Your job alerts are not broken. They are indiscriminate.
Three specific failures, and what each one costs you.
- They repeat. The same posting arrives on Monday, Thursday, and the following Tuesday, and nothing in the system knows you already looked at it and decided no.
- They never go stale. A listing that has been up for four months keeps arriving as though it were news, because the alert matches a keyword, not a date.
- They match strings, not you. "Manager" pulls in restaurant managers and engineering managers with equal enthusiasm, and you do the sorting.
How Scout builds your list every morning
Up to three titles, a location, and whether you want remote only. That is the whole setup, and you can change it any time.
From four named sources, filtered to postings under 21 days old. That freshness filter is the single most effective ghost-job defence available from outside a company.
Your Story holds your real accomplishments. Scout scores against those, not against a keyword you typed once.
Every job that reaches your feed is remembered for the next 400 days and filtered out of every build in that time. Turn a company down twice and it stops appearing at all.
You do not have to trust us. Check the card.
Every card carries three things that make it falsifiable.
In days. If a card says nine days old and the posting says otherwise, we are wrong and you can see it immediately.
RemoteOK, Arbeitnow, Remotive, or Adzuna, named, with a link straight to the original posting.
The specific experience of yours that made this a match, so a bad match is diagnosable instead of mysterious.
What Scout will not do
It will never auto-apply on your behalf, and we are not building that. Auto-apply optimizes the one number that has stopped meaning anything to the person reading applications. It does not scrape LinkedIn or Indeed, because their terms do not permit it, so our coverage is genuinely narrower than theirs and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. It cannot tell you whether a job is a ghost, because nobody outside that company can. And on a quiet morning it sends you nothing rather than padding the list to look busy.
The price, with nothing buried
So the real number is $48 a month, and we would rather you read that here than discover it at checkout. Pro also comes at $57 a quarter or $149 for a year as a single payment. All Access is $399 once and includes Scout permanently. Career Watch, a monthly note on how old your resume is getting, is included with Scout at no extra cost. Its market figures are switched off, and its page says why.
Who this is not for
- You want volume. If a big inbox feels like progress, LinkedIn alerts are free and much broader, and you should use those.
- You want something to apply for you. We do not do that and will not.
- You are hunting on-site work in a smaller metro. Our four sources cover those thinly, and you would be paying for a short list for the wrong reason.
Guides from the Library
More in the Library, free and without an account.
Questions
How do I find jobs that were just posted?
Manually and for free, first: on LinkedIn set Date posted to Past 24 hours, and on Indeed use the Date posted filter. Both work. The catch is that you have to re-run them every day, and they still show you postings you have already rejected. Scout automates exactly that, with a 21-day ceiling and a 400-day memory of what you have seen.
Can Scout tell me if a job posting is a ghost job?
No, and neither can anyone else from the outside. Only the company knows whether it intends to hire. What Scout can do is refuse to show you postings older than 21 days, which removes the largest and most checkable category of stale listing. If you want to inspect one specific posting, our ghost-job checker is free and needs no account.
Does Scout apply to jobs for me?
No, and we are not planning to build it. Auto-apply tools optimize for applications sent, which is the number that has stopped meaning anything to the person on the other end. You click through and apply yourself, on the postings you chose.
Where do Scout's jobs come from?
Four named sources: RemoteOK, Arbeitnow, Remotive, and Adzuna. Every card tells you which one it came from and links to the original posting, and every Adzuna card carries a Jobs by Adzuna label. We do not scrape LinkedIn or Indeed because their terms do not allow it, which means our coverage is narrower than theirs. That is a real tradeoff and we would rather state it than hide it.
What happens if Scout has nothing for me one day?
It tells you, and it sends you nothing. No filler, no you-might-also-like, no quietly widening the search so the list looks fuller. An empty morning is information: either the market is quiet for your title this week, or your filters are too tight, and both are worth knowing.
How is this different from LinkedIn job alerts, which are free?
LinkedIn is free and its reach is far larger than ours, which is a real advantage we will not talk you out of. Scout does three things LinkedIn does not: it never repeats a job you have seen in the last 400 days, it refuses postings older than 21 days, and it matches against the experience you actually logged rather than a search string.
Can I cancel easily?
Two taps from your account, and you can pause instead of cancelling if you are between searches. If you land a job while you are on monthly Pro there is also a step down to Career Watch at $9 a month, and here is what it does before you press it: it moves the Pro part of your plan to Career Watch and leaves every add-on billing at its own price, so a Scout subscriber lands on at least $28 a month rather than $9, and more if Blaise is on the plan too. On quarterly or yearly Pro that step is not offered at all, because switching would put a monthly charge on a period you have already paid in full. If you want the job search to stop costing you anything, cancel instead, or end Scout yourself first from Manage subscription, which takes it off the subscription and leaves Pro alone.
No contract. Pause any time. We will not auto-apply to anything, ever.