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.
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:
- 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:
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Character(s)
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Example
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Description
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" "
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" design engineer "
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Results will contain the phrase " design engineer " in any of the searchable fields.
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( )
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(design engineer)
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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.
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+
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+design
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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.
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-
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"health care" -nurses
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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.
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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.
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Keyword
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Example
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Description
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jobtitle:
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Windows jobtitle:Security
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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.
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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.
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Network
jobtitle:”Security Services”*
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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.
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