Searching with SeekOut
Understanding SeekOut Profiles
Understanding SeekOut's Unified Profiles
Read more »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.
Candidate Pools
Public Profiles
Read more »SeekOut's Public profiles cover all roles including professional experience, education, skills, interests, and much more.
Healthcare Talent Pools
Read more »SeekOut's Healthcare tab 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 profiles.
Can I source candidates outside of the United States?
Read more »Yes, SeekOut supports searching and creating messaging campaigns for candidates internationally.
What industries are listed in SeekOut?
Read more »See article for full list of industries and industry filters.
Search: Other Networks tab
Read more »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.
Find a Candidate Using a LinkedIn URL
Read more »If you know the LinkedIn URL of a specific candidate, you can use part of the URL to look for their SeekOut profile.
Keyword/Boolean Searches
Boolean & Field-Based Search
Read more »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.
Creative Ways to Search with SeekOut
Read more »Here are some real-life examples of searches from users of SeekOut using Boolean.
Advanced Boolean search with SeekOut
Read more »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.
SeekOut Search Filters
Experience and Education Filters
Read more »SeekOut's Experience and Education filters can be applied separately, or they can be combined to find candidates using specific criteria.
Create your own Power Filters
Read more »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.
Select and reorder candidate filters
Read more »You can customize and re-order the filters that appear on the left side of your Search page by clicking View All Filters.
Identify Candidates Open to New Opportunities
Read more »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.
How does the Years of Experience filter work?
Read more »The Years of Experience filter is found in the Experience section, highlighted in blue below.
Time Zones: Time Differences and The Time Zone Filter
Read more »When viewing a candidate's profile, you can see at-a-glance the time difference based on their time zone and your location.
Enhanced Clearance Filters
Read more »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.
How to request Custom Power Filters for your organization
Read more »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.
An Overview of SeekOut's Filters
Read more »An overview of all the available filters for public profiles, and how filters operate across multiple categories
Using SeekOut's Company Alumni Filters
Read more »SeekOut's Company Alumni filter is a powerful tool, unique to SeekOut, 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.
Power Filters
Read more »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.
Automating Your Search with AI
AI Matching in SeekOut
Read more »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.
How do I Clone a Candidate or a Project?
Read more »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.
Diversity
Improving Diversity with SeekOut
Read more »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.
Bias Reducer
Read more »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.
How SeekOut Diversity Classifiers Work
Read more »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.
Searching GitHub
What is Coder Score and how is it calculated?
Read more »SeekOut has analyzed each GitHub member's code contributions 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.
How is SeekOut's GitHub search different?
Read more »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:
Advanced Search Syntax with GitHub search
Read more »As with Public Profile search, SeekOut supports a wide range of field-specific search capabilities in GitHub candidate search.
Sourcing GitHub candidates with SeekOut
Read more »SeekOut's GitHub search lets you find software developer candidates in a completely new way.
Expert Searches
Advanced Search Syntax with Expert search
Read more »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 Overview
Read more »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.
Best Practices
X-Ray search vs. SeekOut search
Read 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.
People Insights
Read more »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.
Frequently asked questions
Questions and answers we've heard a few times, and might be able to quickly help.
I've lost my password, how can I reset it?
No worries! You can reset your password by clicking Forgot your password? at the bottom of the Sign In page. We have a full article for more questions, here.
How do credits work?
How do I create my own power filters?
A SeekOut administrator can save any public profile search can as a power filter. You can learn how to create and access those filters here.
Upcoming trainings
SeekOut Training 101
Thursday, March 30, 2023 at 3:30 PM UTC
SeekOut 101 offers a full product walk-through, including our best tips and tricks. Learn everything you need to know to begin your journey with SeekOut.
SeekOut Training 101
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 3:30 PM UTC
SeekOut 101 offers a full product walk-through, including our best tips and tricks. Learn everything you need to know to begin your journey with SeekOut.
Advanced Boolean
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM UTC
Please join SeekOut for intermediate and advanced Boolean search techniques. This webinar will include general Boolean practices for finding candidates, as well as advanced tips for optimal results using SeekOut’s talent platform.