Keywords help


Entering keywords enables you to search for words and phrases that appear in jobs posted on brightrecruits. They can be used alone or in combination with other search criteria to provide more accurate results.

Keywords can include skills and qualifications (e.g. "physicist", "doctorate"), professional experience (e.g. "project management") and job titles (e.g. "software engineer").

You can select whether to search for keywords in job titles and descriptions or job titles only, using the radio buttons beneath the keyword field. Searching for job titles only is particularly helpful if you are looking for a specific role (e.g. "physicist").

Keywords can be individual words (e.g. "analyst") or exact phrases, which should be entered in quotation marks (e.g. "computational analyst").

The words "AND", "OR" and "NOT" enable you to search for combinations of keywords.

Here are a series of examples:

Example 1

  • keyword: "physicist"
  • in job title and description
  • finds jobs with the word "physicist" in either the job title or the job description (advanced search only)

Example 2

  • keyword: "director"
  • in job title only
  • finds jobs with the word "director" in the job title

Example 3

  • keyword: "postdoctoral research associate"
  • in job title and description
  • finds jobs with the phrase "postdoctoral research associate" in either the job title or the job description (advanced search only)

Example 4

  • keyword: "laser" AND "engineer"
  • in job title and description
  • finds jobs with the words "laser" and "engineer" in either the job title or the job description (advanced search only)

Example 5

  • keyword: "senior manager" OR "director"
  • in job title and description
  • finds jobs with the phrase "senior manager" or the word "director" in either the job title or the job description (advanced search only)

Example 6

  • keyword: "graduate" NOT "senior"
  • in job title and description
  • finds jobs with the word "graduate" but not the word "senior" in either the job title or the job description (advanced search only)