Advanced filtering capabilities for "Skills"
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Szymon Zak
It would be great to see a feature allowing users to search for people matching skills from 2 sets, much like LinkedIn Ads allow you.
Let's say we have asset management and financial companies, which have a broad offering of services. We are interested only in a subset of that e.g. people involved in property insurance. However, this category alone is too broad – so it would be great to narrow it by specific data-related skills. While it's possible to match roles and skills, it often leaves out highly relevant prospects.
Mishelle Fisher
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Proper exact-phrase matching for targeting and exclusions / "exact match" doesn't work for phrases
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Szymon Zak
Hey, I have noticed something worrying.
Whenever I add "Agency Management Systems" as a skill with phrase match, it looks like what RocketReach does is that it tries to match single words rather than the entire phrase. The same appears to happen when I add phrase-based exclusions, just in the opposite way.
Similarly, I have tried excluding -"portfolio management", it took away so many contacts. When I swapped it to -"portfolio" it took away less contacts and got me thinking. It appears that when you do -"portfolio management" it treats it as if looking for -"portfolio" -"management".
Is there any way to have a proper phrase/exact match that would look for the exact order of these words? I am genuinely surprised, and your support page: "How to Build a Precise Search for Effective Results" doesn't really discuss how matching phrases works. I assumed it will work fine with exact match operator.
It turns out this is the primary reason why I had to dig through so many contacts and layer so many exclusions.
Look, I have even recreated how "management" skill targeting gets excluded entirely by excluding -"portfolio management". To me, as a user, phrase matching is something I'd expect to happen by default, I just assumed it worked, and noticed only after some hours with RocketReach..
Mishelle Fisher
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Secondary filtering for narrowing results
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Szymon Zak
This is a way builds on the idea of narrowing Skill AND Skill. It would be super cool to have a secondary, independent layer or filters on what gets shown after the first layer of filters is applied. As I write this, I have a super granular filtering with doznes of exclusions for 86 companies, which still leaves me with over 100k results (the best exclusions get me is -500-1000 contacts), many of them not exactly relevant. I would love to tell RocketReach to run narrowed filter only to further show me people with specific skill or role keywords.