🧠Humanly Smart Filter Pills: Quick Optimization Guide
Make Your Filters Work Smarter — Not Harder
Humanly’s Smart Filter Pills let you build powerful, flexible searches without complex Boolean logic.
The goal: Guide the AI with the right signal strength — don’t over-restrict.
🎯 1. Build Filters with Single Words, Not Phrases
Break phrases into their root keywords and group related ones in the same pill box.
Each box = OR condition;
New “+” box = AND condition.
Example:
Instead of “leading content programs”
âś… Use:
- Box 1 → lead, leading, learn, learning
- Box 2 → content, programs
đź’ˇ This widens your reach while keeping results relevant.
⚙️ 2. Apply the Right Filter Weights
Color |
Type |
Behavior |
Best For |
đźź©đźź© Dark Green |
Hard Criteria (recent employment) | Must match exactly (excludes others) Applies to last 3 roles or 5 years. |
Ensuring critical skills or experience are current and recently demonstrated |
| đźź© Green | Hard Criteria | Must match exactly (excludes others) | Core, non-negotiable skills |
| 🟦 Blue | Soft Criteria | Boosts rank without excluding | “Nice-to-have” attributes |
| 🟥 Red | Disqualifier | Explicitly excludes | Known mismatches or wrong levels |
💡 Start with blue filters → see what the AI surfaces → tighten with green as needed.
🔍 3. Structure for Broader, Smarter Matches
- Titles: Use single title words — not full titles
đźź© event, marketing, manager
🟥 Disqualify: director, assistant, intern
- Experience: Combine key experience terms
E.g. budget, program, conference
- Recent Employment: Use the Hard + Recent toggle for must-have, current experience (last 3 roles or 5 years).
🧩 4. Balance Breadth and Precision
- Use green for mandatory criteria.
- Use blue to give the AI more context to rank.
- Use red to clean out noise.
- Avoid stacking too many green pills — you’ll eliminate viable profiles.
💡 It’s often better to exclude what you know isn’t right than over-define what you think is right.
🚀 5. Iterate, Don’t Over-Engineer
Start broad with mostly blue pills.
Run search → review top-ranked profiles.
Adjust colors or add boxes based on what you see.
- Too broad? Make some pills green.
- Too narrow? Loosen greens to blue.
- Irrelevant results? Add red disqualifiers.
Each tweak teaches the AI what’s most relevant.
🧠Example: Event Programming Manager Role
Filter Type |
Example Pills |
| 🟩 Hard | Box 1: event, events • Box 2: marketing • Box 3: lead, leading, learn, learning |
| 🟦 Soft | Box 4: content, programs, strategy • Box 5: budget, logistics, conference |
| 🟥 Disqualifier | Box 6: intern, assistant, director |
đź’ˇ Quick Takeaways
- One concept per box → Humanly’s AI finds natural variations.
- Color matters: Green = must-have | Blue = guide | Red = exclude.
- Broaden first, refine later.
- Let the AI overlay rank the right fits — your filters define direction, not perfection.