Search that ranks candidates for a role and shows its working.
An internal search service that ranks candidates against a job requisition and shows recruiters how each score was worked out.
Built solo
Internal service · Search
Node.js · Express · MongoDB · Mongoose
Skills first, then the practical stuff
Private internal service
Recruiters don’t want every CV that contains the word React. They want the people closest to one specific requisition, in order, with a reason. Plain keyword search answers the wrong question. This service sits beside an applicant tracking system, scores candidates against a role on five factors, and returns the breakdown with every result.
I designed and built this service on my own. It is internal, so there is no link and no real data here, just a small demo with made-up candidates.
The product, in five steps.
Skills carry most of the weight, then location, experience, salary and notice period. If a recruiter only specifies skills, the score is normalised against what they asked for, so a skills-only search doesn’t cap everyone at a low number and look broken.
Each result lists which must-have skills matched, which didn’t, and how location, experience, salary and notice period came out. The point is that a recruiter can disagree with the ranking and see why.
I built a vocabulary of 222 skill groups, so “dotnet” finds someone whose CV says C# and “node” finds Node.js. It is a curated list of aliases and related technologies for this domain, not a generic thesaurus.
Invented candidates. Nothing here is connected to a real applicant system.
Change the skill or the location preference and watch the ranking move.
React · Node.js / Mumbai
React · Python / Pune
Python · Node.js / Mumbai
Private internal service. The demo here uses invented candidates and isn’t connected to anything real.
Numbers on this page are as of September 2026.I can’t share access to this one since it is company work, but I am glad to talk through the pieces I owned and the decisions behind them.
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