Smart Match

Smart Match is a simple way to source talent using SeekOut. Use job titles, skills, and other qualifications from a job posting or description and combine them with SeekOut's filters to quickly find candidates.

Watch this video for a quick overview of Smart Match, or keep scrolling to read more:

Switching between Smart Match and Boolean

You can toggle between using Smart Match or Boolean & keywords when searching by clicking the appropriate button at the top of your list of filters.

Keep in mind that toggling between Smart Match & Boolean will clear any search terms you currently have active.

How to Use Smart Match

Note: Users with an Enterprise license can use SeekOut Assist to quickly build a Smart Match search without having to manually enter job titles and skills. See the article SeekOut Assist for more information on how to use this feature.

Job Titles

Go to the Search page and select Smart Match from the top of your filters list. Type the job title of the type of candidate you're searching for in the Job Titles field. After you add your first job title, SeekOut will suggest other similar titles. For best results, add multiple job titles to your Smart Match search.

Required Skills

Enter the required skills for the job in the Required Skills field. For best results, add multiple required skills to your Smart Match search. Candidates who have some but not all of the required skills you've entered will be flagged as a Partial Match.

Optional Filters

Other filters that are available while using Smart Match.

• Preferred Skills

  • Click Add preferred skills below the Required Skills field to add the preferred skills filter to your Smart Match. Preferred skills will change the order of candidate results, putting candidates who have the preferred skills you've selected at the top of your search results.

• Power Filters

  • Power Filters add one-click access to a variety of complex filters for Smart Match search. There are Power Filters for security clearances, US work authorization, STEM university graduates, and much more. See the article Power Filters for more information on using Power Filters.

• Diversity Tag

  • Filters for candidates in historically underrepresented groups, including women, black or African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and veterans. SeekOut infers diversity data from candidate profiles. See the article Diversity Filters for more information.

Click More Filters at the bottom of your filters list to select from dozens of other filters, including ones for candidate education, experience, location, company, and more.

Editing your Smart Match Search

Hover your mouse over a search term to see options. Click the 🚫 icon to exclude the term from your search results, click the ✔ icon to include the term in your results, and click the X to remove the term from your search entirely.

Search terms in the Required Skills fields have an implicit AND operator between each one. You can create an OR statement in this field by hovering over a term and clicking the Edit (pencil) icon. In the pop-up that appears, enter additional search terms, then click Add skills list when you're finished.

You can also drag-and-drop search terms between Required and Preferred Skills. You can combine terms in the Required Skills field by dragging and dropping one term on top of another. Note that the terms in the Preferred skills field are always separated by an implied OR statement, so you cannot combine terms in this field.

Adding Candidates to a Project

Once you find a candidate that meets your criteria, add them to a project so you save their profile and can access it later. See the article How to use Projects for more information on working with projects.

Note about Keyword Highlighting

SeekOut highlights relevant terms and keywords on candidate profiles that are related to your search. Highlighted terms will be similar to the keywords and filters you've selected, but may not exactly match. For example, if you search using the keyword "producer," SeekOut will highlight that word as well as similar words like "production" and "product." See the article Keyword Highlighting in SeekOut for more information.