Candidately

Jan Alexander Jedlinski

Candidate Search AI

AI search across your own candidates in Candidately and Bullhorn: what you can do with it, where to find it and what it searches.

What is Candidate Search AI

What happens when you run a Candidate Search AI search, from your text to filters, ranking and explained results.

How AI Search works

Which of your candidates are searchable, what is read on each profile, and what happens to candidates deleted in Bullhorn.

What does Candidate Search AI search?

A lock on AI Search means Candidate Search AI isn't on for your company. Click Get early access or ask us in the chat.

Why is AI Search locked or not available?

Candidate Search AI connects to Bullhorn. With another ATS, upload or import candidates into Candidately, or ask us in the chat.

Does Candidate Search AI work with my ATS?

Welcome to Candidate Search AI

Your first AI search from the Candidates page: describe the role, check what the AI extracted, read the results, refine.

Start your search in Candidately

What the 0–100 score on each AI Search result means, why a good candidate can score low, and why scores only compare within one search.

How the relevance score works

Add the Top Matches card to Bullhorn job records, so recruiters see the best-matching candidates as soon as they open a job.

Show top matching candidates on a Bullhorn job

Run Candidate Search AI straight from a Bullhorn job record. Candidately reads the job description and builds the search for you.

Start your search in Bullhorn

What the relevance score, AI Summary, green ticks and red crosses on each result card mean, and what the card actions do.

How to read AI Search results

Type follow-ups into the refine bar or edit the Filters sidebar. Then check the Ideal Candidate Brief, which refining doesn't rewrite.

Refine your search

Start using Candidate Search AI and find candidates in your ATS

Start your first Search

What each filter group in the Candidate Search AI sidebar does, what the AI fills in for you, and when to use a filter or the brief.

AI Search filters explained

Combine skills with AND / OR, build skill groups like (Java OR Kotlin) AND Spring, and do Boolean logic without Boolean strings.

AND / OR, skill groups and Boolean search

Add hard filters on Status, Owner, custom fields or any other Bullhorn candidate field on top of your Candidate Search AI search.

Filter AI Search results by Bullhorn fields

Make a skill a must-have, a nice-to-have or a deal-breaker, set the experience level, and how different spellings of a skill match.

Required, optional and excluded skills

Describe the ideal person in plain words. Candidate Search AI uses the brief to rank, including titles, employers and remote wishes.

The Ideal Candidate Brief: what to put in it

Search near up to 5 places, set a radius in miles or km, and keep relocation candidates in your results.

Location and radius

Learn how filters work in Candidate Search AI

Filters & Synonyms

Add candidates to a shortlist, share it with your team, send it to Bullhorn or a list, and duplicate or delete it.

Shortlists: keep a working set of candidates per role

Send candidates from AI Search to a Bullhorn job or tearsheet, or add them to a Candidately list or shortlist, one at a time or in bulk.

Add candidates to a Bullhorn job, tearsheet or list

Open a candidate's full profile next to your results: Bullhorn fields, resume, actions and Open in Bullhorn.

The candidate profile panel

Select several result cards and submit, tearsheet, shortlist, list or hide them in one go.

Bulk actions: submit, tearsheet, shortlist, list or hide several candidates at once

Every search has its own link. Copy Search URL to send the exact search to a colleague or to keep it on a job.

Share a search or reopen a past one

No export, SMS or bulk email from search results. Add candidates to a list, shortlist, tearsheet or Bullhorn job instead.

Can I export or message candidates from search results?

Learn what actions you can take once your search is ready

Take Actions from Search Results

Short answers to what new users ask most: what's searched, scores, Boolean, missing candidates, settings, export.

Frequently asked questions about Candidate Search AI

A nine-step checklist to widen a search that returns nothing or almost nothing.

Troubleshooting: too few results, or "No matching result found"

How to narrow a long result list, and what to change when the top-ranked people are the wrong kind of candidate.

Troubleshooting: too many results, or the top candidates aren't right

How long a search takes, what to do when results don't load, and how to fix a blank Candidately tab in Bullhorn.

Troubleshooting: search is slow, stuck, or the Bullhorn tab is blank

Seven checks, in order, when a candidate you expect is missing from AI Search results.

