FAQ

That's highly unusual — the first thing to check is your Spam / Junk folder. Minerva can be quite spammy by nature: it sends an email for every match it finds, and spam heuristics sometimes misidentify noreply@minervajobsearch.com as junk.

If you find our emails there, mark them as "Not spam" and add the address to your contacts so future matches land in your inbox.

One more thing to keep in mind: a search doesn't always produce an email. If nothing new clears your compatibility threshold, you simply won't hear from us that day — see "Does every search send me an email?" below.

No. A triggered search does not guarantee an email. If you've already seen every job matching your parameters — or your compatibility threshold is set very high and nothing new clears it — you may receive nothing that day. That's not a fault; it's the filter doing its job.

If quiet days bother you, you can lower your threshold or broaden your scraper parameters to widen the net.

Set up an email rule (or filter) in whichever email client you use, and have it automatically move messages from noreply@minervajobsearch.com into their own folder or label. Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and most others all support this.

For an even cleaner separation, you can run Minerva under a second email account entirely — see "Can I search in more ways than one scraper allows?" for how a separate email stream works.

Yes — this is fully supported. Just create more than one scraper config.

Say you're only interested in remote roles as a generic Software Engineer — but if you had to go back to the office, it'd better be a Principal Software Engineer position. Create two scraper configs for the same scraper, one for each scenario.

You can also create another email account and a second Minerva user. The cost ends up the same, but you get the benefit of a completely separate email stream.

LinkedIn, Indeed, and Levels.fyi. Each has its own settings in your Scraper Config on the home page.

As long as you have a balance, Minerva runs a search for you every weekday. Weekends are off — from experience, new job postings rarely go up on Saturdays and Sundays.

No. The same posting will never reach you twice — even when it's listed across several job sites, Minerva de-duplicates it and shows it to you once.

Two dials control this: your compatibility threshold (in User Config) and your scraper parameters (in Scraper Config).

Too many emails? Raise the threshold or narrow the scraper. Too few? Lower the threshold or broaden the scraper. It's entirely up to you whether to hold out for the perfect posting or widen the net.

Use User Config for your account and job-search preferences (including the compatibility threshold), and Scraper Config for the scraper parameters. Both are linked from the home page.

Never. Minerva only rephrases competencies that are already on your resume, matching the language of the job description — if, and only if, the competency is genuinely there. It does not invent qualities or fill gaps. (For the technically inclined: this is RAG, grounded strictly in your resume.)

No. Minerva reworks the language, phrasing and cadence of the text — but whatever formatting your resume came with is what it will use. Good data in, good data out: a strong, well-tailored base resume is the single most important input.

Straight from a match email, request a customized version. You'll receive a resume and cover letter as a matched pair — they're always generated together, tuned to that specific job description.

Use the LinkedIn Profile → Resume tool on the home page: paste your public LinkedIn URL and it generates a formatted starting resume for you. From there, refine it — the better and more complete your base resume, the better every tailored version Minerva produces.

Minerva runs on a simple token balance. When you register, you'll get an email to add $10 to your balance via Stripe. Whenever it drops below $5, it auto-refills so your search never stalls. You can cancel auto-refill at any time, and if the balance runs out, usage simply pauses — no surprises, no lock-in.

Searching is pennies for hundreds of matches. Scoring your resume against jobs is about $1/day for roughly 100 comparisons. The one splurge is generating a customized resume + cover letter pair, at a bit under 50¢ each (state-of-the-art AI costs more). Roughly, $10 covers up to ~10 days of automated searching — more or less, depending on how many documents you generate.

Cancel auto-refill and let your balance run out — usage pauses automatically when the balance is empty. There's no lock-in, and you can top up again whenever you're ready to resume.

No. We only keep your Stripe user ID — just enough to send you a link that takes you straight to where you need to be. Your actual card details live with Stripe, never with us.

We save it to temporary storage with a time-to-live (TTL) of a few months. After that, it naturally expires and disappears from our systems.

Honestly? We'd hope we've done a good enough job that a few months of searching is enough for you to land something — but it's crazy out there.

Rest assured: if your resume expires, you'll receive an email letting you know it's no longer available and asking you to upload it again. It also acts as a gentle forcing function to keep your resume up to date.

Open the User Config Editor — completing it requires uploading a resume (it can be the same one as before). That updates Minerva with your latest version and, as a side effect, resets the TTL clock.