Frequently Asked Questions



Question: How to search jobs by country ?

Answer: To search by country 👉 please input in the Location field the country name (not the country code), like below:

  • in general, please use the 👉 country name 👉 not the country code

  • 👉 for United States please input United States (not: US, USA, United States of America)
  • 👉 for States within the United States you can search by either their full name, e.g. New York, or by their abbreviation, e.g. NY

  • 👉 for United Kingdom please input United Kingdom (not: UK, GB, Great Britain)

  • please do not search by country code e.g. do not search by IN, where IN is the country code for India, because you will get results for Indiana, which has the IN abbreviation; to search for India, please use India not IN

  • so, 👉 for other countries, please search by their country name e.g. please use Germany, Italy, Spain and so on..

Data is sourced from many data sources, and we normalize the country names as above. Searches using formats not aligned with the requirements above will return very few or no results.

Sometimes the Country is not posted in the job description. Best alternative when this happens is to search by a City or State of interest.


Question: How to best use the searches available on workbeyond.io ?

Answer: workbeyond.io has two type of searches:
- external, which do not require an account / login on the platform, and
- internal, which are accessible only to logged-in users.

The external searches are always limited to max. 10 results and are available by following their individual links in the footer. They are useful to give a general, albeit limited, look and feel about the types of jobs on the platform. The search criteria used for these searches are pre-packaged and limited, when comparing to the internal searches.

The internal searches are the ones where the search power is. To use them requires signing-up (costs $0, it's very easy, takes 5 seconds) and logging-in on workbeyond.io. These internal searches use fuzzy logic, returning results always sorted by most recent entries first. The Max Pay search is the exception, returning results sorted out by Max Pay first and Recency second. There are multiple internal searches, with different criteria:

  • The Job Title, Location search: this search is a quick, easy one giving you what's available by job title in an area. The following searches below give you additional search criteria such as Workplace Type (Remote, Hybrid, On-site), Job Type (fulltime, parttime, contract, etc.). The caveat is that, being more granular, the searches below return fewer results than this quick search.

  • The Job Title / Skill / Domain, Location, Workplace type, Job type search: this granular search evaluates several criteria and returns results which satisfy all criteria, as available. To get more precise results, use specific keywords. To get more results, extend your search to a wider location (e.g. from City to State or Country), reduce or change your search words in the Job Title input field, or vary the Workplace Type / Job Type inputs. As with any granular search the more specific you are the more accurate the results will be, with the caveat that there may not be as many very specific results as when searching with fewer keywords. If you are flexible on the Job Title, Location, Workplace Type and Job Type (e.g. fulltime, contract, parttime etc.) experiment with the inputs and the results will vary accordingly, giving you more options.

  • The Job Title / Skill / Domain, Location, Workplace type, Job type, ordered by Max Pay search: this search is like the previous one, only that instead of ordering by Recency only, it orders by Max Pay first, if pay data is available, and then by Recency, both descending.

  • The Niche Tech, Tech Tool(s)/Stack, Industry, other Relevant Keywords search: this search allows you to search for jobs requiring specific technologies, tech stacks, certifications, credentials, clearances etc. Just input your relevant keyword(s) and your desired Location and you will be given results mentioning your choices. The more keywords you input the more granular the search becomes thus yeilding fewer results, since all of your chosen keywords need to exist in a job description. So, finding a balance between the number or relevant keywords you input and the number of results is key.

  • The Category, Location search: this one focuses on the category, for broader reach. Say you want to see all Sales jobs in an area. You input Sales in the Category field and the desired location in Location, and you'll see all Sales jobs available, regardless of the job title. Same with Software, etc.. If you are flexible with the Location extend your search to a wider Location (e.g. from City to State or Country)

  • The Internship search: per its title, this one helps students / people at the beginning of their careers find Internship jobs in an area (City, State, Country). If you are flexible with the Location extend your search to a wider Location (e.g. from City to State or Country)


Question: What are some general considerations to keep in mind when using the searches available on workbeyond.io ?

Answer:

  • 👉 The search results are clutter-free, ad free, relevant, easy to grasp, displayed in a minimalist, no-frills interface. There are no 'promoted' listing repetitions to waste your time or other gimmicks, just simple, clean, to-the-point functionality, with a bit of occassional flavor, like some small icons.

