Matching applicants to jobs

Every applicant's profile has a Jobs tab. It continuously matches the applicant against the full set of jobs in your workspace — both Public jobs Mapademics has curated for your organization and Uploaded jobs your team has added — and ranks them by Match Score.

This page covers how to read the matches and what to do with them.

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Matching Jobs vs Saved Jobs

The Jobs tab has two sub-tabs:

• Matching Jobs — the live ranked list. The number next to the tab label is how many matches are currently in scope.
• Saved Jobs — jobs you've starred for follow-up. Empty by default.

Use Matching Jobs to discover. Use Saved Jobs to track the short list you'll talk through with the applicant.

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Filtering and searching

Above the table, a row of filter chips lets you narrow the list:

The number on a filter chip is how many values are currently selected. Clear all resets everything.

A free-text Search field below the filters lets you find a specific job by title or employer.

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Reading the table

Each match is one row. The columns:

Two controls sit on the far left of every row:

• The star toggles Saved Jobs. Star a job to surface it later in the Saved Jobs sub-tab.
• The thumbs-down flags the match as wrong. Use it when the row is not a near-miss but a genuine error — the wrong occupation, an implausible skill fit, a role the applicant could never hold. It opens a short feedback form so you can say why, and the report reaches the Mapademics team already linked to this applicant, this resume, and this job. You'll find your own copy, and any reply, under My Account → Messages. See Support.

Downvoting is the main way matching quality gets better, and a downvote with one sentence of reasoning is worth far more than a bare one.

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Reading a single match

Click the chevron on a row to expand it. The expansion has four sub-tabs that look at the same match from four different angles.

Match Score

The summary tab, and the one to open first. It shows the Match Score in full, then the things behind it — one row each:

• Skills — how much of what this job asks for the applicant already has. Skills the job treats as core count for more than the rest.
• Licences — what the posting requires, and what the applicant holds against it. Named credentials appear as badges; "This posting names no licences" means the posting asked for none.
• Pay — what this occupation typically pays, against what the applicant's own occupation typically pays. When the employer posted a salary, that figure is used instead.

Use Match Score to answer "why is this number what it is?" before you look at any of the detail tabs.

Skills Match

A Skill Contribution Chart that compares the applicant's skill levels against the role's expected levels, broken out skill by skill.

• Core Skill bars (green) are the role's most important skills.
• Relevant Skill bars (purple) are also expected but secondary.
• The dashed horizontal lines mark the level the role expects for each tier.
• Bars above the line mean the applicant exceeds the expectation; bars below mean a gap.
• Empty pink-shaded bars mark skills the applicant is missing entirely — the most actionable findings for a coaching conversation.

Use Skills Match to answer "where, specifically, does this fit and where doesn't it?"

Skills Radar

A radar over skill domains, comparing the applicant's coverage to the role's expected coverage. Three KPIs sit below the chart:

• Domains — how many skill domains the role spans.
• Skills Met — how many of the role's required skills the applicant covers, expressed as X / Y.
• Avg Match — the average percentage match across the role's required skills.

Use Skills Radar to answer "is this person broadly aligned with this role?"

Labor Market Outlook

Six labor-market metrics for the role's underlying occupation, scoped to the applicant's state by default.

Use Labor Market Outlook to answer "is this even a viable career path right now, and what should the applicant know going in?"

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When a job requires a licence the applicant doesn't have

Some roles can't be held without a credential — a nursing licence, a CDL, a trade certification. Careers reads those requirements from the posting and checks them against the licences it found on the applicant's resume.

When the applicant doesn't hold a required credential, the job doesn't appear in Matching Jobs at all. It isn't ranked low; it's out of the list. The thinking is that a coach shouldn't spend a session on a role the applicant legally cannot take today.

A credential the posting merely prefers behaves differently: the job stays in the list, and holding the credential helps the match while lacking it costs a little.

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Refreshing matches

Matches refresh automatically as resumes and jobs change. To force a recompute on demand, click Refresh Matches at the top right of the Matching Jobs sub-tab — useful when you've just edited a resume or adjusted skill levels and want to see the impact immediately.

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Next steps

• The applicant profile
• Jobs — Public vs Uploaded
• Uploaded Jobs
• Public Jobs
• Skill proficiency levels