Searching for job candidates as a Recruiter

Recruiter Center: Search Job Candidates

On your Recruiter Center main page, you can use the Quick Search to search for job candidates by keyword. Just type in one or more search terms, and either press <Enter> or click . The system will search the resume text as well as the candidate's name and title fields for any of the words you entered. You will then get a page of all candidates who match your search criteria. (See Candidate search results for more information.)

If you want more control over your search criteria, click the Advanced Search link. This will take you to a page that allows you to search by keywords, except that you can choose how it searches. (Like the Quick Search, it will search the resume text as well as the candidate's name and title fields.)

Besides searching for key words, you can optionally enter a city and/or choose a state to further narrow down your results.

Here are explanations of the different search types.

Exact Phrase: Only returns results that have all the words in the order you typed them in one of the searchable fields. For example, if you type in "IT Director", it will find any candidates with that phrase in their resume, name fields, or title, but it will not find someone whose resume simply includes both the words "it" and "director."
Any words: Returns results that have any of the words in the searchable fields. This works just like the Quick Search.
All words: Only returns results that have all the words in one of the searchable fields. For example, if you type "IT Director," and a candidate has both the word "it" and the word "director" somewhere in her resume, that candidate will be returned as a result.

NOTE: If you want to search by a full name (first and last together), always choose Any Words. The reason is that the search looks at first, middle, and last name fields separately, and none of these fields will contain the full name. Thus, if you have a candidate named "John Smith," and you do an All Words or Exact Match search for "John Smith," the candidate will not be found.