Manual Filters
Build a precise candidate search by hand across role, skills, location, experience, company, and education.
If you prefer to build a search yourself, use Manual Search. Open it from the link under the message box on the Rose home screen. The Filters panel on the left holds every filter; your results appear on the right.
Building a search
Open a group, type a value, and press Enter to add it as a chip — many fields suggest matches as you type. Text fields marked Include / Exclude let you rule people out as well as in. When you've made changes, click Apply filters to run the search, or Revert to undo them. Clear all starts over.
The filter groups
Role & title — Current title, past title, seniority (C-Level, Senior, Manager, Mid-Level, Specialist, Intern, Other), and function. You can also limit results to decision makers, or search by first or last name.
Skills & keywords — Skills and keywords from candidates' profiles, industry, and profile language. Three switches help you find people who may be more open to a move: Recently changed jobs, Posts on LinkedIn, and In the news.
Location — The candidate's region, and optionally the company's headquarters (Company HQ).
Experience — Years of experience, years at current company, and years in current position.
Company — Current and past company by name, domain, or LinkedIn URL, plus headcount and company type. Targeting specific companies is one of the most reliable ways to find relevant experience — see Manual Filter Tips.
Education — School or university.
Title, company, and keyword fields can combine their chips with AND or OR. See Boolean Search.
Reading your results
The heading shows how many candidates match. Each card shows the candidate's name, headline, current role and employer, location, and education. If a candidate is already in one of your projects, the card tells you which. Click a card to open the full profile.
Select the candidates you want, then click Add to Project and pick the project. Adding to a live project enrols them in its existing outreach.
Optimising your search
Aim for the sweet spot — precise enough to be relevant, but not so narrow you run out of candidates. Start broad and add filters one at a time, watching the count change.
- A pool in the hundreds to low thousands is a good starting point.
- If your pool is very large (tens of thousands), add more specific filters.
- If your pool is very small, relax one or two criteria.