This is an introduction, to searching CVs within Tribepad –
To get the most out of Tribepad and find out the many ways you can search the top talent within your database, please go to cv-searching-all-you-need-to-know/
There are four main ways to search for candidates in your Tribepad database:
To start a CV search, click CV Search on the top navigation bar:
Saving a Search & using Saved Searches
CV search criteria can be saved by clicking on the Save search button:
Enter a name for your search and click Save search:
To cancel without saving, click x.
To use a saved search, click the Saved searches button and select the name of the search from the list of options:
Hide filter widgets
The faceted ‘filtering’ widgets along the left hand side of CV Search can be hidden by clicking the Filter button:
Clicking the button again will display the widgets.
Candidate information
For each candidate returned by a search, the following information will be displayed:
- Name – click to open the Candidate Overview
- Availability for work indicator – either a green circle (available), orange circle (available from date) or red circle (not available). Hover the mouse over the circle for further details:
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- Candidate type indicator(s) – one or more of the following icons:
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– Referred Candidate |
Hover the mouse over the icon for further details
- Work experience – most recent work experience, if provided
- Education – if provided
- Location – if provided
- Profile picture – if uploaded
- A star rating – indicates how well the candidate matches the search criteria. 5 orange stars indicates an exact match
Show more details
To display each candidate’s full work experience history (if provided), click the Show more details checkbox to display a tick:
Un-tick the box to display only the most recent work experience.
Individual candidate options
Hover the mouse over a candidate to reveal a task bar:
- Contact – send an email to the candidate, see Contact a candidate via CV Search
- Invite or apply – invite the candidate to apply or apply the candidate to a job post, see Invite candidates to apply via CV Search
- Tag – apply tags to a candidate, see Tag candidates via CV Search
- Email CV – email a candidate’s CV, see Email CV via CV Search
- Download generated CV – download a CV generated using the candidate’s profile details (.pdf format)
Performing tasks on multiple candidates
Tasks can be performed on multiple candidates by selecting them in the candidate list. Candidates can be selected in two ways:
1. Tick the checkboxes located to the left of the candidate information
To deselect, click the checkbox again to remove the tick.
2. Use the Select option
Click Select button and click one of the radio buttons. In this example, 9 candidates were returned by the search so an option exists to select all 9 candidates:
To deselect candidates either use the select option or click the checkboxes to the left of the candidates’ names to remove the ticks.
When candidates are selected the Contact, Invite or apply, Tag and Email CV buttons on the task bar will be enabled:
- Contact – send an email to the candidate(s), see Contact a candidate via CV Search
- Invite or apply – invite the candidate(s) to apply or apply the candidate(s) to a job post, see Invite candidates to apply via CV Search
- Tag – apply tags to the candidate(s), see Tag candidates via CV Search
- Email CV – email candidates’ CVs, see Email CV via CV Search
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