Filters

Filters are a powerful tool which allow you to quickly and efficiently generate tailored views of your data for individual use cases. Some filters are used by Datapeople to organize your requisitions and job posts in the platform accurately (such as Posting Type for identifying “Internal” vs. “External” job posts). Other filters are listed in the filter bar as available options to create a sub-sample of the data displayed on the page, such as Location. Filters allow you to instantly customize reports to suit your needs and seamlessly create specialized views of your data to inform key performance metrics and decision making. 

Filters organize, segment, and group jobs based on common attributes. Filters can be applied both in the Library and in Insights and are shown in the left side panel. In the Library, filters can be used to narrow down job postings for reviewing and editing. Filters in Insights help to focus reports to certain attributes to analyze and benchmark the performance of job reqs.

What kinds of information can filters provide?

Filtering reports is helpful in generating meaningful findings by focusing on specific subsets of data that are relevant to specific use cases or business questions. This customization allows users to select attributes of the data relevant to their needs, which reduces extraneous information that may obscure or distort underlying patterns or trends. Filtering allows users to explore data from different perspectives and generate insights regarding particular data segments that may have been otherwise unavailable.

Where do filters come from?

General Filters

There are a few filters than all Datapeople customers will see in all libraries and reports.

• My Jobs
  • Account Type
    • For non-integrated accounts, My Jobs filters to jobs the user has made at least one edit to.
    • For ATS integrated accounts, My Jobs filters to jobs that the user has made at least one edit to or jobs they are on the hiring team for.
  • Access Level
    • This filter allows Admin users to view either all items, or filter to view their jobs.
    • For Non-Admin users, this filter is permanently set to ON, and all libraries and reports will automatically be filtered to show only their jobs.
• Location
  • Location information is taken from the location field on the job post. 
  • This may have been entered when a new post was created in Datapeople, or, for ATS integrated accounts, may come from the location of the post in your ATS for synced jobs.

• Users

  • For non-integrated accounts, any user who has made at lease one edit on a job will be included as a User for that job post.

    For integrated accounts, any person who is included in the hiring team for the job post’s requisition in your ATS will be included as a User for that job post.

• Datapeople Score
  • All users are able to filter job post libraries by the Datapeople score.

Additional General Filters for Integrated Accounts

If Datapeople is integrated with your ATS, you will have a few more general filters available to you:

• Department
  • determined by the department of the requisition that the job post belongs to
• Posting Type
  • determined by whether the job post is listed on any external jobs board (External) or not (Internal)

General Filters in Applicant Insights Reports

If Datapeople is integrated with your ATS and you have access to the Requisition Libraries, Requisition Progress Reports and Process and Source Insights, you may notice that the Location filter in these reports appears as a Country filter.

This is intentional: 

• Applicant insights are generated from a requisition-focused database that does not rely on job post fields such as the posting location. 
• Instead, the Country value is derived from the location stored on the requisition itself. 
• Because this field is often inconsistent or lightly used in many ATS platforms, Country is the most reliable level of geographic detail we can confidently interpret and surface in reporting.

ATS Filters

If Datapeople is integrated with your ATS, some filters are translated from your ATS into Datapeople. These may be standard default (i.e. fields inherently required by definition of the integration), or custom (i.e. select fields enabled by users in an ATS and supported by the Datapeople integration. For more information on ATS-based filters, please see ATS Filters.

Datapeople Filters

Other filters, including Job Family and Seniority, are created by Datapeople based on our analysis of your jobs. These filters help you compare your jobs based on similarities like job type or experience level at a high level that may not be easily available in your ATS filters. For more information on Datapeople filters, please see more information on Datapeople Filters.

How do filters work?

Filters in Datapeople are dynamic, so when you select one filter, the other filter options change based on the categories present in the filtered batch. This means, you might filter using Location (for instance, for all jobs based in the United Kingdom) and then the other filters (Seniority, Job Family, Posting Type) will only include the options associated with the UK jobs. 

These dynamic filters allow users to avoid choosing incompatible filter combinations (that lead to no data).

Can I share a filtered report?

Yes, when sharing a report, any filters that have been applied to the report will be reflected in the shared version.