Create a role and start the search
Every role starts in one box. Give Navigent the job ad as it is, and it reads the requirements, sets the filters and shows you what the market holds before anything costs a search.
Paste the job ad
- Click New role in the menu on the left.
- Give Navigent the ad in whichever form you have it:
- Text. Paste it as it is; there's no need to clean it up. Up to 20,000 characters, with a counter from 18,000.
- A link to the ad. Navigent fetches the page and reads the text. If the page needs a login or can't be read, you'll be asked for the text instead.
- A file, PDF or Word (.docx), dropped on the box or attached. Up to 10 MB and 40 pages. The file is read, never stored; only its text is kept.
- A LinkedIn profile, to find people like someone you already know. The profile's titles, seniority, industry and location become the starting requirements. Neither the link nor the profile is stored.
- A description in your own words, such as "finance manager for a manufacturer in southern Jutland, 8 to 10 years' experience".
- Send it.
Four example briefs sit under the box if you want to try one first.
Watch the checkmarks
As you type, five checkmarks show whether the text covers Function, Seniority, Location, Industry and Years of experience. Each turns green once it does. Pasted text and files are checked once.
A checkmark that stays grey doesn't block anything. If the text names no function at all, Navigent asks for one before it goes on.
Read the free preview
Navigent replies in the thread with three rows of chips:
- I've set these filters · about 1,840 matches. The filters, and how many profiles in the market fit them. Titles are searched in both Danish and English.
- Ranked by. The nice-to-haves. They decide the order and never exclude anyone.
- Checked on the shortlist. What search data can't answer, such as education, skills and languages.
Tap a chip to remove it. Removing a filter runs a new free preview; removing a criterion re-ranks, also for free. To add a filter or a criterion, say it in the chat, for example "also Copenhagen" or "prefer SaaS experience". Every change is noted in the thread.
The hiring company is always excluded, so its own staff never turn up, and the thread says so in one line.
If the filters give fewer than about 50 matches, Navigent widens them one step at a time: city, region, country, then title variants, each step shown in the thread. If there are still fewer than 10, it tells you plainly and offers to adjust. You can carry on anyway.
Answer the questions
When something in the ad is unclear, Navigent asks up to three questions. Each option says what it does to the result, for example "Keep consultancy profiles, but rank them lower". Pick one with the keys 1 to 4, write your own under Other…, or press Skip. Afterwards a collapsed Questions card keeps your answers.
Start the search
Until you start, the right-hand panel reads Free preview. The button tells you what starting costs, for example Start search · uses 1 of your 8 searches.
Pressing it uses one search, and Navigent fetches about 1,000 unique candidates, or fewer when the market is smaller. The thread counts along: "Fetched 640 of about 1,000".
Calibration begins as soon as the first 100 or so are in. See Calibration.
Good to know
- You can stop a running search. Whatever was fetched is kept.
- If a search stores no candidates, you get the search back automatically.
- With no searches left, the button is disabled and says why.
- Inside a role, Navigent writes in the language its creator uses the app in. Messages to candidates are written in the language of the job ad.
- A role whose search is never started is deleted after 30 days.