# 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](https://help.smartcv.co/manage-candidates/manage-job-candidates) screen, as shown below:

![](https://834622186-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lf1c4bGTEs3T7jNosdZ%2F-ME3a1V6WBek1_ChBcis%2F-ME3aKZD7ahuLr7Sg3Vr%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=079273a1-8304-4711-830e-0fcd0db0b9dd)

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:

![](https://834622186-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lf1c4bGTEs3T7jNosdZ%2F-ME3a1V6WBek1_ChBcis%2F-ME3aQXnmP8zWaG_Xgwf%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=d1ee2f7b-67d9-4484-9671-1bcc3b460455)

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](https://help.smartcv.co/settings/manage-questions/add-questions-to-job)
* Pipeline stage

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

![](https://834622186-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-Lf1c4bGTEs3T7jNosdZ%2F-ME3a1V6WBek1_ChBcis%2F-ME3aZlM4OC-Jgj1GMeE%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=836eaf11-76b0-4edb-a652-c3905a05919e)

* 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