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Filters decide which new jobs trigger a notification. They’re per-company: each company on your watchlist has its own keywords and locations. A job needs to pass both the keyword filter and the location filter to count as a match. An empty filter passes everything.

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Keywords

Keywords match against the job title only (not description or department).

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Any vs all

Each filter has a mode toggle:
  • Match any — the job matches if at least one keyword appears. Use for OR-style searches: backend, infrastructure, platform.
  • Match all — every keyword must appear. Use for narrowing: senior, backend.

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How matching works

Matching is case-insensitive and tolerant of word separators:
FilterMatches
full-stack”Full Stack Engineer”, “Fullstack Developer”, “full-stack ops”
senior”Senior Engineer”, “SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER”
staff”Staff Engineer” (but also “Chief of Staff” — be specific!)
Multi-word keywords work as a single phrase. product designer only matches titles that contain those two words consecutively.

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Locations

Locations match against the location field of the job. Same any/all toggle.

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Multi-location jobs

Many roles are posted in multiple cities (e.g., “London | Berlin | Remote”). Substring matching just works — a Berlin filter matches that job because Berlin appears in the location string.

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Unspecified locations

Some jobs have no location, “N/A”, or — on Workday — “N Locations” without the real list. By default, these don’t match a location filter. The Include unspecified locations toggle tells JobBeacon to also include those jobs when a location filter is active. Useful when:
  • You’re watching Workday companies (where multi-location jobs always show “N Locations”)
  • You don’t want to miss roles where the recruiter forgot to fill in a location
If you have no location filter set, this toggle has no effect — everything matches.

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Examples

  • Keywords: backend, infrastructure, platform — Match any
  • Locations: Remote — Match any
  • Include unspecified locations: off
  • Keywords: (empty)
  • Locations: Berlin — Match any
  • Include unspecified locations: off
  • Keywords: designer, senior — Match all
  • Locations: (empty)
  • Keywords: engineer — Match any
  • Locations: Santa Clara, Remote — Match any
  • Include unspecified locations: on

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Editing filters

Open the company page → Filters card on the right (or below on mobile). Changes save when you click out of the field. They take effect on the next poll.
Changing filters does not re-evaluate jobs JobBeacon has already seen. New filters apply only to roles posted after the change.

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Seeing what matched

The dashboard shows two counts per company:
  • ● New — roles posted in the last 24 hours
  • N matched — roles currently passing your filters
If “matched” is much smaller than total, your filters are doing their job.