Searching for IT Jobs on Technojobs

Our search system allows you to narrow down the jobs shown to help you find the best matching entries for your requirements. All job boards tend to work differently so here is a run down on the search system we use and what you can do to narrow down search results.

Keywords

Keywords are the words and phrases you want to be in the jobs that we return for your search. We use a Boolean search system that you will probably be aware of already but here is a quick overview incase you are new to this method.

AND / OR Operators:
You can use the AND / OR operators to narrow down your result set. If you search for more than one keyword the system will automatically treat this as an AND query. So if your keywords field contains:

java perl

The system will search for:

java AND perl

So will display only jobs that contain both java and perl in the job:
http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml?keywords=java+AND+perl&excludekeywords=&salary=&location=&radius=&postedwithin=all&jobtype=all&sortby=relevant&x=0&y=0

If you want to find jobs that match either java or perl then you should use an OR query:

java OR perl

http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml?keywords=java+OR+perl&excludekeywords=&salary=&location=&radius=&postedwithin=all&jobtype=all&sortby=relevant&x=0&y=0

This can provide odd results if you are searching for a two word phrase - for example if you are a project manager then keywords:

project manager

Will find all jobs containing project and manager, but not necessarily next to each other:
http://www.technojobs.co.uk/search.phtml?keywords=project+manager&excludekeywords=&salary=&location=&radius=&postedwithin=all&jobtype=all&sortby=relevant&x=0&y=0

At the time of writing this returns 5702 it jobs.

To make sure that you find jobs only containing the job title project manager then you simply need to enclose the words in quotes: