer the drafts for review in one batch, and drafts older than 14 days are retired.
If you approve each application yourself, Otto now offers "approve all ready" beside "Turn on Auto apply" at the top of your queue. Nothing is chosen for you: it applies only when you tap it, and Not now ends the suggestion for good.
Applystead now compares each role's level with the years in your work and education history and leaves out roles that need more, when your settings name no job levels. Roles you added yourself, and levels named in your own searches, are unaffected.
When your search is for remote work, roles whose own wording or posting details ask you to spend time in an office no longer join your queue.
Setup now asks whether you're open to relocating instead of assuming it, shows the answers we give for you with a way to change them, and adds similar job titles only if you tick them. Answers suggested at setup are marked so you can confirm them, Save shows when it's working, and turning on Full auto in the Mailbox shows the employer quizzes choice with its own box.
You can now download your applications and employer replies as spreadsheets, beside Download my data. A connected assistant can be set to suggest only, so you approve every application, and an application your assistant edited says so until you approve it. Membership shows where employer replies go, and Mailbox settings open straight from a link.
A small internal fix keeps preparation consistent for accounts that review each application themselves, so the jobs you see and the applications you track stay in step. Nothing you approved changes, and nothing is sent on your behalf that you did not set up.
Emails telling you an employer replied name the person or company who wrote where we can, or simply say an employer, and never the system they sent it through, however its name is written. A message we briefly held for a check and then put in your Mailbox is now included in those emails too, and starting a reply reads only the part of the original email a reply needs.
Each job in your queue now shows, in one short line under its match, which of the job's required skills you have.
New job listings now arrive with cleaner titles, without stray links, site names or page labels. A number or a page heading given in place of a company's name, and impossible posting dates, are no longer taken as real.
If you approve each application yourself, Apply to all now applies to every ready job your filters show, including the ones further down your queue, after one confirmation. The confirmation and the note afterwards show exactly how many jobs it covered.
When a person at an employer emails you and the message isn't tied to one of your applications, you now still get a reply notice. A reply from an employer's own email address is also matched to your application there when you have just one with that employer, so it appears with it.