CV Search manual
The CV Search screen provides powerfull search features and enables you to quickly find the applicant that best matches your search criteria. This short manual provides some tips for the basic criteria and explains the possibilities of the advanced keyword search feature.
Basic search
With the basic search features as education, salary and experience you will find applicants that match your criteria.
For example, if you only search for an education 'BSC or Equivalent', all applicants that have selected that same education will be shown.
Selecting multiple entries
By selecting two or more educations at the same time, all applicants that match any of the selected educations will be returned.
So, if both 'Primary School' and 'Secondary School' are selected, any applicant that has indicated that either 'Primary School' or 'Secondary School' is his/hers highest education will be returned.
Using CTRL-left click
You can use CTRL-left mouse click to select additional educations in the list. After selecting 'BSC or Equivalent' for example, you can select 'Phd or Higher' by holding the CTRL key and left clicking 'Phd or Higher'.
This also works for unselecting an education. If several educations are selected, you can unselect a single education by CTRL-left click that education. Other selections will remain untouched.
Using SHIFT-left click
You can use SHIFT-left mouse click to select a range of entries. After selecting 'High School Graduate' for example, hold down the SHIFT key and left click 'MBA'. Now all educations that are written in between are selected.
Using multiple criteria
You can use multiple criteria to refine your search. If you use multiple criteria, you will only find applicants that match to at least one of the entries of each criteria.
So, you can look for applicants that have a 'Technical Diploma' (education) and '3 to 5 years' of experience. You can not look for applicants that either have a 'Technical Diploma' or '3 to 5 years' of experience (Note the and/or difference).
Keyword search
Using the keyword seach box, you can quickly search for applicants that use a given keyword in their curriculum vitae or in their summary. You can use the radio buttons to search for all of the words, any of the words or for the exact combination of words. The keyword search is case insensitive.
Please note that the kyword search is additional to the basic search. So, you can search for a 'Mechanical Engineer' (job title, basic search criteria) who mentions 'plant engineering' in his curriculum vitae (keyword search). In order to appear in the result list, an applicant must satisfy both criteria.
If you press the Search key, the keywords are added to a list. This list is displayed below 'Current keywords:', which is visible only after searching for at least one keyword.Entering additional keywords will narrow down the results.
Advanced search
The keyword search box can be used to enter advanced queries using the query syntax described below. With advanced queries you can use wildcards and sepcify boolean operators for example. You can also use proximity searches and make some keywords more important than other keywords. You must select the 'Advanced search' option to make the application use the query entered as advanced search query.
In order to understand the advanced search feature, two points need to be explained.
- First point is that there are two fields that can be searched using the advanced search: 'cvcontent' and 'summary'. The former is the complete text uploaded by the applicant and is the default search field. This can be a Microsoft Word document, a PDF document or any other document format that is accepted. The latter is a short summary of the curriculum vitea as typed by the applicant in the applicant's profile. For every advanced search option mentioned below, you'll need to specify the field to search if you want to search the summary field. In the examples given below, you could omit the summary: text to search in the cvcontent field (the complete curriculum vitea).
- Second, you'll need to quote multiple keywords with double quotes as in "my keyword".
For example, if you want to search for "field experience" in the summary field only, type 'summary:"field experience" ' in the keyword search (excluding the single quotes).
Wildcard searches
You can search using wildcard characters '*' and '?' when searching for a single word.
The '*' wildcard character performs a multicharacter search:
summary:ship* will result in applicant with summaries containing 'ships', 'shipyard' and 'shipbuilding' (and any other word starting with 'ship').
You can use the '*' wildchard
The '?' wildchard character performs a single character search:
summary:ship? will result in applicant with summaries containing only 'ships'.
Fuzzy searches
Using the fuzzy search '~' charachter, you can search for words that are 'alike' the word you provided. For example, the search summary:plant~ returns summaries that contain 'plant', 'plans' or 'plants'.
Proximity searches
You can search for applicants that use two specific words within a certain distance of each other.
The search summary:"troubleshooting petrochemical"~10 will show all summaries which contain both the words 'troubleshooting' and 'petrochemical' within 10 words of each other.
Boosting a keyword
Boosting a keywordt allows you to search for both keywords, but to make one of the search keywords more important.
Example: summary:"chemical plant"^3 engineering ???? Wat betekent dit in ons geval? andere volgorde?
Boolean operators
When searching for multiple words, you can use the boolean operators 'AND', 'OR', '+' and '-'. Please note that all boolean operators must be written in capitals.
Note also that the 'OR' operator is the default operator when there is no boolean operator in between words.
So summary:oil summary:plant equals the query summary:oil OR summary:plant (This does not equal summary:"oil plant" which searches for the exact combination of words).
AND operator
The query summary:oil AND summary:plant returns applicants with both the words 'oil' and 'plant' in anywhere the summary, but not necessarily directly near each other.
Required '+' operator
The '+' operator requires that the term after the '+'-symbol exists somewhere in the field. The query +summary:oil summary:field returns all summaries that must contain 'oil' and may contain 'field'.
NOT operator
You can use the 'NOT' operator to exclude curriculum vitea's that contain a specific text. The 'NOT' operator can only be used with multiple keywords, and must be preceeded with a search term. So the query summary:plant NOT summary:"oil engineer" means: Return all cv summaries containing the text 'plant' but not those who also contain 'oil engineer'.
Grouping
You can use parentheses to group sub queries. The query (ISO 9001 OR ISO 9002) AND mechanical will return all applicants that mention 'ISO 9001', 'ISO 9002' or both and use the word 'mechanical' in their cv.
Special characters
Is you want to search for any of the following special characters, you need to escape that character by using a preceding backslash:
+-&|!(){}[]^"~*?:\
For example, if you search for the exact word (1+1) you need to write this as \(1\+1\)