Faceted Searching

Several search pages provide faceted searching, where specific fields, or facets, can be used as filters to categorize and narrow down a list of objects. For example, on the Browse Job Openings page, one of the delivered facets is the Hiring Manager field. The Hiring Manager facet displays a list of the primary hiring managers for the job openings listed on the page. Clicking a hiring manager narrows down the list of job openings to include only openings with the selected primary hiring manager.

Search definitions control which fields are available as facets. Before changing the delivered facets, consider that the number of available facets affects performance as well as usability.

Search categories enable you to choose a subset of the available facets to activate. For example, the HC_HRS_JOB_POSTING search definition is used to index job posting data, and several fields are marked as facets. However, this search definition is used in two different pages that offer faceted searching: the Candidate Gateway job posting search, and the recruiter-facing job posting search. Some facets that are useful to a recruiter, such as the posting type (internal or external), would not be appropriate for an applicant. So the search definition belongs to two search categories, each of which activates a different subset of the available facets.

See Configuring Recruiting Search Facets for information on modifying facets for recruiting pages.