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• Consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within a matching job (e.g. system engineer is a phrase).
• Queries are case-insensitive (e.g. CPA equals to cpa).
• You can search for any words except for those normally ignored during a search (e.g. you, am, for, a and other common words).
• Words in the ignored list are treated as placeholders during a search.
• Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,) are ignored during a search
• The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given prefix (e.g. prog* matches the terms program, programmer, programming and so on).
• You can insert Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) to create a more precise query.
• Use parenthesis to nest expressions within a query. The expressions in parentheses are evaluated before the rest of the query.
• The AND operator has a higher precedence than OR. For example, the first two queries are equal, but the third is not:
  a AND b OR c
  c OR a AND b
  c OR (a AND b)
• The NOT operator can be used only after an AND operator (e.g. programmer AND NOT mainframe).