Search the talent network

Who can use it. People (/admin/candidates) is the first tab of the Talent network; Groups & folders, Cohorts and Audiences are the others. Offerrole's reviewers and admins search everyone. A recruiter needs Talent network access, which an Offerrole admin turns on for the account; with it, the search covers everyone who chose to be discoverable by recruiters, plus your own applicants and imports. E-mails are masked until you unmask someone (you give a reason, and it is logged); names show from November 25, 2026, and are masked the same way until then. Each profile shows the candidate's résumé and cover letter as the files they sent, and opening one is logged.

Type it the way you'd say it. "senior python developer in Austin 5+ years remote -java" works as written. Under the box, Read as shows what was read as a filter — In Austin, 5+ years, Senior or above, Open to remote — and the words still searched ("python developer -java"). Remove any of them with its ×. Search these words exactly turns the reading off. Years, level, degree and remote read this way are lenient: someone who didn't say is kept and scored as unknown, so a missing field never hides a good person. Senior also finds staff and principal people — experience is a minimum, never a ceiling.

Places in any spelling. "Texas" also finds people who wrote "TX", "NYC" finds New York, "Austin, TX" means Austin in Texas, "London, UK" London in the United Kingdom, and "Canada" the whole country. The Location filter reads places the same way.

Exact filters. Field syntax sets a filter directly: skill:python, tool:jira, title:"data engineer", loc:texas, years:5+ (or years:3-7), level:senior, degree:master, seen:30d, industry:fintech. Words in quotes match the exact phrase; OR between words means either; a minus (or "not") leaves a word out; a star finishes a word (java*); c++, .net and c# stay whole.

Paste a job description. Paste one into the box and it opens up to show it. Search with this job reads its title, the skills it names, the years, place, way of working and degree — and opens the search those make, each a filter you can change. The title ranks people with similar titles first. Nothing you paste is kept.

Suggestions as you type follow the words you're typing — a skill, a product, a title or a place, with how many people have it — and offer a spelling fix ("Did you mean python?") when nothing matches. Pick one to add it as a filter.

Every result has a match score for what the search asks for — the same engine that scores job applicants, with the reasons on hover — and last seen: when that person last did something on Offerrole (applied, signed in, answered questions, clicked one of our e-mails). Best match sorts by the score; Recently active by last seen.

What this search found. Above the results: how many people, how many are in your pipeline, how many were seen in the last 30 days, the median experience — and charts of their top skills, places, titles, years, level and last seen. Click a bar to narrow the search to it; Show as table gives the figures as tables. Figures for large searches come from a 1-in-32 sample and are marked ≈; searches under 20,000 people are exact.

Few results? The page offers a spelling fix and what to leave out ("Without “Senior or above”"), each with how many people it would find.

Often alongside. The skills and products many of these people share, with how many have each. Click one to keep only the people who also have it.

Save as group keeps the search as a group, shared with everyone in your organization: it reopens exactly as saved, with whoever matches on the day, and it is also an audience in Audiences (with its skills, products, place and way of working — Audiences can't filter by years, level or degree yet, and the panel lists what isn't carried over). Folder on any result puts that person in one of your organization's folders. See "Groups and folders in the Talent network". Export pipeline downloads the people in your own pipeline.