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The following guidelines explain how to use the keyword search effectively:

1. All words or phrases (referred to as “Search Terms”) need double quotes around them. Also, you need to separate search terms with the keywords “AND”, “OR”, “NEAR” or “AND NOT” (upper or lower case). Using the “AND” keyword specifies both terms before and after the “AND” must be found in the job advert. Similarly, using “OR” specifies either of the terms may be present in the job advert. The “NEAR” keyword specifies the two terms must be in proximity to each other (a maximum of 50 words apart) in the document. “AND NOT” is used in place of “AND” to exclude documents containing the term. Examples:
   • “Financial Controller” AND “Doha”
   • “Engineer” OR “Consultant” OR “Manager”
   • “consultant” NEAR “management”
   • “fulltime” AND NOT “parttime”
2. You can search for an exact phrase by putting double quotes around it. You can also combine two or more phrases using the search keywords. Examples:
   • “financial controller”
   • “South Africa”
   • “Harvard Business School”
   • “Mount Everest” OR “Mount Kilimanjaro” OR “Marina Trench”
   • “North Pole” AND “South Pole”
3. Search conditions may be nested using brackets and search keywords. This way you can build complicated search expressions to find exact matches. Examples:
   • “Investment Analyst” AND (“Finance” OR “Production”)
   • (“Engineering” OR “Maintenance”) AND (“Manager” OR “Engineer”)
   • “Telecom Engineer” AND “Engineering” AND NOT (“japan” OR “korea”)
4. Punctuations such as commas, hypens and dots are ignored. Search terms and keywords can be in upper or lower case, you will still get the same results.
5. Avoid using extremely common words like “I”, “you”, “the”, “of”, etc. Such words are automatically ignored by the search.