Search Filters

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Overview

Recruitier’s search filters let you narrow down your job search to precisely match what you or your candidates are looking for. Filters are applied during the search wizard (Steps 3 and 4) and work alongside the job title and AI-extracted skills to produce focused, relevant results. Filters are divided into two categories: company preferences (Step 3) and job characteristics (Step 4). Both are optional — you can run a search with just a job title and skills if you prefer a broad set of results.

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Location

The location filter is one of the most impactful filters for Dutch recruitment. How it works:

• Type a city, town, or region name in the location field
• An autocomplete dropdown appears with geocoded Dutch locations
• Select a location from the suggestions
• Set a radius in kilometers using the slider

Radius-based filtering: The radius creates a circle around your chosen location. Only jobs within that circle are included in results. Recruitier uses geocoded coordinates (latitude and longitude) for both job locations and your search location, so distance calculations are precise. Important notes about location filtering:

• Location filtering requires the job listing to have a recognized, geocoded location. Jobs without a parsed location are excluded from radius-based searches.
• If your candidate is open to remote work, consider using the flexibility filter set to “Remote” instead of (or alongside) a location filter.
• Location data is geocoded during the scraping process. Most Dutch cities, towns, and neighborhoods are recognized. Locations with unusual formatting or very specific addresses may occasionally fail to geocode.

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Experience Level

Filter jobs by the seniority level required. You can select multiple experience levels to cast a wider net. Available levels: Best practices:

• Selecting both “medior” and “senior” covers the broadest range for experienced candidates
• If your candidate is transitioning from one level to another, include both levels
• Lead-level roles are less common; combine with “senior” for better coverage
• Junior roles often have different skill expectations; consider adjusting your confirmed skills if you switch from a senior to junior search

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Job Type

Filter by the employment arrangement. Multiple selections are supported. Available types:

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Flexibility

Filter by workplace arrangement. This has become one of the most important filters since the shift to remote and hybrid work models. Available options: How flexibility interacts with location:

• Remote roles are relevant regardless of location, so consider widening your radius or removing the location filter entirely when searching for remote positions
• Hybrid roles still have a physical office, so location matters — the candidate needs to commute on in-office days
• On-site roles require daily commuting, making the location radius especially important

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Posted Within (Recency)

Control how far back in time to look for job listings. More recent postings are more likely to still be open and accepting applications. Available ranges:

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Salary Range

Set a minimum and/or maximum salary to filter positions within your candidate’s expected compensation range. How it works:

• Enter a minimum and/or maximum annual salary value
• Recruitier filters results to only include jobs where the listed salary falls within your specified range
• Salary data is in EUR by default

Limitations to be aware of:

• Not all job listings include salary information. Jobs without salary data are not excluded by this filter — they remain in results because the salary might still be competitive even though it is not published.
• Salary ranges vary by source and may represent gross annual, gross monthly, or hourly rates depending on how the employer published them.
• Salary data (salary_min and salary_max) is stored per scraped job when available. Both fields must be present for the filter to match meaningfully.

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Include Companies

Limit search results to jobs from specific companies. How it works:

• Type a company name in the search field and select from the results
• Add as many companies as you want — results will only include jobs from the listed companies
• A status indicator shows whether the filter is active: when no companies are added, all jobs are searched; when companies are added, only jobs from those companies appear
• Remove a company by clicking the X on its badge
• Use the Clear All button to reset the include list

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Import Clients

The Import Clients button lets you quickly add all your saved client companies from your Clients section to the include list. This is particularly useful when you want to find new job openings at companies you are already working with, saving you the time of searching for and adding each client individually.

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Exclude Companies

Remove specific companies from search results entirely. How it works:

• Type a company name in the search field and select from the results
• Jobs from excluded companies will not appear in your search results
• This is useful for filtering out companies your candidate has already rejected, competitors, or companies with known issues

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Company Size

Filter by the number of employees at the hiring company. How it works:

• Click one of the preset buttons to set a maximum employee count, or enter a custom number in the input field
• This is particularly useful for candidates who prefer startups, scale-ups, or SMEs over large enterprises
• Companies without employee count data are included in results (the filter does not exclude them)
• Click the same preset button again to deselect it

Preset thresholds:

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Industry

Filter by the industry sector of the hiring company. How it works:

• Select one or more industries from the dropdown
• Results are limited to jobs at companies classified in the selected industries
• Company industries are sourced from LinkedIn and other public data
• Companies without industry data are still included (the filter only excludes companies with a different specified industry)

