Once you have created a candidate search, you can refine it using both the pop-out drawer on the left-hand side of the screen and the filters above the slate.

Censia currently offers over 10 search inputs and 15+ search filters to refine your slate and discover your ideal candidate.

 

Refine your search using the Improve Your Ideal Candidate Model Inputs

1. To refine the model, select and edit inputs inside the Improve Your Ideal Candidate Model drawer on the left-hand side of the dashboard.

2. These include:

• • Attach a Linkedin URL, email, phone number or resumé of an ideal candidate to create a list of similar candidates under My Ideal Candidate.

  • Add a job description under My Role Information. This will automatically add information from the job description to the search model.

  • Toggle the preferences to assign added weight to any of our search categories.

  • Other inputs include Position Titles, Location, Seniority, Skills, Sector/Industry/Vertical, Companies, Company Events, Education, Certificates and Licenses, and Languages.

 

Expert Tips

1. Refinding the search works best if the ideal candidates you add to the model have a linear career path, rather than a varied one.
2. Ideally, you don’t want to use more than 5 ideal candidates.  

Learn more about how Ideal Candidate Modeling works on our blog.

 

 

Refine your search using the Improve Your Ideal Candidate Model Inputs using ATS Role Information

1. To refine the model, select and edit inputs inside the Improve Your Ideal Candidate Model drawer / Role Information on the left-hand side of the dashboard.
2. Censia will automatically pull information from your ATS requisitions or from a job description if you have a working integration.
3. If you do not have full integration, please upload a job description to quickly populate the model with relevant skills.

 

Preferences

Use Preferences to adjust the importance of each search input category and include/exclude your former/current employees and recent job switchers. You can toggle the number of years you consider “recent’ for job switchers.

 

Search Inputs

Edit search criteria by clicking on each additional input (Position Titles, Location, etc). You can add more inputs by clicking on Add More Inputs at the bottom of the list.

Notes:

• Suggested terms for each input will be provided. Click the terms to add them to your model.
• Utilize the down arrow button next to each term to set how useful it is to your model.
• Click Apply Changes to dynamically update the candidate slate displayed.
• Once your inputs are set, click on the arrow to close the input drawer and get a full view of your candidate slate. Use the same arrow to expand the input drawer.

 

Position titles

• Add position titles that you are looking for, or which candidates are likely to have held or currently have.

• Position Titles also have weights, and they can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the little arrow to the left of each position title chip.

 

Location

• Use this section to select your preferred role location, adjust the radius.

 

Seniority

• Choose the seniority that your ideal candidate should have.
• You can choose multiple seniority levels to expand your search.

 

Skills

1. Add or refine skills that your ideal candidate will possess.

• • Skills can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each skill chip.

• • Discard the skill from the model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each skill chip.

 

Sector/Industry/Vertical

This drawer allows you to select the Sector/Industry/Vertical in which your ideal candidate has experience.

• You can select and adjust the recency of each sector, industry, and vertical on each drawer. Open each search input sub-drawer by clicking on the gray arrow to the right of each drawer category line.
• Industry: explain what is industry (hr glossary terms)
• Primary Industry (select primary industry to avoid running searches and all the related industries a company may have).

• Industry importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each industry chip.
• Discard the industry from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each industry chip.  
• Industry Recency: Allows users to select how recently their candidate pool will have had worked in the selected industry(ies).
• Experience by Industries: Allows users to select how many years of total experience their candidate pool will have had worked in the selected industry(ies).
• Vertical: explain what vertical is (hr glossary terms)
• Vertical importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each vertical chip.

• Discard the vertical tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each vertical chip.  
• Vertical Recency: Allows users to select how recently their candidate pool will have had worked in the selected vertical.

 

Companies

Add or refine the list of Companies where your candidate pool is likely to have worked, either currently or in the past.

• Companies' importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each company chip.
• Discard the vertical tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each company chip.  
• Company Recency: Allows users to select how recently their candidate pool will have had worked in the selected company/company List.
• Company Lists: Users can select a pre-made company list to run the candidate search on.

Sub-drawers in the Companies drawer include Selected Company, Company Type, Company Size, Number of Employees, and Revenue.

*Most tags in the sub-drawers have importance levels.

 

Company Events

Allows users to select the company funding events that the candidate pool should have been part of.

• Company Events importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each event chip.
• Discard the company event tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each event chip. 
• Company Event Recency: Allows users to select how recently their candidate pool will have had worked in the selected company funding event.

 

Note: If the user selects more than one Company Event, the relationship between more than two tags will be “OR”.

 

Education

Allows users to select the desired education level/title and the desired schools their candidate pool might have been educated in.

Sub Drawers include Selected Degrees, Selected Schools.

• Both Degree and School importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each tag chip.
• Discard the degree or school tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each degree or school chip. 

 

Certifications & Licenses

Allows users to select any Certifications or Licences that your ideal candidates will need to have acquired to qualify for the pool search.

• Certifications & Licenses importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, Useful or Exclude by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each chip.

• Discard the Certifications & Licenses tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each Certification & Licenses chip. 

 

Languages

Allows users to select any Languages that the candidates need to perform the role for which the search is being done.

• Languages importance tags can be set to Must-Have, Important, and Useful by clicking on the green arrow located to the left of each chip.
• Discard the Language tag from the search model by clicking on the “X” located to the right of each Language chip.

Note: Only 5 languages can be selected per search model at the moment.