How do filters work together?
List of Public Profile filters
Standard filters | Notes |
Power Filters | SeekOut's Power Filters let you perform complex queries with one click. See Power Filters. |
Experience | Filter candidates by Company, Title, and Years of Experience. See Experience and Education Filters. |
Education | Filter candidates by School, Degree, and/or major. See Experience and Education Filters. |
Speciality filters | Notes |
Likely Open to New Roles | Show candidates who are more likely to switch jobs in the next 12 months. Only available to Enterprise level plans. |
Location filters | Notes |
Location | Filter by city or by a metropolitan area. Use the dropdown menu to search within 0 - 500 miles of the location. |
State | Filter by state. Outside of North America, state filters include countries, municipalities, and other autonomous communities. |
Country | Filter by country |
Diversity filters | Notes |
Diversity Tag | SeekOut uses machine-learning algorithms to find diverse & underrepresented candidates. See Improving Diversity with SeekOut. |
Role filters | Notes |
Seniority | Filter by seniority of current role based on the candidate's current title and year of graduation. Student, Intern, Entry, Senior, Manager, Director, or Executive. |
Company filters | Notes |
Company Alumni | Find former employees of a company. Choose a company from the dropdown menu, then select a range of years between 1990 and present. |
Industry | Filter by industry. See What industries are listed in SeekOut? |
Company Size | Filter results by the number of employees at a company. Choose an upper and lower range between 0 and 20,000 employees at the candidate's current company. |
Background filters | Notes |
Skills | Specific skills listed on the candidate's profile. Chosen by the candidate. |
Years In Role | Number of years in their current job. Choose an upper and lower range between 0 and 20. |
Years In Current Company | Number of years in the current company. Choose an upper and lower range between 0 and 20. |
Certifications | Chosen by the candidate. |
Languages | Chosen by the candidate. |
Volunteering | Volunteer work listed on the candidate's profile. Chosen by the candidate. |
Groups | LinkedIn groups listed on the candidate's profile. Chosen by the candidate. |
Courses | Chosen by the candidate. |
Interests | Chosen by the candidate. |
Honors and Awards | Chosen by the candidate. |
Miscellaneous filters | Notes |
Minimize Candidates I've Seen | Controls for hiding seen candidates and focusing on new candidates. Select this to shrink a profile if you have already viewed it on LinkedIn or if the candidate is already in a project or messaging campaign. Shrunken profiles will appear in search results, greyed out with most of the candidate's info hidden. |
Profile Type | Show candidates who also have a Github profile or an Expert profile. |
Contact Info | Hide or show based on whether you have contact info for a candidate. Choose if you want to see candidates whose contact information you've already retrieved, or to see candidates whose contact info you haven't retrieved. |
Exclusions | Hide candidates who might match keywords but are not in a role you're looking for. Choose to exclude Recruiters, Sales, or Leadership candidates from search results based on their job title. |
List of GitHub-exclusive filters
GitHub search uses many of the filters listed above, but there are also some GitHub-specific filters available that are listed below.
Speciality filters | Notes |
Coder Score | SeekOut Coder Score is a rating of the candidate's overall coding ability based on open source code. See What is Coder Score and how is it calculated? |
Language Expertise | Filter by demonstrated expertise with a specific coding language. After selecting a language you can filter further by their coder score for that language (1 - 5 stars). |
Topics | Development topics the candidate knows. |
Role filters | Notes |
Current Company | Filter by current employer. |
Current Title | Find by current title. |
Past Company | Find candidates based on any of the companies previously worked. |
Past Title | Find by previous title. |
Repository filters | Notes |
Top Repositories | The repositories (GitHub projects) where the candidate has contributed the most code. |
Followers | The number of GitHub followers the candidate has. Select a range between 0 and 200+. |
Following | Number of other GitHub users the candidate follows. Select a range between 0 and 200+. |
Number of Repositories | How many repositories (GitHub projects) the candidate has contributed to. |
Stars | Number of stars given to this candidate by other GitHub users. |
Education filters | Notes |
School | Filter by schools attended. |
Degree | Filter by education degree awarded. |
Major | Filter by major field of study. |
Company filters | Notes |
Organization | Associated organizations (often a company or school) the candidate has listed on their profile. |
Miscellaneous filters | Notes |
Profile Type | Filter by information SeekOut has about the candidate. Determine if you want to see matched or unmatched GitHub profiles. A matched profile means the candidate has a GitHub and a LinkedIn profile. |
Has Email | Filter by whether SeekOut has an email for this candidate. Toggle this filter ON to only show candidates who have an email address available. |
List of Expert-exclusive filters
Expert search uses many of the public profile filters listed above, but there are also some Expert-specific filters available that are listed below.
Affiliation filters | Notes |
Affiliation | A group or university that the candidate is commonly affiliated with. |
Speciality filters | Notes |
Author Score | Filter based on how influential the candidate's work is. |
h-index | A measure of how highly cited the candidate is. |
i10-index | A measure of how highly cited the candidate is. |
Category filters | Notes |
Category | Category of areas the candidate has published work about. |
Sub Category | Sub-category of areas the candidate has published work about. |
Tags | Topics the candidate has published work about. |
Papers/Patents filters | Notes |
Document Type | Filter by type of publication (journal, conference paper, patent, etc.). |
Papers | Filter by number of papers the candidate has published. |
Journal | Find candidate by the journal where they were published. |
Publisher | Filter by publication which released the candidate's work. |
Prominence | Filter by number of publications where candidate is first or last listed author. |
Conference filters | Notes |
Conference | Filter by the conference where the candidate has presented work. |
Conference Instance | Filter by specific year of conference. |
Citations filters | Notes |
Citations | The number of times this candidate's work is cited by others. |
Miscellaneous filters | Notes |
Has Public Profile | Filter by whether the candidate also has a LinkedIn profile. |
Early in Career | Experts who recently completed their graduate studies. Yes/No |
Student | Experts who are still in school. Yes/No |