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People search
Filter India’s workforce by role, place, company and school, without writing a word to Haley.
People search is the filter view of Ladel. It searches the same 75 million Indian profiles Haley does, but you choose every filter yourself, and the results update as you go. Use it when you know exactly what you want: every quality supervisor at a listed auto maker in Pune, every staff nurse in Kochi, or every VP Sales at Series B SaaS companies in Gurugram.
Open it from the sidebar: People. You can also jump to the people at one company from Company search, or ask Haley when you’d rather describe the role in a sentence.
The page at a glance#
- Filters on the left, grouped into Role, Location, Company and Education. Clear all at the top removes every filter at once. On a narrow screen, press Filters to open the panel and Hide filters to close it.
- Places to start, shown until you set a filter: Who are you looking for? lists searches such as Plant heads in Pune or Nurses in Mumbai, each with how many people it finds. Pick one to fill in its filters, then change any of them. Ask Haley takes you to a chat instead.
- Filters in use, as chips above the results, such as City or metro: Pune. Press the × on one to drop it, or Clear all to start over. On a phone this is the quickest way to see what you’ve set without opening the filter panel.
- The keyword box at the top, Name, title, company or LinkedIn link…, for quick text searches.
- The toolbar, with Shortlist into (which project the bookmark saves to) and Sort.
- The results table, 50 people per page, with an Export button.
Every search is a link
Every filter you set is saved in the page address. Bookmark it to come back to the same search, or copy it to a teammate who also uses Ladel.
Run a search#
Pick a role
Under Role, type a title into Job title, such as “Staff nurse” or “Plant head”, and press Enter or a comma to add it as a tag. Add several titles to find people with any of them. Or tick a Level, like Manager or Individual contributor, when the exact title doesn’t matter.
Pick a place
Under Location, type a city or metro into City or metro and pick it from the suggestions. A metro covers its suburbs: Delhi NCR includes Gurugram and Noida. Tick Add towns within about 150 km to widen it. See Cities and metros.
Narrow by company
Under Company, name employers in Works at, or past ones in Worked at before. Tick a Sector, Funding stage or Company size to describe the kind of employer instead of naming one.
Read the results
The table updates after each change. The line above it shows how many people match. Change the Sort or step through the pages, then open anyone to see their full profile.
Every filter, with all its options, is listed in People filters.
How filters combine#
Ladel applies a simple rule, so you can always predict what a search will return:
- Values inside one filter widen the search. Two titles in Job title, “Staff nurse” and “ICU nurse”, find people with either title.
- Different filters narrow it. A title plus a city plus a sector finds people who match all three.
- “Leave out” filters remove people. Leave out titles, Leave out places and Leave out companies take matches away.
Search by keyword#
The keyword box searches names, titles, companies and headlines. Every word you type has to appear somewhere, so “Priya Infosys” finds people called Priya who work at Infosys. It searches a moment after you stop typing, or straight away when you press Enter. The Clear keywords cross empties it.
If nothing matches exactly, Ladel tries again allowing for small typos, so “Bangalroe” still finds Bengaluru.
Paste a LinkedIn link
Paste a link to a LinkedIn profile, such as linkedin.com/in/…, into the keyword box to find that exact person. To jump to anyone from anywhere in Ladel, use Quick search instead.
Sort the results#
| Sort | What comes first |
|---|---|
| Most senior first | The default. Senior people first, and people who hold the title outright before those whose title only contains it. |
| Largest company first | People at the biggest employers by headcount. |
| Name | Alphabetical by name. |
The results table#
The table is headed by how many people match, and, if you picked a project in Shortlist into, how many of them are already in it. The filters you set show as chips just above it.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Photo or initials, a LinkedIn icon, and their city. |
| Title | Their current title, with notes on what matched your search. |
| Company | Logo and name, with a line such as “Listed · 1001-5000 · IT services”. |
| Background | Years on record and in the current role, earlier employers (“ex-Infosys, ex-Wipro”) and school when known. |
| Bookmark | Shortlist or unshortlist the person in one click. |
Click a name to open the person’s profile. Use the ‹ › arrows in the profile to step through everyone on the page. Click a company to open its company profile.
Pages
Results come 50 to a page, shown as “1–50 of N”, with ‹ › arrows to move between pages. Pages stop at 10,050 people. If a search matches more than that, Ladel tells you Pages stop at 10,050 people. Add a filter to see the rest.
Shortlist from search#
Choose where people go
Set Shortlist into to a project. Leave it on Ask each time and Ladel shows a Which project? dialog whenever you shortlist.
Shortlist one person
Press the bookmark at the end of their row. It reads Shortlisted once they’re in.
Shortlist several
Tick people on the left, or use Select this page to pick all 50, then press Shortlist. To take people off, select them and press Remove, then confirm.
Everything you shortlist lands on the project’s shortlist. See Shortlists, and Exporting to CSV or Excel to download the table.
Example searches for every level#
| Hiring for | Filters to set |
|---|---|
| Freshers and juniors | Job title “Software Engineer” (also finds SDE), Level: Individual contributor, City: Bengaluru |
| Technicians | Job title “Service technician, Field technician”, Sector: Manufacturing and industrials, City: Chennai |
| Supervisors | Job title “Production supervisor, Shift supervisor”, City: Pune with nearby towns |
| Nurses | Job title “Staff nurse, ICU nurse”, Sector: Healthcare and pharma, City: Kochi |
| Sales executives | Job title “Sales executive”, Sector: Consumer and retail, City: Delhi NCR, Leave out titles “Intern” |
| Managers | Level: Manager, Function: Finance, Funding stage: Listed, City: Mumbai |
| Heads and directors | Job title “Head of Supply Chain”, Worked at before: Flipkart, Amazon |
| CXOs | Job title “CFO”, Funding stage: Late-stage VC, Sector: Financial services, City: Bengaluru |
Prefer to describe it in a sentence? Haley sets these filters for you:
Questions#
Why did someone without the function I picked drop out?
Function is unknown for about 4 in 10 people. When you pick a function, those people drop out. Use Job title instead when you want to catch everyone.
Can I filter by years of experience, skills or salary?
No. Ladel’s data doesn’t hold skills or salaries, and there is no experience filter. Profiles show years on record, counted from the earliest job on file, and you can filter a shortlist by experience. See Shortlists.
Can I export a people search?
Yes. Press Export above the table. See Exporting to CSV or Excel.