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Setting your job preferences

Where to set your country of search, target roles, seniority and location preference, and what each one changes.

Last updated September 11, 2026

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Steps

Open Preferences from the account menu, or go to the Preferences page directly.
Choose your country of search. This decides which market of real postings TraceScout reads for you.
Enter the roles you are targeting, in the words a posting would use.
Set your seniority so that scoring compares you against roles at a sensible level.
Set your location preference if you want remote roles treated differently.
Save. Your next round of matches uses the saved preferences.

Preferences can be changed at any time. Changing them does not delete any resume version, match or application.
A very narrow set of target roles produces fewer matches. If Matches feels thin, widen the role wording before changing anything else.

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