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title: "Product Update: Surface More Qualified Talent | Findem"
description: "Expand your searches with Findem’s new Location and Timezone nice-to-have attributes. Surface more qualified candidates without narrowing requirements to location alone."
url: "https://www.findem.ai/blog/product-update-location-timezone-attributes-may-2025"
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# Surface more top candidates with flexible Location & Timezone attributes

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Frances Wei

Head of Product Marketing

May 5, 2025

_These product updates highlight the latest features, enhancements, and integrations designed to help you and your team work smarter, move faster, and get more value from Findem._

Discover a smarter way to expand your talent pool. Findem now lets your team treat location and timezone as “nice-to-have” (NTH) attributes. That means you can prioritize local or time-compatible profiles, without restricting results to only those candidates.

## What’s new

- **Location & timezone flexibility:** Mark location and timezone as NTH to boost profiles that meet your preferences, while keeping others in view.
- **Expanded talent pools:** Open up searches for distributed or remote-friendly roles while still highlighting local matches.
- **Real-world alignment:** Adapt searches quickly to the realities of flexible and global hiring.

_Note: ‘Location view’ still treats these as must-have attributes when you want focused local searches._

## Why it matters

Talent teams are hiring across more geographies than ever. Making location or timezone a strict requirement often screens out qualified candidates who could thrive in your workforce.

By setting these filters as NTH, you see the best of both worlds: candidates who meet your preferences and top talent outside your immediate region.

For example, a Europe-based team searching for a manager role can still prioritize local applicants, but also surface highly qualified candidates outside the region who bring unique skills and perspectives.

## How to get started

This update is available to all customers. Go to the External tab, open filters on the left, and under Location, toggle location or timezone to “nice-to-have.”

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