Advanced Search Syntax with GitHub search

As with Public Profile search, SeekOut supports a wide range of field-specific search capabilities in GitHub candidate search.

As with Public Profile search, SeekOut supports a wide range of field-specific search capabilities in GitHub candidate search.

To find words in a specific part of the candidate's profile, use the structure fieldname:searchterm

cur_title:architect

This finds anyone with architect somewhere in their title. 

Boolean operators can be used with these field searches:

grad_year:2020 AND cur_title:("business analyst" OR engineer)

This finds anyone who graduated college in 2020 and has a current title containing "business analyst" or "engineer."

You can also use wildcard operators in field searches:

cur_title:arch*

This finds anyone whose current title includes a word starting with "arch" (e.g., architect, archer, etc.)

Field Name Operators

Here are the fields you can use to search within the keyword box in Github Search:

  • full_name

  • locations

  • skills

  • industry

  • summary

  • cur_company

  • cur_title

  • cur_job_desc

  • past_companies

  • past_titles

  • schools

  • majors

  • degrees

  • grad_year

  • contrib_repos

  • diversity

  • topics

  • personal_repos

  • websites