diff --git a/jsr352/jberet/src/main/java/org/hibernate/search/jsr352/jberet/impl/HibernateSearchJobXmlResolver.java b/jsr352/jberet/src/main/java/org/hibernate/search/jsr352/jberet/impl/HibernateSearchJobXmlResolver.java
index ff1348355a5..c1c872227ed 100644
--- a/jsr352/jberet/src/main/java/org/hibernate/search/jsr352/jberet/impl/HibernateSearchJobXmlResolver.java
+++ b/jsr352/jberet/src/main/java/org/hibernate/search/jsr352/jberet/impl/HibernateSearchJobXmlResolver.java
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 import java.util.function.Function;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
-import org.hibernate.search.exception.SearchException;
 import org.hibernate.search.jsr352.massindexing.MassIndexingJob;
 
 import org.jberet.spi.JobXmlResolver;
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ public InputStream resolveJobXml(final String jobXml, final ClassLoader classLoa
 			return classLoader.getResourceAsStream( path );
 		}
 		else {
-			throw new SearchException( "Not a Hibernate Search JSR-352 job: " + jobXml );
+			return null;
 		}
 	}
 }