Overview
Job Search keeps its own index of the open jobs on public company career boards, refreshed through the day, so a search never waits on a company's website. Every job has the same shape whichever company posted it. Keyword search matches every word you give against the job title, with plurals and accents folded, so data engineers finds Senior Data Engineer. Results are newest first; pass a job's id to get its full description on a paid plan.
Formula
One function covers the whole catalog: the first argument names the source, the rest are its inputs, and the "field" pair says which single value lands in the cell. Formulas covers the grammar that applies to all of them.
=VERVE("jobsearch", A2, "field", "count")=VERVE.CALL("jobsearch", A2, "field", "count")A2 holds the keyword you are looking up. Drag the formula down and each row resolves on its own.
With literal values
Nothing has to come from a cell — typed values work the same way.
=VERVE("jobsearch", "software engineer", "field", "count")=VERVE.CALL("jobsearch", "software engineer", "field", "count")Inputs
Required inputs are positional, in the order below. Everything else is passed as a "name", value pair after them — the same shape as SUMIFS. Premium inputs are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.
| Input | Type | Where it goes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
keywordRequired | string | argument 2 (A2) | Words that must all appear in the job title, for example data engineer or product designer. length 0–100 |
locationOptional | string | "location", value | Return only jobs with a location containing this text, for example London, New York or Bavaria. length 0–100 |
countryOptional | string | "country", value | Return only jobs in this country: an ISO 3166 code or a name, for example US, GB or Germany. length 0–60 |
remoteOptional | boolean | "remote", value | true returns only jobs open to remote work; false only jobs that are not. |
employmentTypeOptional | string | "employmentType", value | Return only jobs of this employment type. Jobs that give no employment type are kept, since many companies leave it blank; only jobs of another type are left out.full-timepart-timecontractinternshiptemporary |
postedSinceOptional | string | "postedSince", value | Return only jobs first published at or after this date or date-time (ISO 8601, for example 2026-10-01), or within this age: a number followed by h, d or w, for example 12h, 7d or 2w. length 0–30 |
companyOptional | string | "company", value | Return only jobs at this company, by its career board name, usually the company name in lowercase, for example airbnb. length 0–100 |
minSalaryOptionalPremium | number | "minSalary", value | Return only jobs whose salary range reaches at least this amount, in the job's own currency and pay period. Jobs that publish no salary are left out when this is set. range 0–∞ |
pageOptional | integer | "page", value | Page of results: 10 jobs per page up to page 5 on the free plan, 50 per page up to page 10 on paid plans. default 1 · range 1–10 |
Passing an option
=VERVE("jobsearch", A2, "location", "New York")=VERVE.CALL("jobsearch", A2, "location", "New York")What lands in your sheet
The "field" pair is what makes the formula resolve to one cell. Its value is a dot-path from the table below, so swapping it is how you pull a different value — one formula per column.
Seeing everything at once
Drop the "field" pair and the formula returns the whole response instead: two columns, field name on the left and value on the right, spilling from the cell you typed in.
=VERVE("jobsearch", A2)=VERVE.CALL("jobsearch", A2)The second row's table would land on top of the first's, and every cell after the first reads #REF! (#SPILL! in Excel). Keep one per sheet, or name a field, and leave the cells below and to the right empty.
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Each one is exactly what the "field" pair accepts, so swapping it is how you pull a different value into a cell. On a plan without a Premium field the cell reads #PREMIUM(field) rather than a value, so a locked field never looks like a real answer.
