Searching with SeekOut

SeekOut Unified Profiles bring together the most relevant data from dozens of sources, and allow you to easily search across more than 100 fields that include skillsets, background, and experience, education, diversity, and more.

SeekOut's Public profiles cover all roles including professional experience, education, skills, interests, and much more.

SeekOut for Healthcare extends the candidate pool available to you by enriching millions of existing healthcare worker profiles with data from the National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI) database, as well as adding hundreds of thousands of new prospects to the talent pool.

Yes, SeekOut supports searching and creating messaging campaigns for candidates internationally.

SeekOut provides custom search engines, or CSEs, for finding candidate profiles and information on a wide variety of other social and professional networks. You'll find these CSEs under the Other Networks tab at the top of the SeekOut search page.

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If you know the LinkedIn URL of a specific candidate, you can use part of the URL to look for their SeekOut profile.

SeekOut supports advanced search syntax. If you want to go beyond keywords and basic Boolean, try these advanced query functions. Many of these methods can be combined to form very specific candidate searches.

When you type words or phrases into the Keywords search box, we use the latest machine learning and search technology to bring relevant results to the top. If you want more control over your search, you can use SeekOut's advanced Boolean search syntax.

Here are some real-life examples of searches from users of SeekOut using Boolean.

SeekOut's Company Alumni filter is a powerful and unique tool that allows you to quickly find people who have left a specific company and gain deep insights into who those people are and where they went.

An overview of all the available filters for public profiles, and how filters operate across multiple categories

We know you don't want to spend time manually building searches that arise on a consistent basis. SeekOut can help by deploying Custom search filters in your UI so you have one-click access to desired talent pools.

Finding cleared talent is challenging for many enterprises. Since 2018, SeekOut customers have used our Security Clearance power filter to find candidates who likely have a US government security clearance.

You can customize and re-order the filters that appear on the left side of your Search page by clicking View All Filters.

The filter Likely Open to New Roles uses a machine learning algorithm to predict which candidates are most likely to change jobs within the next 12 months.

The Years of Experience filter is found in the Experience section, highlighted in blue below. 

SeekOut's Experience and Education filters can be applied separately, or they can be combined to find candidates using specific criteria.

When viewing a candidate's profile, you can see at-a-glance the time difference based on their time zone and your location.

Power Filters give you access to complex searches with only a few clicks. SeekOut provides a number of power filters by default, and admins can save any public profile search as a custom power filter for their organization.

Power Filters provide one-click access to a growing number of candidate attributes. Because you don't have to rely on long Boolean strings, power filters make complex sourcing tasks much easier.

AI Matching is available to Essentials, Professional, and Enterprise plans. AI Matching works by taking key requirements from your job description and returning a list of candidates who fit your criteria.

With SeekOut, it's possible to clone candidates and projects. When you clone a candidate, SeekOut will use machine learning to search for candidates with similar experience and skills.

We know diverse teams do better work, are happier, and directly improve the bottom line. Diversity has never been more important, yet many organizations struggle to create diverse representation in enterprise, technology, and leadership roles.​

SeekOut Diversity features are designed to help recruiting teams take action to improve organizational diversity by finding and including highly qualified, diverse candidates in the recruiting pipeline.

The Bias Reducer (formerly known as blind hiring mode) helps you curb unconscious bias in your candidate evaluation by eliminating obvious indicators of race or gender.

As with Public Profile search, SeekOut supports a wide range of field-specific search capabilities in GitHub candidate search.

GitHub is an amazing place to find code and an extremely popular site for deeply technical engineers. Even though it has millions of coder profiles, however, it's a tough place to find candidates because:

SeekOut's GitHub search lets you find software developer candidates in a completely new way.

SeekOut analyzes code contributions from GitHub users to determine how well-accepted or influential their code is. Using that analysis, we assign each member a Coder Score of one to five stars based on their demonstrated contributions.

SeekOut Expert is a unique capability of some SeekOut subscriptions which give you access to nearly tens of millions of engineering, computer science, and life sciences experts.

SeekOut Expert Search is the best way to find untapped talent who are subject matter experts in almost any technical field including engineering, machine learning, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medicine, finance, and more.

Some savvy recruiters use X-Ray search on Google or Bing to find profiles. It's a useful technique for bringing back only certain kinds of pages when searching on Google or Bing.

SeekOut's People Insights feature gives you a bird's eye view of any talent pool. From any search, you can zoom out to see the aggregate data about those candidates' location, employers, titles, skills, employment history, diversity and more.