Search for Candidates

- Improved Recruiter Experience -

You can narrow your search for internal or external candidates in the Improved Recruiter Experience by using filters and search.

A good practice is to filter the candidates list first so that you have a list of candidates who meet your filter criteria, and then to use the Search field to search within that subset of candidates. See Use Filters in the Improved Recruiter Experience.

Note: You must search in both the Candidates and the Disqualified Candidates tabs to access all candidates in the database.

To search for candidates in a list, type identifying text in the Search field and press Enter. You can also select from a drop-down list of previous searches. Click the X in the search bar to remove the search term and see all of the candidates again.

Only those candidates whose records match the search terms are included in the candidate list. If you already filtered the list, the search results only include filtered candidates.

The search can include terms to find names, cities, states or provinces, zip or postal codes, skills, whole phone numbers, email addresses, and so on.

Boolean Search Operators

To refine your candidate management searches in the Improved Recruiter Experience, you can use multiple search terms or phrases with any of the following Boolean operators. The operators aren't case sensitive, so (for example) you could use any of the following: OR, Or, or.

The following table shows the operators you can use, in the order that they are processed.

Boolean search operators for Candidate Management (NEW) tab

Operator	Description
Prefixes	For example, "Name(John Smith)" See below for a list of all prefixes.
AND	Both terms or phrases need to be present. For example, search for candidates who have both "Java" AND "HTML" in their profile: Java AND HTML
OR	Either term or phrase is possible. For example, search for candidates who have either "Java" OR "HTML" in their profile: Java OR HTML
NOT	Exclude the term or phrase from the search results. For example, search for candidates who have "Java" AND NOT "HTML" in their profile: Java AND NOT HTML

Prefixes: The following prefix examples show prefixes that you can use to search the Dayforce candidate database:

• Name(Margie)—Searches against first name and last name.
• Address(222 Dundas)—Searches against address1, city, state, postal code country. Candidate profiles are also searched and these results are combined.
• Phone(5556789234)—Searches against contact number.
• Email(admin@dayforce.com)—Searches against email address.

The following are examples of prefixes that you can use to search against candidate profiles. Unless options are mentioned, you can place any term or phrase in the parentheses:

• skill(java)
• certification(advanced english)
• assistantTo(CEO)
• currentManagementLevel(None) Options: None, Low, Mid, High
• isAuthor(true) Options: true, false
• isPublicSpeaker(term) Options: true, false
• isMilitary(term) Options: true, false
• hasBeenSelfEmployed(true) Options: true, false
• hasPatents(false) Options: true, false
• hasSecurityCredentials(true) Options: true, false
• securityCredential(csec level 1)
• schoolName(MIT)
• degreeName(Computer Science Diploma)
• degreeMajor(Automation)
• degreeType(Bachelor of Science)
• minimumDegreeLevel(ged)
• For the above three prefixes, you can use a term or phrase like "Bachelor of Science" or any of the following: ged, secondary, highSchoolOrEquivalent, certification, vocational, someCollege, HND_HNC_OrEquivalent, associates, international, bachelors, somePostgraduate, masters, intermediategraduate, professional, postprofessional, doctorate, postdoctorate.
• minimumDegreeLevel(ged)
• minimumGPA(0.2)—Value range has to be between 0.0 and 1.0. Example: 3.5 on a scale of 4.0 would have a value of 0.875
• For the following address components, it's recommended to use the address parameter instead: location(USA), postalcode(m6a0b6), municipality(chicago), region(california), country(germany).
• language(fr) Use the ISO 639-1 two-letter alphabetic code.

Boolean Examples

NOT address(peach)

• Any candidates who don’t have an address containing peach

isAuthor(true) and hasBeenSelfEmployed(true)

• Any candidates who are authors and self-employed

grey and intranet and not turquoise

• Candidates who have grey and intranet in any of their information but not turquoise

name(margie) and turquoise or address(chestnut) and name(misty)

• Candidates named margie who also have turquoise in any of their information
• plus
• Candidates named misty who also have chestnut in their address