People search

If you are looking for people rather than services, use People. It searches every member, not only mentors - which is what makes it different from Mentors.

Start with the question, not the filters#

Four starting points sit above the results:

	Searches
Everyone	Every discoverable member.
Mentors	Only people who mentor.
At my company	People whose current employer matches yours.
At my school	People who went where you went.

The last two read your own profile to work out what "my" means. If your profile has no employer or school on it, they have nothing to match and will come back thin - fixing that is experience and education.

Filters#

Current company, past company, school, skills, location, and years of experience. Plus three switches: is a mentor, has open slots, is verified.

Past company is genuinely separate from current - "anyone who has ever worked at X" and "who works at X now" are different searches, and the filter strip keeps them apart.

Typing versus filtering#

The search box understands meaning, not just words. "Backend people who have scaled payments" finds profiles that describe that without using those exact terms.

Who you can find#

Not everybody. Members control how findable they are, and the setting is honoured here rather than just affecting ranking:

• Most people are discoverable and appear normally.
• Some are findable by name only - they will not turn up when you browse or filter, but they do turn up if you search their actual name or username.
• Some are hidden and do not appear in any search at all.

So an empty result for a person you know is on Revquix usually means their setting, not a bug. Their profile still works if you have their link.

Your own setting is at profile visibility.

Following someone you find#

Every result carries a follow control. What that does is following people.