Employers can post jobs, use candidate screening tools and search a candidate database.

Candidate Database in which organizations can search CVs and professional information for 500,000+ candidates for available jobs.

Word methods identify a series of short, nonoverlapping subsequences ("words") in the query sequence that are then matched to candidate database sequences.

However, Nicky Hager criticised the Institute's candidate database in his book The Hollow Men (2006), and also alleged that there had been close ties between the New Zealand National Party and a series of educational policy booklets that attacked New Zealand Labour Party government stances on such issues.