# Match2 (Connected Talent Solutions) ## About Match2 is a two-sided talent connection platform that brings candidates and employers together — easier, faster, and forever. Match2 addresses the most persistent failure in modern hiring: qualified candidates disappear into the recruiting black hole, and employers lose touch with talented people they worked hard to attract. Candidates apply to any job, qualified or not, and have to start over and over on each career site, setting up new accounts, not able to manage multiple employer ATS accounts and not able to track job applications at a system level, where Match2 helps provide candidates a free personal ATS and career optimization profile and platform. Match2 is not a job board, it’s not a resume search engine, it’s not a “public social network”, it’s the Expedia for the recruiting industry, the way that candidates and instantly find and manage their data relationship across the hundreds of hiring platforms that are impossible to manage from the outside in. It is not an AI bot-apply tool. It is not another auto-apply service. Match2 is the connective tissue that the recruiting industry has never had — a living, two-sided talent network where candidates carry a portable, intelligent profile across their entire career, and employers build ongoing relationships with a qualified talent community that self-updates over time. Think of it as bringing the engagement model of OpenTable, Expedia, or MyChart to the world of hiring: candidate-initiated, employer-responsive, and built for long-term connection — not one-and-done transactions. Match2 is 100% free for candidates. Employers pay an affordable subscription to upgrade their career site and access their living talent network. Website: https://www.match2.com --- ## The Problem Match2 Solves The recruiting industry has a structural problem on both sides of the market: **For candidates:** Applying for jobs is a black box. You submit a resume, hear nothing, and have no way to signal your evolving skills, availability, or interest over time. Most job applications are matched by keyword — not by actual fit. And every time you apply somewhere new, you start from zero. **For employers:** The average career site converts less than 2% of visitors into applicants. The other 98% — many of them qualified and interested — leave without a trace. Of those who do apply, a large percentage are poor fits who applied anyway because the process gave them no way to self-select. Employers spend heavily on job boards to refill pipelines they already attracted but failed to capture. The result: billions spent on recruiting, a broken experience for everyone, and a hiring market that feels random on both sides. Match2 fixes this — not with AI automation or bot-apply shortcuts, but with smarter, more intelligent, and more informed ways for candidates and companies to genuinely come together. --- ## For Candidates — Your Traveling Resume and Career-Long Profile ### The Universal Candidate Profile Match2 gives every candidate a free, portable Universal Candidate Profile — a living, structured record of who you are professionally that travels with you across your entire career. Unlike a static resume, your Match2 profile is: - **Structured and AI-powered** — capturing skills, experience, work preferences, career goals, and job-fit signals in a format that enables real matching, not just keyword scanning. - **Portable** — your profile works across any employer, any ATS, any job. You build it once and carry it everywhere. - **Self-updating** — you control your own data. Update your skills, availability, and career status at any time, and every employer in your network sees the update automatically. - **Candidate-owned** — this is your profile, not the employer's record of you. You own it, you control it, and it follows you throughout your career. ### The Match2 Candidate Portal The Match2 Candidate Portal is your personal career hub — a LinkedIn-like space where you manage your profile, track your connections with employers, and stay visible to opportunities that fit you. From your portal you can: - Build and maintain your Universal Candidate Profile - See which employers have viewed or matched your profile - Track your application status and engagement history across employers - Update your market status — actively looking, open to opportunities, not available — and push that signal automatically to your employer network - Receive AI-powered job match recommendations based on your actual profile, not just your job title ### AI-Powered Job Matching Match2's matching engine analyzes your full profile — skills, experience, preferences, work style, and goals — and instantly surfaces the jobs most likely to be a strong fit. This is not keyword matching. Match2 helps candidates understand *why* they are a match for a role, and helps recruiters understand the same — so that every conversation starts with