Welcome to SeekOut 201! Boolean search is one of the most powerful tools you can use to refine and speed up your candidate search. While filters in SeekOut help you narrow results, Boolean gives you precise control over the keywords and phrases you want to include—or exclude—so you can zero in on the right profiles faster.

In this video, we’ll introduce the core concepts of Boolean logic, explain the main operators like AND, OR, NOT, quotations, and parentheses, and show you how to combine them to build smarter searches.

After learning the basics of Boolean, the next step is mastering keyword search in SeekOut. Keyword search lets you go beyond titles and filters to find candidates by scanning anywhere in their profiles—or by focusing on specific fields like headline, summary, or job descriptions for greater precision.

In this video, we’ll walk through how keyword search works, show the difference between general and field-based searches, and highlight how combining keywords with filters helps you uncover talent you might have otherwise missed.

Power Filters are one of SeekOut’s most powerful search features. They act like a built-in “easy button” for sourcing, giving you one-click access to complex, pre-built Boolean searches without needing to write the logic yourself. Each Power Filter represents a carefully crafted combination of skills, titles, education, experience, or industry attributes that instantly expands your talent pool in the right direction.

In this section, we’ll cover:

By the end, you’ll know how to use Power Filters to quickly build a strong starting talent pool, and then refine it using keywords and additional filters - no advanced Boolean skills required.

People Insights gives you a data-driven view of the talent pool behind any search. It visualizes trends like location, titles, companies, skills, and diversity, helping you understand the size and shape of your market before narrowing your search.

In this section, we’ll cover:

By the end, you’ll know how to use People Insights to source more strategically and guide hiring conversations with clear, data-backed context.

Cloning allows you to quickly find more candidates who closely match a person or group of people you already know are a good fit. Whether you're backfilling a role or expanding a pipeline, the clone feature uses the skills, experience, and background of an existing profile or project to surface similar talent automatically.

In this section, we’ll cover:

By the end, you’ll know how to use cloning to quickly build targeted, high-quality talent pools with much less manual search work.