Search

Overview

Marmend offers two kinds of search:

• Internal search — a smarter search box on your Candidates and Employees pages that understands meaning, not just exact words.
• Marketplace job search — the public job search at marmend.com/jobs, where candidates find and apply to your open roles.

Both are turned on per organization, so you may not see one or both depending on your plan.

Internal search (Candidates & Employees)

Where to find it

Use the search bar at the top of the Candidates page (/recruiting/candidates) and the Employees page. Type a query and the list filters as you go.

How it works

When smart search is enabled for your organization, the search box does more than match names and email addresses. It combines two approaches:

• Keyword matching — finds exact and fuzzy matches on names, emails, job titles, and other text (so typos and accents still match).
• Meaning-based matching — understands the intent behind your words, so a search for "backend engineer" can surface a candidate whose CV says "server-side developer" even if those exact words never appear.

Results are ranked so the most relevant people appear first. Start typing with at least three characters to trigger smart search; shorter queries fall back to a basic name lookup.

What you can search across

For candidates, search looks at the full name, email, profession, location, languages, and the parsed contents of the CV (summary, skills, and experience).

For employees, search looks at the full name, work email, job title, work type, work arrangement, and work location.

What is never searched

To protect privacy, search never looks at salary, phone numbers, home or emergency contacts, social profiles, notes, or documents.

Works with your filters

Smart search composes with everything else on the page. You can search and still apply your usual filters — pipeline stage, vacancy, archived status, team, office, or department — and your chosen sort order. When you haven't set an explicit sort, candidate results stay in relevance order (best match first).

If results look thin

Search always stays useful. If the part of the system that powers meaning-based matching is temporarily unavailable, search automatically falls back to keyword matching across the same fields — still far broader than a plain name lookup. You don't need to do anything; results simply rely on keywords until full search is back.

Marketplace job search (public)

Where to find it

The public marketplace lives at marmend.com/jobs. This is the page external candidates use to discover roles across all organizations on Marmend. When they open it, they see the newest open positions straight away — they don't have to search to see something.

What candidates can search by

Visitors type what they're looking for in plain words — a job title, a skill, a city, or a mix of all three. Search understands:

• Places, by name and in any of our languages. A role in Kyiv is found by "Kyiv", "Kyjiw" and "Київ" alike, so a candidate searching in German or Ukrainian finds the same role as one searching in English.
• Several words at once, even when only some match. Searching "software engineer" still returns your closest roles when nothing is titled exactly that. Roles matching every word appear first, then the near misses — so a broad search never comes back empty when there was something worth showing.
• Singular and plural. "developer" and "developers" find the same roles. The same holds for German word endings.
• Small typos. "developr" or "designr" still find the right roles.

How to make sure your roles are found

Three things make the difference, and all of them are on the vacancy itself:

1. Always set the location. This is the single biggest factor. City and country searches are among the most common things candidates type, and a role with no location can only be found by its title or description.
2. Use the job title candidates would search for. Put the recognisable role name in the title — "Java Developer", "Product Manager" — and keep internal grading or project code names out of it. The title carries the most weight in ranking.
3. Describe the role in full. Skills, responsibilities and requirements are all searchable, so a well-filled vacancy is findable by far more queries than a sparse one.

What gets listed

Only published vacancies appear in the marketplace. A role becomes findable as soon as you publish it, and disappears when you unpublish or close it.

Each result links straight to the full vacancy page on your public site, where the candidate reads the details and applies.

See Also

• Vacancy Management — publishing vacancies so they appear in the marketplace
• CMS Pages — building the public site your vacancies link from