Speed

We've increased the speed of search through-out the system. You can now easily search every resume and record in your database and all of your notes and metadata in about a second.

Wildcard Support

Due to numerous requests, we've dropped "Partial" searching in favor of wildcards. This means searches like "andr" will no longer find candidates named "Andrew". You will now need to use the wildcard character (*) with your search. Using wildcards, the search of "andr*" will match "Andrew" and "Andre".

Wildcard searching provides better results and is generally easier to understand for most people.

You can combine the power of wildcard searching with boolean searches using keywords like AND, OR, NOT, double quotes ("") and parenthesis (). As an example, the following search would match any candidate with the name Andrew, Andy or Andre and a last name ending in the letters "son":

(andrew OR andy OR andre) *son

Would match: "Andrew Anderson", "Andy Carlson", "Andre Danielson"

Relevance

Many people have asked for title-only searches to help remove the clutter of an all-in-one search. For example, if you have a company in your database named "Microsoft", a search for "Microsoft" would yield not only that company but also any resume or notes containing the word "Microsoft" which could make it difficult to find that company mixed in with all the other records.

We're now introducing the concept of relevance, which scores each result by a number of factors. Title only matches will appear with a high relevance and will be shown in bold. In the previous example, Microsoft would be the first result and in bold text so it's easy to locate quickly.

Additional relevance scoring criteria includes scoring newer records higher than older records, scoring based on number of matches, and the score of certain fields over other fields (email is higher priority than notes, for example).

Lastly, we've also begun listing how the result was found with a short description. For example, if your search found a candidate by the contents of their resume, a "Found in Resume" description will appear. If it's a title match, a "Title Match" will appear.

Consolidation

In the past, to perform a candidate search you would need to browse to the candidates tab and enter your search. Quick search was available on the upper right, but only searched a certain amount of data. Our new search consolidates all of these searches into a single search bar on the upper left of every page.

After performing a search using the new search feature, you will have to option to "convert" the search to a candidate, contact, job order or company search which would allow you to add additional filters (like zip code radius searching), perform mass actions and generate reports.