Candidate Search AI
AI powered Candidate Search for your ATS
By Jan and 1 other2 authors27 articles
Welcome to Candidate Search AI
Learn about Candidate Search AI
- What Is Candidate Search AIWhat Candidate Search AI is, what you can do with it, where you use it (Candidately and Bullhorn) and what it searches.
- How AI Search WorksThe five steps behind every search: text to filters, hard filters, semantic and keyword ranking, explained results, refinement. Then the details on synonyms and hybrid matching.
- Keyword Search vs. Semantic Search
- Boolean Search vs. Natural Language Search Queries
- Which ATS Data Candidate Search AI Uses
Start your first Search
Start using Candidate Search AI and find candidates in your ATS
- Start your search in CandidatelyYour first AI search from the Candidates page: describe the role, check what the AI extracted, read the results, refine.
- Start your search in BullhornRun Candidate Search AI straight from a Bullhorn job record. Candidately reads the job description and builds the search for you.
- How to read AI Search resultsWhat the match score, AI summary and evaluations on each result card mean, and what the card actions do.
- Refine your searchTwo ways to refine: type follow-ups into the refine bar, or edit the filter panel and Apply Changes. Only New Search starts over.
Filters & Synonyms
Learn how filters work in Candidate Search AI
- How Skill Synonyms Work in Candidate Search AI
- AI Search filters explainedWhat each filter in the left panel does: work experience, skills (required / optional / excluded), AND/OR, location and radius, the Ideal Candidate Brief and Bullhorn filters.
- AND / OR and skill groupsCombine skills with AND / OR and build groups and sub-groups for searches like (Java OR Kotlin) AND Spring.
- Bullhorn filters: filter AI results by any Bullhorn fieldAdd hard filters on Status, Owner, custom fields or any other Bullhorn candidate field on top of your AI search.
- Required, optional and excluded skillsThe three states of a skill in the filter panel, what each does to your results, and when to use which.
- The Ideal Candidate Brief: what to put in itFilters narrow the list. The brief tells the AI what a great candidate looks like, in plain words, and is used to rank.
- Location and radiusAdd one or more locations, set a radius in miles or km, and know what to do when location cuts too many candidates.
Take Actions from Search Results
Learn what actions you can take once your search is ready
- Shortlists: keep a working set of candidates per roleAdd candidates to a shortlist from a card, the profile panel or in bulk, and find your shortlists again.
- Add candidates to a Bullhorn job, tearsheet or listSubmit a candidate to a Bullhorn job with a status, or add them to a tearsheet or list, from the profile panel or in bulk. Everything writes to Bullhorn immediately.
- The candidate profile panelOpen the full profile next to your results: Bullhorn data, parsed resume, prev/next through candidates, Open in Bullhorn, and Add to job, tearsheet or list.
- Bulk actions: submit, tearsheet, shortlist, list or hide several candidates at onceSelect several result cards and move them in one go: submit to a Bullhorn job, add to a tearsheet, shortlist or list, or hide them from the search.
- Share a search or reopen a past oneEvery search has its own link. Copy Search URL to send the exact search to a colleague or to keep it on a job.
FAQs & Troubleshooting
Explore our FAQs and troubleshooting articles for Candidate Search AI
- Candidate Search AI: frequently asked questionsShort answers to the questions new users ask most: scores, Boolean, missing candidates, data freshness, sharing, hiding, synonyms.
- Troubleshooting: too few results, or "No matching result found"A nine-step checklist to widen a search that returns nothing or almost nothing.
- Troubleshooting: too many results, or the top candidates aren't rightHow to narrow a long result list, and what to change when the top-ranked people are the wrong kind of candidate.
- Troubleshooting: search is slow, stuck, or the Bullhorn tab is blankHow long a search should take, what to do when results don't load, and how to fix a blank Candidate Search tab in Bullhorn.
- Troubleshooting: a candidate I know exists doesn't show upSix checks, in order, when a candidate you expect is missing from AI Search results: sync, filters, hidden, parsing, location, language.
Bullhorn Integration
Learn how Candidate Search AI Integrates with Bullhorn