Job search

Personalised Job Search

The hard part of a job search is not the searching, it is knowing what to type. Upload your CV and get the role titles your experience actually maps to, with the reasoning attached, then one click each to run that search live on four job boards. No advertising and nothing sponsored.

Four boards, no premium tier

Why it exists

Most people search for the job they had, not the job they can get

Type your current title into a job board and you get sideways moves. The roles that would actually be a step up are filed under titles you have not thought to search, which is why a search feels empty when it is not.

The same job has six titles

Group reporting manager, financial reporting manager, technical accounting manager, consolidation manager. Search one and you miss the other five, and no board tells you they are the same shortlist.

Search relevance is not on your side

Boards rank for engagement and paid placement. What surfaces is what gets clicked, which is not the same as what fits your background.

Four boards means four sets of filters

Rebuilding the same search with slightly different location and seniority filters on each site is an hour of work that produces nothing, and most people do it once and stop.

Premium sells inbox features, not better matching

A LinkedIn subscription gets you visibility and analytics. It still leaves you guessing what to search for, which was the actual problem.

How it runs

Four steps to a search worth running

Upload the CV

The whole thing, PDF or pasted text. The matching works off what you have actually done, not off a job title.

  1. 1Attach a PDF or paste the text
  2. 2Include the detail, the specifics drive the match
  3. 3No account needed for the first search
Attached. Eight years audit, last two on IFRS conversions.
The conversion work widens this considerably. It puts technical reporting roles in range, not just audit.

Set the constraints

Location, country and level. Be honest about the level, because searching a grade above your evidence wastes the whole exercise.

  1. 1Location and country, including remote
  2. 2Level: graduate, mid-career, senior or director
  3. 3Practice, industry, or open to both
London or remote, senior level, would move to industry.
Then two sets of titles: senior roles in practice, and the industry equivalents of what you already do.

Get the titles, with reasons

Five to ten role titles you are a genuine fit for, each with a sentence on why. The reasoning matters more than the list.

  1. 1Five to ten titles derived from your experience
  2. 2A written reason for each one
  3. 3Reject the ones that do not fit and the list adjusts
Why financial reporting manager? I have never had that title.
Two IFRS conversions and group consolidation experience. That is the job, under a different name.

Run all four boards

A pre-filled link for each title on each board. Click it and the search is already running with your filters applied.

  1. 1LinkedIn, Indeed, TotalJobs, eFinancialCareers
  2. 2Filters already applied, nothing to retype
  3. 3Save the set and re-run it next week
Do I have to redo the filters on each site?
No. Each link opens with the title, location and level already set.

What it looks like

A CV turned into six searches

Shortened. The point is the reasoning: it names the title, says which part of your experience supports it, and expects you to argue back.

Job search, senior level, London or remote
Audit senior, eight years, mid-tier firm. Last two years mostly IFRS conversion work for clients moving off FRS 102. Want to move to industry.
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Role matching
The conversion work is the part that changes this search, so I am putting it first. Six titles: Financial Reporting Manager, Group Reporting Manager, Technical Accounting Manager, Financial Controller, Group Accountant, Audit Manager. The last one is the safe move and I have listed it last on purpose.
Why is financial reporting manager first? I have never held that title.
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Role matching
Because it is the closest match to what you have been doing rather than what you have been called. Two IFRS conversions means you have built accounting policies from scratch, worked out transition adjustments, and defended both to an audit team. That is the core of a financial reporting manager role in a listed group. Your CV describes it as audit work, which is why searching "audit senior" never surfaces these roles.
Financial controller feels like a stretch.
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Role matching
It is, and you should know why. Controller roles usually want ownership of the close cycle and a team, and your CV shows neither because audit does not give you them. It is in the list because smaller groups often use the title for what is really a reporting role, so around one in four adverts will actually fit you. Worth scanning, not worth leading with. Removing it if you would rather keep the list tight.

Coverage

Where it searches, and what it is looking for

The matching reads your CV, so the titles it produces follow your own experience rather than a sector list. Three of the four boards cover every industry; the fourth is the finance specialist among them.

LinkedIn

The largest volume of postings across every sector, and where most in-house recruiters advertise first regardless of industry.

Indeed

The broadest coverage of the four, including smaller employers, trades, public sector and roles that never reach LinkedIn.

TotalJobs

UK-focused across all sectors, with particularly strong coverage of regional roles outside London.

eFinancialCareers

The specialist board of the four, covering banking, insurance and asset management. It only gets used when your CV points that way.

Titles you would not have searched

The equivalents of your experience under names your current employer does not use. This is where most of the missed opportunity sits, and it is true in every field, not just finance.

The honest fit assessment

Including which titles are a stretch and why, because a list of ten roles you cannot get is worse than four you can.

Who uses it

For anyone who does not know what to type

If you know exactly which role you want and where, a job board is enough. This is for the more common situation, where the shape of the next move is not obvious yet.

Practice to industry movers

Audit experience maps to several industry titles, none of which contain the word audit. This finds them.

Newly qualified accountants

The first post-qualification move, where the range of options is wider than most people realise and the titles are unfamiliar.

People going for a step up

Testing whether your evidence supports the next grade before you spend six weeks applying for it.

Returners

Coming back after a break and needing to know what your experience is worth in the current market.

Contractors and interims

Finding interim and fixed-term work across all four boards rather than one at a time.

Anyone not converting applications

If a search feels empty, the search terms are usually the problem, not the market.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Which job boards does it search?

LinkedIn, Indeed, TotalJobs and eFinancialCareers. You get a pre-filled link for each role title on each board, with your location and level filters already applied.

Does it only work for accounting and finance roles?

No. The matching works off whatever your CV actually says, so it produces titles in your own field. Three of the four boards cover every sector; eFinancialCareers is the finance specialist and only becomes relevant if your background points that way. The examples on this page are finance ones because that is this site's specialism, not a limit on the tool.

Does it apply to jobs for me?

No. It works out what to search for and takes you to the live results with the search already built. You read the advert and decide, which is the part that should stay yours.

Why does it suggest titles I have never held?

Because the same job is advertised under different names by different employers. The suggestion comes with the reasoning, so you can see which part of your experience supports it and reject it if the reasoning is weak.

Are the roles sponsored or paid placements?

No. There is no advertising and no commercial relationship with any board. Searches go to the boards' own results, unfiltered by anything on this side.

Will it tell me a role is out of reach?

Yes, and it will say why. A list of ten titles you cannot realistically get is less useful than four you can, so stretch roles are labelled as stretch roles.

Is it free?

Yes, with no premium tier and no cap. A free account exists so your searches and CV save for next time.

The terms

Free, with nothing sponsored

There is no advertiser to serve, which is why nothing is promoted and no board is favoured. The searches go straight to each board's own results.

How much it costs: £0

No payment details and no premium tier withholding the boards you actually want.

No ads

Nothing on this page or in your results is paid for by an employer, a board or a recruiter.

Honest fit over long lists

Stretch roles are labelled as stretch roles. A longer list is easy to produce and worth less.

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