Run a Simplified Candidate Search

The Simplified Candidate Search functionality allows recruiters to search their PeopleFluent Recruiting Portal database for candidates who meet specific criteria.

Because the New Candidate Search page contains several panels, you can run each search criteria individually or all at once to get more narrowed search results. The procedure below illustrates one example of running this type of search.

Access to the panels that appear on the New Candidate Search page are based on user role permissions defined in PeopleFluent RMS Administration Portal. For more information on those role permissions, see Candidate Search Permissions. Contact your RMS administrator if you do not have access to any of these search panels.

To run a simplified search

Go to Primary Navigation Bar > Candidate Search or click the Search thumbnail on the left side of the Dashboard. The Candidate Search panel appears.
To run a Location search:

Select a Country from the drop down list.
Select or enter the State/Province.
Enter the Postal Code or click Lookup if you do not know the postal code of the area.

The Lookup link does not codes for every country. For example, postal codes for China are not available.

To narrow your search, enter the number of Miles or Kilometers Within the postal code to include in your search.

To run an Education search:

Type or select the name of School(s). The school can be a high school, college, or university.
Type or select a Degree Type.
Type or select a Major(s) .
Type or select a Minor(s).

To run an Employment search:

Enter the Job Title(s) to search for candidates who held those specific jobs.
From the drop-down list, select whether the position was Most Recent or was a Past position.
Enter the Company name to search for candidates who worked for a specific company.
From the drop-down list, select whether the candidate's employment with the company was Most Recent or in the Past.

To run a search on the Profile and Referral Type panel:

In the Profile Type area, select whether to narrow the search results by default candidate profile, requisition profile (candidate profile tied to a specific requisition), or both.
In the Referral Type area, select whether to narrow the search results by internal referral candidates or external referral candidates, or both.
From the Applied Online Date list, select the date the candidate applied to a position on the PeopleFluent-hosted career site. When a date is selected, users can select field operators that expand or restrict their search. These operators include: On, Before, Between, and After.
From the Applied Online Status list, select the candidate's application status (for example Application Pending, Yes, or Not Interested).
From the Last Updated list, select a date to narrow the search results by the age of the candidate record. When a date is selected, users can select field operators that expand or restrict their search. These operators include: On, Before, Between, and After.
From the Created On list, select a date to narrow the search results based on the date the candidate profile was created. When a date is selected, users can select field operators that expand or restrict their search. These operators include: On, Before, Between, and After.
From the Created By list, select the user who created the candidate profile.

To run a search on the Requisitions and Folders panel:

Type or select a requisition from the Requisition(s) field.
Type or select a workflow folder from the Folder(s) field.

To run a search on the Tags panel, type a tag name in the Public or Private fields. As you type, values begin to display. Select a tag from the list.

Private tags are only visible to the user who created them. You can only run a search on private tags if you created that tag. Public tags are visible to all permissioned users and you can run a search on any public tag.

To run a Qualifications search:

Type or select a specific Skill (Javascript, HTML, Management, etc.).

Type or select a Certification (ex. Project Management, Six Sigma, etc.).

Entering multiple values in either the Skill(s) or the Certification(s) field, the operator used 'OR'. For example, you enter 'photography', 'graphics' in the Skill(s) field. The system will search for candidates whose profiles contain either one of those items as skills.

Entering multiple values in both fields, the operator used is 'AND'. For example, you enter 'HTML' in the Skill(s) field and 'Project Management' in the Certification(s). The system will search for candidates whose profiles list HTML as a skill and have a project management certification.

On the Offer Information panel, you can search for candidates based on information from Offer/New Hire panel of a candidate profile.

Offer Date: Type or select the date an offer was made to a candidate.
Accept Date: Type or select the date the candidate accepted the offer.
Post-Offer Date Sent: Type or select the date the post-offer information was sent to the candidate.

To run an Internal Employee Information candidate search:

Type or select the internal candidate's Current Position Title.
Type or select the internal candidate's Current Managers Name.
Type or select the internal candidate's Position Start Date.
Type or select the internal candidate's most recent Performance Review Date.

On the Sourcing Information panel, you can run a search based on the source of the candidate ( for example, online application, PeopleFluent Staffing Agency Portal) or how the candidate was referred to the organization (for example, employee referral or advertising).

Type or select the Database Entry Method (for example, import or online application).
Type or select the Specific Entry Method.
Type or select Source (for example, job fair or newspaper).
Type or select the Specific Source Detail.

Click Search. Because requisition profiles (a candidate profile tied to a specific requisition) are searchable, this can cause multiple instances of the same candidate to be returned in the search results.

Additional Information

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