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How to Work with Recruiters
Make it easy for relevant recruiters to understand what you can offer and what roles you want.
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.
Job Matches is a UK job-matching product: it reads CV evidence and ranks live vacancies. This article stays informational. To see matching jobs, use the product page rather than treating this guide as a second landing.
Recruiters can connect candidates with vacancies and employers they know well, particularly in specialist or active hiring markets. The relationship works best when your experience and target roles are clear.
How do you choose a recruiter?
Look for evidence that they recruit your type of role, sector, seniority and geography. A specialist who understands the market may be more useful than a large number of generic registrations.
What should you tell them?
Explain your strongest relevant experience, target roles, location or working preferences, availability and realistic compensation expectations. Make constraints clear early.
How should applications be managed?
Know where your CV is being sent and avoid duplicate submissions to the same employer. Keep your own application record even when a recruiter manages communication.
What should you expect from a recruiter?
Recruiters represent hiring clients as well as candidates, so they cannot guarantee work. Treat useful market feedback seriously while making your own decisions about roles and employers.
This article is part of the Finding a Job Knowledge Base. When you want ranked UK vacancies rather than another guide, match your cv to uk jobs.
Related guides
- Finding suitable jobs
A practical sequence for searching, shortlisting and applying without drowning in listings.
- What job suits me
Use your evidence, constraints and preferences before chasing every advertised title.
- Finding jobs by skills
Look for roles that need what you already do, not only the job title you last held.
- Where to look
Boards, employers, recruiters and matching tools all have a place in a UK search.
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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