What needs an account, and what does not

The line is not arbitrary. Reading the index is open, and so is keeping a board of jobs in your own browser. Anything that has to be stored on our side, sent to you, or run live across every board on demand needs an account, and it is free to make one.

Open to anyone

• Searching everything already in the index, in any country.
• Every filter, and every sort order except CV match.
• Opening a listing and reading the description we hold.
• Exporting the results you are looking at to CSV.
• Saving jobs and the application board. Signed out, the board lives in this browser only.
• The ready-made category pages, and any search link someone sends you.

Needs a free account

• A live search across every board when nothing we already hold matches what you typed. This is the one that surprises people, so it has its own article.
• Syncing your board between devices, so it survives a cleared browser.
• Email alerts and follow-up reminders.
• A stored CV, and therefore match scores.

Every article in this help centre that describes a gated feature carries a marker saying so, so you can tell before you invest any time in it.