Who can do this: Anyone with Candidate Search AI · Product: Candidate Search AI · Where: All candidates → AI Search
Candidate Search AI turns a plain-language description into a structured search, ranks your candidates against it, and explains each result.
What happens when I run a search?
Your text becomes a structured search. Candidate Search AI reads what you typed (or, if you start from Bullhorn, the Bullhorn job) and fills in the Filters sidebar: skills with the most important ones marked required, work experience, location, and an Ideal Candidate Brief. Job titles, seniority, industry, employers and remote wishes go into the brief.
Hard filters narrow the pool. Required skills, excluded skills, the experience range, location and, if Bullhorn is connected, any Bullhorn filters remove candidates that don't meet the facts.
Results are ranked. Every remaining candidate is ranked by how closely the profile matches your search. Different ways of writing the same skill are recognized, so you don't have to type every variation.
Each result is explained. Candidate Search AI writes a short AI Summary per candidate and lists evaluations: green ticks for what fits, red crosses for what doesn't.
You refine. Anything you type next into the refine bar is merged into the same search. Filters update and results re-rank.
How each result is explained
The AI Summary and the green ticks and red crosses show how the candidate fits your search.
What does this mean in practice?
You don't have to guess the words on the resume. Describe the role.
Required skills are strict. Everything else is a signal Candidate Search AI weighs.
The relevance score is relative to your search, not a grade of the candidate. Change the search and the scores change.
You don't need Boolean. Describe the role in plain words, and use skill groups and excluded skills in the filters for AND, OR and NOT.
How many results does Candidate Search AI show?
The candidate count shows at the top right of the results, for example "1,282 candidates". For large result sets the count is approximate and shows with a plus, for example "10,000+ candidates". Results are sorted by relevance.
What does "Too many searches, please try again in a minute." mean?
Candidate Search AI limits how many searches one person can run per minute. If you see "Too many searches, please try again in a minute.", wait a minute and run the search again.
Pro tip: Describe the role the way you'd brief a colleague. Different ways of writing the same skill are recognized, so you don't have to list every variation.
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