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Understanding People Search Logic for Title Results | Clay

Understanding People Search Logic for Title Results

·Nov 25, 2025 05:41 PM·

i did a people search on a large set of titles and it returned minimal results, curious how searching logic works? https://app.clay.com/workspaces/532984/w/find-people?existingSourceId=s_0t6amb3bfVF[…]ableId=t_0t6amb6gXMH4vBWkfU5&workbookId=wb_0t68m5qxVBgE6c9Tamk

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Our Find People search has different matching modes that affect results. By default, it uses semantic matching - so searching "Software Developer" returns similar titles like "Frontend Engineer" and translated versions. [1]
If you're getting minimal results with many titles, try switching to broader job functions instead of specific titles (like "marketing" vs "VP of Marketing"). We also auto-query similar job titles now, so you don't need to list every variation. [2]
You can also toggle "Job title must contain exact" for stricter matching - this requires results to contain at least one of your search terms but excludes synonyms.
What specific titles were you searching for? That might help identify why results were limited.
Garrett W.
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human
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Would you like me to connect you with a human agent? Or if you provide more details about your search, I can try to assist you further.
Garrett W.
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tyes
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I’m routing you to our human team now. They’ll be able to assist you further.
Clay Support
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Our support team has got your message and we'll get back to you soon!
If you’re dealing with a specific table, drop the URL below so we can help you quicker. Otherwise, someone from our team will be in touch soon!
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Mayato (.
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Hi Garrett, thank you for reaching out. Could you share a bit more about what you tried and what happened as a result? This will help us understand the issue and give you the right guidance. I appreciate your help.
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We haven't heard back from you here, so we're going to go ahead and close this thread out.
Still need help here? Reply back and someone will jump back in.
Have a question thats not related to this thread? We recommend kicking off a new ticket in the support channel!