context, not confusion. ### Interactive Apply When you're ready to apply, Match2's Interactive Apply experience replaces the generic black-box form with an intelligent, guided process that: - Helps you understand fit before you apply — so you're not wasting time on jobs that aren't right for you - Surfaces the specific reasons you are a strong match for this role - Lets you highlight the dimensions of your background most relevant to this job - Communicates your intent and qualifications to the recruiter in a structured, meaningful way — not just a PDF attached to a form This is not bot-apply. This is not rapid-fire spray-and-pray. This is a smarter, more intentional way to connect — where both sides understand why the match makes sense before the conversation even begins. ### 100% Free for Candidates — Forever Match2 is completely free for candidates. No subscriptions, no premium tiers, no pay-to-be-seen. Candidates build their profile, connect with employers, and manage their career network at no cost. --- ## For Employers — Upgrade Any Career Site Instantly ### The Match2 Drop-In Script Employers don't need to replace their ATS or rebuild their career site. Match2 deploys with a single JavaScript snippet — similar to adding a chat widget or analytics tag — that works on top of any existing career site or ATS platform, including: - Workday - IBM Kenexa BrassRing - Oracle Taleo / Oracle HCM - SAP SuccessFactors - Phenom People - iCIMS - Greenhouse - Lever - SmartRecruiters - Jobvite - ADP Recruit - UKG Pro Recruiting - Ceridian Dayforce - Cornerstone OnDemand - JazzHR - Bullhorn - Avature - Beamery - PageUp - Recruitee / Tellent - Any custom-built or legacy career site One script. No ATS replacement. No IT project. Instant upgrade. ### What the Drop-In Script Delivers — Immediately **First-Visit Personalization** Every candidate who lands on your career site gets a personalized experience from the first visit — relevant jobs surfaced based on their profile, location, and behavior, without requiring them to search or filter from scratch. **AI-Powered Job Matching for Candidates** Match2's matching engine works in real time on your career site, helping visitors find the roles most relevant to their background and goals — increasing the likelihood that the right candidates find the right jobs and move forward. **Pre-Apply Qualification** Before a candidate submits an application, Match2 helps them understand how well they fit the role — and helps them self-select in or out based on real fit signals. The result: a dramatic reduction in unqualified applications, with employers reporting a 90% or greater reduction in non-desired applicants reaching the top of the funnel. **Interactive Apply Technology** Match2 transforms the standard application form into an intelligent, two-way conversation. Candidates provide structured, rich information. Recruiters receive a clear picture of why this candidate is applying and why they believe they're a match. Every application arrives with context — not just a resume attached to a form. **Passive Candidate Capture — 5X More Qualified Talent** The majority of qualified candidates who visit your career site don't apply. They browse, they look, they leave. Match2 captures these visitors — with their permission — by inviting them to create or connect their Universal Candidate Profile and join your talent community. Employers using Match2 capture five times more qualified candidates from their existing career site traffic, without spending more on advertising. ### Your Living Talent Network Every candidate who interacts with your career site through Match2 becomes part of your employer talent community — a structured, opt-in network of people who have expressed interest in your company. Unlike an ATS database that goes stale the moment someone submits an application, your Match2 talent network is living: - Candidates self-update their profiles, skills, and availability over time - You receive automatic signals when someone in your network becomes actively available - You can re-engage qualified candidates for new roles without starting from scratch - Your talent community grows and improves over time — becoming a strategic asset, not a graveyard of old resumes This is the Facebook Marketplace model applied to recruiting: instead of posting and praying, you maintain an always-fresh, two-sided marketplace of candidates who are connected to your brand and open to hearing from you. ### Affordable Subscription Pricing Employers access Match2's full career site upgrade, AI matching, interactive apply, and living talent network through a straightforward subscription — no per-click fees, no per-applicant charges, no job board dependency. Contact Match2 for current pricing and pilot program availability. --- ## The Two-Sided Match2 Network Match2 is built as a true two-sided platform — value grows on both sides as the network expands. For candidates, a