| Use as "field" | Type | Example cell value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
page | number | 1 | Page of results returned |
count | number | 2 | Number of jobs on this page |
hasMore | boolean | true | true when another page may hold more matching jobs |
jobs | array[2] | Matching jobs on this page, newest first | |
jobs.0.id | string | b4f50cb0115efeef41cb | Job id; pass it as id for the job's full description |
jobs.0.title | string | Senior Network and Cloud Engineer | Job title |
jobs.0.company | string | Acturis | Company hiring for the job |
jobs.0.location | string | London, England, United Kingdom | Primary location of the job |
jobs.0.locations | array | ["London, England, United Kingdom"] | Locations the job is offered in, primary first (up to 5) |
jobs.0.country | string | GB | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country of the primary location; null when the location names none, such as Remote |
jobs.0.remote | boolean | false | true when the job is open to remote work |
jobs.0.workplaceType | string | hybrid | remote, hybrid or onsite; null when the company does not say |
jobs.0.employmentType | string | full-time | full-time, part-time, contract, internship, temporary or volunteer; null when the company does not say |
jobs.0.postedAt | string | 2026-10-14T15:37:26.000Z | When the job was first published (ISO 8601) |
jobs.0.url | string | https://careers.acturis.com/o/senior-network-and-cloud-engineer | URL of the job's posting page |
jobs.0.applyUrl | string | https://careers.acturis.com/o/senior-network-and-cloud-engineer/c/new | URL to apply for the job |
jobs.0.salary | object | {…} | Salary range as the company publishes it; every value is null when it publishes none |
jobs.0.salary.minPremium | object | null | Lower end of the salary range |
jobs.0.salary.maxPremium | object | null | Upper end of the salary range |
jobs.0.salary.currencyPremium | object | null | ISO 4217 currency of the salary range |
jobs.0.salary.intervalPremium | object | null | Period the salary is paid per: year, month, week, day or hour |
Filling a whole column
Both platforms make one batched call for a column rather than one request per cell, and both cost the same — 20 credits per row looked up. How you write it differs, because the two runtimes batch at different points.
=VERVE("jobsearch", A2:A100, "field", "count")In Google Sheets, give the arguments ranges and the answers spill down from the cell you typed in. Custom functions there run synchronously and in isolation, so dragged cells cannot be coalesced — the range form is how a column becomes one call. The "field" pair is required here: a per-row two-column table has nowhere to spill. Use a full column per input (A2:A100, not A2) — a single-cell reference is read as row 1 only and the rest of the column comes back blank.
In Excel, type the formula once and fill down — no range form and none needed, because its runtime is asynchronous and the add-in coalesces the calls a fill produces into a single batched request. Do not hand VERVE.CALL a range: Excel flattens it into positional arguments, so A2:A100 arrives as a hundred separate arguments and the cell reads #ERR rather than filling.
Either way, column A holds your keyword values and the answers land beside them, one row each, blank rows skipped.
When a cell doesn't fill
A failed lookup returns readable text starting with #ERR rather than a spreadsheet error, because Excel cannot show a custom message on a real error — you would get a bare #VALUE! with no reason. The trade-off is that IFERROR() will not catch it; test with LEFT(cell, 4) = "#ERR" instead. Error handling covers the rest.
| Cell reads | What happened |
|---|---|
#ERR Not connected | No API key saved. Open the side panel and connect your account. |
#ERR Replace <name> with a cell or value | A preview formula was copied as-is. Swap the placeholder for a cell reference. |
#ERR No "x" in jobsearch | An option name this source does not take. The message lists the ones it does. |
#ERR No data point "…" | The "field" path is not in the response. Check it against the table above. |
#PREMIUM(field) | The field exists but your plan does not include it. |
#ERR Out of credits | The cycle's credits are spent. Usage resets on your billing date. |
Before the formula works
The add-in reads the API key you saved once in the side panel — the key never goes in the formula, so a shared sheet does not leak it and a collaborator without access simply sees the last calculated values.
- Install the add-in for Google Sheets or Excel.
- Open the side panel and sign in, or paste a key from your dashboard.
- Type the formula above into any cell.
Use cases
- Job Boards
- Niche job sites and aggregators fill their listings by keyword, location and remote filters without integrating each company's careers system.
- Job Alerts
- Alert services run saved searches with postedSince to send only jobs published since the last run.
- Hiring Signals
- Sales and investment tools watch which companies are hiring for which roles and where.
- Career Tools
- Resume and career apps suggest open roles that match a candidate's title and location.
Other ways to use Job Search
Set up Job Search on VerveSheets, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveSheets account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.
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