{"id":5353,"date":"2016-06-07T13:57:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/two-minute-tuesday\/submittal-workflow-copy\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:57:22","slug":"keyword-searching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/site\/2016\/06\/07\/keyword-searching\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Minute Tuesday: Rudiments of Keyword Searching"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this week’s Two Minute Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0video, we’re going to go over using Boolean keyword search methods in PCRecruiter to find the candidates, jobs, and contacts you’re looking for.<\/p>\n

If you have any comments\u00a0or suggestions for something we can explain in about two minutes, send an email to twominutetuesday@mainsequence.net<\/a><\/p>\n

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Video Transcript<\/h3>\n

We\u2019re back with another Two Minute Tuesday, Main Sequence\u2019s series of short videos with tips, tricks, and tutorials to help make you a more powerful PCRecruiter user.<\/p>\n

This week, we\u2019re going to look at the rudiments of keyword searching. You\u2019ll find keyword search boxes on the Basic and Advanced Name, Company, and Position search screens, among others. PCR\u2019s keyword search includes the content of the Resume, Notes, Summary, Profile forms, and Keywords areas of your records, but it does not include data in discretely labeled fields, like \u2018Job Title\u2019 or \u2018Last Name\u2019. Our Lucene search engine, which offers searching of text file attachments as well as many more complex search queries and support for significantly larger databases is also available \u2013 contact your Main Sequence rep for details.<\/p>\n

At the simplest level, we just enter a few terms separated by spaces into the keyword search box. Here, on the Advanced Name Search screen, we\u2019ll enter marketing development sales. PCRecruiter will return records with any of these words in any of the keyword indexed areas of the record, ordered by relevance. If we want to limit the search to specific indexed areas of the record, such as the resume only, we can change the \u2018Limit\u2019 pulldown. We can also designate whether partial word matches should be included, such as \u201csalesman\u201d or \u201csalesforce.\u201d<\/p>\n

To refine the search, we\u2019ll need to use Boolean operations: AND, NOT, OR, and NEAR, as well as quotes and parentheses. Here\u2019s how these work:<\/p>\n

Using AND (all caps) before a term makes it a required criteria for the search results, while NOT excludes the term that follows it. For example, if we search marketing AND development NOT sales, we\u2019re going to find records that contain the first term and the second one, but do not contain the third.<\/p>\n

We can also nest search terms with parentheses. For example: (sales OR marketing) AND (development OR bizdev). When you use parentheses, the system runs the queries inside the parentheses first; so here we\u2019ll only get back records with either of the terms from the first pair, and either of the terms from the second pair.<\/p>\n

We can search for phrases by using quotes. For example: \u201cbusiness development\u201d. Now we\u2019ll get records with the words business and development immediately adjacent to each other. <\/p>\n

To find words close to, but not right next to each other, we keep the quotes and include the NEAR operator. \u201cBusiness NEAR Development\u201d finds any record where those two words are within ten words of each other. We can narrow or expand the range by specifying a number. For example, \u201cbusiness NEAR5 development\u201d will return records where those words are five or less words apart.<\/p>\n

You can mix and match these techniques to create very refined keyword searches, but keep in mind that the more complex your query is, the more time it\u2019ll take PCR to return the results.
\nWhen you get your search results back, you\u2019ll see a letter indicating where in the record the terms were found. P for Profiles, N for Notes or Keywords, R for resume. Click on the letter, and the search terms are highlighted in context.<\/p>\n

This is just the tip of the searching iceberg and we\u2019ll dig into more related topics in the future. But for now, subscribe to this YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter, and watch your PCR login screen. If you have any suggestions for future Two Minute Tuesdays, send an email to twominutetuesday@mainsequence.net.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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