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As any job site, the careers section has a search on city, state/country and a number of miles... However, a regional approach like "West Coast", "East Coast", "Europe", "Latin-America", ... (or even "Remote") would be extremely easy to implement and make the Stack Exchange careers web site something unique.

By when can we have this fantastic feature?

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  • Related, maybe dupe: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/29458/…
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:30
  • @ShadowWizard: thanks for the link, and I understood already that that's the limit, but IMHO, a simple DB set would take care of that limitation and make Stack Exchange Careers (=SEC?) something unique that would attract tons of new users...
    – Fabby
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:37
  • Pretty much anything that you can enter into Google works with the job search... entering Europe as a search term will constrain the geo-search area to all of Europe within 20 miles of that bounding box. Same for West Coast, USA.
    – Dean Ward
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:38
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    Hmmm scrap that. West Coast, USA clearly does not do what it says on the tin. Europe works though.
    – Dean Ward
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:40
  • @Dean yup, this doesn't work, maybe devs get different results or something like that?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:40
  • @ShadowWizard this will also be susceptible to the advertising region filtering described in this comment. So if you're not in Europe you may not see many Europe jobs. Using my regular user account I see 997 jobs in Europe at the moment (I'm in Dublin).
    – Dean Ward
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:43
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    Searching for remote jobs is already possible: careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote
    – Max
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:44
  • @DeanWard: Actually strings in your link to imgur.com/h0C2Zoo seem to work... Would you care to convert that comment to an answer so I can accept?
    – Fabby
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 13:49

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Pretty much anything that you can enter into Google works with the job search.

Entering continents such as Europe as a search term will constrain the geo-search area to all of Europe within 20 miles of that bounding box.

As Max mentioned we also support searching for remote positions. This is exposed in the UI as the 'Allows Remote' option:

Allows Remote

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  • Accepted, upvoted, edited to include the comments and finally: "Thank you!" ;-)
    – Fabby
    Commented Apr 2, 2015 at 14:32

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