Searching for a job should feel like asking a friend for help, not filling out a tax return. The AI Assistant is now the default search experience on JobAds.ca, and it just got a lot smarter.

Try It On The Homepage

The AI Assistant is on by default. The toggle pill above the search bar shows its current state in green when on, red when off, with a pulsing dot to make the state obvious at a glance. Just type what you are looking for in plain English.

Try things like:

  • "I'd like to drive a truck in Regina, SK"
  • "Part time barista in Calgary"
  • "Remote software developer over $30 an hour"
  • "Nursing jobs in Saskatoon or Edmonton"
  • "Jobs that make $100,000 a year"
  • "Casual welder in Lethbridge"

As you type, live preview chips show exactly what the Assistant understood. A short thinking screen appears when you submit, then takes you straight to your results.

What It Recognizes

The Assistant pulls structured filters out of your sentence:

  • Job titles and roles, including everyday phrases like "drive a truck" which it translates to "truck driver", "teaching" which becomes "teacher", or "cooking" which becomes "cook"
  • Cities across Saskatchewan and Alberta, including multi-word names like Prince Albert, Red Deer, and Lloydminster
  • Multiple cities, so you can say "in Regina or Saskatoon" or "Calgary, Edmonton, and Red Deer" and it searches all of them
  • Provinces, whether you write SK, Sask, Saskatchewan, AB, or Alberta
  • Companies, with substring matching so "ranch ehrlo" finds Ranch Ehrlo Society, "distance learning" finds Saskatchewan Distance Learning Centre, and "wajax" finds Wajax Corporation
  • Employment type like full time, part time, casual, contract, seasonal, or permanent
  • Pay expectations like "$25 an hour", "paying 80k", "over $30/hr", or "$100,000 a year"
  • Remote work phrases like "work from home", "remote", or "telecommute"
  • "With salary info" as a filter, so you only see jobs that show their pay

Smart Spell Check

Typos happen. The Assistant fixes them quietly and shows you what was corrected:

  • Job titles: "assistamt Regina" becomes "assistant in Regina", "trcuk drivr Saskatoon" becomes "truck driver in Saskatoon", "engneer Calgary" becomes "engineer in Calgary"
  • City names: "truck driver reigna" becomes "truck driver in Regina", "welder ednonton" becomes "welder in Edmonton", "cook in calagry" becomes "cook in Calgary"

You will never lose a search to a typo again.

Power User Field Syntax

If you want exact control, you can use a simple field syntax. The Assistant fuzzy-matches the value against the real list and shows you what it picked:

  • employer:Government finds Government of Saskatchewan, Government of Alberta, and similar
  • company:wajax finds Wajax Corporation
  • city:regna finds Regina even with the typo
  • pay:$25/hr sets a minimum hourly wage filter
  • salary:75000 sets a minimum annual salary filter
  • terms:full-time filters by employment type
  • province:SK filters by province

You can combine them in one query: employer:Wajax city:Edmonton pay:35. A small tip line below the search bar reminds you these exist.

Suggestion Chips

When the Assistant fuzzy-matches your input to something specific, a suggestion chip appears under the search bar so you can confirm the match. If nothing matches, an amber warning lets you know the filter applied as-typed but no exact company or city was found.

Built To Be Fast And Safe

A short two-second thinking screen leads into your results, so the experience feels deliberate without making you wait. We also made sure the Assistant cannot be wasted on spam or gibberish: queries that look like random keystrokes are blocked at the input, and per-IP rate limits keep automated abuse from running up our compute. All your data stays on JobAds.ca.

It Is The Default Now

The AI Assistant is on by default for everyone. If you prefer the classic single-keyword search, just click the toggle pill to turn it off. Either way, you are one click from the search you want.

Give It A Try

Head to the JobAds.ca homepage and tell the Assistant what kind of job you are looking for. We would love to hear what works well and what you would like us to teach it next. Send your thoughts to [email protected].

Happy job hunting.