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Boolean modifiers like AND, OR, and NOT can be used to refine searches on LinkedIn to find profiles that match specific criteria. AND requires both terms to be present, OR finds profiles with either term, and NOT excludes profiles containing that term. Quotes allow searching for exact phrases and parentheses group clauses in complex searches. Using modifiers like NOT can significantly reduce results by removing known ineligible profiles.
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- 1. ©2012 LinkedIn Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Best PracticesTalent Solutions Boolean Modifiers Boolean searches rely on specific modifiers to help you find results more closely related to the types of profiles you need to find. You can build search strings in the Keywords, Title, Name, and Company fields. The modifiers you can include in Recruiter are AND, OR, and NOT, quotes, and parentheses. AND If you would like to search for profiles that include two terms, you can separate those terms with the upper-case word AND. However, you don’t have to use AND — if you enter two terms the search engine will assume there is an AND between them. • software AND engineer • “software engineer” • “customer service” AND hospitality • “instructional design” • human resources OR If you would like to broaden your search to find profiles that include one or more terms, you can separate those terms with the upper-case word OR. OR is most often used to search for alternate spellings or for terms that mean the same thing. • Helpdesk OR “Help Desk” OR “Technical Support” • “Vice President” OR VP OR “V.P.” OR SVP OR EVP • J2EE OR “Java Enterprise Edition” OR JEE OR JEE5 • "account executive" OR "account exec" OR "account manager" OR "sales executive" OR "sales manager" OR "sales representative" NOT If you would like to do a search but want to exclude a particular term, type that term with an upper-case NOT immediately before it . Your search results will exclude any profile containing that term. • NOT director • (Google OR Salesforce) NOT LinkedIn • director NOT executive NOT vp • NOT Recruiter NOT Talent Quotes If you would like to search for an exact phrase or terms that include punctuation, enclose the phrase in quotation marks. You can use these in addition to other modifiers • “product manager” • “account representative” • “executive assistant” • “.net” AND “C++” Parenthesis If you would like to do a complex search you can combine terms and modifiers. The following example will find both software engineers and software architects. • software AND (engineer OR architect) • trainer NOT (fitness OR physical) • (HR OR “human resources”) AND “customer service Quick Tip Don’t underestimate the power of NOT. Probably the least used and least understood modifier is NOT. A huge part of what you ARE looking for is what you are NOT looking for. NOT helps you pare down your search results by excluding those you know are not eligible or would not necessarily be interested in the role.