  • 👉 The number of results returned by any search depends on your Plan, as described in the Pricing section in the footer. If a PROMO is active, and you chose to refer three friends to workbeyond.io & they've created accounts using your invitation code thus qualifying you for the PROMO, you will get the Plan mentioned in the PROMO info notes displayed on your Home page after you log in. Once the PROMO expires you'll be automatically moved to the Free plan, unless you Subscribe to a paid plan at the end of the PROMO period.

  • When searching please keep in mind that some job titles vary in description for jobs which are similar or related. For instance, Java Engineer, Java Developer, Java Architect or Full Stack Engineer with Java in description but not in title are all similar or related. The searches, while fuzzy, will tend to return what you have searched for so, to get more results, it's a good idea to vary the inputs or to try different searches from the list above.


Question: How can I get new, personalized, remote jobs in my Inbox, daily ?

Answer: In short, by going to your Profile and setting up an alert.

In your Profile, input a comma separated list with the job titles that interest you, in the 'Input comma separated titles' field, and the locations, in the fields below, and click Save Changes. In the 'Input comma separated titles' field you must input a comma separated list (e.g. Analyst,Data Analyst,Business Analyst) or errors will occur until you rectify the comma separation in your Profile. The robot will email you the most recent jobs available per your keywords, daily, with a limit of 20 per job title per location. If you'd like more results you can always log in and pick a Subscription plan that suits you, if you do not have one already, and search on the website. The number of search results returned while searching on the website depends on job availability for the specific query and on your Subscription Plan. In any case, you will always get the most recent jobs listed, descending, as available, per the description above.



Question: Why the same job may appear several times ?

Answer: We de-duplicate jobs automatically, therefore the overwhelming amount of listings consists of 'single', unique jobs. However, it is normal to find the same job listed multiple times in certain scenarios, such as:

  • The posting company has multiple job positions to fill, with the same job details. For example, they may need three Account Managers, same job details, same location etc.

  • The recruiter posts the same job in multiple distinct locations, i.e. they are looking for a Data Scientist and post the same job for a variety of distinct job locations, to make sure they cover all major tech hubs within an area, for a difficult to fill position.



Question: Why some jobs are listed but are, in fact, expired ?

Answer: We make huge efforts to de-list expired jobs automatically, wherever possible, with a certain check frequency, which depends on a number of factors such as recency, source, etc.. We de-list thousands of expired jobs daily, several times per day. However, in some situations, it is normal to sometimes find jobs which have expired but are still temporarily listed, until they are removed. This could happen because:

  • If a job expires in the time interval between two expiration checks and a user clicks on it, the job will show up as expired, before we have a chance to remove it. To keep costs low and pass them as such to our user community we check many jobs daily but with a certain frequency - several times a day. Our users can help us to keep costs low by flagging to us (via the 'Expired?' button in the Job Details page) every expired job, if/when encountered, and we will remove it.

  • The job source has data behind paywalls or very restrictive authentication layers and is a bit non-cooperant on this matter. We strive to keep our costs low and pass them as such to our user community so, in these cases, we are forced by the data source to make compromises and expire jobs in a less granular way, by time and not by checking each individual job frequently. Until we expire these jobs some may show up listed, but in fact they are expired. Our users can help us to keep costs low by flagging to us (via the 'Expired?' button in the Job Details page) every expired job, if/when encountered, and we will remove it.

  • Some jobs are 'hot' and fill very quickly. In this case, even very recent jobs may show up as expired, during the time interval between our expiration auto-checks.

  • Every major job board has jobs that are expired, until they remove them. It happens to us too, but we mitigate by automatically checking expiration for a vast majority of our listings, as possible, and auto-sorting by recency, thus giving you the newest listings first. If you search frequently the newest jobs which fit your criteria the chances are low to encounter expired jobs. However, for niche, old or 'hot' in demand jobs, the probability unfortunately increases. Time is of essence here, we encourage you to search frequently on our platform, at least twice a day; some remote jobs are in high demand and fill quickly.

So, if you encounter an expired job, please flag it to us - please click on the 'Expired?' button in the Job details page and kindly help our user community enjoy low costs. Your kind help is very much appreciated! 💖