Keyword Help

Keywords enable you to search for words and phrases that appear in jobs posted on reed.co.uk. Keywords can be used alone or in combination with other search criteria to provide more accurate results.

Keywords can include skills and qualifications (e.g. shorthand, HTML), professional experience (e.g. "project management") and job titles (e.g. "account director").

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 ‘in title only’ is particularly helpful if you are looking for a role with a specific title (e.g. solicitor).

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

The words AND, OR and NOT enable you to search for combinations of keywords. You can also search for variations of the same word by adding an asterisk to it.

Here are some examples:

Example 1

  • Keyword(s): internet
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the word 'internet' in either the job title or the job description

Example 2

  • Keyword(s): optician
  • 'In title only'
  • Finds jobs with the word 'optician' in the job title

Example 3

  • Keyword(s): "financial analyst"
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the phrase 'financial analyst' in either the job title or the job description

Example 4

  • Keyword(s): magazine AND editorial
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the words 'magazine' and 'editorial' in either the job title or the job description

Example 5

  • Keyword(s): "new media" OR internet
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the phrase 'new media' or the word 'internet' in either the job title or the job description

Example 6

  • Keyword(s): cashier NOT clerk
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the word 'cashier' but not the word 'clerk' in either the job title or the job description

Example 7

  • Keyword(s): account*
  • 'In title and description'
  • Finds jobs with the any words beginning 'account' in either the job title or the job description (e.g. accounts, accountant, accounting)

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