The Workstudy database allows you to do complicated keyword searches such as:

This would find all of the jobs that mention "office" but that don't mention "typing". Using parentheses, you can make your searches arbitrarily complex. For example:

This would find all of the jobs which contain the word "office" and either the word "typing" or the word "wordprocessing", and would also return all of the jobs that contained both the words "drawing" and "design". Also note that you can put a string of words in quotation marks:

This will search for those jobs that have the literal string "drawing and design" in their descriptions. Any time you want to search for the words "and", "or", or "not", you must put them in quotation marks. This is also the only way to search for strings of words:

This will find wordprocessing regardless of whether it is spelled as one word or two.

For convenience, the symbols "," and "|" (that's a vertical bar, which is shift-\ on most keyboards) are synonymous with "or", the symbols "&" and "+" are synonymous with "and", and the symbols "!" and "-" are synonymous with "not". So the first two examples could be written as:

Be aware that the search will fail if the search engine can't make sense of your keyword expression. For example, the following non-sensical requests won't find anything: