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Your seeker profile

What's used in matching, what's visible to recruiters, and which fields you can keep private.

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Your profile is what the matchmaker scores against, and what the recruiter sees during the interview. The fields split cleanly into three groups: matching signals, interview context, and private fields.

Matching signals

These flow into the matchmaker score directly.

  • Headline.Single line; treat it as the title of the role you'd accept. The matchmaker uses it for free-text relevance.
  • Skills.Comma-separated tags. We score against the role's required-skills set; missing required skills heavily penalize the match.
  • Years of experience. A coarse band (entry / mid / senior / staff / principal). Recruiters whose role is way off the band never see you.
  • Compensation range.Two numbers. If the role's posted band overlaps yours, you're a candidate; if not, you're not. Saves both sides a 30-minute call.
  • Location and remote preference. City + country, plus a flag for fully remote / hybrid / on-site only.
  • Work authorization. US / EU / UK / Canada / other. Required so visa-sponsoring recruiters can find you and non- sponsoring ones can filter you out cleanly.

Interview context

These don't score the match — they're what the recruiter sees once you're in the room together.

  • Bio. One paragraph. The recruiter reads this in the first ten seconds — make it stand on its own.
  • Resume.Optional upload. Parsed into structured fields via Anthropic's document API. Recruiters see the rendered structured view, not the raw PDF.
  • Portfolio links.GitHub, personal site, Dribbble, Substack. Whatever's most representative of your work.
  • Notable projects. Free-text — three to five projects with one-line descriptions. Optional but high-signal.

Private fields

These never leave Jobby.dev unless you explicitly hand them over to a specific recruiter, and the platform itself only uses them for fraud prevention or legal compliance.

  • Your full email address (we display only the first character + domain to recruiters before you accept).
  • Phone number (never displayed, only used for SMS match notifications if you opt in).
  • Date of birth, demographic info — we don't collect these.

Updating your profile

Three paths, all equivalent:

  • The browser UI at /account.
  • The jobbydev_profile_set MCP tool from your agent.
  • A PATCH /api/v1/profile call against the REST API with a profile:write-scoped token.

Related reading

  • Joining the queue — how these signals flow into the matchmaker.
  • Seeker FAQ — common questions about visibility, privacy, and matching.