adding this to my action fixed the problem

<field name="view_ids" eval="[(5, 0, 0),

            (0, 0, {'view_mode': 'tree', 'view_id': ref('view_myjobs_tree')}),

            (0, 0, {'view_mode': 'form', 'view_id': ref('view_myjobs_form')})]"/>