We removed the most tedious part of posting a job
Categories and skills are now suggested by your own description. But the final call stays with you - deliberately.
You just spent ten minutes writing a proper job description. What you already have, what needs doing, how many hours a month, which timezone you need overlap with.
And now you're asked to pick a category. From a list of several hundred.
It's the worst moment of posting a job. Not because it's hard - because it's pointless. You just described all of it in plain language. Why say the same thing again, in someone else's vocabulary?
Why that step exists at all
The tempting fix is to delete it. Let the client write the text and we'll figure the rest out.
That doesn't work. Categories and skills aren't paperwork — they're the input to search. They're how your job finds people and how people find your job. The description is read by someone who already opened the page; the category decides whether they ever see it.
And that creates a gap we saw in the live data. Jobs get described well and tagged badly - people take the first thing on the list, or pick three approximate categories instead of one accurate one. The result: a good job sitting where nobody is looking.
Bad tagging doesn't look like a problem. It looks like silence.
What we did
Now, when you reach the categories step, something is already there.
The system reads your title and description, and suggests. Write "Part-time community manager - 4 months, monthly milestones" and a paragraph about being in the chat daily and keeping a content rhythm going, and you get Community Management suggested as a category, and customer service and Content Creation suggested as skills on the next step.
Not a list of three hundred. Two or three things that follow from what you just wrote yourself.
Take them all with one tap. Remove the ones that don't fit. Want something else - the search and the full tree are still right there, directly under the suggestions.
The rule that matters: it suggests, you decide
Under the suggestions there's a line that matters more to us than the feature itself: "Based on your title and description. Tap one to add it -nothing is applied unless you do."
Nothing is applied until you tap it.
That isn't caution, and it isn't half-finished automation. It's the principle the whole matching layer is built on: the algorithm extracts and matches, it doesn't judge.
