What does each setting do?
Each setting saves as soon as you change it. The window has no Save button. To open it, choose Settings at the bottom of the menu bar list.
Where you work
Jobs must accept people in your country. This pane says where you are and how you want to work.
- Country
The country you work from. Type to search all countries.
Default: the country you chose at the first run.
- Preview
How two real jobs look for the country you choose. The preview shows two jobs after the first scan.
- Timezone
Your timezone. The time difference below compares job timezones with it.
Default: read from your Mac.
- Work mode
Remote, Hybrid and On-site. Select at least one.
Default: Remote.
- Location not stated
Many jobs do not say where you can work from. Choose what the list does with them:
- “Show apart from matches” puts them in the “Location not stated” group, at the end of New. They are never in a notification.
- “Hide” removes them from the list.
- “Show with matches” shows them with the jobs that match.
Default: Show apart from matches.
- Time difference
Keeps jobs whose timezone is at most this far from yours. Jobs that do not state a timezone always show. Choose Off, from “Up to 1 hour” to “Up to 6 hours”, or “Custom…” for 0 to 12 hours.
Default: Off.
Jobs
Keywords match the title and tags, as whole words.
- Include
A job must match at least one of these keywords. With no keyword, every job matches. Type a keyword and press Return. The notification groups new jobs by these keywords, in this order.
Default: none.
- Exclude
A job that matches one of these keywords is not in the list.
Default: none.
- Also match the job description
The keywords also match the text of the job, not only the title and tags.
Default: off.
- Contract
Full time, Part time and Contract. Select at least one.
Default: all three.
- Seniority
Junior, Mid, Senior and Lead. Select at least one.
Default: all four.
- Posted within
The age of the jobs in the list: 24 hours, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days or 30 days. Jobs are kept for 30 days.
Default: 3 days.
- Hide companies
Companies whose jobs you do not want to see.
Default: none.
- Hidden jobs
The jobs you hid with “Not for me”, newest first. “Show again” moves a job back to New.
Pay
Filters compare converted amounts. The job always shows the original too.
- Show amounts in
The currency of converted amounts: EUR, USD or GBP.
Default: EUR.
- Minimum per year
The lowest salary for employee jobs, in the currency above. Leave it empty to show every salary.
Default: empty.
- Payments per year
Sudo Hire multiplies monthly salaries by this number: 12, 13 or 14. Italian offers often quote 13 or 14.
Default: 12.
- Minimum per day
The lowest day rate for contract jobs. Hourly rates count 8 hours a day. Leave it empty to show every rate.
Default: empty.
- Salary not stated
“Show with "?"” keeps jobs with no salary, marked with a question mark. “Hide” removes them.
Default: Show with "?".
The note under the pane gives the date of the exchange rates. Sudo Hire reads the reference rates of the European Central Bank once a day. Amounts marked ≈ are converted.
Notifications
One summary, only when there is something new.
- Notify at most every
The shortest time between two notifications, from 1 to 24 hours. There is no notification when no new job matches.
Default: 2 hours.
- Example
How the notification looks: “6 new jobs: 4 Laravel, 2 PHP”.
Sources
Each source is read no more often than its terms allow. The table has one row for each source, with four columns.
- On
Turns the source on or off.
Default: every source is on.
- Source
The name of the source, and how often Sudo Hire reads it at most. The sources page lists each one.
- Last read
The time of the last read, or “Not yet”.
- Status
The number of jobs, or “Next scan” before the first read. After a failure it shows the error and when Sudo Hire tries again. The help page explains each error.
Companies
Career pages that Sudo Hire reads directly. Most good jobs are here, not on boards.
- Add
Choose the career page provider: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby or Personio. Then type the company name as it is in the link of its career page, for example acme. Choose Add, or press Return.
- Company
The name of the company.
- Career page
The provider and the company name in the link.
- Last read
The time of the last read, “Next scan” before the first read, or the error. Sudo Hire reads each career page at most every 6 hours.
- Remove
Removes the company at once.
Privacy
Everything stays on your Mac. No account, no telemetry. The pane lists what Sudo Hire contacts and what it stores on your Mac.
- Show data folder in Finder
Opens Finder with the data file of Sudo Hire selected.
- Read the privacy policy
Opens the privacy page of this site in your browser.
Troubleshooting
Most problems come from one source, or from a filter that is too strict. The pane starts with a note on the sources: “All sources are fine.”, or the source that has an error. “Show sources” opens the Sources pane. Then come four common questions.
- More answers on the help page
Opens the help page of this site in your browser.
- Open log folder
Opens the folder of the log file in Finder.
- Copy diagnostic report
Copies a short report to the clipboard. The report has the app version, the macOS version, the PHP version and the status of each source. It has no settings, keywords or jobs.
- Report a problem
Opens a new issue on sudo-hire in GitHub, in your browser.