How to find jobs based on your CV

List the problems you solve and the responsibilities you repeatedly owned. Then group them into role families. Someone who coordinates launches, analyses performance and runs cross-functional processes may fit more than one title family.

Keep the grouping coherent. A role is adjacent when the daily work transfers, not merely because it shares one tool.

Titles vary across companies. Use team size, ownership, budget, customer level, geographic scope and decision authority to describe your actual level. These clues can discover equivalent roles with different names while avoiding jobs far above or below your remit.

Location, remote arrangement, work authorisation, language and salary shape whether a match is usable. Put them into the search profile before alerts arrive rather than rejecting unsuitable results one by one.

A useful discovery loop shows why each role appeared. If results repeatedly overvalue one old skill, reduce its importance or clarify the direction you want. If an unexpected role is compelling, add it deliberately rather than letting it remain an accident.

MatchRadar builds this loop around one uploaded CV and a confirmed profile, then scans fresh postings on weekdays and explains the shortlist.

The CV here is a prepared illustration, not a real person. Five years as an account manager at a software company in Munich: a book of 60 mid-market customers, renewals, some upselling, onboarding new accounts with the implementation team, and German and English at work.

Read by responsibility rather than title, it supports four families. Account management itself, where German is named in most ads (account manager jobs in Germany). Customer success, which is the same book of customers measured on retention rather than revenue (customer success jobs in the US show the shape). Sales, one step towards new business, where German is the most-named skill in our sales manager jobs in Germany. And implementation or onboarding management, which draws on the work done with the implementation team.

Two things are not on the list, and the reason is the method: a marketing role shares the word "customer" but not the week's work, and a head-of-sales role is a level up in scope. A family is adjacent when the daily work transfers, not when a keyword does.

For each family, write the three or four titles it goes by, in English and in the local language, and the places you can work. That is the input for daily job alerts from your CV on any job board, and it is what MatchRadar builds from your CV when you set it up: target roles, cities, remote and relocation, which you confirm and can edit.

Then read what comes back for a week and adjust. If one family brings nothing worth opening, drop it; if an unexpected title keeps fitting, add it on purpose. The free preview shows, before any account, which of the last seven days of new jobs your CV would have matched.