Supercharge your sourcing by using Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills. Save time by eliminating the need to compose complex searches. Instead, just search for the role title(s) you’re looking to fill and Beamery’s AI will identify the most relevant skills and expand your query. Enhanced search helps uncover hidden or overlooked talent that simple searches cannot find.

For more insight into using Skills in Beamery, check out this article.

How does Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills work? 

Put simply, when you enter a Boolean search query into Beamery that contains job titles, Beamery’s AI will analyze those job titles, find the most relevant skills for the roles included in the Boolean query, and add those skills to your search.

This means that your results will contain candidates who may not have previously held the specific job title in your search, but have the skills necessary to succeed in the role. Use Smart Search Rankings with Enhanced Search to surface more great candidates, ranked in relevance order. 

These are the steps Beamery’s Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills takes when you enter a Boolean search query: 

1. First, Beamery’s AI will use the job titles in your Boolean search to detect the top 10 most relevant skills to those roles. Note that job titles you have excluded from your Boolean search, for example NOT “Product Manager” will be ignored, so you can continue to exclude job titles from your Boolean search in this way. 
2. Those top 10 skills are added to the original boolean query using an OR logic for each skill. Using OR logic purposefully expands the query in order to get more relevant results. 
3. Beamery searches for the skills added by Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills on contact profiles and attachments.
   
4. We recommend using Smart Search Rankings to sort the results of a search that uses Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills, as the results are then displayed in relevance order with the best matched candidates at the top of your list.

Where Does Beamery Get the Skills From to Expand my Query?

Beamery’s AI has been trained using millions of global, anonymized, publicly available records to identify the most common skills associated with jobs across more than 100 industries. 

Then, Beamery uses this intelligence to surface skills that are most commonly associated with the job title in your search. As the records used to train the models were anonymized, and the AI focuses solely on the relationship between a job title and skills, there are no bias-causing data points in the model. Read more on Beamery's AI model here. 

How to use Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills

Using Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills allows you to spend less time building Boolean queries, and more time reviewing relevant candidate profiles. 

To use Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills, follow these steps: 

1. Head to the People Grid, and begin composing a Boolean search using the Boolean input box in the filter panel, or by clicking the Boolean Search button at the top of your screen.
   
2. In the Boolean Search window, enter a Boolean query containing one or more job titles that are relevant to the role you’re sourcing for. Or, simply enter the job title of the role you are sourcing for and nothing else. Note that you should use quotation marks around job titles that consist of more than one word, e.g. “Library Assistant” or “Product Manager”.  Then, click Submit to run your Boolean query.
   
3.  Now, you will see the Enhanced Search modal appear in the filter panel. In the modal, you will see the list of skills that Beamery’s Inferred Skills AI engine has identified as being most relevant to the job title(s) you entered in your Boolean search query.
   
4.  When you use Enhanced Search, Beamery maps skills to job titles for you so you don’t have to remember all the skills that match every req you’re sourcing for. Just enter the job title and let Beamery do the rest. If you’d like to run a search without Enhanced Search, simply toggle the switch to off.
   
5. In the People Grid, you’ll see more results than you would if you had simply searched for a job title. You’ll see profiles that match the skills that Beamery has inferred as relevant. Enable Smart Search Ranking by toggling the switch to on to see the most relevant candidates at the top of your list. 
   
6. If you’d like to add additional filters, for example, a filter for location or status, click the arrow to collapse the Enhanced Search modal and apply your filters as usual.
   
7. Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills also works with Saved Filters that contain Boolean search queries. If you have a saved filter with a tried and tested Boolean query that includes all relevant job titles to a role you often source for, apply this by selecting it from the saved filter dropdown, and enable Enhanced Search to expand your saved search and find even more great candidates in your CRM that you would never have found using only the saved search.
   

In Summary…

Enhanced Search with Inferred Skills uses AI to find the most relevant skills for job titles in your Boolean queries and adds them to your search, allowing you to spend more time reviewing profiles and connecting with candidates and less time writing and testing Boolean queries. 

Additional Resources:

An Overview of Filters and Search Options
An Overview of the People Grid