Nobody should miss a job again.
Today, whether someone finds the right job depends on the job board and on the title they type in. JobID translates people and jobs into a shared standard and brings them together, wherever a job is published and whatever its title.
The market loses time, money and people
Companies search for months. At the same time, people looking for work miss the right job because it sits on another job board or goes by another name.
1.15 million
open positions in Germany in the first quarter of 2026
Source: IAB Job Vacancy Survey, published 8 June 2026
169 days
was the average time to fill a registered vacancy (October 2024 to September 2025)
Source: German Federal Employment Agency, monthly report September 2025
3 months’ salary
or a quarter of the annual salary is what a hire through a recruitment consultant costs, often more. For higher-paid positions, that is over €50,000 per hire.
Source: Karrierebibel, fee 25 to 35% of annual salary, as of October 2026; €50,000: own calculation, 35% of €150,000
over 1,000
active job boards exist in German-speaking countries. Anyone who wants to see every job would have to search them all.
Source: Gohiring, job board list, as of August 2025 (estimate)
Silos
Every careers page stands alone, and every applicant tracking system (ATS) has its own format. None of them talk to each other.
57%
of job seekers have abandoned an application halfway because it was too complicated or too long.
Source: LiveCareer survey, 517 job seekers in the US, June 2025
40%
of workers in Europe cannot make full use of their skills at work. That wastes productivity for people and companies alike.
Source: Cedefop (EU agency for vocational training), July 2026
2024 to 2025
large vendors bought companies that match profiles and jobs: Workday acquired HiredScore, Bullhorn acquired Textkernel, SAP announced the acquisition of SmartRecruiters. The market pays for better matches.
Source: Workday, February 2024; Bullhorn, 18 June 2024; SAP, 1 August 2025
39%
of the core skills employers expect today will change by 2030. Titles often stay the same while the work behind them shifts. For AI to compare work, it needs a shared standard for tasks and skills.
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report, January 2025
One job, many titles.
The same role comes with at least 8 title variants (own analysis). Experienced managers fit 20 or more titles (experience from recruitment consulting). To miss nothing, they would have to type each one into every job board.
Why work needs a standard
Food can be compared because every pack carries the same nutrition label. Work has nothing like it. Every job, profile, project and training course describes work in its own words.
JobID creates this shared label: tasks and skills, connected in one model. Once everything is in the same standard, it can be compared across titles, languages and job boards.
- Job ad“Payroll Specialist”
- Profile“Payroll accounting, 8 years”
- Project“Payroll system migration”
- Training“Payroll tax essentials”
- in the standardTask “Run payroll”
The engine brings it all together
It has two jobs. First, it translates every document into the standard. Second, it pools as much inventory as possible: ads from companies and job boards on one side, job search profiles from people on the other. Every ad reaches all partner job boards, and every job search profile finds the right job, even when it is listed on another board.
Target picture. A prototype runs today; matching between partners is planned.
How we get there
JobID becomes the intermediary in the middle: job boards and company sites connect, and the engine links their inventory. In return, job boards get search and matching technology and new products for their customers.
running
Prototype
The engine translates jobs and searches and explains every match.
planned Q2 2027
HR job board on jobid.com
The first place where people create their JobID and find HR jobs.
planned
Partner network
Job boards and company sites connect. Profiles and jobs find each other across all partners.
What job seekers, job boards and companies gain
For people looking for work
One JobID that works everywhere. Suitable jobs come to you, even from job boards you have never visited.
For job boards
Better search for their own users, new products for their own customers and access to the network’s inventory.
For companies
Your job reaches everyone who fits, on every partner board and under every title. You can also search confidentially without publishing the job. We also plan for companies to use the same engine to find their own employees for open roles and suitable training, across departments and languages.
Why AI alone cannot do this
Language models understand text remarkably well. They do not connect a market on their own.
A shared yardstick
AI estimates similarity afresh with every query. A fixed standard makes results stable and comparable across job boards.
Traceability
Every match needs a reason that can be checked. A model of tasks and skills provides that reason.
Inventory and network
The value grows when as many jobs and profiles as possible sit in the same standard. This inventory grows with every partner that joins.
Consent and data ownership
Profiles move only with people’s consent. That is governed by rules that partners and users agree to, and by trust in those rules.
Precision
JobID breaks the task into many small, checkable steps: preparing data, translating, comparing, cross-checking. Several specialised methods and AI models work together. The goal: more accurate matches than a single AI given everything at once.
Questions and answers
What is JobID?
JobID is an engine that translates jobs, profiles, projects and training into a shared standard of tasks and skills and compares them. Its first use is an HR job board on jobid.com, planned from Q2 2027.
What does “a standard for work” mean?
All documents are translated into the same building blocks, much like a nutrition label. That makes a job ad and a profile directly comparable, even when they use completely different words.
Why is AI not enough for this?
AI estimates similarity afresh with every query and finds it hard to explain its results. A fixed standard makes matches stable, comparable and traceable. It also takes inventory from many partners and the consent of the people involved.
What happens to my data?
The plan: a JobID is shared between partners only with your consent. You decide who sees your profile.
What happens if I register as a company?
You will get one message at launch, nothing more. Registering is free and without obligation; all we need is your email address.
How do job boards become partners?
Write to mvh@jobid.com. We will talk about your inventory, your users and the products you could offer with the engine.
Get involved
As a job seeker
Join the waitlist for the HR job board. I will write to you as soon as it launches.
As a company
Register your interest, free and without obligation. Questions? Write to mvh@jobid.com.