Altamira Recruiting includes a sophisticated engine that extracts the text of uploaded documents and uses this for fast full text querying. This provides several advantages:

• Keyword searches can be syntax highlighted
• The text of the attachment can be displayed together with the structured fields
• Full-text searching can be performed drastically reducing the number of fields that candidates need to fill in as most of the important information will be in the attachment

When you type text in the search box or in a field in the Advanced search form, this text is analysed by the full text query interpreter. This allows you to create complex full text expressions using keywords. The following operators are: recognized by the text query interpreter:

The asterisk: using an asterisk after a search term will find texts containing words that begin with the search term. For example, searching for market* will find texts containing marketable, marketing and markets, but not supermarket, remarket

Quotation marks: using quotation marks to wrap a search term will find texts containing words that match the search term exactly. For example, searching for "market" will find texts containing market but not marketing and markets

The space: using a space between keywords will find texts containing all the indiv idual words. For example, searching for product manager will find texts containing product and manager

The comma: using a comma between keywords will find texts containing any of the indiv idual words. For example, searching for product,manager will find texts containing product or manager

The exclamation mark: using an exclamation mark in front of a search term will find texts not containing the search term. For example, searching for product!manager will find texts containing the term product that do not contain the text manager

The minus sign: using a minus sign between two search terms will find texts where the indiv idual words are near each other. For example, searching for product-manager will find texts containing product and manager where the two words are near each other

The parenthesis: using quotation marks to wrap a search term allows you to build more complex expressions combining multiple operators. For example, searching for (software developer),(software architect) will find texts containing software and developer or software and architect

Operators can be combined to form complex expressions. For example: "product" manager* will find texts containing the exact word product and any word beginning with manager and both must be present in the document.