FEED TUNING

Tune your feed. Find the sponsor.

Seven concrete moves that decide whether CVailor surfaces ten lukewarm jobs or three roles you'd actually move continents for.

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Broad titles✦Up to 10 top skills✦2–3 countries✦Visa filter ON✦Apply same day✦Broaden when under-quota✦No fluff✦
Broad titles✦Up to 10 top skills✦2–3 countries✦Visa filter ON✦Apply same day✦Broaden when under-quota✦No fluff✦
THE PLAYBOOK

Seven moves that move the needle.

JOB TITLES

Go broad, not boutique

ATS career sites don't list jobs by clever invented names. They use boring, role-level titles. Mirror that. Use job titles a recruiter at any company in your space would use, not what you'd put on LinkedIn.

Do
  • Software Engineer
  • Product Manager
  • Data Analyst
Avoid
  • Senior Backend Engineer III at Stripe
  • Code Ninja
  • Growth Hacker Wizard
TOP SKILLS (STARTER & PRO)

List up to 10 honest skills

On Starter and Pro, your top skills widen the search and the matcher scores each job partly on skill overlap. Under-list and you'll under-match. List the tools, frameworks, languages and methodologies you'd actually be comfortable using on day one.

Do
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL
  • CI/CD
  • GraphQL
Avoid
  • Only one or two skills
  • Buzzwords you can’t back up in interview
TARGET COUNTRIES

2–3 countries, not 10

Each country dilutes your daily quota. Pick the 2–3 you’d actually move to. You can swap countries any time — but on any given day, fewer countries means tighter, higher-quality matches.

Do
  • United Kingdom
  • Germany
  • Netherlands
Avoid
  • United States, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia, Ireland
WORK ARRANGEMENT

Be honest about remote

Mark Remote, Hybrid and On-site based on your real visa constraints. A sponsoring country usually needs you on-site or hybrid in that country — remote-only filters often eliminate the very roles that can actually sponsor you.

Do
  • On-site
  • Hybrid
  • Remote OK (when your visa allows)
Avoid
  • Remote Solely if you need sponsorship in a specific country
SPONSORSHIP FILTER

Toggle the visa filter on

CVailor reads the ai_visa_sponsorship signal on every job. Turn it on in your feed settings and the scraper pre-filters jobs that are tagged sponsorship-likely before scoring even begins.

Do
  • Enabled in Job Feed Settings
Avoid
  • Left off — pulls roles that explicitly say "no sponsorship"
WHEN UNDER-QUOTA

Broaden, don’t narrow

If CVailor shows the "under-quota" banner, your filters are too tight. Add a related job title, drop a country with low hiring volume, loosen experience level. Never the opposite.

Do
  • Add a sibling title (e.g. "Full Stack" alongside "Backend")
  • Drop one country
  • Widen experience level
Avoid
  • Removing skills you actually have
  • Adding a fluffy specific title
DAILY HABIT

Apply the day a job goes live

Sponsorship roles fill faster than anything else on a careers page. The top of your daily feed is your best chance — check in every morning, tailor your CV, and submit the same day. Volume without speed loses.

Do
  • Check feed every morning
  • Tailor + apply same day
  • Star roles you want to revisit
Avoid
  • Bulk-applying once a week with the same CV

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