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How Savary works

How Savary scores every match.

The weighted formula

Six factors, weighted and added together, capped at 100%:

40%
Occupational fit

Whether the role’s actual occupation matches your selected career direction — not keyword overlap. A role in a genuinely different occupational family scores zero here, regardless of how similar the job title reads.

20%
Role title overlap

How closely this specific job title matches the roles you’ve told Savary you’re targeting.

15%
Evidence overlap

How much the job description overlaps with the strengths and achievements you’ve approved in Career Brain.

10%
Location

Full credit for a preferred location or remote when you’ve asked for remote; partial credit otherwise.

10%
Salary

Full credit when the advertised maximum meets your stated minimum. A listing with no salary published scores low here — not zero, since many genuine roles simply don’t state one.

5%
Freshness

Recently posted roles score higher, tapering the older a listing gets — one signal of real, current hiring intent, not the whole picture.

A worked example

Say you’re targeting “Senior Product Manager” roles, based in London or open to remote, with a £70,000 minimum. A listing for that exact title, doing that kind of work, based in London, paying £75,000–£90,000, posted three days ago, with a description that closely echoes the achievements you’ve approved, would score something like:

Occupational fit40
Role title overlap18
Evidence overlap12
Location10
Salary10
Freshness5
Total95%

Rules that come before the score

A high score doesn’t mean a role reaches you as eligible. Before scoring even matters, Savary checks a short list of hard rules you control:

  • Occupational match — a role outside your selected career direction is excluded outright, not just scored low.
  • Agency exclusion — if you’ve asked Savary to skip recruitment agencies, agency-sourced listings are removed.
  • Salary floor — if you require a stated salary, roles with none published are excluded; roles below your minimum are excluded.
  • Minimum match threshold — you set the score below which a role is paused for your own review rather than surfaced as ready to prepare.

Every exclusion is shown to you with the exact reason — never a silent filter.

Listing risk signals

Beyond fit, Savary also flags patterns common in low-quality or ghost listings — an undisclosed salary when you’ve required one, unusually short or templated descriptions reused across employers, a stale posting still showing as current, or an application link that doesn’t obviously relate to the employer. This is pattern-matching, not a guarantee — real listings sometimes trip these flags, and real scams sometimes don’t. It’s a caution shown alongside a listing, never a silent filter that removes it.

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