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Boolean Search Operators

Boolean operators like AND, OR, and NOT are used to combine search terms and make searches more precise. AND narrows results to only documents containing all terms, OR returns documents with any of the terms, and NOT excludes documents with the excluded term. Phrase searching uses quotation marks to find terms in a specific order. Truncation uses asterisks to find variations of word endings. Brackets are used to group terms and set search priorities. The examples provided demonstrate how to construct complex searches combining these techniques.

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Boolean Search Operators

Boolean operators like AND, OR, and NOT are used to combine search terms and make searches more precise. AND narrows results to only documents containing all terms, OR returns documents with any of the terms, and NOT excludes documents with the excluded term. Phrase searching uses quotation marks to find terms in a specific order. Truncation uses asterisks to find variations of word endings. Brackets are used to group terms and set search priorities. The examples provided demonstrate how to construct complex searches combining these techniques.

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BOOLEAN SEARCH

 Boolean Search Session


What are Boolean operators?

The following terms are used as


“Boolean Operators”

“AND”
“OR”
“NOT”
How do you use Boolean operators?

Using “AND”

“AND” narrows a search

“AND” will bring back documents that contains both the


search terms you put in.

Example: java AND j2ee will give you result


containing both the keywords.
Boolean Operator AND
Results include all keywords linked with AND
AND—requires both terms to be in each item returned. If one term is contained in the document and
the other is not, the item is not included in the resulting list. (Narrows the search)

Some Examples :
cats AND dogs / cats +dogs

Android AND Developer

"Oracle Financials" AND "Oracle Reports" AND "Oracle Forms"

Developer AND “sql server” AND “data warehousing” AND perl AND microstrategy
How do you use Boolean operators?

Using “OR”

“OR” Searches any one of the keyword in a search

“OR” will bring back documents that contains any one of


the search terms you put in.

Example: Linux OR Posix will give you result


containing any one of the keywords.
Here’s another way to think about it

“OR” will give you results containing any one or


both keywords
The OR Operator
The OR operator, on the other hand, allows us to expand our Boolean search results. People might use different words
to say the same thing.
OR is particularly useful for synonyms, like ‘bank OR banking OR finance OR financial.’
Some examples :
(admin OR administrator OR administration)
(app OR apps OR application)
(“ba” OR “business analyst” OR “business analysis”)
(“bi” OR “business intelligence”)
(“developer” OR engineer OR architect OR programmer OR programming)
(ecommerce OR “e commerce” OR “online retail” OR sem OR “search engine marketing”)
(“business analyst” OR “business analysis” OR “bus analyst” OR ba OR ccba OR cbap OR bi OR “business intelligence” OR
bo OR “business objects” OR bsa OR “business systems analyst”)
AND and OR Operator Combined
When searching, you need to think from your ideal candidate’s point of view. Let’s say you want to hire a
Software developer. If you only look for ‘Web developer’ you’ll probably miss a lot of good profiles that use a
different title, like ‘Software developer’ or ‘Web programmer.’ You could combine AND and OR commands to
search multiple terms.
S0, the Boolean string now would be :

(Web OR Software) AND (Developer OR Programmer)


Additional Search Techniques
Phrase searching

Use quotation marks (“ ”) around words that you want to


appear together in a specific order.
This is a great strategy for names and titles!

Example
“Global warming”
“Bill Gates”
 Using parentheses or quotes around search words is a common way to do phrase searching
If you want to consider the phrase you’re searching for as a complete phrase you want to trap, you should put it in
quotation marks. For example, leaving a blank space between ‘customer’ and ‘service’ will provide pages that contain both
of the words ‘customer’ and ‘service,’ but not necessarily together. You should type “customer service” to get more relevant
results when sourcing passive candidates.
“phrase searching” “sustainable architecture” Searches for exact phrase
 Some other Examples:
 "Genetic engineering“
 “Project Manager”
 “Professional writer”
 “UX Designer”
 “Chemical analysis”
 “Automotive Engineering”
Because phrase searches are more specific than “AND” searches, they will usually retrieve fewer records. Compare the
results of these two searches as below:
 climate and change
 “climate change”
“Climate change” finds fewer records than climate change without the quotation marks since it would not find a phrase
such as change in the climate.
Additional Search Techniques
Truncation:
Use an asterisk (*) to stand for any character or string of
characters.
This is a great strategy to use if you want to find multiple
spellings or word endings.

