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If you are working in a high volume recruiting environment, there may be hundreds of candidate associated with a single requisition. Additionally, over time, there will be many, many candidate profiles stored within the portal and it may be difficult to remember in which specific workflow folder a candidate record may be found.
PeopleFluent Recruiting Portal provides two options for searching for candidates:
By default, the Candidate Quick Find function returns only default candidate profiles. Therefore, candidate requisition profiles and virtual candidates are not returned in the search results. The quick find function will return an unlimited number of matching search results based on the entered search criteria. Search results are displayed on the Candidate List pane.
For more information, or if your company does not have a certified system administrator, please contact PeopleFluent Service Support.
To use Candidate Quick Find
Go to Primary Navigation Bar > Candidates > Candidate Quick Find. The Candidate Quick Find window opens displaying a list of search criteria fields.
Enter the known candidate information into any of the fields. You do not need to enter information in every field.
Click Search or press the Enter key on your keyboard. A list of candidates meeting your criteria is displayed on the Candidate List pane at the bottom of the window.
Candidate Search allows the user to conduct a simple search to quickly find candidates whose resumes contain specific text and an advanced search based on other selected criteria such as requisition name, geographic location, and degree to name a few.
Best Practice: Companies that use search logging have established specific rules concerning when and how RMS users can create simple searches. If your company uses search logging, please review and follow your company's policy concerning the use of simple search results.
Search results will include only Default Candidate profiles. Candidate search results include only candidates you have permission to view. For example, without permission to view internal candidates, internal candidates will not be included in your search results, even if internal candidates exist who meet your search criteria. If both of the text boxes are left blank, the system returns all default candidate profiles.
A simple candidate search is a keyword search of default profile resumes.
To conduct a simple (resume) candidate search
On the Global Navigation Bar, click Candidate Search.
Enter the words or phrases that you want to search for in the With ANY of the words text box. Enter keywords in this text box much as you would for a Google™ search. Consider the following guidelines when entering search keywords:
The system DOES NOT automatically ignore common words such as a, and, and the. Omit these words from your search and enter only important key words.
DO NOT simply copy a job description into the text box. All candidate resumes that contain any of the words in the job description will be returned in the search results.
The text box is limited to 500 characters. If you enter more than 500 characters, a warning message is displayed.
The system automatically searches for candidates whose resumes contain the words you have entered. Do not use connectors such as AND, OR , or AND NOT between terms.
If you want to search for an exact phrase, enclose it in quotation marks, such as “certified network engineer . ”
You can search for text in multiple languages. To search both English and German resumes for a chemical engineer, enter the keywords “chemical engineer” and chemike.
Wildcard searches are permitted. For example, to return search results for bio engineers, biology majors, and biotechnology, enter bio* in the search keywords field.
Enter the desired words or phrases separated by the Boolean operators AND, OR , or AND NOT .
NOT is evaluated before AND .
NOT can only occur after AND (as in AND NOT; the combination OR NOT is not allowed).
AND is evaluated before OR .
AND expressions are associative and can be applied in any order. For example, a AND b AND c is the same as (a AND b) AND c, which is the same as a AND (b AND c).
OR expressions are associative and can be applied in any order.
Enclose exact phrases in quotation marks; for example, “Sarbanes-Oxley . ”
When searching, the user can include search terms in either or both of the above search fields.
There is no limit to the number of candidates that can be returned in a single search.
Click Search. Candidates whose resumes contain the text you entered are displayed on the Candidate List pane.
Click Reset to clear all search fields.
Click the Save icon to save your search keywords for future use.
Enter a name for the saved search.
Select Private if the search is for your personal use.
Select Public if the search is to be visible to all users.
Click the Saved Searches icon to select from previously saved search keywords.
There may be times when you wish to further restrict or focus your candidate searches. For example, if you are interested in searching candidate resumes that were submitted from a certain geographic region, with a particular major, with a grade point average (GPA) greater than 3.5, you could create an advanced search. Once you select the required search criteria, you can save the search settings for future use.
To conduct an advanced (resume) candidate search
On the Global Navigation Bar, click Candidate Search.
Click the Advanced Search link.
A new search window opens displaying the basic search criteria defaults of Full Text Search, Requisition Folders and Filters, and Candidate Parameters.
Click on the Edit icon to view the settings for the default a search criteria. If text criteria was entered on the Basic Search screen, it will be inherited into the Full Text search criteria in the Advanced Search window.
Edit settings to narrow your search results as necessary.
Click Add Criteria to select additional search criteria to include in your advanced search.
Choose the settings, including operators for each new criteria.
To remove a search criteria, click the Delete icon in the criteria row.
Click Search. Candidates whose resumes contain the selected search criteria are displayed on the Candidate List pane.
Click the Save icon to save your search criteria for future use.
Enter a name for the saved search.
Select Private if the advanced search is for your personal use.
Select Public if the advanced search is to be visible to all users.
Click the Saved Searches icon to select from previously saved search keywords.
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