Sourcing by market · Asia-Pacific
Boolean Search Strings for Hiring in Australia
SEEK is effectively the national resume database in Australia and New Zealand, with LinkedIn covering senior and international-search roles that never reach the board.
Category Manager — 6+ years category management, MBA Retail.
Category management, visual merchandising, inventory operations.
JDA Software or SAP Retail. Bengaluru.
("Category Manager" OR "Senior Category Manager" OR Buyer OR "Merchandising Manager") AND ("Category Management" OR "Visual Merchandising" OR "Inventory Operations" OR "Customer Experience") AND "Sydney"
site:linkedin.com/in/ ("Category Manager" OR "Senior Category Manager" OR Buyer OR "Merchandising Manager") AND ("Category Management" OR "Visual Merchandising" OR "Inventory Operations" OR "Customer Experience") AND "Sydney"
Location is set to Sydney, so these are this market's strings — paste them as-is or swap the location term. The workspace rewrites them for all six dialects from your live JD.
Platforms recruiters use in Australia
The strings above are the three dialects that can be generated deterministically. Which box each one goes into is decided per platform, and the boards below are the ones this market actually runs on.
- SEEKDominant national board for AU/NZ.
- LinkedInSenior and international roles.
ATS Boolean
Workday · SmartRecruiters · Taleo · Greenhouse · most board searches
LinkedIn X-Ray
Google, targeting site:linkedin.com/in/
What changes when you hire in Australia
- "Manager" is a wider band in Australia than in the US or UK — add a seniority term or a years-of-experience filter rather than relying on the title alone.
- Sydney and Melbourne hold most head-office roles; the mining and resources market runs on different titles entirely.
Hiring in Australia FAQs
Which job boards do recruiters use in Australia?
SEEK (Dominant national board for AU/NZ.); LinkedIn (Senior and international roles.). Paste the ATS string into the keyword box of any board that runs on standard Boolean; platform-specific dialects — Indeed's title filter, Bing X-Ray and public-CV X-Ray — are generated from your live JD in the workspace.
How do I write a Boolean search string for a Category Manager in Sydney?
Start from the ATS string above: alternate titles in one parenthesized OR group, core skills in a second, credentials in a third, and the location group last. It happens to be Sydney here, so the same position works for any other city — swap the location term rather than rewriting the string. Keep operators uppercase, quote every multi-word phrase, and never nest more than two levels deep.
Can I search in English in Australia?
Yes — Australia hires in English, which is why the strings above work as written. Add the local job title you actually see in postings if results come back thin, but you do not need a separate language search here.
Roles worth searching for in Australia
Category Manager
Store Managers · strings for this role →
Sales Manager
Sales · strings for this role →
Contracts Manager
Legal · strings for this role →
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