The CV keyword box searches the full text of indexed CVs. It uses PostgreSQL full-text search, so words are automatically stemmed — searching plan will also match planning, planner, planned.
Type
Example
What it does
AND (default)
financial planner
Both words must appear anywhere in the CV
OR
smf16 | smf17
Either word may appear
NOT
compliance !insurance
First word must appear, second must not
Phrase
"senior financial planner"
Words must appear together in that exact order — wrap in quotes
Grouping
(smf16 | smf17) & compliance
Combine OR and AND with brackets
Variants
smf16 | smf16/17 | smf16/smf17
Catch slash-delimited variants that are treated as single tokens
Limitations to be aware of
Wildcards are not supported — plan* will not work
Stop words (the, and, of, in…) are ignored
Numbers may not be indexed if they appear without context
CVs where text extraction failed will not appear regardless of search terms
Only CVs with documents on file are searchable — not all candidates have one