Advanced Search – RBox

The Advanced search options provide additional criteria to refine your searches. Use this to have greater control over the resume set on which search is applied. You can also control display of the results.

Main Elements of Advanced Search

Faster/Focused Search - Apply search on specific collections/sub-collection instead of entire database.
Recruitment Status-Based – Filter out candidates based on recruitment status – either fresh candidates or those who’ve been shortlisted earlier.
Auto Experience Calculation – Get more matching candidates in result by enabling auto-calculation of experience based on age.
Resume Cover Information Search - Apply search to locate resumes uploaded via email based on keywords in subject & message body. For e.g. specify job-code/position name to locate resumes received against a job posting on Job Portals.
Custom Field-based Search – Specify value for custom fields added by you to locate candidates.
Display Result Display: Enable the display of additional information for matching candidates such as expected salary, preferred location etc. You can also specify the no. of items to show in the search result.

Also note that you can combine Advanced Search criteria with the other sections such as Basic & Job Functions for more fine-grained searches.

Common Tasks

Search in a specific collection
Apply search on Cover information
Apply search on User Defined Fields
Increase page size of search results

1. Search in a specific collection

To apply a search on a specific collection in RBox follow these steps:
- Launch Candidate Search and then click on the Advanced tab in the page.
- In the Candidates to Search section, select the 'Selected Collection' option and then in the adjacent drop-down select the specific collection on which to apply the search.

- Tick 'Include sub-collections' if you want to include sub-collections under the selected collection in the search.
- Specify any other search criteria you want on the Basic or Job Functions tabs and apply the search.

2. Apply search on Cover information

- Launch Candidate Search and click 'Switch to Advanced Find' at the top of the page.
- Click on the 'Advanced' tab in the page.
- In the 'Cover Info' field, enter one or more keywords separated by a comma and space.

- Click Find button to apply the search.

3. Apply search on User Defined Fields

- Launch Candidate Search and click 'Switch to Advanced Find' at the top of the page.
- Click on the 'Advanced' tab in the page.
- In the 'User Defined Fields' section, for each field on which to apply the search:

- Select the field name from the 'Field' drop-down.
- Select the comparison operation from the 'Operator' drop-down depending on the data type of the field.
- Specify the search value(s) the adjacent text box/drop-down selection.
- Click Find button to apply the search.

4. Increase page size of search results

- Launch Candidate Search and then click on the Advanced tab in the page.
- In the 'Page Size' drop-down, select the desired size.
- Click Find button to apply the search.

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