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Your request decides how the search runs. Revcenter reads it, and the plan opens with the approach it chose, in plain words, and the exact pieces it will ask for before anything is spent. If the approach is not what you meant, edit your request and submit it again: a changed request is read again, and the same request always gives the same plan. Every approach also takes the filters in the last section, and every approach is followed by the same reading and scoring of each profile. See Writing a search for how to phrase each part.

Titles in a place

Example: “Construction Project Managers in Chicago, 5 to 10 years.” Asks for: the titles you named (or the role’s title and closest synonyms) in that place. Use it when the job title says what the job is. It is the default and finds the most people. Limits: a bare title such as “Project Manager” is not searched on its own beside a qualified one such as “Construction Project Manager”, because it would match every project manager anywhere.

Boolean titles in a place

Example: ("Project Manager" OR "Construction Manager") AND ("Data Center" OR "Mission Critical") NOT Assistant, in Chicago. Asks for: that expression on current titles, exactly as you wrote it, in that place. Write it in the request (on its own line or after “Titles:”) or in the plan’s Title rule field. When you write none, the plan may draft one from the role’s titles and its field for you to keep, change or clear. Use it when the specialty appears in people’s titles. It is precise: in one Chicago search, this kind of expression found 24 people, 23 of them exactly right, where a plain list of titles matched about 14,000. Limits:
  • Each search query holds at most 12 phrases and 245 characters. A long list of titles joined by OR is split into several queries automatically, and a person found by two of them is counted once. A rule that cannot fit even with one title is refused in the plan, with a message, before anything is spent.
  • It only finds what is in the title. When the specialty is not in titles (a Quality Manager at an injection-molding plant), use named employers or the current employer’s industry instead.
  • NOT removes titles that contain the words you name, so name the words actually in the titles you do not want: for an Operations Manager, NOT (Revenue OR Marketing OR IT OR Legal).

Profile keywords

Example: Keywords: "data center" AND (construction OR "mission critical"), with the title Project Manager, in Chicago. Asks for: that expression on the whole profile (experience, summary, skills), as you wrote it, alongside any of the other approaches. Write it on a line starting “Keywords:” or in the plan’s Profile keywords field. Use it when the specialty lives in people’s experience rather than their titles. A title rule is precision; a profile keyword rule is reach. In one Chicago search, adding this rule to the title Project Manager found several times as many people as the title rule alone, including senior project managers at builders whose titles never say “data center”. Combine both for niche roles. Limits: at most 12 phrases and 245 characters, and use OR rather than commas. A rule over the limit is refused in the plan before anything is spent.

Titles at named employers

Example: “Engagement managers in Boston, only McKinsey, BCG and Bain.” Asks for: the titles at those companies now, in that place. With only a few companies, the titles are widened to the role’s broad word (for example “Manager”), because the exact title at one firm is often a handful of people; reading and scoring then narrow to the role. Use it when the client wants people from specific companies. Words like “only at”, “currently at” and “now at” mean working there now; “not from”, “excluding” and “except” leave a company’s current staff out. Limits: each name is matched to the company itself, and the plan shows what it matched. A name that matches no company is shown as not found and will not filter; fix the spelling or remove it. A broad title word can let in nearby titles (“Principal” can match “Principal AI Engineer”), so add NOT terms for the titles you do not want.

People who worked at named employers

Example: “Ex-MBB, now VP Strategy in New York.” Asks for: people who worked at those companies before (with “worked at” or “from”, before or now), with the titles and place you named. Use it when the background matters more than the current employer: alumni of a firm, people who trained at a competitor. “Ex-”, “formerly at”, “previously at” and “alumni of” mean worked there before.

Everyone at named companies

Example: “Everyone at Bain & Company in Boston, director level.” Asks for: the companies and the place, with no title filter, plus any filters you add (level, function). Use it when you want a team or an org chart rather than one role. Add a level or function to keep it focused. Limits: without a title, the list is as wide as the company is large; the credit cap still applies.

Filters on any approach

Any of the approaches above can also be narrowed, before anything is spent, by:
  • level (“director or VP”, searched with one level either side)
  • job function (“project management function”, “not sales”)
  • the current employer’s industry (“currently in construction”)
  • employer size (“200 to 5,000 employees”)
  • years of experience when it is a must have (“at least 8 years”)
  • time in the current company, or a recent job change
  • past titles, schools, and the language the profile is written in