Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flipboard 0 Every once in a while someone says a word and I think they have made it up. That is pretty much the way people look at me when I mention Boolean searches. That isn’t a real word………but it is! So, some quick facts for my history buffs. Boolean searches were named after the man who created them – George Boole, who was born in 1815! I say this because this logic has been around for quite a while. The basic logic behind Boolean search is to show relationships between sets of words. Still doesn’t make a lot of “how to” sense, does it? Boolean searches can be quite complex, so I am going to break it down into some simple steps you can use when doing searches on LinkedIn. AND (must use all caps) is used in a search to make it more limited- If I want to do a people search in LinkedIn for “Marketing” AND “CEO” then everyone who showed up in my search would have to have both of those words in their profile. OR is used to make the search larger. Seems backwards to me! So if I list my search as, “Marketing” OR “CEO”, I would get all the Marketing people, all the CEO people, and all the people that have both listed in their profiles. NOT is used to limit something that you don’t want included in your search. If I was looking for Marketing CEOs that were not in Baltimore, then my search would look like this, “Marketing” AND “CEO” NOT “Baltimore.” Don’t get frustrated if the first few times you do a Boolean search it doesn’t come out exactly the way you hoped it would. You may end up with 14,000 people to look at and that’s a bit too much to manage, so you have to continue to narrow your search using keywords, AND, OR and NOT until you begin to see the kind of results that you’re looking for. We do a lot of searches on LinkedIn for our clients and this is a really helpful tool. You can use it to search in the jobs section and really pin point your search. If you are on the other side of the fence and you are a recruiter, it will help you find talent faster. Salespeople use it to seek out new clients and connections. Companies use it to help navigate through their competition. Whatever reason you have for searching on LinkedIn, this tool will really make a difference. And it has a really cool name! For more information on Boolean searches, check out http://talent.linkedin.com/assets/Product-Pages/Training/TipSheet-BooleanSearching.pdf Twitter Tweet Facebook Share Email This article originally appeared on Intero and has been republished with permission.Find out how to syndicate your content with B2C Author: Jay Leonard Jay is a UK-based cryptocurrency expert, specialising in fundamental analysis and medium to long term investments. Jay has a great deal of hands-on experience in analysing financial markets and performing technical analysis. Jay is currently focusing on the institutional adoption of cryptocurrency and what it means for the future of … View full profile ›More by this author:Hotbit Exchange Forced to Suspend Service As it’s Under Criminal InvestigationCameo CEO Steven Galanis Wallet Hacked – $231k Worth of NFTs StolenMastercard CFO sees Growth Opportunities in Crypto