Intro to People Search
Find candidates beyond your applicant pool using CVViZ's native People Search — a per-job tab with rich filters.
What People Search is
People Search is CVViZ's native sourcing tool. It searches CVViZ's own person database — it isn't a third-party integration. The feature is gated by the permission.
Where to find it
People Search lives inside a job, not as a top-level nav item. From any job's view, the People Search tab opens. The default filters auto-populate from the job's title, city, and mandatory skills.
The UI layout
- Left panel — search form with the keyword box (placeholder: "Search by role, skill, or location...") and structured filters.
- Right panel — results as a paginatedof components, each one a person matching your filters.
- Click any card to open a Detailed Profile Modal with the full record.
Defaults pulled from the job
When you open People Search from a job, three filters are pre-filled to match the job:
- City — from the job's location.
- Skills — the job's mandatory skills (type 1).
- Current Title — the job's title.
You can clear or change any of these to broaden or narrow the search.
Importing a candidate
From the Detailed Profile Modal, import the person into your CVViZ candidate database. Imported records carry the source tag so you can distinguish sourced candidates from inbound applicants in reports.
Other sourcing entry points
People Search isn't the only way to source candidates. The Add Candidates modal also has:
- Find on web — Google-search across LinkedIn, GitHub, Behance, Stack Overflow, and resume files.
- Find on GitHub — direct GitHub search by skill, language, repos, followers.
- Discover candidates — match your existing candidate database against the job using AI ranking.
See Searching by skills, title, location, and company for the filter details and Pushing sourced candidates into a job for the import paths.
When to use People Search vs other paths
- People Search — start here when you need to source actively for a specific role and you want CVViZ's own data.
- Find on web / GitHub — when you want to browse public profiles externally.
- Discover candidates — when you want to mine your existing database for fits.
Tips
- Start with the auto-filled job defaults — they're a fast first cut. Narrow or broaden from there.
- Check the Detailed Profile Modal before importing — the list view shows summary cards; the modal has the full picture.
- Tag imported candidates with a campaign label (e.g. "Sourced 2025-Q2 backend") for later filtering and reporting.