How to Configure Effective Keywords for Your JobPulse Alerts

Published on April 8, 2025

How to Configure Effective Keywords for Your JobPulse Alerts

JobPulse helps you automate your LinkedIn job search and delivers structured, filtered job opportunities directly to your Telegram. To get the most accurate results, it’s important to carefully configure your user preferences: Keywords, Required Keywords, and Location.

This guide explains how.

1. Keywords (for LinkedIn Search)

Keywords are entered directly into the LinkedIn job search field.

  • These terms define the initial pool of job postings JobPulse fetches.
  • LinkedIn matches these loosely based on job title, description, and metadata.

Recommendations:

  • Use clear job titles and core skills.
  • Avoid buzzwords or phrases that rarely appear in job descriptions.
  • Prefer broad but relevant terms if your niche is small.

✅ Examples:

  • Game Developer
  • Software Engineer
  • Backend Developer
  • Unity Developer

❌ Avoid:

  • Exciting Remote Opportunities
  • Innovative team player

Note: LinkedIn may still return some irrelevant results. That’s why the next layer—Required Keywords—exists.

2. Required Keywords (for Post-Filtering)

After the initial LinkedIn search, JobPulse applies its own strict filtering.

Required Keywords are used to:

  • Analyze the real job description text.
  • Keep only those job postings that contain your essential terms.
  • Remove noisy or misclassified jobs that LinkedIn search might otherwise surface.

How it works:

  • Required keywords support logical expressions: AND, OR, and negation with - (NOT).
  • Matching is case-insensitive and based on actual word presence.

✅ Examples:

  • "Remote" AND "Roblox" — only jobs mentioning both “Remote” and “Roblox”.
  • "Backend" OR "Fullstack" — jobs matching either.
  • "Python" AND -"Java" — jobs that have “Python” but NOT “Java”.

Tip:

  • Be concise. Focus on role-critical skills, work conditions (e.g., “Remote”), or project types.

3. Location

Location specifies where to search geographically on LinkedIn.

  • Accepts city names, countries, or Remote if you are open to remote jobs.
  • Example: "Remote", "Canada", "Toronto"

Important:

  • If you want worldwide search, include "Remote" or "Worldwide" explicitly.
  • LinkedIn location search can sometimes be imprecise, so combining with Required Keywords like “Remote” improves targeting.

4. How JobPulse Refines Results

JobPulse doesn’t simply copy LinkedIn results. It enhances them by:

  • Filtering using Required Keywords on the real job text.
  • Summarizing descriptions with a smart text model (up to 2 sentences).
  • Calculating a semantic match score between your “dream job” profile and the actual job description.
  • Delivering clean, structured job alerts into Telegram.
  • Providing additional insights such as:
    • Experience Level
    • Remote Status
    • Posting Date and Repost Status
    • Application Urgency (Views, Applicants, Application Limits)
    • Company Industry and Function

Freshness of Results: To ensure high relevance, JobPulse only fetches job openings posted within the last 24 hours. This guarantees that you receive the freshest and most active opportunities, minimizing the risk of seeing outdated or closed listings.

  1. Example: Full Configuration for a C++ Developer

Keywords:

“C++”

Required Keywords:

“C++”

Location:

“England”

Match Text (for relevance scoring):

“C++ low latency hedge fund trading crypto investment finance hft”

Expected Outcome:

Only jobs mentioning “C++” directly in the description or title.

Focused on finance, trading, or high-frequency domains if mentioned.

Structured alerts with match scores to help prioritize the most promising roles.

Final Advice

  • Start simple and adjust if too few or too many matches appear.
  • Keep Required Keywords concise and relevant.
  • Think like the person writing the job ad.
  • Let JobPulse do the heavy lifting of screening, summarizing, and scoring.

Need help optimizing your settings?
Reach us via JobPulse Support Chat — we’re happy to assist!