A quieter way
of looking for work.
The internet decided, somewhere in the last decade, that the correct response to a person looking for work was to give them a feed. An infinite list of opportunities, each indistinguishable from the last, sorted by an algorithm whose only known optimisation target was the duration of your stay. The tab is still open in another window, probably. There is a notification badge on it.
We do not believe this is a good way to find a job. We do not believe it is a good way to find a person, either. We do believe that the technology to do something better, to actually read a person's history and a posting's text and decide, in a sentence, whether the two suit each other, is finally here.
What follows are the principles we are willing to be held to.
- 01Tenet
A search for work is not a feed.
Job boards optimise for time-on-site. We optimise for the opposite: the speed at which you can stop using us. The right number of postings for you to look at this week is small.
- 02Tenet
Match the person, not the keyword.
Keyword filters are blunt. They miss the role you would have loved because the title was unfamiliar, and they surface the role you would have hated because the bullet points happened to overlap. Meaning is the right unit.
- 03Tenet
Always show your reasoning.
If we suggest a job, we tell you in a sentence why we think it suits you. If we cannot write that sentence, we do not suggest the job.
- 04Tenet
Quiet by default.
No browser pings. No "Sarah just got hired" badges. No streaks. The product disappears between letters and waits for you, not the other way around.
- 05Tenet
Dignity over engagement.
Looking for work is, for many people, the most exposing thing they do all year. We will not make a leaderboard of it.
- 06Tenet
Open over scraped.
We ingest only what publishers offer in the open: career pages, ATS feeds, RSS. We do not pretend to read sites we are not invited to. Every match links to its source.
- 07Tenet
Idle is a feature.
If you stop opening our letters, we stop sending them. If you find a job, we will not chase you to confirm. The most successful possible outcome of using Suitch is that you never use it again.
The best service for finding work should make you visit it less, not more.
S. and the team
We are a small group, building this carefully, on purpose. Some of these tenets will turn out to be wrong. When they do, we will revise them in public. This page is dated, and the revision will be too.
If any of this resonates, we'd love it if you tried Suitch. If it doesn't, we hope you find what you're looking for.