Search for candidates
Describe the person you need in your own words and Tahoe finds matching profiles.
Search is where most hiring in Tahoe starts. You write who you are looking for the way you would explain it to a colleague, Tahoe turns it into search filters, and you get a list of matching people with a match score for each one.
Run your first search
Open a new search
In the side panel, choose Search, then New Search. You will see the question “Who are you looking for today?”
Describe the person
Type a short description in the box. Name the role, and add what matters most: a skill, a location, a language, a past employer or years of experience. You can also press the microphone button and say it out loud.
Not sure how to start? Click one of the suggestions under the box, such as HR Manager in New Jersey or Plant Manager with SAP.
Check the filters
Tahoe shows you what it understood, under “Here’s what Tahoe read.” Fix anything that is wrong or missing. Nothing is charged at this point. Review and refine filters
Search
Run the search. Tahoe opens the results on their own screen, 20 people per page, with the best matches first. Results and contact details
Write a description that works
Tahoe picks out the parts of your description that it can search on. Short, specific descriptions work best. Here is how a few descriptions are read:
| You type | Tahoe searches for |
|---|---|
| HR Manager in New Jersey | Job title: HR Manager. State: New Jersey. |
| Plant Manager with SAP | Job title: Plant Manager. Skill: SAP. |
| Korean-speaking sales manager in Texas, 5+ years | Job title: Sales Manager. State: Texas. Speaks: Korean. At least 5 years of experience. |
| Bookkeeper in Chicago with QuickBooks | Job title: Bookkeeper. State: Illinois. Skill: QuickBooks. |
From a description, Tahoe fills in the job title, the state or country, up to three skills, languages and a minimum number of years. A city becomes its state, and words like “Senior” are left out of the job title. Everything else, such as a city, a certification, a past employer, an industry, a management level or a department, you add yourself in the filters before you search.
A search needs at least one of these, so Tahoe knows what kind of person to look for:
- a job title
- a skill
- a language other than English
- a company they worked at
- a certification
- an industry
- a management level or department
A location on its own is not enough. If you only type “people in Ohio”, Tahoe asks you to add a job title, skill, language, company, industry, level or department.
Search with filters only
If you already know exactly what you want, skip the description. Click Filters next to the search box, fill in the fields you need, and search. This is useful when you want to repeat a search with one small change, such as a different state.
What a search costs
| Action | Credits |
|---|---|
| New accounts start with | 10 welcome credits, enough for 5 pages |
| Each page of 20 results | 2 |
| Opening a page your workspace already loaded | Free |
| Reopening a past search from Search Histories | Free |
| Checking and changing filters before you search | Free |
Without a plan, once your credits run out, the first page of one search each week is still free, and the search box tells you when that free search is available. The line under the search box shows the price before you run anything, for example “This search uses 2 credits.” Contact details are charged separately, and only when Tahoe finds them. Enrich contact details
Examples
Bilingual operations manager in Los Angeles, Spanish required
Tahoe sets the job title to Operations Manager and the language to Spanish. Because you wrote “required”, turn on Require this language in the filters: people who do not speak Spanish are left out, instead of only being ranked lower.
Warehouse supervisor in Dallas
Tahoe sets the job title to Warehouse Supervisor and the state to Texas. If you need people close to Dallas, add Dallas in the City filter. A city narrows the results a lot, so add it only when the distance to the site really matters.