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FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

What Vektr is, what it isn't, and what happens to your email.

What is Vektr?

Vektr is your career's home base: a place that knows where you're headed and does the heavy lifting of finding the roles that get you there. It has three parts.

Vektr Scan takes the job alerts you already get. Forward them to your private Vektr address and Vektr scans every listing, finds the full posting when an email only shows a teaser, and sets aside the ones that miss.

Vektr Score weighs each promising role against you: your goal, what matters most to you, your pay floor, your commute and your dealbreakers. You see how well it suits you, how well you match what it asks for, and whether it moves you toward where you're headed, with a plain-language analysis behind it.

Vektr Relay brings strong fits you didn't go looking for, from companies' own job boards and from other members, who pass along roles that weren't right for them.

Around those: a Tracker for every application, a browser extension for roles you find on your own, and a record of your career that's yours to keep, between searches too.

Is Vektr a job board?

No. Vektr is not a job board or a job search engine, and you can't browse or search a list of jobs in it. You bring roles by forwarding job alerts, pasting a role, or using the browser extension. Vektr can also bring you strong fits from companies' own job boards and, if you opt in to Relay, from other members, and only when a role looks like a strong fit for you.

What does it cost?

Vektr is free to join, and nobody is charged during the private beta. There's a free plan. Paid plans with more are coming, and we'll tell you about them well before anything changes. Beta members hear first.

Who is Vektr for?

Everyone who works or wants to: students, people starting out, hourly workers, career changers and executives. Pay can be hourly or yearly, and you can start with a first job as your goal.

How does forwarding work?

After you sign up, Vektr gives you a private address. Forward your job alert emails to it, or set your email app to forward them automatically with a rule or filter. Vektr scans each email, pulls out the listings, and drops duplicates and obvious misses. Vektr never logs in to a job site for you.

Which job alert sites work?

Vektr scans the alert emails themselves, so it works with the alerts you already get: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter, company career sites and more. Vektr never logs in to those sites; it scans the email.

Some alerts only show a teaser. Vektr then looks for the full posting on the employer's own site. If an alert sender often hides the employer, Vektr tells you on the Scan page, and you can paste the description for any role it couldn't find.

What happens to my email text?

Vektr scans a forwarded email to pull out the listings, then deletes the email text and keeps a simple list of what arrived: the date, the sender and the listings found. If an email can't be scanned, its text is kept for up to 3 days so Vektr can try again, then deleted.

The full details are in the Privacy policy.

Is there a browser extension?

Yes. The Vektr extension works in Chrome and Edge and is free on every plan. When you find a role on a job site, it sends the page to Vektr and you see the score right there. The more detailed breakdown of the score is on paid plans.

What is Vektr Relay, and what is shared?

Relay connects the Vektr members who opt in to help each other, like a constellation of job seekers. A role that isn't for you can go on to a member it might fit, and roles from other members can reach you, only when they look like a strong fit for you.

Only open postings that are public on the employer's own site are shared, never your emails, notes, scores or applications. Members who receive a role never see who passed it on or why.

You'll see how much good you've done: how many members your roles reached, and how many were hired. Joining is your choice, and you can leave any time in Settings under Roles Vektr brings you.

What's coming next?

Vektr is growing into complete career management: a guide for the whole journey, not just the search. Here's what's on the way.

Direction and coaching. Pointers on your next step and the one after it, based on where you're headed and what's working.

Help through the hiring process. A résumé and cover letter tuned to each role, interview prep, and pointers for negotiating your offer.

Your career, all in one place. Your path, your history and your pay over time, yours to keep between searches.

Beta members get each piece first and help shape it.

Do employers pay Vektr?

No. Vektr never accepts payment to show you a role. Vektr works for you, not for recruiters or advertisers.

How do I get in?

Vektr is in private beta and invites small groups at a time. Press Bring Me Aboard, leave your name and email, and your invitation will arrive by email. It may take a while.

Can I delete my account?

Yes, whenever you like, yourself. In Settings, under Your data, press Download my data for a copy first, then Delete my account.

That removes your profile, roles, analyses, Tracker, notes, emails list, kept files and settings, and your Vektr address stops accepting email. Remember to turn off forwarding in your own email too. Backups clear within 90 days. See the Privacy policy for the details.

Ready to come aboard?

Vega is ready to start sorting. Vektr is opening to small groups first, and your invitation will arrive by email.

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