Mapademics DocsMatching applicants to jobs
How job matching works on an applicant's profile — filters, score interpretation, per-job breakdowns, and labor-market context.
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 skill fit.
This page covers how to read the matches and what to do with them.
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.
Filtering and searching
Above the table, a row of filter chips lets you narrow the list:
| Filter | Use it to… |
|---|---|
| Sector | Constrain to a specific occupational sector. |
| Location | Limit to a city, region, or state. |
| Education | Filter by typical-degree requirement (high school, associate, bachelor, etc.). |
| Experience | Filter by required years of work experience. |
| Salary | Filter by minimum or salary range. |
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.
Reading the table
Each match is one row. The columns:
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Match Score | The overall fit percentage. The colored bar visualizes the same number — green for strong, olive for moderate, orange for weak. |
| Job | Title of the role. Click to open the job's detail page. |
| Employer | The hiring organization. Click to open the employer's detail page. |
| Location | Where the role is located. |
| Salary | Either a single value or a range, when the source provides one. |
| SOC Code | The Standard Occupational Classification code — useful when you're aligning to a workforce-planning taxonomy. |
| Typical Degree | The credential level the role usually expects. |
| Work Experience | Years of experience the role usually expects. |
The star on the far left of each row toggles Saved Jobs. Star a job to surface it later in the Saved Jobs sub-tab.
Reading a single match
Click the chevron on a row to expand it. The expansion has three sub-tabs that look at the same match from three different angles.
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.
| Metric | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Median Wage | The typical pay for this occupation in this region. |
| Total Employment | How many people currently hold this occupation. |
| Employment Change | The projected change in total employment, as a percentage. |
| Annual Openings | How many openings are typically posted per year. |
| Education Needed | The credential most workers in this occupation hold. |
| Work Experience | The experience most workers in this occupation have. |
Use Labor Market Outlook to answer "is this even a viable career path right now, and what should the applicant know going in?"
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.
Next steps
Coaching with the Skills Report
How to use the Coaching & Evaluation view in a session with an applicant, and how to share the resulting Skills Report.
Jobs — Public vs Uploaded
How Careers organizes jobs into two separate feeds — Public (curated by Mapademics) and Uploaded (added by your team) — and when to use each.