TIPS FOR BOOLEAN USE USERS

TRANSLATING 20 CLASSIC QUERIES INTO POWER SEARCHES

MOVING BEYOND BOOLEAN

Until now keyword-based based searching represented the state state-of-the-art in resume search. Power Resume Search offers a fundamentally more intuitive, intelligent, and informed way of finding qualified candidates candidates. Just like a person, the engine analyzes and int interprets the information on a resume without relying on exact word matches. I It matches candidates based on real life attributes such as skills, experience, and education all without the need for complex Boolean strings strings.
This document analyzes some of the most common Boolean search strings and explains how simple and intuitive it is to find qualified candidates using Power Resume Search.

Example Set 1: Booleans for Handling andling Word Variations

In the English language, there are multiple ways of saying the same thing. Terms such as strategic planning, strategic analysis, , and business planning are all variations of the same concept. A Lawyer is the same as an Attorney, and MIT is the same as Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . With Power Resume Search you no longer need to enter lengthy Boolean strings to find all relevant or related terms, spelling variations, or abbreviations. Power Resume Searchs engine will automatically recognize alternate names for titles, skills, companies, schools, punctuation variations and more. This built builtin knowledge is particularly useful in industries where new terms are frequently being added (such as in technology, finance, or healthcare healthcare) or in situations where you might be conducting a search in a discipline with which you are not familiar.

Notation: Notation For the Power Resume Search column, each entry

Ex What you want # 1 Telephone Sales Representatives

Classic Search

Power Resume Search

Explanation Synonymous titles, alternate word endings are all included. No need to enter abbreviations anymore. Candidates with these synonymous titles are all included, so enter any common one. Abbreviations for common technical skills are also included.

begins with the name of the input box followed by the recommended search term (e.g. Title: Manager means that the word Manager should be typed into the Title box.) For skills, a (Req) notation means that the skill should be set to Required.

(agent OR Title: Telesales representative OR Representative specialist) NEAR (sale* OR customer service OR tele*) Title: Senior HR Generalist

2 SR HR Generalist (Sr OR senior OR sr.) needed to assist AND generalist with daily operations. 3 Software Engineers, no matter what they call themselves on their resume

"Software Developer" Title: Software Engineer OR "Software Engineer" OR "Computer Programmer"

4 Software Engineers ("Java" AND "Enterprise Title: Software Engineer with J2EE and EJB Edition") OR J2EE OR Skill: J2EE experience EJB Skill: EJB

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Example Set 2: Booleans with Titles les and Skills

These search examples contain title requirements and skill requirements. By separating them into the appropriate Title and Skill boxes in Power Resume Search, youll have fewer false positives. If the ideal candidate could have held simil similar, but not synonymous titles, enter each title on a separate line, as in example #6. Remember, if youre looking for experience in a specific industry, enter that as a skill and make it Required, as shown in example #8 below.

Ex What you want Classic Search Power Resume Search # 5 Vice President/Chief (cpa OR c.p.a. OR Title: VP Finance Financial Officer who certified public Skill: CPA (Req) is a CPA accountant) AND (financ* OR account*) 6 A Sales Manager or Account Executive who has experience building long term client relationships ("sales manager OR account executive) AND client AND (relations OR relationship) Title: Account Executive Title: Sales Manager Skill: Develop and Maintain customers

Explanation Synonymous titles, alternate word endings are all included.

Since Account Executive and Sales Manager are slightly different, enter them both. 7 Inventory Planning (purch* OR buy* OR Title: Inventory Analyst (opt.) The skill in this Analyst to promote procure* OR plan* OR Skill: Inventory Planning case is specific lean manufacturing, inventory OR supply enough that title cycle time reduction chain) AND apics might not be necessary. 8 Product Manager - "product manager" Billing & Financial AND finan* AND Mgmt - experience in (billing OR "revenue the area of financial management") systems. Title: Product Manager Industry Skill: Financial Systems (Req) requirement is Skill: Revenue Management entered as a skill Skill: Billing and set to Required.

Example Set 3: The Boolean NEAR Command ommand

In traditional keyword searches, the NEAR command is used to remove false p positives. In Power Resume Search, , this command is not necessary because the engine understands the context of your search criteria and only looks for terms in the appropriate places in the resume. For instance, it distinguishes between candidates who worked at Oracle (the company), versus those who are Oracle certified, versus those who are responsible for purchasing Oracle products products. This means that you are presented with the right candidates, every time.

Ex What you want # 9 Individuals to test video games from a quality assurance standpoint.

Classic Search

Power Resume Search

Explanation This prevents false positives from people who list Video Games as an interest.

video gam* NEAR Title: Quality Assurance quality AND (assur* OR Tester control) Skill: Video Games

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Ex What you want Classic Search # 10 Patient Safety Data health AND data NEAR Analyst to manage manag* patient safety communications system for large healthcare org. 11 Transition Counselor (counsel* OR teach* to work with OR educat*) NEAR incoming students student

Power Resume Search Title: Data Analyst Skill: Healthcare (Req) Skill: Patient Safety

Explanation Again, the context that NEAR tried to provide is automatically included with your searches. NEAR is very limiting in this example. Power Search gives better results.

