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Upload your CV to Job Matches to compare your documented skills, experience, location and preferences against available UK vacancies. Review ranked recommendations and decide which jobs are suitable before applying.
CV matching
Match your CV to jobs across the UK
Job Matches searches across multiple UK vacancy sources, matches them to your CV and preferences with AI, repeats the search automatically, and brings the strongest opportunities together — you review and apply yourself. Matching your CV is only half the service — Job Matches also keeps looking for newly available vacancies.
Can a website match my CV to jobs?
Yes. Job Matches uses the skills and experience in the CV information you provide to identify relevant UK vacancies and rank suitable opportunities for you to review.
Is Job Matches a job board?
Not in the traditional sense. Job Matches focuses on matching a candidate's CV and preferences to relevant vacancies rather than asking the candidate to search an undifferentiated vacancy catalogue.
Does Job Matches apply for jobs automatically?
No. It identifies and ranks relevant opportunities; the candidate chooses which vacancies to review and apply for.
How is CV matching different from job alerts?
Job alerts are usually driven by selected keywords or titles. CV matching can use a wider set of skills and experience from the candidate's CV to identify potentially relevant roles.
Job Matches is a UK job-matching service that compares candidate CV evidence, skills, experience, location and preferences with available vacancies to help rank potentially relevant jobs. Matching UK vacancies to a candidate CV is the core product. Ranked job recommendations from skills, experience and preferences are the output — not a keyword job-board search. Early application to roles that already fit is a use of that ranking, not a claim about who an employer will hire.
How CV-to-job matching works
Matching uses the uploaded CV plus the roles, locations and seniority you save. It is limited to vacancies Job Matches has observed in the United Kingdom. New searches run on your plan cadence: you choose the frequency on Free, and Pro searches twice daily. You can save, ignore or mark a role applied. Job Matches does not submit the application.
Skill and location counts for that inventory are on the current UK vacancy dataset, with the date, sample size and limitations stated there.
Matching is half the service. Repeated search is the other half.
Upload once, set preferences, then Job Matches searches multiple UK vacancy sources and ranks new roles against your evidence. Pro checks twice daily. Relevant opportunities appear in one place so you spend less time recreating the same searches across boards.
Job Matches discovers vacancies across multiple UK sources — including LinkedIn listings, employer career sites via ATS boards (such as Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby), and additional job-board feeds when those connectors are enabled. It does not claim to cover every UK vacancy or every job board.
How matching your CV to jobs actually works
- 1. Parse the CV. We extract roles, skills, tools and a career snapshot from the file you upload.
- 2. Add preferences. Desired titles, UK locations, experience band and exclusions sit alongside the CV.
- 3. Search multiple sources. Vacancies are discovered across configured UK sources and brought into one ranking pass.
- 4. Rank and explain. Each vacancy gets a 0–100 fit score and a short explanation. The AI helps decide what deserves your attention; you decide what deserves an application.
- 5. You decide. Save, ignore or apply. You choose which roles to apply for. Job Matches does not automatically submit applications. When you shortlist a role, tailor the CV for that vacancy — not for every listing you opened. Should you tailor your CV for every job?
Example job matches
These cards mirror the dashboard: title, location, recency, a fit score and the reason. They are illustrative, not a live search for your CV.
Operations Analyst
London · Hybrid · Posted overnight
Fit 84
Your operations and reporting experience matches the seniority band. London hybrid is in your locations. Keywords overlap on Excel, process and stakeholder reporting.
ExperienceLocationKeywords
Management Information Analyst
Manchester · Hybrid · Still open
Fit 76
Role keywords match MI / reporting. Manchester is listed in your locations. Seniority sits inside your mid-level band, so it is kept rather than rejected.
KeywordsLocation
Graduate Operations Assistant
Birmingham · Office · Snippet only
Fit 61
Title and city look relevant, but the listing is a card snippet with no full description. Snippet-only matches are capped at 62 and labelled low confidence until a fuller spec is fetched.
Low confidence
What moves the CV fit score
1. Strongest
Experience and seniority
Required years and title seniority can keep or reject a role before anything else. A director listing will not rank well against a graduate profile, and the reverse is also filtered.
2. Second
Location
Your saved cities, hybrid/remote flags and UK radius matter almost as much as seniority. A strong skills overlap will not rescue a role in a city you excluded.
3. Third
Role keywords and skills
Desired job titles, CV skills and tools (for example Excel, audit, Python) move the fit score once experience and location already fit.
4. Modest boost
Preferences
Salary band, working pattern and other preferences can lift a score slightly when they align. They do not override a seniority or location miss.
5. Soft
Your save / ignore history
Roles similar to jobs you saved can rise a little; similar to jobs you ignored can fall. Company name alone is the weakest signal and will not reject a good experience/location/keyword fit.
6. Confidence cap
Listing completeness
If Job Matches only has a public card snippet, the match is labelled low confidence and the score is capped at 62 until a fuller description is available.
Repeated searches help surface new vacancies sooner
A strong fit found a week late is just another crowded listing. Pro searches twice daily and can email digests so a new fit can reach you while applications are still being received. Why applying early can matter.
Free matching, Pro for twice daily search
Free: upload a CV, build a profile, get personalised matches and a tracker. Pro: £7.99/month for twice daily automatic search, richer explanations and application packs. Candidate pricing for CV job matching.
Keep going
- AI job matcher
What the AI does — and what it does not do.
- Job Matches vs Reed
Workflow comparison with a traditional board.
- How early should you apply?
Evidence-backed timing guidance.
- Should you tailor your CV for every job?
Match first, then tailor the vacancies you will actually apply for.
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Upload a CV and see ranked UK matches.
Questions
- How do you match my CV to jobs?
- Job Matches reads the experience, skills and job titles on your CV, then combines them with the locations, seniority and preferences you set. Vacancies discovered across multiple UK sources are scored 0–100. Experience and seniority decide keep-or-reject first; location is next; role keywords and skills move the score after that.
- Does matching keep running after I upload once?
- Yes. Matching your CV is only half the service. Job Matches also keeps looking for newly available vacancies rather than requiring you to return and repeat the same search manually. Pro runs automatic searches twice daily.
- What does a fit score mean?
- The score is 0–100. High 70s and 80s usually mean seniority, location and keywords all line up. If we only have a short public snippet for the vacancy, the product caps the score at 62 and labels it low confidence until a fuller description is fetched — that is documented matching behaviour, not a hiring-outcome claim.
- Does Job Matches search more than one job site?
- Job Matches discovers vacancies across multiple UK sources — including LinkedIn listings, employer career sites via ATS boards (such as Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby), and additional job-board feeds when those connectors are enabled. It does not claim to cover every UK vacancy or every job board.
- Is this the same as pasting my CV into a job board?
- Traditional job boards give you somewhere to search. Job Matches does the searching for you. Boards typically keyword-search whatever is live when you remember to look. Job Matches starts from your CV, searches multiple sources, ranks fits, and repeats the search automatically.
- Will Job Matches apply to jobs for me?
- You choose which roles to apply for. Job Matches does not automatically submit applications.
- Is matching free?
- Yes. Free includes a career profile, CV upload, personalised matching and a job tracker. Pro is a monthly subscription for twice daily automatic search, richer match explanations and application support.
Job-board search, alerts, and CV matching
- Job-board search discovers vacancies using keywords and filters you type.
- A job alert notifies you when new listings match those same criteria.
- CV matching compares evidence on a CV with vacancy requirements.
- Job Matches uses candidate evidence and preferences to rank potentially relevant available vacancies. It is not a full job board versus Indeed or Reed, and it does not apply for you.
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