Brackets () - makes it easy to give priority to a search and segregate it in groups.NOT - enables you to exclude keywords that you don’t want to see in your search results (replaced with “-” in Google search)īoolean modifiers can help you find more quality results, by expanding and refining your search.OR - helps you get results that have either one of the keywords entered.AND - lets you find 2 keywords at the same time on one page.What are Boolean operators and search modifiers?īoolean operators are short words used to connect or exclude certain search terms. Who else has been craving ramen during lockdown? I’ve even found myself looking for a takeaway the other day. The most common use of Boolean search for me is to find CVs and Linkedin profiles, but it honestly helps you find anything you need. It allows you to translate your hiring manager's requirements to a limited search that brings up relevant candidates. To put it simply, it’s a process that can help you search through different databases. If the terms “Boolean search” or “X-Ray search” are entirely new to you, you are exactly where I was a year ago. Hopefully, they will help you out whether you are a beginner, or a person looking to refresh their knowledge. In this post, I will share with you 5 tips that helped me source for excellent candidates. Since then, I have picked up some useful methods that are making my searches faster and more accurate. Saying it’s been helpful would be an understatement. I began sourcing with Boolean very recently when starting my job as a Recruiter at LevelUp Ventures. Let me ask you this: since you’ve learned about Boolean, how often have you gone back to it to sharpen your skills? It’s our holy grail for finding the right talent and narrowing down a list of thousands of candidates to our hiring manager’s requirements. They are most useful such as when searching through Outlook, which is beyond the scope of this series.If you are a recruiter, you probably know what a Boolean search is. We’re not going to spend any meaningful time on Boolean properties. Similar to isattachment only this shows results with items that have “geek” and an attachement Returns “geek” results that have been flagged incomplete This will show you items that have been deleted that have “geek” Returns results with “geek” that have been flagged, such as for review or follow-up Locate recurring items with “geek” in them Use this to find attachments with the word “geek” (same as isattachment:true)įinds things which are online and contain the word “geek” The following table is pasted directly from Microsoft’s documentation on AQS with some minor tweaks to make it geekier. Let’s look at these properties and show you how they work. You can also find certain file types using Boolean properties. The best thing about Boolean is that it works best when combined with AQS search parameters. That should be pretty easy to understand. Searching through our Documents folder we’re given four results dated after Octowith “How-to Geek” somewhere in the name or folder. Let’s create an example, we want to find a file, created after Octowith the phrase “How-To Geek”: You can actually create a search using only Boolean. Returns results that contain the terms apple or pie in any orderįinds files created after 12/31/99Finds files larger than 10000 bytesįinds files created before 12/31/99Finds files smaller than 10000 bytesįinds files with creation dates from 12/31/99 to 12/31/00 Returns instances of “apple” but not “pie”
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