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⌛ Using Filtering and Excludes
Mariia Heshka avatar
Written by Mariia Heshka
Updated over 11 months ago

❓ How can I filter out irrelevant jobs?

GigRadar makes it easy for you to filter out irrelevant jobs from your scanner job results. You can use the following techniques to tailor your scanner job search to find the most relevant opportunities for you.

  1. 👀 Preview results of past jobs and determine what specific keywords or parameters are making the job results unsuitable for you. To learn how to preview results, expand the Preview Results section below.
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  2. 🔍 You can then use the scanner’s Advanced Search Options feature to exclude the specific keywords or parameters that you have determined from previewing the results. To learn how to exclude keywords, expand the Advanced Search Options section below.
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  3. 💼 Select the right job category that best aligns with your skills and interests. Not selecting a category or selecting an incorrect category can result in irrelevant job results. To learn how to select job categories, expand the Job category section below.
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    ​💡 Example:

    ​If you are looking for Web Development jobs, but have not selected a category, then you may see jobs results that are not relevant to Web Development, such as “tech writer for web development project” jobs.

👀 Preview Results

To Preview Results:

  1. Log in to your GigRadar.io account.
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  2. From the top menu, click the Scanners tab.
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  3. From the My Scanners list, select the scanner that is providing irrelevant job results. This opens the scanner information and by default displays the Preview Results tab.
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  4. Look at the job results in the Preview Results tab. Check each job and pick out the keywords from the irrelevant jobs. GigRadar recommends that go through at least 10 pages of Preview Results.

    ​💡 Example:

    ​If you are looking for jobs in UX/UI design, but you don't work with WordPress, such jobs would be irrelevant to you. In this case, WordPress is the keyword that you may want to exclude from your search results.

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🔍 Advanced Search Option

After you have previewed the results and picked out the keywords from the irrelevant jobs, you can use the Advanced Search Options to filter you the results as follows:

  1. Click the Advanced filter located below your scanner name.
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  2. In the Advanced Search Options dialog box that opens, you can do all or any of the following:
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    1. Only Search Titles: Select this checkbox if you want the scanner to exclude the keywords from job titles. If you select this checkbox, you must also select the Also search on Skills checkbox.
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    2. Exclude all of these words: Enter the keywords that you want to exclude. You can use a comma-separated list of keywords.
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💼 Job category


To select the right job category:

  1. Click the Job Category filter located below your scanner name.
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  2. In the Select job categories dialog box that opens, select the job categories that you want to include in your search results.
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✏️ Tip:
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After you have excluded keywords from your search results and updated the job categories, you can once again Preview Results to verify if the scanner is generating relevant search results.

🎯 If I write "only freelancer" in the Exclude all of these words filter, will the scanner skip jobs with "freelancer only"?

No, GigRadar does an exact keyword match and does not look for its variations, unless you have specified the possible variations as keywords.
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Which means that if you have entered the keyword “only freelancer” in double quotes, the scanner will only exclude jobs that have the exact words “only freelancer” mentioned in the title/description/skills and will not exclude jobs that have “freelancer” or “freelancers” mentioned.
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GigRadar recommends that you provide different variations of how this keyword might be written by a client.
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​💡 Example:

“only freelancer” could be written as:
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”only freelancer” ”only freelancers” ”freelancer only” ”freelancers only”

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✏️ Tips for keywords:

  • Enclose keywords in double quotation marks (””). This way, the entire phrase specified within the quotes will be excluded.

  • You may include special characters, such as “-” and “/”.

🤔 How can I exclude multi-word terms, such as "Email marketing," especially considering the various ways this phrase might be presented?

GigRadar does an exact keyword match and does not look for its variations, unless you have specified the possible variations as keywords.
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Which means that if you have entered the keyword “Email marketing” in double quotes, the scanner will only exclude jobs that have the exact words “Email marketing” mentioned in the title/description/skills and will not exclude jobs that have “Email-marketing” or “e-mail marketing”.
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GigRadar recommends that you provide different variations of how this keyword might be written by a client. For more information about Search Syntax, see GigRadar Search Syntax: Query Operators for Optimized Job Searches.
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​💡 Example:

“Email marketing” could be written as:
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"e-mail marketing", "email marketing", "email - marketing only".

✏️ Tips for keywords:

  • Enclose keywords in double quotation marks (””). This way, the entire phrase specified within the quotes will be excluded.

  • You may include special characters, such as “-” and “/”.
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⏳ How can I filter out non-English job posts on GigRadar?


You can exclude commonly occurring words in job descriptions on Upwork.


💡 Example:

​Erfahrung, Fähigkeiten, Vertrag, Anforderungen

To find these words, you can simply ask ChatGPT to generate the most common words in the job descriptions on Upwork.

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