Free Boolean Search Generator for Jobs and LinkedIn
Turn a job title, skills, and location into ready-to-paste Google X-ray and LinkedIn Boolean searches that find jobs on company career sites.
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Many companies post jobs on their own careers site long before, or instead of, the big job boards. Those listings live on hiring systems such as Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, and Google can search inside them if you know how to ask.
That's what a Boolean search does. Our free Boolean search generator writes these searches for you, so you don't have to remember the syntax.
What is a Boolean search?
A Boolean search combines keywords with a few simple operators:
OR accepts any of several terms: "backend engineer" OR "backend developer" finds both titles.
Quotation marks keep a phrase together, so "product designer" doesn't match pages that only mention "product" and "designer" separately.
A minus sign (or NOT on LinkedIn) removes results containing a word, such as -intern.
Brackets group terms, so the OR only applies to the words inside them.
What is X-ray searching?
X-ray searching uses Google's site: operator to search inside one website. For example, site:jobs.lever.co only returns pages from Lever, the job system many companies use for their careers pages. Combine it with a Boolean search and you can search thousands of company job boards at once.
How to use the Boolean search generator
Step 1: Describe the job you want
Fill in the job titles you'd accept, your must-have and nice-to-have skills, and where you want to work. You can also add a company, words to exclude, and choose which job boards to search.
A few tips:
Use two or three title variations. Companies name the same job differently.
Keep must-have skills short. Every one of them has to appear, so each extra skill shrinks your results.
Put flexible skills in nice-to-have. At least one of these needs to appear.
Step 2: Copy your job board search
The first search finds open jobs on the company career boards you picked. Click Search Google to run it, or Copy to paste it somewhere else.
Google ignores words after the first 32 in a search. If your search gets too long, the tool warns you so you can trim it.
Step 3: Find people on LinkedIn
The tool also writes two people searches. One finds public LinkedIn profiles through Google. The other is written for LinkedIn's own search bar, which uses AND, OR, and NOT instead of site: and minus signs.
Use these to find people already doing the job you want. They're great for referrals, for learning which skills matter, and for finding the hiring team. If you want to go straight to the recruiter or manager for a specific job, try our hiring manager finder.
Tips for better results
Start broad, then narrow. Begin with titles and location, then add skills one at a time.
Filter by date. In Google, open Tools and choose Past week to only see fresh listings.
Check before you apply. Job pages can stay in Google's index after a role closes. Paste the link into our ghost job checker to see if it's still open.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Boolean search generator free?
Yes. It's free, needs no account, and everything runs in your browser.
Does Boolean search work on LinkedIn?
Yes. LinkedIn's search bar supports AND, OR, and NOT in capital letters, plus quotation marks and brackets. It doesn't support site: or the minus sign, which is why the tool writes a separate LinkedIn version.
Why search company career boards instead of job sites?
Job sites often copy listings from company career boards, sometimes days later, and don't always remove them when the job closes. Going to the source means fresher listings and fewer dead links.
Let JobBloom do the searching
Prefer not to write searches at all? JobBloom searches these company career boards for you, removes closed listings, and ranks the open roles that match what you describe. Try it free.