Evidently Me Weekly Issue #6
This week: Announcing Skills Search! and, ATS Search functions, what's your experience?
Hello everyone,
Happy Monday! Hope you all had a good weekend! In this week’s update we’re diving into something that is integral to every HR / recruiting system, and it’s search functions. Over the past few weeks of conversations, it seems a key thing in 2025 is how our search functions could be massively improved. We were inspired by these conversations and decided to work on these features ourselves.
Whilst you read, have a think about the following questions🤔:
❓What do you love and hate about your existing search functions?
❓Tell us about your favourite search tool, why is it so good?
❓In what situation do you use search tools?
Announcing Skills Search!
James got to work on pulling data from candidate scorecards and making it searchable within our results page. It’s a first version, and we’re after your thoughts!
For those of you with beta link access, you can check it out with your login links! (Request beta access to dummy environment here) In the meantime, you can take a look at this quick 2 minute demo video.
Skills search can be found by selecting the filter icon in the search bar.
Once here, you can see we now have some filters available, where you can filter by status, visa requirements, completion percentage and skills keywords.
It’s pretty simple to use right now, and looks for the keywords within the skills profiles of the candidate. We are already thinking of how we can deep dive into other data sets that we collect, and will obviously be looking at doing this for evidence items very soon.
Your turn! What’s your experience with search functions?
It’s time to answer one of the below questions in the comments section, remember:
❓What do you love and hate about your existing search functions?
❓Tell us about your favourite search tool, why is it so good?
❓In what situation do you use search tools in the first place?
Reminder:
We’re officially launching a feature suggestion initiative! This is your chance to share what you’d like to see next. Whether it’s a new analytics feature, or a creative tool for candidate evaluation, or a vision for industry change—we want to hear from you.
So remember you can participate by:
Submit Your Ideas: Submit a text, voice or video note introducing yourself with your feature suggestions, via the subscriber chat button below.
Vote and Prioritise: We’ll compile a list of requests and ask the community to vote on what’s most impactful.
Track Progress: James and I will sit down in several weeks and record a session where we’ll review the requests.
Pipeline: We’ll share updates on which features are being built and their expected timelines.
(Just a final reminder: In a world where you can be anything, please be kind. Go out of your way to make someone’s Monday today.)
That’s all this week! See you next week!
- Thomas and James 🫡