One of the fairly persistent complaints I have heard from non-recruiters about what recruiters do is "You only match buzzwords and keywords. Even a monkey can do that.  You are a talentless fool who could only make a living being a parasite off of gainfully employed people."

Of course, this is a complete fallacy, which we all know.  Firstly, as someone who actually studied Boolean Logic as a Philosophy major at Princeton University (which was the World's highest-rated academic department, at that time), I can tell you that Boolean search involves as many mental gymnastics as a game of expert-level chess.  

I also studied more Advanced Logic, like Goedel's Proof, and frankly, I think that Goedel's Proof of "Incompleteness" is one of the most brilliant ideas ever applied to Search and Recruiting, itself.  There are searches that can never be completed, and recruiters need to understand that, while adopting practical approaches that will still allow them to identify valuable candidates rapidly.

Aside from these obvious aspects of Logic that are highly relevant to Search and Recruiting, a key point I want to make about Boolean logic is that it is ALL about forming associations between words and permutations of words, combinations of words etc.  The cells in the brain that are responsible for this kind of activity (i.e. forming associations) are called glial cells, and are quite relevant to the subject of Intelligence itself.

For example, when Albert Einstein died, he donated his brain to science, and it was sliced up and stored, and examined microscopically.  One of the most remarkable things about Einstein's brain that was discovered was the fact that he had 8 times as many glial cells in his brain as a normal human.  

This fact is very pleasant to know, for those of us who use our glial cells professionally everyday, while employing Boolean search techniques.  It also is a fact which should perhaps be mentioned to those who scoff at the skills that recruiters have honed over so many years.

I mostly work with top-level PhDs, scientists and engineers, and I really enjoy the mental stimulation, as well as find it easiest to work with intellectual peers.  Chances are, if someone is insulting you for being highly skilled at 'buzzword' recognition, they may not be truly as intelligent as you are, even if they have mastered certain recondite skills that you are searching for.  

Reality says that people who have self-esteem don't go around insulting other people for doing their work -- and maybe those who choose to be critical are actually a little jealous of your glial cells getting a better work-out than theirs on a daily basis.