Advanced search operators to search for jobs better?

How can I make the search engine find the exact phrase?

In our advanced Search feature, you may select how you want to use the keywords in your search. If you select ANY WORDS, you'll see jobs that contain at least one of the keywords you listed. With ALL WORDS or EXACT PHRASE selected, the resulting jobs must contain all of the keywords or the exact phrase you listed.

Careerbuilder.com Advanced Searching Operators

In addition to the Advanced Search options on Careerbuilder.com, you can use special keywords and characters to narrow and fine tune your search to listing with a certain word in their title or in the body of the listing.

These keywords and characters can be quite useful in making a more specific query without having to navigate into the Advanced Search forms.

Job Title
Job Description
Job Requirements
Company name

Careerbuilder.com allows a number of advanced operators to construct keyword queries and phrases. The following operators allow you to build phrases, and include or exclude specific terms or phrases in your query:

Character(s)

Example

Description

" "

" design engineer "

Results will contain the phrase " design engineer " in any of the searchable fields.

( )

(design engineer)

Results will contain either the term "design" or the term "engineer ". Putting multiple terms in parentheses is equivalent to using the Boolean or between single terms.

+design

Results must include the term "design". You can create a more complex query by stringing along a sequence of terms. For example, "+design +engineer" will find results that include both the term "design" and the term "engineer". Using the + character is equivalent to using the Boolean and between single terms. By default, Careerbuilder.com assumes the use of the + operator.

"health care" -nurses

Results will include pages with information on "health care" excluding the term "nurses". Using the - character is equivalent to using the Boolean and not between single terms.

Keyword

Example

Description

jobtitle:

Windows jobtitle:Security

Finds documents that include the word "windows" within any searchable text field and has a title that includes the word “security”. This can be helpful in obtaining highly relevant results within a particular domain or specialty.

The following example illustrate how to use the wildcard (*) operator to search for documents with titles that contain a particular substring of the "jobtitle:" keyword to match the start, substring or exactly.

Network

jobtitle:”Security Services”*

Returns documents that contain the word Network in any of the search able text fields and the substring “Security Services” in the job title field.

Careerbuilder.com supports keyword shortcuts for searching document titles and content body. You can also use special keywords in your search to find documents with a certain words in their titles or in any of the searchable text fields of the documents. Currently the only keyword supported is ‘jobtitle’. If this keyword is not used all searchable text fields including job title are compared against the entered search criteria.

You can use these search options in the keyword field. The text you enter in the keyword field will be compared to all of the following searchable text fields:

What are keywords and what is the best way to use them?

Keywords are specific words or phrases that are used to search for job. A search looks for these words in job postings, and if it finds them, pulls it up for a user search results, just the same way you would use a search engine such as Google. The more keywords that are used, the more closely the job will match to what you’re really looking for.

For example, if you type the word sales into a search, you’ll get literally thousands of results back at you. But if you type the words sales and marketing management, you’re going to get much fewer and much more useful results.

You can use any mix of upper and lower case characters; the keyword field isn’t case sensitive. To search for an exact phrase, keywords must have quotation marks around the phrase. So, in order to search for postings containing an exact phrase marketing management, you can type the exact phrase, within quotation marks, as your search criteria.

Example: “marketing management”

In order to eliminate certain words from your search, you can use the minus (-) symbol with no space before the word that you would like to exclude. If you do not want company ACME Corporation to show up in your search results, you can use the following keywords:

-“ACME Corporation”

This will eliminate any job postings that contain ACME Corporation from coming up in your search. Keep in mind that this method can be used to exclude not only company names but also certain words.

Example: “marketing management” -accounting

If a word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a plus (+) sign in front of it. So if ACME Corporation is essential in your search, you can use the following keywords:

+“ACME Corporation"

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