Example:
Child* (searches for child, children, childhood, etc.)
Terror* (searches for terror, terrorist, terrorism)
The wild card (*)
You could use an asterisk (*) to get more results for the term you’re looking for. For example, account* will provide you with
results both for accounting and accountant.
If you’re searching specific job titles on LinkedIn, the asterisk could help you create a shorter string. For example, you could
type ‘administr*’ instead of ‘administrative OR administrator OR administration’ and get the same results. Likewise, ‘recruit*’
is a simpler alternative of ‘recruiter OR recruiting OR recruitment.’
Some examples :
"release manag*"
"software licens*" and procur* and manag*
application and (develop* or program*)
(security or authenticat* or authoriz*) and ("LDAP" or "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol")

("SQL" or "system query language") and (Supervis* or lead or manag*)


develop* and integrat* and "project manag*" and (java or j2ee) and "SQL" and ("life cycle" or "SDLC") and (test* and analy*)
Google Search Operators & Commands
Brackets ()
You can use brackets to group multiple search strings and set your priorities. This will come in handy, as most
candidate searches are complex and combine different keywords. For example, ‘(developer OR designer) AND
Java’ indicates that Java knowledge is a must-have both for developers and designers. But, in a ‘designer OR
(developer AND Java)’ search, Java knowledge is important only for the developers you’re looking for – not the
designers.
Some Examples :
"j2ee" and (developer or programmer)
(Telecommunications OR Telecom) AND (network OR networking) AND IP AND telephony AND PBX AND
(voicemail OR voice-mail OR “voice mail”) AND Cisco AND Avaya
(“User Experience” OR User-Experience OR UX OR “Human-Computer Interaction” OR “Human Computer
Interaction” OR HCI) AND CSS AND HTML AND JavaScript AND (jQuery OR user-centered OR “graphic design”
OR “visual design”)
Consolidated Examples :

Help Desk Support


(helpdesk OR support OR technician OR “help desk” OR “service desk”) AND (OSX OR JDE OR iSeries OR virtual OR virtualization
OR vmware) AND (“AD” OR “Active Directory”) AND DHCP AND DNS AND (network OR networking) AND (switches OR switching
OR routers OR routing) AND (firewalls OR security)

Telecommunications Specialist
(Telecommunications OR Telecom) AND (network OR networking) AND IP AND telephony AND PBX AND (voicemail OR voice-
mail OR “voice mail”) AND Cisco AND Avaya

Web Developer
(html OR html5) AND (css3 OR css) AND javascript AND (“Web Developer” OR “Web Design*” OR xml OR jquery OR ajax)

Web Designer
html AND javascript AND css AND (photoshop OR illustrator OR adobe) AND (flash OR actionscript OR macromedia) AND (“Java
Server Pages” OR JSP OR Java OR “Active Server Pages” OR ASP OR “Google Web Toolkit” OR XML OR oracle OR IIS) AND SQL

User Experience Designer


(“User Experience” OR User-Experience OR UX OR “Human-Computer Interaction” OR “Human Computer Interaction” OR HCI)
AND CSS AND HTML AND JavaScript AND (jQuery OR user-centered OR “graphic design” OR “visual design”)
Mobile Applications Architect
(ios OR iphone OR ipad OR Android) AND (SDK OR SDKs) AND (Java OR objective-c OR “objective c” OR C++) AND (optimization
OR “web services” OR UX OR user-experience OR “user experience” OR “Mobile Applications” OR “Mobile Developer”)

Programmer
"j2ee" and (develop* or program*)
java and "HTML" and (develop* or program*)
java and "c++" and ("pl/sql" or "pl-sql" or "plsql" or "plsql") and (develop* or program*)
("SQL" or "system query language") and (Supervis* or lead* or manag*)
(develop* or support*) and information and ("ASP.net" or "VB.NET") and (supervis* or lead* or manag*)
(JAVA or "J2EE") and ("SQL" or "system query language") and Application and (program* or Develop*) and (Lead* or led* or
supervis* or manag*)
("IT" or "Information Technology") and operat* and (Windows or Unix)
configur* and (application or "convert* data")

Technical Account Manager


(“account manager” OR “project manager” OR “program manager”) AND software AND develop* AND “sql server” AND “data
warehousing” AND technical AND marketing

Systems Engineer
Windows AND Exchange AND Cisco AND switch* AND rout* AND IIS AND (Voip OR Citrix OR AIX OR Linux OR MCSE OR CCNA OR
CCNP OR CNNA OR “Systems Engineer”) AND TCP/IP AND “Active Directory” AND DNS

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