This is a free add-on that can be added to the core platform.
Using the free search and filter add-on you can setup a search form on the member’s directory that can filter the members by any profile criteria that you may have included in your profile fields.
On this site we have included ‘country‘ as a profile field and have placed that as a searchable field in the form. You may have other criteria such as ‘department’, ‘job title’ or ‘first language’ – those or any other criteria could be used to filter members.
The search box only contains those profile fields that you want members to search on. You may, for example, have date of birth as a profile field but do not want that to be a searchable field for your members.