Searching in Talent Warehouse
Candidates. This extremely flexible search functionality enables you to construct your own searches, specifying and modifying the search criteria as required.
Furthermore, once the search results are returned, suitable Candidates can be directly applied to a job of your choosing, communicated with via email functionality, have their details packaged for further distribution to other system Users, have their details exported into a spread sheet and be invited to an interview.
Searching Talent Warehouse
- To access the talent warehouse click on the Talent tab.
- Click Show Criteria List to start your search by using criteria that has been developed based on the global questions in your system.
- You can search using data from the following talent search options:
a. Job – Data from the job details form.
b. Global Assessment – Data from the Global Assessment form (this can be located in the candidate card).
a. Application – Data from the application form.
- To view the available Searchable Criteria for each category, click the Category title (in this example we will choose Application). Click Add on the field that you would like to search on.
- Select the talent search option answer(s) that you wish to search on and click Search.
Note: You can select more than one talent search option. - The results will be displayed at the bottom of the page.
- If it is not necessary that the candidates must match a particular search criteria you can add the talent search option to the “could match” section. This will expand your search results.
Applications that match the “must match” and the “could match” criteria will be displayed at the top of the list.
To do this click on the Arrow pointing down next to the criteria in the must match section. This will move it to the section below. - Click Search.
- The result at the top of the list matches all three search criteria.
Tips for ‘Keyword’ searches
When entering text in the keyword section, you can perform a simple query by entering a word or strings of words separated by commas, with optional wildcard characters. The system treats each comma as a logical OR. If you omit the commas, eRecruit will treat the expression as a phrase.
The following table shows examples of simple searches:
Operator
Example
Search result
Normal
sales, business, development
sales or business or development
Exact Phrase
sales business development
the phrase, “sales business development”
Wildcard
engine*
engine, engineer or engineering
AND
engineering AND mining
engineering and mining
OR
engineering OR mining
engineering or mining
NOT
engineering NOT mining
engineering but not mining
When using operators (AND, OR, NOT), you need to make sure these are in UPPER CASE.
Talent Warehouse Actions
- There are a number of actions that can be performed to the candidates that have matched the search criteria.
- New Email – Send candidates an ad hoc email i.e. to notify them on a new position.
- New SMS – Send candidates an ad hoc SMS i.e. to notify them on a new position.
- Invite to Interview – Invite a candidate to a scheduled interview.
- Delete All Activity Tickets – Remove the ability for a candidate to book into an interview after being invited.
- Export Candidates – Export candidate registration details to an excel spreadsheet.
- Package Applications – Export candidate applications in order to email them or print.
- Apply To Job – Apply a candidate to a job.