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Exclude Terms

In addition to skill exclusions (set in Step 2), you can exclude specific terms from your search results. Jobs containing excluded terms in their title or description will be filtered out or ranked lower. This is useful for avoiding:

• Specific technologies your candidate does not want to work with
• Industry jargon that indicates a different type of role
• Company types or work arrangements that are not suitable

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Combining Filters Effectively

The most effective searches use a thoughtful combination of filters rather than applying every available option. Here are some proven combinations: For a specific local candidate:

• Job title + confirmed skills
• Location with 30 km radius
• Experience level matching the candidate
• Job type: full-time

For a remote-first candidate:

• Job title + confirmed skills
• Flexibility: remote
• No location filter (or very wide radius)
• Posted within: past month

For a niche specialist:

• Specific job title
• Skills: only the most critical 3-4 skills confirmed
• Company size: depends on preference
• Posted within: past 6 months or anytime (niche roles are rarer)

For a broad market scan:

• General job title (e.g., “Developer” rather than “Senior React Developer”)
• Minimal filters
• Posted within: past month
• Sort results by match score and review top 50

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Advanced

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Filter Processing Architecture

Understanding how filters are processed helps explain performance characteristics and edge cases: Qdrant-native filters (fastest): These filters are applied directly within the vector database query, meaning they reduce the candidate set before any scoring happens:

• company_name — Exact or partial company name match
• location — Location string matching
• experience_level — Enum-based filter
• job_type — Enum-based filter
• flexibility — Enum-based filter
• is_active — Boolean filter for active/expired status
• Industry exclusions (internal, always applied)

PostgreSQL post-filters (applied after vector search): These filters require relational database lookups and are applied after the initial vector search returns candidate results:

• company_size_max — Maximum employee count at the hiring company
• skills — Confirmed skills for skills-based pre-filtering
• exclude_skills — Skills to penalize or exclude
• exclude_terms — Terms to exclude from results
• salary_min / salary_max — Salary range thresholds
• Date range filters (posted within)
• geo_radius — Latitude/longitude with kilometer radius
• company_ids — Specific company ID whitelist
• industries — Industry sector filter
• technologies — Technology stack filter

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Adaptive Search Strategy

The search engine intelligently adapts its strategy based on which filters you have enabled: This adaptive approach ensures the search is as fast as possible regardless of filter complexity. The most common filter combinations (just experience level and location) benefit from the fastest code paths.

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How Filter Interactions Affect Results

Location + Flexibility interaction

When you set both a location filter and a flexibility filter, be aware that remote jobs may list their location as the company headquarters rather than “Remote.” A remote job at a company in Amsterdam will pass a location filter centered on Amsterdam, but a remote job at a company in Groningen will not — even though both are fully remote. For remote searches, consider removing the location filter entirely or setting a very wide radius.

Experience level + Skills interaction

Experience level filtering and skill confirmation interact in important ways. A “Senior” filter combined with skills like “React” and “TypeScript” will rank highly for senior frontend roles. But if you also confirm “Team Leadership” (which the AI might extract for senior roles), you may inadvertently bias results toward management-track roles rather than individual contributor positions. Be intentional about which skills you confirm for each experience level.

Salary filter with missing data

Since many Dutch job listings omit salary information, the salary filter is designed to be inclusive: jobs without salary data are kept in results. This means you may see results where the salary is unknown alongside results that meet your minimum. The salary filter is most effective as a floor, not as a precision filter. Use it to eliminate obviously under-budget positions rather than to find exact salary matches.

Multiple filter stacking

Each additional filter narrows your result set. The relationship is multiplicative, not additive — combining 4-5 filters can dramatically reduce your results. If you get too few results, remove filters in order of least importance. Typically, location and experience level are the most important to keep; salary and company size can often be relaxed.

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Power-User Tips

• Use clone + filter variation to compare results with different filter sets without losing your original search
• Leave salary empty for your first search, then use in-results sorting to identify salary ranges in the market before creating a filtered search
• Select multiple experience levels (e.g., medior + senior) and then filter within results to see how many jobs exist at each level — this gives you market intelligence
• Combine location filter with flexibility: hybrid for the most accurate commute-based results, since hybrid roles have a meaningful physical location

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Related

• Creating a Search — Steps 3 and 4 of the wizard where filters are configured
• Search Results — In-results filtering after the search completes
• How Search Technology Works — How filters integrate into the search pipeline