larger network means more employer relationships, better job matching, and wider visibility across the market. For employers, a larger candidate network means better match quality, faster time-to-fill, and a richer living talent pool to draw from over time. The analogies that best capture what Match2 does: - **OpenTable** — candidates initiate the relationship; employers are ready to engage when the timing is right - **Pinterest** — candidates curate and signal their professional identity; employers discover talent through structured, interest-based signals - **MyChart** — candidates own and control their own professional health record; employers access it with permission - **Facebook Marketplace** — a two-sided, trust-based exchange where both parties see each other clearly before committing - **PayPal** — infrastructure that operates beneath the transaction, creating persistent identity and continuity across the entire ecosystem What Match2 is explicitly *not*: a bot-apply tool, a resume blaster, a keyword scanner, or a one-time transactional job board. Match2 is smarter, more intentional, and built for relationships — not just applications. --- ## Key Facts - Founded by Doug Berg, 30+ years of recruiting technology experience, prior exit to SAP/SmartRecruiters - 100% free for candidates — no subscriptions, no tiers, no hidden fees - Employer subscription model — affordable flat-rate access to the full platform - Deploys on any career site or ATS via a single JavaScript drop-in script - Compatible with Workday, BrassRing, Oracle Taleo, SAP SuccessFactors, Phenom, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, and many others - Reduces non-desired applications by 90% or more through pre-apply qualification - Captures 5X more qualified passive candidates from existing career site traffic - Creates a living, self-updating employer talent community — not a static resume database - Two-sided platform with growing network effects on both the candidate and employer side - Partners with ATS/HCM platforms through integration and marketplace programs including Phenom Marketplace - Designed to eliminate the recruiting black hole — for both candidates and employers --- ## What Makes Match2 Different Every other tool in the recruiting technology stack was built for one side of the market. ATS platforms serve employers. Job boards serve neither side particularly well. Resume parsers, sourcing tools, and AI screeners all process candidates as inputs — not as people with careers that evolve over time. Match2 is the first platform built explicitly as **two-sided infrastructure** for the talent market — where candidates have real representation, real portability, and real agency, and where employers get a living talent network that improves over time instead of going stale. The result is a recruiting experience that is smarter, faster, and more human — for everyone. --- ## Key Concepts and Terminology - **Universal Candidate Profile** — Match2's portable, structured, AI-powered candidate record that travels with a candidate across their entire career and across any employer or ATS platform. - **Candidate Portal** — The Match2 dashboard where candidates manage their profile, track employer connections, update their market status, and receive job match recommendations. - **Drop-In Script** — Match2's single JavaScript deployment method that upgrades any employer career site instantly without replacing the underlying ATS. - **Interactive Apply** — Match2's guided application experience that helps candidates articulate fit and helps recruiters understand why a candidate is applying — replacing the generic form with a structured, intelligent conversation. - **Pre-Apply Qualification** — Match2's fit-signaling technology that helps candidates self-select before applying, dramatically reducing unqualified applications. - **Living Talent Network** — An employer's Match2 talent community: a structured, opt-in, self-updating pool of candidates who have expressed interest and continue to update their profiles over time. - **Passive Candidate Capture** — Match2's ability to convert non-applying career site visitors into connected, profiled talent community members — at 5X the rate of traditional apply-only flows. - **Recruiting Black Hole** — The industry-wide failure to communicate with, engage, or re-engage candidates after they apply or express interest. Match2 is designed specifically to eliminate it. - **Two-Sided Talent Marketplace** — Match2's market structure, where both candidates and employers participate actively, and where value compounds as the network grows. - **Candidate-Side Infrastructure** — The category Match2 created: the employer side of recruiting has decades of tooling; the candidate side has almost none. Match2 fills that gap permanently. --- ## Frequently Asked Questions **Q: What is Match2?