Finding the right candidates, faster.
Overview
Suggested Contacts helps you find the best candidates for an open vacancy from across your entire talent database. It works in two steps:
- Your filters decide who is displayed. Beamery searches your full CRM and keeps only the candidates who meet the criteria you set.
- Talent Match ranks the fit. The candidates who match your criteria are then ordered by how strong a match they are to your role overall.
The result is a shortlist of people who should meet your requirements, with the strongest fits at the top.
Getting started
Open Suggested Contacts from a vacancy. The filter panel opens pre-filled with details drawn from the role – job title, key skills, target companies and location – taken from your job description where you have one. Adjust the filters to match what you're looking for, and your results update automatically.
Prefer the previous experience? Use the in-page toggle to switch back at any time. Nothing has been removed.
The 15 Filters
| Filter | What it does |
| Job role | The candidate's role or job title. |
| Skill | Skills the candidate has on their profile. You can choose to match only skills the candidate has declared, or also include skills Beamery has suggested for them. |
| Location | A location plus a radius around it. |
| Company | A company the candidate has worked at, now or in the past. |
| Years of experience | Total years of professional experience – more than or less than a chosen number. |
| Experience keywords | A keyword or phrase found in the candidate's work experience descriptions. |
| Degree | A keyword found in the candidate's education, such as a qualification. |
| Certification | A keyword found in the candidate's licenses and certifications. |
| Language | A language spoken at or above a chosen proficiency level. |
| Status | The candidate's status in your talent pipeline. |
| Last activity | How recently the candidate was last active. |
| Open vacancy stage | Excludes candidates already at a chosen stage or beyond in any open vacancy. |
| Pool | Whether the candidate is in a particular pool. |
| Global tag | A global tag applied to the candidate. |
| Contact type | The type of contact, such as Employee or Internal applicant. |
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Getting more precise with IS NOT, OR and AND
Each filter gives you simple controls to say exactly what you mean.
IS or IS NOT
Every filter lets you either include or exclude. Set a filter to IS NOT to screen candidates out – for example, exclude everyone who has worked at a particular company, or everyone already in a certain pool.
OR or AND
When you add more than one value to a filter, you can choose how they combine:
OR matches candidates who meet any of your values. For example, "Language IS German OR French" finds people who speak either.
AND matches candidates who meet all of your values. For example, "Skill IS Python AND React" finds people who have both.
OR is the default. Switch to AND when every value must be present.
Two filters – Status and Contact type – only offer OR, because a candidate can only be in one status or one type at a time.
Choosing declared or suggested skills
Skills on a candidate's profile come from two places: skills the candidate has declared themselves, and skills Beamery has suggested based on their profile. The Skill filter lets you choose between them.
Switch on the option to exclude suggested skills when a skill is a firm requirement and you want only candidates who have explicitly listed it. Leave it off to search more broadly, including skills Beamery has suggested. This choice applies to the Skill filter.
Filtering by years of experience
The Years of experience filter finds candidates by their total years of professional experience across their whole career. Choose a number of years and whether you want more than or less than that amount – for example, "more than 10 years" to set a minimum experience level for a senior role.
How the number is calculated
Beamery adds up the duration of every dated work experience entry on the candidate's profile:
All recorded experience counts – every dated entry in the candidate's work history contributes to the total, whatever the role or industry.
The most recent role is treated as ongoing. If it has no end date, it is counted up to today.
Entries without dates aren't counted. A role with no start or end date on the profile contributes nothing to the total.
Time between roles isn't counted unless it is recorded as an entry on the profile.
Candidates whose experience can't be calculated – for example, because their profile has no dated work history – are not shown while this filter is active. This is deliberate: the filter only returns candidates it can assess.
Good to know
The total reflects the candidate's profile, not necessarily their full career. If a profile is incomplete or out of date, the number will differ from the candidate's real experience.
The total reflects the candidates Beamery profile NOT their Resume / CV. Experience on a CV only counts once it has been add to the profile. Can can be via multiple ways. ie. parsing, integrations, extension, LinkedIn CRM Connect, and other methods depending on your company setup.
Recorded career breaks count towards the total. If a break – such as parental leave – is recorded as a dated entry on the profile, its duration is included like any other entry.
Candidates added via LinkedIn Connect may show lower totals. LinkedIn Connect only brings across a candidate's three most recent positions, so earlier roles aren't included in the calculation. Experienced candidates sourced this way will typically show fewer years than they really have. The solve for this is to add a CV to the profile with the full experience history.
Treat the number as a guide. For most searches, "more than" works best – it sets a minimum experience level while keeping your search broad.
Excluding candidates already in a process
Use the Open vacancy stage filter to remove candidates who are already at a chosen stage or beyond in any of your open vacancies. For example, excluding "Interview or beyond" also removes anyone at Offer or Hired, so you stop surfacing people who are already in play.
Working with your results
Results appear as candidate cards showing recent experience at a glance. You can message, add a note, add to a pool, or shortlist a candidate directly from the list.
Good to know
Some filters need the relevant data to be present – Years of experience, Language and Last activity will only return candidates who have that information on their profile.
Your filters run across your entire talent database, not a pre-selected sample, so the strongest matches are never missed before you filter.
Filters suggested from your job description save you rebuilding criteria from scratch – adjust them as needed.