Rolehound

Adding a job by URL

Some roles you find yourself. Paste the link in and Rolehound reads the page, scores the role against your profile like any other, and lets you draft against it.

How

Jobs page, Add URLs tab, the box headed Add jobs by URL. Paste one link or a whole list, one per line, and choose Add URLs.

You get three numbers back. Queued is what was accepted. Skipped means you have submitted that URL before, or that job is already on your list. Invalid means the text was not a usable link.

What happens then

The reading happens in the background, not while you wait. The Submitted URLs list below shows each link and its status: Pending, Processing, Imported, Duplicate or Failed. Retry re-queues a failed one; Delete removes the row.

For links on a careers board Rolehound recognises, it asks that system for the posting directly rather than reading the page. For everything else it downloads the page and reads the text out of it. Either way, what it pulls out is the job title, the employer, the location, whether the role is in the UK, whether it is on-site, hybrid or remote, and the salary range if one is stated.

Your own jobs are never dropped

You chose it, so Rolehound does not overrule you. A pasted job that fails the UK, salary or commute check is flagged rather than dropped. It appears on your list with the failed check named under Not suitable, so you can read the objection, disagree with it, and draft against the role anyway.

When it fails

The row turns Failed and says why in plain words. The ones you will actually meet:

  • The page needs JavaScript. The site builds its listings in the browser, so the page as downloaded contains nothing to read. Try the employer's own posting rather than an aggregator's copy of it.
  • The page is a sign-in wall. The posting is only visible to logged-in users, so there is nothing to be done with that link.
  • The page is a list of jobs rather than a single posting. Open the one role you want and submit that link instead.
  • The posting has expired or has been taken down.
  • The fetch was refused. The status code is shown on the row — a 403 means the site blocked the request outright.
  • The page had almost no readable text. Usually the same story as the first case, told from the other end.

Retry is worth using for a timeout or a passing outage. It will not help with a sign-in wall or a page built in the browser — those need a different link, not another attempt.

A note on picking links

The employer's own careers page is nearly always the better link: it is more likely to be readable, it carries the salary and location as the employer wrote them, and it is the version that stays live longest.