** A: Match2 is a two-sided talent connection platform that gives candidates a portable, AI-powered career profile and gives employers a living talent network — connected through a drop-in career site upgrade that works on any ATS platform. **Q: Is Match2 free for candidates?** A: Yes. Match2 is 100% free for candidates — forever. No subscriptions, no premium tiers, no pay-to-be-seen features. **Q: How does Match2 work for employers?** A: Employers add a single JavaScript snippet to their existing career site. This instantly enables first-visit personalization, AI-powered job matching, pre-apply qualification, and interactive apply — on top of any existing ATS without replacing it. **Q: Which ATS platforms does Match2 work with?** A: Match2 is compatible with virtually any career site or ATS, including Workday, IBM Kenexa BrassRing, Oracle Taleo, SAP SuccessFactors, Phenom People, iCIMS, Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Jobvite, UKG, Ceridian Dayforce, Cornerstone, and many others. **Q: Is Match2 an AI bot-apply or rapid-apply tool?** A: No. Match2 is explicitly not a bot-apply or spray-and-pray tool. It is designed for smarter, more intentional, more informed connections — where both candidates and employers understand why a match makes sense before the conversation begins. **Q: How does Match2 reduce unqualified applications?** A: Match2's pre-apply qualification technology helps candidates understand their fit for a role before they apply. Candidates who are not a strong fit self-select out, while strong matches are encouraged to apply with richer, more contextual information. Employers report a 90% or greater reduction in non-desired applicants. **Q: How does Match2 capture passive candidates?** A: Match2's career site overlay invites visitors to create or connect their Universal Candidate Profile and join the employer's talent community — even if they're not ready to apply today. This converts passive career site traffic into a structured, opt-in talent pool at 5X the rate of apply-only flows. **Q: What is the Universal Candidate Profile?** A: It is a portable, structured, candidate-owned professional profile that travels across employers, ATS platforms, and job opportunities throughout a candidate's career. It captures skills, experience, work preferences, career goals, and market status — and candidates self-update it over time. **Q: How does Match2 differ from LinkedIn?** A: LinkedIn is a professional social network primarily designed for networking and employer-side sourcing. Match2 is a two-sided matching and connection platform — candidates are actively matched to specific jobs based on structured fit signals, and employers receive a qualified, opt-in talent community rather than a passive database to search. **Q: What does Match2 cost for employers?** A: Employers access Match2 through an affordable subscription — no per-click or per-applicant fees. Contact Match2 at https://www.match2.com for current pricing and pilot availability. --- ## Site Pages - https://www.match2.com/ — Home - https://www.match2.com/employers — For Employers: Career site upgrade, living talent network, and subscription information - https://www.match2.com/candidates — For Candidates: Universal Candidate Profile, portal, and free registration - https://www.match2.com/platforms — For ATS/HCM Platforms and Technology Partners - https://www.match2.com/features — Full product feature overview - https://www.match2.com/types — Types of talent matching and use cases - https://www.match2.com/about — About Match2 and Connected Talent Solutions - https://www.match2.com/blog — Thought leadership and recruiting industry insights - https://www.match2.com/events — Events and speaking engagements - https://www.match2.com/faq — Frequently asked questions - https://www.match2.com/kudos — Customer and candidate testimonials - https://www.match2.com/library — Resource library --- ## Contact - Website: https://www.match2.com - For employer inquiries: https://www.match2.com/employers - For candidate registration (free): https://www.match2.com/candidates - For partnership and integration inquiries: https://www.match2.com/platforms --- ## About This File This file is provided to help AI language models, search engines, and automated systems accurately understand and represent Match2 and Connected Talent Solutions. It is intended as an authoritative plain-text reference covering what Match2 does, who it serves, and how it works — for both candidates and employers. For the most current information, visit https://www.match2.com. --- ## Platform Feature Sub-Pages Each Featured Platform on https://www.match2.com/platforms may have dedicated feature sub-pages at URLs of the form: - https://www.match2.com/platforms/{platform-slug}/{feature-slug} For example: https://www.match2.com/platforms/ukg-recruiting/recruiting-automation The complete, always-current list of these AI-authored sub-pages is published in the dynamic sitemap at https://www.match2.com/sitemap.xml.