Scores explained: Match, Fit and AI¶
Every job post can carry three numbers. They answer different questions, and none of them hides a post: your rules on Search decide what is kept, and the scores only decide the order.
| Score | Answers | Made by | Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Match | How well does the post fit everything you asked for? | jobdork's own rules, the same every time | Nothing |
| Fit | How much of what the advert asks for is on your resume? | Matching skills, by script | Nothing |
| AI | Would someone reading both the advert and your resume call this a good fit? | The AI model on the AI page | Time, or money with a paid provider |
Point at a score (or tap it) to see exactly how it was reached.
Match: everything you asked for, added up¶
Match is points, not a percentage, so it can go above 100. Each rule adds its share:
| Rule | Points |
|---|---|
| The title matches one of yours exactly | 30 (18 for a looser match, the same words in another order) |
| Remote, hybrid or on-site, as you asked | 10 |
| A remote job | 20 |
| Within your radius | 5 to 30; nearer is more (measured from the nearest of your cities) |
| In a state or region you chose, or in one of your cities with exact | 25 |
| Pay stated and above your floor | 10 to 20; more headroom is more |
| Pay stated, no floor set | 5 |
| Resume fit (the Fit score, below) | 0 to 25 |
| Posted in the last 2 days | +5 |
| Posted 8 to 21 days ago | −5 |
| Posted over 21 days ago | −15 |
| Each dealbreaker set to costs 8 points | −8 |
Nearness is worth only a few points on purpose: a job 24 miles away that fits is worth more than one next door that does not.
A post that states no pay or no arrangement is never dropped for it: it simply gets no points for it, and a tag says so.
Fit: your skills against the advert's¶
Fit is out of 25. jobdork finds the skills, tools and certifications the advert names and counts how many are on your resume, plus the projects and education you added on the Resume page.
- On your resume (green): skills the advert asks for that you have.
- Asked for, not on your resume: worth a look. Sometimes you have the skill and the resume does not say so; add it to your resume or a project.
No resume, or an advert too short to read, shows - (no score), which is not the same as 0.
AI: the model's opinion¶
With an AI set up, it reads the whole advert against your whole resume and gives a score out of 100 with a word:
| Score | Word |
|---|---|
| 80 and over | Strong fit |
| 50 to 79 | Possible fit |
| Under 50 | Weak fit |
Beside the badge, Judged and the day says when the AI read it; Judged in the last run marks the posts its most recent run judged (AI: judge top job posts, or the judging after a scan). That run reads your best posts it has not judged yet, so they are often further down the list than the ones it judged before. When the run ends, a message says how many it judged, with Show them: Job posts, Judged in the last run, best AI score first. The run's summary on the Dashboard names the first five.
Point at it to read why: a summary, the reasons For and Against, and anything it said that is Not in the advert or resume (struck out: the AI got that wrong, see the hallucination check).
- ? means the advert or your resume was too thin to judge; it says so rather than guess.
- When the model calls something missing that your resume lists ("the resume does not mention Linux" over a skills line with Linux), jobdork catches it, asks the model to score again knowing it is there, and lists it under For. The verdict says so, with the first score.
- ≠ 22 after the score means a second model scored it very differently (20 points or more apart): models disagree. Read the advert yourself.
- The thumbs beside it in the job post window tell the Dashboard whether the verdict helped.
The AI score sits beside Match; it never replaces it or hides a post. Get one for a post with Ask AI in its window, or for your best posts at once with AI: judge top job posts on the Dashboard.