It is recommended to experiment with multiple search strings, until you find the string that works best for your specific candidate search. For recruiters it can be tempting to put every job requirement in a search string, this will inevitably reduce the amount of results. Operators and Modifiers can be used together to form search strings.
#Sample boolean search strings for recruiters plus
Results that contain either the word Project or Manager plus the word Sydney Results that contain the words Project Sydney and any word that begins with Manage, for example Management, Managed and Manages Results that contain the words Project and Manager together as a phrase plus the word Sydney For example: Manager OR Management instead of Manage* Some applications don’t support the Asterisk modifier, instead construct OR statements to search for all variations that someone could mention each term you’re searching for. Quotation Marks “” Asterisk * Parenthesis () Results that contain both the words Project and Manager but not the word Sydney Results that contain any one or more of these words (the OR operator works as an and / or function, showing results that have only one of the search terms or both together) It is more practical to take advantage of the implied AND operators and instead write this as Project Manager Sydney Results that contain all three of these words. A few systems only support Boolean symbols, so in if your search string doesn’t work as expected try the symbol
Although some programs support operators without capitalisation it is highly recommended to always use capitalised letters Nearly all systems have an implied AND function, making Project Manager the same as Project AND Manager OR operators generally produce broader results
The more AND operators used the more specific the results Boolean Search Fundamentals For Recruiters - Guideīoolean Logic is named after the UK mathematician George Boole (1815-64) who in 1847 introduced mathematical (symbolic) logic, the foundation on which electronic computing is based.īoolean Logic is fundamental to internet search engines (Google, Bing etc), resume databases (Monster, Dice, Seek etc), applicant tracking systems / internal databases and social media.Īs a recruiter, correctly being able to utilise the three key Boolean Operators and associated Modifiers empowers you to better search large candidate (or client) data repositories to find the specific information that is closest to what you are looking for.
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