How do I perform an advanced keyword search?

The AfterCollege job search supports the following operators:

+
A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in each job that is returned.

-
A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any of the jobs that are returned.

(no operator)
Same as a leading plus sign, this word must be present in each job that is returned..  This might seem counter-intuitive based on boolean standards, but pretty much all of our users are unaware of boolean search.  We’ve found it makes more sense to imply a leading plus sign when no operator is present.

*
The asterisk serves as the wildcard operator.

“
A phrase that is enclosed within double quote characters matches only rows that contain the phrase literally, as it was typed.

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use AfterCollege job search operators:

java programmer
Find jobs that contain both words.  The implied operator here is “and“, as in java and programmer.

+java +programmer
Find jobs that contain both words.  The implied operator here is “and“, as in java and programmer.

+java programmer
Find jobs that contain both words.  The implied operator here is “and“, as in java and programmer.

+java -programmer
Find jobs that contain the word “java” but not the word “programmer”.

apple*
Find jobs that contain words such as “apple”, “applet”, or “apples”.

“java programmer”
Find jobs that contain the exact phrase “java programmer”.