Title: Counselor Skill: Education (Req) Skill: counseling (Req) Skill: transition

Targeting Candidates Example Set 4: Booleans for Micro-Targeting

With Power Resume Search, setting up your search to micro-target candidates can be accomplished by entering specific job skills or making the skills youve previously entered Required. Sometimes, with very specific skills, you can even leave the title field blank and use advanced fields, as shown in example #14.

Ex What you want # 12 A Property Manager who has experience with low-income residence laws. 13 Safety and Security Manager to be responsible for organizations risk management, food safety and recall procedures.

Classic Search

Power Resume Search

Explanation The classic search returns housing lawyers in addition to Property Managers. This complex nested AND statement is replaced simply by making the two skills Required. Candidates must have worked at Intel OR AMD (not both) and this search will return anyone with a six sigma black belt, regardless of title.

("section 8" OR sec 8) Title: Property Manager AND (lihtc OR low Skill: section 8 (Req) income housing tax Skill: Low Income Housing credit) Tax Credit (Req) "risk manag*" AND Title: Safety Manager osha AND (dot OR d.o.t Skill: OSHA (Req) OR "department of Skill: DOT (Req) transportation")

14 Process process AND improve Improvement, wafer AND ("six sigma" or 6 fabrication lab. sigma) AND black Experience at Intel or belt AND ("Intel" or AMD, and a Six AMD) Sigma Black Belt are required.

Title: [blank] Skill: Six Sigma Black Belt (req.) Skill: Process Improvement Company: Intel Company: AMD

Example Set 5: Booleans that Cast a Wider Net

With Power Resume Search, earch, you can cast a wide net by limiting the number of Required skills and entering categories of skills or titles. . For example, enter Sales instead of Senior Field Sales Manager or Sales Skills instead of the more narrow Negotiation

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Skills. With many Boolean queries such as the one in example #17 below, broad search terms return n too many erroneous or irrelevant results. However, because Power Resume Search has a holistic understanding of each resume resume, it delivers only relevant matches.

Ex What you want # 15 Personal Trainer Instruct clients in lifestyle mgmt, exercise and healthy eating habits.

Classic Search

Power Resume Search

Explanation Entering all skills as Nice-to-have will prevent good matches from being excluded unnecessarily. This will get all the recruiters and sourcers in an area. Power Search will return Pharmacists, not Pharmacy Techs or Assistants.

("fitness trainer" OR Title: Personal Trainer "personal trainer" OR Title: Fitness Trainer "exercise physiologist") Skill: Exercise Skill: Physiology Skill: Fitness Skill: Dietary Planning Title: Recruiter Title: Sourcer Skill: Staffing Skill: Sourcing Title: Pharmacist

16 Recruiter to assist (recruit* OR staffing) with daily operations of a busy staffing office. 17 Staff Pharmacist at pharm* needed to perform comprehensive pharmaceutical duties.

Example Set 6: Better-than-Boolean Boolean Bonuses

Even the best Boolean search query sometimes returns too many results and puts the burden on you to sort and screen the resumes. Power Resume Search makes it easy to find the exact candidates you want because it infers meaning from your requirements as well as the information formation presented in a resume resume. Here are some examples of searches that will return much better candidates when executed in using Power Resume Search:

Ex What you want # 18 Advertising Sales experience

Classic Search advertis* AND sale*

Power Resume Search

Explanation

19 building architects, "architect" AND not java architects ("blueprints" OR "buildings") AND NOT (Java OR C++)

Title: Advertising Sales Its easy to modify (If you want people who have searches in Power held that title) Resume Search to ---------OR OR-----get the results to OR-----Title: Sales what you are Skill: Advertising looking for. Skill: Advertising Sales (If you want sales people with advertising skills) Title: Architect When search Skill: Building Design understands Skill: Construction context, difficult keyword dissociations like Architect or Executive become easy.

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Ex What you want # 18 A java programmer, with some required skills required and other nice-to-have skills

Classic Search "Java" and "C++" and "Spring" and "Struts" and "Jconsole" and "lucene"

Power Resume Search Title: Java Engineer Skill: Java (Req) Skill: Spring (Req) Skill: Struts Skill: jConsole (Req) Skill: Lucene

Explanation Even if both context choices are valid, you can always choose the one that corresponds to your needs.

With an unprecedented level of searching power, Power Resume Search makes traditional searching a legacy of the past. The ability to find candidates with the exact skills, experience level, educational background, and work history you want, makes finding the highest qualified candidates a breeze. Armed with these search tips, we hope that you enjoy the increased productivity and precision matching experience.