ORDAL knowledge base
Job search automation glossary
Canonical definitions used across ORDAL product documentation.
- Automatic job search
- Using software to reduce repetitive vacancy discovery, filtering, comparison, and tracking according to user-defined rules.
- Auto apply
- Automation of supported job-application steps after the user's target, CV, exclusions, and factual answers have been applied.
- Job target
- A user-defined search strategy containing role, location, CV, platform, employment preferences, and related constraints.
- Job matching
- Comparing a vacancy with explicit target rules and CV context to estimate whether the job is relevant.
- Exclusion
- A role, company, or other rule that tells ORDAL not to process matching jobs.
- Duplicate detection
- Checking available job identity and application history before repeating a supported workflow.
- Round Robin
- Rotating search activity between selected job platforms instead of exhausting one source first.
- Saved application answer
- A factual answer previously supplied or confirmed by the user for reuse on recurring application questions.
- Supported workflow
- A job-search or application flow that ORDAL currently knows how to process on an external platform.
- Optional AI
- A user-selected AI provider used as an assistance layer for tasks such as interpretation or CV comparison; it is not required for every ORDAL workflow.