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# Filter candidates for a job

You can filter the candidates for a specific job by clicking on the **Filter candidates** tab at the [Manage candidates for a job](/manage-candidates/manage-job-candidates.md) screen, as shown below:

![](/files/-ME3aKZD7ahuLr7Sg3Vr)

The filter candidates screen is split in to panes: 

The left pane contains the filtering options and the right pane the candidate list that meets the selected filtering criteria, as shown below:

![](/files/-ME3aQXnmP8zWaG_Xgwf)

The available filtering criteria are:

* Work experience duration
* Management experience duration
* Employment status
* Type of experience
* Management level
* Executive type
* Employer name
* Job title
* Area
* School type
* Degree type
* Languages
* Tags
* Answers to [application form questions](/settings/manage-questions/add-questions-to-job.md)
* Pipeline stage

You can also **sort** the results by the following options:

![](/files/-ME3aZlM4OC-Jgj1GMeE)

* Relevance (available only when a search phrase exists)
* Newest applications first
* Biggest average match score
* Better evaluation
* Smallest distance for job location
* Oldest first
* Longest work experience
* Shortest work experience
* Highest education level
* Longest per employer experience
* Shortest per employer experience
* Longest management experience
* Shortest management experience
* Highest management level
* Lowest management level
* Employed first
* Unemployed first
* More foreign languages