The text of a job post: what the job is, what it needs, what it pays.
AI score
The AI model's opinion of how well you fit a post, out of 100.
Scores explained
Applicant tracking system (ATS)
The software employers use to receive and sort applications. It reads
your resume for the advert's words: a job post's ATS match scores how
well yours does (how), and the Resume page
checks whether it can read your file at all
(how).
Application
A job you applied to, kept on My applications with
its stages, next step, contact, the documents you sent and your notes.
Board
A place job posts are listed: a job board, or an employer's own career
site (an employer board).
Brief
What jobdork gives a coding agent to write a document from: the same
instructions, advert and resume a model would get. AI
Checker
A second AI model that checks the first one's work. AI
Coding agent
An AI assistant you already use for code (Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity CLI,
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Desktop), connected to jobdork to do its
writing with no API key. AI
Copy
The same job posted in more than one place. Copies show as one post
(+1 copy) and share one status.
Dealbreaker
Words in an advert that rule a job out for you, or cost it points.
Search
Dropped
Found by a scan but left out by your rules. See them under Dropped by
your filters. Job posts
Fit
How many of the advert's skills are on your resume, out of 25.
Scores explained
Ghost listing
A post over 90 days old: almost never a real opening. Dropped.
Hallucination
A fact an AI states that is not true. Every AI output is checked for them.
AI
Key (API key)
A password-like code from an AI company or a job source that lets jobdork
use it on your account. Held in memory only, or kept in your computer's
keychain if you choose (Your keys); never in a file.
Master resume
Your private archive of every job, project, award and bullet point,
never sent as it is. Upload it if you keep one: tailored resumes are cut
from it. Resume
Match
Points for everything you asked for, added up. Not a percentage.
Scores explained
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
The common way coding agents connect to a tool such as jobdork. jobdork
starts its MCP server on your computer when your agent asks for it; it
opens no network port. AI
Ollama
A free program that runs AI models on your own computer, so nothing
leaves it. ollama.com
Pursuing
The statuses applied, submitted, interviewing and offer. These posts are
never removed by a clean-up or a rule change.
Radius
How far from one of your cities a job may be.
Reader
An AI model that reads adverts and writes for you. You can list up to
six; the next answers when one cannot. AI
Recruiter
A post by a recruitment or staffing firm for a client.
Statuses and tags
Risky, stale
A post 8 to 21 days old (risky) or older (stale): ranked lower, still
shown. Age tags
Salary floor
The lowest yearly pay you would take. Only a post that states lower pay
is hidden. Search
Scan
One read of every source for new job posts. Dashboard
Settled
The statuses rejected, withdrawn, skipped and closed: done with, so
hidden from the list.
Where an application is: applied, interviewing, offer or closed. Each
status it is given is dated. My applications
Status
Where you are with a job: new, viewed, interested, applied and so on.
Statuses
Suggestion
A project, education entry or skill a coding agent proposed for your
record, or a change it asked for to an application. It counts for nothing
until you approve it.
Resume, My applications