# Searching

> How the Careers search works: the twelve boards, filters, deduplication, the explained fit score, office days, saved searches and what to do for boards without public data.

Source: https://careers.geenius.io/docs/searching/

Careers searches many boards in one go, filters and deduplicates the postings, stores them and scores each one against your profile.

## The boards

| Kind | Boards |
|---|---|
| Freelance, Netherlands and Germany | Freelance.nl, freelancermap, GULP |
| Permanent, Germany | Bundesagentur für Arbeit, GermanTechJobs, Arbeitnow |
| Remote | Himalayas, RemoteOK, Remotive, We Work Remotely, Jobicy, Hacker News "Who is hiring" |

That is twelve. Freelance comes first in the lists.

## Filters

- **Contract type** and **EU-friendly**.
- **Languages**: a posting that asks for a language outside your working languages is not shown. A posting only written in Dutch that never asks for Dutch is kept and tagged "posting in Dutch".
- **Rate floor** for the digest.
- **Office days**: Careers reads "3 office days a week", "2 dagen per week op kantoor", "hybrid 3/2", "Büro 3 Tage", "fully remote" and similar from the posting.

Postings are deduplicated across boards on a normalised address, so the same job from two boards appears once.

## The fit score

Each posting has one number, the **Fit**, with its reasons. It is a coverage of what the posting asks for against your profile, with the evidence. Before you have a profile, results are ranked on your search words and the reasons say so.

## Boards without public data

Upwork, Hays, Striive, LinkedIn and Malt have no public data. For them Careers gives ready-made searches and a **paste box**: paste a posting and it is stored, deduplicated and scored like any other. An AI agent with a browser can import what it read with `jobs save`.

> [!HONEST]
> Careers does not scrape sites that have no public data.

## Shortcuts

In the list: `J` and `K` move, `Enter` opens, `S` saves, and `/` focuses the search bar.

## From a result

Save it to your pipeline (stage "saved", nothing is drafted or sent), or open it to tailor. The **Tracked** page lists every job with a stage and its next step in words.