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# Search candidates

> Candidates from a Talent Search by skills, titles and distance from a location. Input schema, a tools/call example and an example result.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/jobdiva/search_candidates

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Candidates from a Talent Search by skills, titles and distance from a location.

JobDiva MCP tools: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/jobdiva.md

MCP tool: `jobdiva_read → search_candidates`

Access: read.

Runs the search the way Talent Search does: skills and titles combined with a location and a distance in miles. Returns one page of candidates with location and a short summary, best matches first. Pass page for the next one. Use candidate_id in get_candidate and add_candidates_to_hotlist. Candidates you cannot open in JobDiva are not returned.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `skills` | string[] | no | Skills the resume must show, for example SQL and dbt. |
| `titles` | string[] | no | Job titles to look for. |
| `location` | string | no | City or address to measure distance from. |
| `within_miles` | integer | no | Distance from the location in miles. |
| `limit` | integer | no | Candidates per page. |
| `page` | integer | no | Page number, starting at 1. |

## tools/call

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "jobdiva_read",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "search_candidates",
      "arguments": {}
    }
  }
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
    }
  ],
  "structuredContent": {
    "total": 31,
    "candidates": [
      {
        "candidate_id": 5821904,
        "name": "Priya Raman",
        "title": "Data Analyst",
        "location": "Chicago, IL",
        "skills": [
          "SQL",
          "dbt",
          "Looker"
        ]
      },
      {
        "candidate_id": 5830117,
        "name": "Marcus Lee",
        "title": "BI Lead",
        "location": "Naperville, IL",
        "skills": [
          "SQL",
          "Power BI"
        ]
      },
      {
        "candidate_id": 5834402,
        "name": "Elena Petrova",
        "title": "Analytics Engineer",
        "location": "Evanston, IL",
        "skills": [
          "SQL",
          "dbt",
          "Snowflake"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "page": 1
  },
  "isError": false
}
```

Next: [Find candidate](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/jobdiva/find_candidate.md)

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