Better jobs thru better search strings!

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One of the great features of StartWire is the ability to ask world-class job search experts for tips and techniques to rock your job search.  We’ve been buried with great, deep, & thoughtful questions.

Interestingly, a question that keeps getting asked is how to structure a job search query on job boards to find a jobs that actually match what you are looking for.  

At AIRS, one of the things Tim & I taught recruiters how to do was use Boolean logic & search engines to find great candidates.  The same principles work great for job seekers looking to search job databases like StartWire, CareerBuilder, & Indeed.
Check this out.

Let’s say you are looking for a job as a Sales Manager.  Most job seekers simply enter the words Sales Manager into the keyword box and hit GO. The problem is that the search engine at your favorite job board will search for jobs that have the words Sales and Manager…but not necessarily together.  The result is jobs that aren’t very targeted.

But if you put “Sales Manager” in quotes, your results are transformed.  You have results where the phrase Sales Manger is present. Even better, sites like StartWire support advanced commands like title:”sales manager” that allow you to not only specify a specific phrase…but WHERE on the job posting it should appear.

Hope this helps.  To learn more, find great jobs, and get access to some of the best job search minds in the US (all for FREE), join StartWire!

– Chris