I'm asking this question because there really should be a way to cookie or store and save the job search filters:
Every time I tab onto anything on stackoverflow these filters are reset. If I click "search companies" and return to "search jobs" this data is lost again. I find myself having to select these parameters every single time...
But wait you say you have the job match preferences setting in your profile...but I don't believe these work correctly...I have these set in my profile yet the job search filters may / may not override them?
But then when I check my job search preferences and do not set the job search filters the results I get do not match the criteria I have in my job match preferences.
This is very confusing...why doesnt the job search filters (the picture from above) automatically set your job match preferences? In addition these ones:
Or even better why doesn't it such that when I go to "search jobs" the settings from my job match preferences automatically load these filters so I know what I am searching on? Right now it is very misleading how any of this works. Is it using my job match preferences or is it using my job search filters? Which one overrides the other one and why are they not in sync?
Ideal scenario is you get rid of this multiple way of doing this. Whatever changes you make to one it saves to the other...they should be just one setting after all. And when you first bring up the ui "search jobs" whatever is in your "job match preferences" (this is in your SO profile) should automatically load those filters that look like tags (the blue squares). It should do it automatically based on what I have already defined.
If I remove something it should remove it from my preference and REMEMBER this value. Otherwise i find myself repeating searches over and over.