Power Search Basics

In this Article:

Power Search is a robust search tool that will let you easily and efficiently scour your database, but how do you use it?

Here we'll walk you through the most common ways to utilize this tool.

The Main Screen:

Once you've found Power Search, you'll encounter this screen (we've chosen a Candidate Power Search for this example):

Wildcard Searches:

Do you want to run a Power Search and pull every Candidate, Manager, Client/Department, or Job from your database?

To do this, place an asterisk (*) in the search box labeled Power Search...

This is called a Wildcard search.

Relevant Company Preferences:

There are multiple Company Preferences, found under the Settings menu, that affect Wildcard searches across the site.

The Company Preference titled Assume Wildcard on Search will affect your Power Search. If enabled, Wildcard will be applied to all single terms in Power Searches to make searching more intuitive. This is especially helpful for Name searching.

Additionally, searches that contain a slash / or other characters need to be inside quotes; i.e., "A/D"