NEAR Operator

How to Control Years of Experience with a Boolean String

Have you ever found yourself running searches for candidates online or in a resume database and finding a large number of results are of people who are either too senior or too junior? Ever wondered if there was something you could do about it?
Although my first bit of advice to sourcers and recruiters facing this [...]

How-To's, NEAR Operator, Proximity Searching

Targeting GPA’s with Boolean Search Strings

Have you ever wanted or needed to be able to search for people that have a grade point average in a specific range? Searching for the term “laude” will certainly pull results of any person who specifically makes mention of graduating cum laude, magna cum laude, and summa cum laude, but not everyone with a decent [...]

Boolean Search Tips and Tricks, NEAR Operator

Semantic Search using the NEAR Boolean Operator

This post will cover graphic examples of how to achieve semantic search using the NEAR Boolean operator on Monster and on the Internet via Exalead using Accounting and Information Technology hiring profiles.
First, if you have not done so already, be sure to read these 2 posts that throroughly explain the concepts of user-defined semantic search for sourcing and [...]

Exalead, Monster, NEAR Operator, Semantic Search

Boolean Search Strings for a Sales Tax Manager

Boolean Search Strings for a Sales/Use Tax Manager 
NOTE!
For those who have absolutely no interest in seeing search examples for a tax manager position, the search principles and tips contained in the post can be applied to ANY SEARCH, and you may also be interested in a demonstration of the NEAR operator, as well as a couple [...]

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