If you are using the Indeed resume database, indeed you need this cheat sheet. It won’t solve all your talent needs, but what it will do instead is save you time and energy.
Here is a compiled list of advanced search operators.
Search for 🔎:
- all of the keywords (“AND” statements): Term1 Term2. Note that you don’t need to use AND and no operator is interpreted as “AND” by default.
- at least one of the keywords (“OR” statements): (Term1 OR Term2).
- the exact phrase: “Term1“. As in the Google search, it’ll limit the search results to the exact term/phrase within the quotation marks.
- none of the words: –Term. Similar to Google, there are certain words that might break your query. For instance, -IT (-it, -“IT”) won’t be perceived as a part of a string and will still appear in your search.
- a title of the last job: title:
- a title of the current or previous job: anytitle:
- a current employer: company:
- a current or previous employer: anycompany:
- a specific school: school:
- a specific field of study: fieldofstudy:
Unfortunately, there is no operator for location and it still needs to be selected manually.
Now let’s have a look at how these operators may be applied. For instance, if you are looking for a manager whose expertise spans governance and compliance and who is currently working for Deloitte, your search string may look as follows:
(governance OR compliance) title:manager company:Deloitte
(👩🏻💻 to be pasted into the Indeed resume database search bar)
As always, feel free to play with the keywords that will be the most relevant to your search criteria 😉.
Still, it’s a database search algorithm and may not be appropriate for lengthy or over sophisticated strings: the shorter, the better.
What I personally like about using operators instead of the advanced field options is that everything can be changed on the go with no extra loading time.
Happy sourcing!
