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title: What is Personal Criteria in Contact List Building?
description: Personal Criteria for contact list building limits results based on non-professional data points.
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# What is Personal Criteria in Contact List Building?

## Use Personal Criteria to limit search results - most popular fields are personal email and mobile phone.

- **Contact First Name / Last Name** - Both are a contained search fields that will return the contacts who have these names within the database.
- **Contact Gender**- This is an assumed by the first name (Male / Female)
- **Contact Education** – can be either a school name or a year.  Since Education is within one field in the database, the school, start data, and end date can be searched.
- **Contact Birthday**- month, date or year.  This field is used for looking up an age range.
- **Contact Skill**- this field refers to professional skills either given or attributed to the contact. Use this field to limit results for software proficiency, languages, or vertical expertise.
- **Contact Interest** - this field refers to professional interests either given or attributed to the contact.
- **Minimum Number of Connections** - The user can set a minimum number of connections to limit the search results.  Generally, people with more connections are more likely to be a viable contact.
- **Personal Email Address Required** - Selecting this box will limit the search results to contacts with a personal email address. A personal email address is not associated with a contact's employer - like gmail.com or outlook.com
- **Cell Phone Required** - Selecting this box will limit the search results to contacts with a cell phone.  Also know as mobile phones or direct dials.
- **Home Address Required** - Selecting this box will limit the search results to contacts with a home address in the data base,

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