Tip Sheet Boolean Searching
- 1. Tip Sheet – Boolean Search Tips 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 quotes, parenthesis, AND, OR and NOT. Quotes • “product manager” If you would like to search for an exact phrase, you can • “account representative” enclose the phrase in quotation marks. You can use • “executive assistant” these in addition to other modifiers. Parenthetical • software AND (engineer OR architect) If you would like to do a complex search you can • (instructional designer OR instructional design) combine terms and modifiers. e-‐learning This will find both software engineers and software • (human resources) AND “customer service” architects. AND • software AND engineer If you would like to search for profiles which include two • software engineer terms you can separate those terms with the upper-‐case • “customer service” and hospitality word AND. However, you don’t have to use AND — if • “instructional design” AND “e-‐learning” you enter two terms it will assume that there is an AND • human resources between them. OR • “Pitney Bowes” OR “Hewlett-‐Packard” If you would like to broaden your search to find profiles • Helpdesk OR “Help Desk” OR “Technical which include one or more terms you can separate those Support” terms with the upper-‐case word OR. • “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 • NOT director If you would like to do a search but exclude a particular • (Google OR Salesforce) NOT Linkedin term, type that term with an upper-‐case NOT • director NOT executive NOT vp NOT “Vice immediately before it . Your search results will exclude President” any profile containing that term. 11-RC-SRCH