Skills matcher

List what you can do. See which roles on the board speak the same language. Everything is calculated in your browser.

What the skills matcher does

The skills matcher compares a short list of skills, tools and subject areas that you type against the text of the listings currently loaded on the hjobs board. For each listing it counts how many of your terms appear in the title, tags and description, then ranks the results. That is all. It is a keyword overlap tool, closer to a smart search box than to an assessment.

Why bother? Because job titles are unreliable. A "Customer Success Associate" at one company does the work of a "Client Operations Analyst" at another. Searching by title keeps you inside the labels you already know. Searching by skill surfaces roles that use your abilities under a name you would not have tried.

A workflow that gets useful results

Write skills as a recruiter would search for them. Prefer "SQL", "financial modelling" or "Figma" over "good with numbers". Separate items with commas.
Keep it to eight or twelve terms. A very long list matches everything weakly. A very short one misses relevant roles. Put your strongest, most evidenced skills first.
Include both a tool and a task. "Python" alone matches thousands of listings. "Python, data cleaning, dashboards" narrows toward analytical work.
Run the match, then read the top five fully. Open each original listing. Ignore the score and ask whether the day-to-day work appeals to you.
Vary and repeat. Remove one term, add a synonym such as "bookkeeping" for "accounting", and run it again. Differences between runs show you which skills are doing the work.
Move to the next step. For any role you like, paste its description into the job compatibility checker for a requirement-by-requirement view.

Worked examples

Example 1: a career changer

Someone with five years in hospital administration enters: scheduling, stakeholder communication, reporting, Excel, compliance. Roles with "operations", "coordinator" and "programme" in the title may rise, including some in international development that they had not considered. The useful insight is the vocabulary: listings use "stakeholder" and "reporting" where they might have said "liaison" and "paperwork".

Example 2: a specialist checking their range

A front-end developer enters: React, TypeScript, accessibility, design systems. Results cluster around technology, but a few design and education technology roles appear. Adding "Figma" shifts the ranking toward product teams. The change tells the developer that design tooling is a bridge into those teams.

Example 3: sparse results

A translator enters: Arabic, French, localisation, subtitling and receives few matches. That is a normal outcome: the board is a snapshot of public listings, not the whole market. Try broader words like "language", "content" or "communications", and check specialist boards directly.

Limitations you should know about

Keywords are not meaning. The tool cannot tell whether "Java" refers to the language or the island, or whether a skill is required or merely mentioned.
Synonyms are missed. "Bookkeeper" and "accounts clerk" are different strings. Try variants yourself.
The board is a snapshot. Results depend on which listings were loaded. When the public feed is unavailable, hjobs shows clearly labelled sample listings, and matching those is only practice.
Eligibility is not checked. A match says nothing about visas, residency, time zones or employer location rules. Read the original listing.
It is not an assessment. Employers screen on experience, evidence and interviews. A score does not predict their decision.

Frequently asked questions

Is my skills list saved or sent anywhere?

The matching is calculated in your browser. hjobs has no accounts and does not receive your list. See the privacy policy for the full picture of what the site does store locally.

Why did a role I am qualified for score low?

Probably because the listing uses different words. Add the terms from the listing itself and try again.

Can I upload my CV?

No. Uploads are not supported by design. Copy a handful of skills instead.

What counts as a good score?

There is no threshold. Use the ranking to decide what to read first, nothing more.

Does it work offline?

The calculation does, but the listings come from a public feed, so you need a connection to load them.

More tools are on the tools page.