While an email is highlighted click on the magnifying glass icon in the PCRecruiter toolbar. The Portal will look up that record by the email address in your PCRecruiter database and the icon will change accordingly:
Plus indicates that the name was not found in the database. Clicking the icon will present a screen allowing you to add that contact to your database.
Checkmark indicates that the name was found in your database. Clicking the icon will launch that Name record in a popup window.
Two people indicates that more than one record bearing that email address was found. Clicking the icon will launch a PCRecruiter search result list so that you may view, edit, delete or merge the records.