Settings

Settings (/settings) is the configuration surface, split into sub-tabs: Job Preferences (keywords, locations, sources, exclude words), Subscription (tier, billing, plan switch), Profile (name, email, theme, AI provider, resume, career status), API Keys (automation tokens), and AI Keys (your own AI provider credentials).

TL;DR — New here? Set Profile (career status + target level) first, then Job Preferences (keywords + at least one location) to start the matcher. Each tab has its own ?tab= URL.

Quick start — first-run setup

If you've just signed up, the order to fill these in is:

  1. Profile — set name, career status, theme. Career status drives the recommended cadences shown on Insights.
  2. Job Preferences → Keywords — add 3 keywords (Free) or up to the tier cap (Pro). The matcher uses these to filter postings.
  3. Job Preferences → Locations — add at least one location (or "remote" — captured as a location string).
  4. Job Preferences → Sources — toggle on the boards you want the matcher to pull from. Free is capped at 4 public sources; Pro unlocks all.
  5. AI Keys tab — optional. AI is already included in your plan; add your own key only if you want unmetered usage that doesn't count against your monthly allowance. Saved keys are only used while the Use my own API keys switch is on — leave it off to stay on platform-funded AI.

After Profile + Preferences, the next ingest cycle (5am or 2pm Pacific) will start populating your Job Search inbox.

Job Preferences tab

Keywords

Each keyword is matched against job titles + descriptions. Multi- word phrases are exact-match ("vp engineering" matches that exact phrase). Stems are auto-handled — engineer matches engineering, engineers.

Tier caps:

  • Free: 3 keywords
  • Managerial: 10
  • Leadership: 25
  • Executive: unlimited

The platform de-dupes job postings before they reach you, so a job matching multiple keywords only shows up once.

Locations

Each location is matched against the job's location + remote-type fields. Use:

  • City names (San Francisco, CA)
  • States (CA, California)
  • Countries (United States, UK)
  • The literal string remote to match remote-only roles

Tier caps:

  • Free: 1 location
  • Managerial: 3
  • Leadership: 5
  • Executive: unlimited

A job is shown if it matches any location — locations are OR'd, not AND'd.

Sources

Toggle which job boards the matcher pulls from. Each source has a type — public (no auth), API-key (needs your key), or paid (scraped via Apify, platform-only).

Free tier: up to 4 public sources active at once. Pro: all sources.

If a source needs your own API key (Adzuna, Reed, etc.), add it under the AI Keys tab before toggling the source on. Without the key, that source returns nothing.

Exclude words

Drop words here that you never want to see in matched jobs (e.g. junior, intern, a specific company you're avoiding). Any posting whose title or description contains an excluded word is filtered before reaching your inbox.

Exclude words are case-insensitive. Use whole words; partial matches aren't supported.

Subscription tab

Shows your current tier (Free / Managerial / Leadership / Executive), the next renewal date, and links to:

  • Switch plan — upgrade or downgrade via Stripe
  • Manage billing — Stripe customer portal (update card, change cycle, cancel)
  • Apply discount code — if you have one

Plan changes take effect immediately; pro-rata billing is handled by Stripe on the next invoice.

For deeper detail on what each tier unlocks, see Subscription.

Profile tab

The Profile tab has several sub-sections:

  • Basics — first name, last name, email (read-only — change via account flow)
  • Career status — drives the recommended cadences on Insights. Options: Actively looking / Open to opportunities / Building skills (employed) / Market awareness only / Not active
  • Theme — Light / Dark. Persisted server-side so your preference follows you across browsers + devices.
  • AI provider — pick your default AI provider (Claude / Gemini / ChatGPT). Used everywhere in the app that has AI features (interview answers, application Q&A, role tips, etc.). The exact model identifier within each provider is admin-configured under /admin/ai → AI Setup → AI Models. When an administrator enables a self-hosted endpoint, a Local (private) option also appears — it keeps every prompt on WaypointCareer's own infrastructure with no third-party egress, and is metered against your monthly allowance just like the cloud providers.
  • Resume — upload your master resume (PDF). The AI uses the text for grounding answers + tips. One per account; uploading a new one replaces the previous.

AI Keys tab

Your own AI provider credentials (formerly under Profile). AI is funded by the platform and included in your plan, so a key isn't required. Add your own key for a provider only for unmetered usage on that provider, billed to your own account and not counted against your monthly allowance. A single Use my own API keys switch gates whether saved keys are used at all — while it's off, platform-funded AI is used even if you've stored a key. (This tab is separate from API Keys, which issues wcsk_… automation tokens for the public API.)

Notifications tab

Controls the WaypointCareer digest — the short weekly or monthly summary of your progress, pending reading, and any platform announcements. Three options:

  • Weekly (default for new accounts) — a digest every 7 days.
  • Monthly — every 30 days. Same content, less frequent.
  • Off — no digest. Welcome emails, password resets, and account notices still arrive — those are transactional and aren't gated by this preference.

The tab also shows when your last digest was sent so you know whether the next one is due.

Every digest email also carries a one-click Unsubscribe link in the footer (RFC 8058 — your mail client's native "unsubscribe" button calls it too). Clicking it flips this preference to Off.

See the full guide: Email & Notifications and Weekly / Monthly digest.

Tips

  • Career status matters. It drives the recommended cadences on Insights, default goal targets, and which goal templates surface as "suggested" on first run.
  • AI is included — top up if you run out. Every plan has a monthly AI allowance; Free's is small. If you hit it before the month resets, buy a usage credit pack from Settings → Subscription (credits roll over and never expire), or add your own provider key for unmetered usage on your own account.
  • Resume changes ripple slowly. The AI features that ground in your resume (interview answers, application Q&A) re-read the resume on each generation, so a new resume is reflected immediately for new generations — but old generated content is unchanged.

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