The Keyword Search checks the following fields for matches on the keywords entered:

1. Job Title
2. Job Description
3. Required Degree or Formal Training
4. Required License or Certificate


Enter keyword(s) describing the types of jobs you’d like to find. Useful keywords can include a job title, specific skills needed in that job or the name of an industry or company. Examples: drafter, CPA, telecommunications, welding.

The search engine uses a thesaurus, which allows it to return jobs with words similar to those you have entered. For example, entering construction as a keyword will return jobs containing keywords related to construction such as fabricate or manufacture.

Using keywords in your searches gives you the option to combine your keywords with the operators listed below, to return more targeted results.

Operators	Usage	Examples
AND &	AND is implied when words are separated by just spaces.  Using these operators will return only jobs where all words specified are present.	research AND development research development Only jobs with the word research and the word development both present will be returned.
OR '	Using these operators will return jobs where any of the words specified are present.	sales OR marketing sales, marketing Jobs containing the word sales or jobs containing the word marketing will be returned. Both do not need to be present.
AND NOT	Using this phrase will return jobs that contain the first word specified but will exclude jobs that include the second word.  Jobs containing both words will not be returned.	sales AND NOT marketing Jobs containing the word sales will be returned.  Jobs containing both the words sales and marketing will not be returned.
( )	Use parentheses to group words and operators together, and to determine the precedence and order of operations.  All words and operators within parenthesis will be evaluated first.	(research AND development) AND NOT engineering Jobs containing the words research and development will be returned.  Jobs containing the words research, development and engineering will not be returned.
" "	Use quotation marks to identify phrases that you want to appear together in the job. The thesaurus will be used with words surrounded by quotation marks.	"civil engineer" Jobs containing the words civil engineer grouped together will be returned. Jobs containing synonyms for the words civil engineer will also be returned.
*	Using a * (asterisk) after a word will bring back variations of the word entered.  The word entered must be at least two letters long.	tech* Jobs containing technician, technical, technology, technique and any other variations will be returned.