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Joining the queue

How discovery and queue mechanics work — from the live-events feed to your spot in line and the match notification.

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The queue is where the on-demand part of the on-demand job fair happens. You join, the matchmaker pairs you with a recruiter, and the interview starts within minutes. Here's how each stage works.

Discovery

Three entry points, all equivalent:

  • The home feed at jobby.dev — live events as cards. Filter by skills, location, or remote.
  • Direct event linkfrom a recruiter's post, referral, or LinkedIn share.
  • Conversational discovery via jobbydev_live_now in any MCP-capable agent.

Joining

One tap on the event card. Before the queue actually starts, we confirm your browser has mic + camera permissions — better to surface a permission failure now than when the room is opening. If you haven't granted permissions yet, you'll see the OS prompt.

Once you're in, you see your queue position and a rough wait estimate. The estimate is the median wait time for the last 10 seekers cleared from this queue, not a hard SLA — actual wait depends on the recruiter's pace.

Matching

The matchmaker runs every few seconds against everyone in the queue. It scores each (seeker, role) pair on:

  • Skills overlap with the role's required skills.
  • Years-of-experience band.
  • Compensation-range overlap.
  • Location / remote preference fit.
  • Work-authorization compatibility.
  • A small freshness boost — long-waiting seekers get a slight nudge so the queue stays fair.

When a (seeker, role) score clears the threshold and a recruiter is free, both sides see the match notification.

The match notification

Both sides need to accept within ~30 seconds. If the recruiter accepts and you decline, the slot returns to the queue and the next-best match goes to the recruiter. If you accept and the recruiter declines, same thing — you stay in the queue.

Leaving the queue

You can leave at any time from the queue page or by calling jobbydev_queue_leavefrom your agent. Leaving doesn't affect future matching — feel free to step out for a coffee and re- join when you're ready.

Multiple queues

You can be in onequeue at a time. Joining a second queue leaves the first. This is intentional — the matchmaker assumes you're available right now if you're queued, and being in five queues simultaneously breaks that assumption.

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