The Talent Index: the job market stops being a noticeboard

For twenty years, looking for work in Georgia has meant the same thing: read a list, send a CV, wait. The sites that grew up here were built when a job advert was a classified ad, and they never stopped being one. They do not know what anybody can do. They cannot tell a company that the person it needs read its vacancy last Tuesday and moved on. A market where the two sides can only find each other by accident is a noticeboard, and this country has been left with one for a generation.

Today findjobs.ge stops being a noticeboard. The Talent Index turns applying for a job into being found for one.

When someone applies through findjobs.ge, an entry is built for them out of what they sent, and a private link to it is emailed straight away. On their own page they see exactly what an employer would see: their skills, their city, whether they will work remotely, how many years they have behind them, and whether a CV is on file. They correct it, add or remove skills, and save. Nothing is searchable until they have. A profile assembled from somebody’s CV that they never looked at is a guess, and a guess is not what an employer should be searching.

A pile of CVs is worth nothing if nobody can find anything in it, so the Index is built on one fixed vocabulary of 110 skills, each written in Georgian, English and Russian. A welder who wrote his CV in Georgian and a manager searching in Russian land on the same entry. It reads both languages as people actually write them, declined and conjugated, instead of demanding the dictionary form. And it reads the CV itself, so the skills someone listed but never thought to name are found anyway.

Nobody should have to learn a search syntax to hire a cook. Describe the person you need in a sentence, in your own words: a cook for a restaurant in Batumi, evenings, speaks Russian. The Index answers. The assistant that reads your sentence never sees a candidate; it turns words into filters, and the database does the rest.

Now the part that matters, and the part this market has always got wrong. An employer searching the Index sees skills, city, remote, years, and whether a CV is on file. They do not see a name, an email address, a phone number or the CV. Not on the first search and not on the hundredth. To reach somebody, an identified employer asks for an introduction and the candidate decides. Contact details are released when a person says yes, and never before. No CV is sold, scraped or handed over. The candidate holds the door.

We would rather you tried this than took our word for it, so every employer on findjobs.ge gets three days of Pro, free. It is the whole thing: the verified-employer badge on your listings, the bump wallet, the auto-bump schedules, and the Talent Index open and searchable with everybody who is in it. You see who is out there and what they can do before you decide whether that is worth 39 lari a month. The card is taken at sign-up and nothing is charged for three days; cancel before the third day and you pay nothing at all, with no invoice and no email asking why. The one thing a trial cannot do is make an introduction. Reaching a candidate is the paid part, because somebody who agreed to be visible to identified, paying employers should get exactly that. Everything, with the small print, is at findjobs.ge/pricing.

One more thing, for the companies that are here now. Pro is 39 lari a month and it will not be 39 lari forever; this market is going to notice what has been built here, and prices move when that happens. Every employer subscribed at today’s price keeps today’s price for as long as they stay subscribed: not for a year, not until the next repricing, but for as long as you are with us. When findjobs.ge becomes what we intend it to become, the companies that took a chance on it in September 2026 will still be paying September 2026 prices. That is what is owed to the ones who went first.

The numbers, as measured, because we publish them either way. In the thirty days to 10 September, 14,367 different people used findjobs.ge, and Cloudflare, the network in front of the site, served just over a million requests for it. The last seven days brought 14,113 visitors, 5.2 times the first seven days of the same month. Yesterday, 9 September, was the busiest day so far, with 3,084 visitors. The board holds 8,667 live vacancies from 3,048 companies, and its listings have been opened 282,503 times since launch on 5 August. Nothing is rounded up, and findjobs.ge/api/stats returns the same numbers to anyone who asks.

Unique visitors per day 14,367 visitors in thirty days

Georgia’s job market has been carried for twenty years by websites nobody ever chose to love. It deserved better, and it is going to get better. Posting a vacancy is still free. Everything a job seeker touches is still free. The Talent Index is live today.