Troubleshooting: a candidate I know exists doesn't show up

Explore our FAQs and troubleshooting articles for Candidate Search AI

FAQs & Troubleshooting

How your Bullhorn candidates get into Candidately and stay up to date, and which Bullhorn sync settings control it.

Initial sync and Live Sync explained

Settings reference for Admins and Owners: profile view, job description source, Bullhorn filter fields and the Bullhorn tabs.

Candidate search settings

Learn how Candidate Search AI Integrates with Bullhorn

Bullhorn Integration

Create a custom design with text, images, and links

Candidately Website

Candidately App

No tickets or conversations found

Try selecting a different creation date range.

Tickets and conversations you've started through the messenger will appear here.

No tickets or conversations created by you

Try using different keywords or checking for typos.

Try selecting a different update date range.

Find answers and get help from Intercom Support and Community Experts

Conversations you've started through the messenger will appear here.

No conversations created by you

No conversations found

AI title

Title

This site employs cookies and other technologies that we and our third party vendors use to monitor and record personal information about you and your interactions with the site (including content viewed, cursor movements, screen recordings, and chat contents) for the purposes described in our Cookie Policy. By continuing to visit our site, you agree to our {websiteTermsLink}, {privacyPolicyLink} and {cookiePolicyLink}.

This site uses cookies and similar technologies ("cookies") as strictly necessary for site operation. We and our partners also would like to set additional cookies to enable site performance analytics, functionality, advertising and social media features. See our {cookiePolicyLink} for details. You can change your cookie preferences in our Cookie Settings.

We use cookies to make our site work and also for analytics and advertising purposes. You can enable or disable optional cookies as desired. See our {cookiePolicyLink} for more details.

Advertising cookies are set by our advertising partners to collect information about your use of the site, our communications, and other online services over time and with different browsers and devices. They use this information to show you ads online that they think will interest you and measure the ads' performance. Social media cookies are set by social media platforms to enable you to share content on those platforms, and are capable of tracking information about your activity across other online services for use as described in their privacy policies.

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalisation. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems.

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information. See our {cookiePolicyLink} for more details about how we use your data.

Your Privacy Choices

We use cookies to enhance your experience. You can customize your cookie preferences below. See our {cookiePolicyLink} for more details.

Cookie Settings

Empty Help Center

Uh oh. That page doesn’t exist.

Home

Search results

Disappointed

Neutral

Smiley

Thinking...

Searching through sources...

Analyzing...

Tickets submitted through the messenger or by a support agent in your conversation will appear here.

No tickets created by you

No tickets found

Conversations and tickets in {topic}

Conversations and tickets in {topic} // {subtopic}

Volume, creators and topics for your company.

Insights

Top creators

AI topics

Track the progress of all tickets and conversations related to your company.

Customer Portal.

Track the progress of all tickets related to your company.

Tickets portal.

{assigneeName} needs more information from you

Tickets

No access to tickets portal

You're not signed in on this browser. Sign in through this site's Messenger, then reload this page.

Sign in to view your company's tickets

Search

Skip the search. Describe what you’re trying to do and get a grounded answer.

Browse articles and guides in this topic.

Create your workspace and invite the people you work with.

Set up your account

Build your first workflow and watch it run end to end.

Ship something

Connect the tools your team already uses to bring data in.

Connect your stack

A quick lap of the product so you know where everything lives.

{appName} in 60 seconds

This prototype demo is aware that you are reading “{title}”. It can point you back to the current article, but a production article-aware Fin contract is still follow-up work.

Prototype article-aware answer

Because you already asked about invitations, this prototype demo can add the follow-up: use the role selector before sending each invite to limit access to the teammate responsibilities.

Prototype role-limiting follow-up

This prototype demo suggests starting with your workspace profile, inviting the team members who need access, and then connecting the integrations you use.

Prototype getting-started answer

In this prototype demo, integrations are configured from workspace settings. Choose the integration, connect the account, and review the enabled permissions.

Prototype integrations answer

In this prototype demo, invite teammates from workspace settings, then choose the access each teammate needs before sending the invitation.

Prototype invite-team answer

This prototype demo does not have a scripted answer for that question yet. Try asking how to invite your team or open a source article. No production Fin API was called.

Prototype answer unavailable

I’ve got this page open. Ask me anything about it and I’ll answer from the docs.

Collections