Multilanguage setup job platform

I'm working on a job platform and i'm struggling with multilanguage functionality.

We have two sides - the candidate and the company who is searching for fitting candidates:

Candidate site:

The candidate fills out the form (either in german or english). He also fills out his work experience -> E.g. Software Developer for 3 years.

Company site:

The company site has a backend where they can search/filter the candidates. The problem here is, that the companies are german only - meaning:

If they search for "Softwareentwickler" (german for Software Developer) they should find both -> "Softwareentwickler" and Software Developer

My approach to do that:

I have a table with predefined working categories (candidates can add to it)

id label lang_key ....
1 Software Developer de
1 Software Entwickler en

And the categories are then associated to the candidates like that:

candidate_id category_id
1 1

So then the company can filter for both -> Software Entwickler and Software Developer.

Since this is a bigger task to do i would like to know, if this approach makes sense - since this would would mean manual translating of categories.

I'm using Java Spring, Angular + Angular material Frontend, MySql Database and probably later ElasticSearch.