Advanced search techniques

- [Host] In the previous video, we covered how to use search filters to narrow down your candidate pool in Recruiter. In this video, we'll take it a step further by exploring advanced search techniques, including Boolean operators to refine your candidate searches even more effectively. One of the most powerful tools in advanced search is the use of Boolean operators. Boolean searches allow you to combine keywords and phrases using and or, and not to refine your search results. Let's take a look at how to use each of these operators. I'm going to switch back over to the search that I was doing and in here I want to go down to keywords and I'm going to narrow down my search using keywords. However, I want to use a Boolean operator. Here, I want to type in two different words. I want them to have B2B or renewable energy. The or operator broadens your search by including profiles that contain any of the specified items. So for example, here it will show me any accounts that have either B2B or renewable energy. I'll hit enter and it will now narrow this down, so it's down to 2000 results. Now I'm going to go back down here and actually get rid of that one and I'm going to put in a different search variable. So instead I'm going to put in B2B and renewable energy. Now the and operator narrows your search by including profiles that contain all the specified items. So in this case I'm saying that it's any profiles that have both B2B and renewable energy. So will this number be higher than that 2000 number that we got before? Let's take a look. I'll hit enter. It is not, it's much lower at 117. Now the reason for that is that the previous search used or meaning that could have B2B or renewable energy. In this case it used and saying that it had to have B2B and renewable energy. Now the third operator that you can use is not so in here, maybe I'm putting in B2B, not, and I could type something in like intern. Another example would be is if you're in a non-compete against another company, you may go in and add something like not Google, not Microsoft or the company that you don't want them to have in their account. I can type in this, hit enter and it will give me the results of any accounts that have B2B but not intern. Kind of a weird example. Now you can use these in other areas up here at the top where I had job titles and I put sales manager, this limited it to 3,300 results. But what if I went in here instead, I got rid of sales manager and instead I put sales manager or sales director. Maybe I thought I was narrowing down my search too much by just including sales managers. If I do this and hit enter, it will now bring up anybody with the titles of sales manager or sales director giving me 27,000 results. So that is more, you can see how they're the Boolean operator gave me more results because it loosened up those parameters a little. So I do suggest going to the resource center and checking out the article on using Boolean operators to filter your searches. They are very powerful and can help you find very specific needs. I want to switch back over to my account and I want to point out one other thing, and that is if I go to the bottom and click on advanced search, we can see all of the different search features that are available here, and there are a lot of them, not just the ones that were originally available in that left column, but now we have ones going all the way down. Current companies, company sizes, recruiting activity tags, and more. So this is another way to really take your searches to the next level and use advanced ones. Ones that I've seen people use are things like a past company. Maybe you're trying to find people that worked at a specific company or currently work at that company. Another one might be people from a specific school. I could go here and maybe there's a school that has a great program that puts out students that have been really successful for you in a certain area and you may search that school. So that's another way to take it to that next level. Also, remember that anytime you do this, when you go back, you can then save those searches. So if I go back and I'm inside of here, I can always click save as new search, give it a name, and then name that which I do recommend doing it can save you a lot of time, using advanced search techniques and Boolean operators in LinkedIn Recruiter allows you to pinpoint the exact candidates you're looking for. By combining keywords and filters in Recruiter, you can significantly improve the quality of your search results.