Recruiter's Essential Tips

Source: eGrabber Newsletter If you are looking to gather information on passive candidates belonging to a particular company, then you will find the 'site' command useful. The 'site' command restricts your search results to a particular domain. The Google syntax for a 'site' command is site:xyz.com "keyword" For example, if you are looking for the mention of a software engineer on Cisco's website, the search string will be as follows site:cisco.com "software engineer" The 'site' command is a universal command and can be used with Yahoo! and Live Search as well. You can use this search string to look for company specific passive candidates.

Source: eGrabber Newsletter Search engines support a number of advanced search features that make your job of searching resumes much easier. These features are usually used along with simple operators. Every web page has a title, given by the web page developer, that often contains the word 'resume' if the page happens to be a resume type document. Now, if you are looking for resumes of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), your search string in Google will be: intitle:resume cpa This simple search string will only display resumes with the word CPA in the resume text. You can replace the keyword at the end of the string to look for other resumes of interest to you.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters "Anchor" is an HTML tag used by developers to create web pages basically for two purposes. One is to create a link to another document and the other is to create a bookmark inside a document. You can use this tag to locate resumes on the Internet as Google and a few other search engines allow you to search the web page for this tag. This is surely a lesser-known and under-utilized method but can be very productive. Using it is simple. Type this search string in the Google text box: anchor:"view resumes" Click the search key and you will get a list of many pages that have a link or button that says "view resumes". Some of the resume pages will require passwords but many won't as there are many free resumes sites on the Internet. You can add a keyword or two at the end of the string to look for resumes of interest to you.

Source: eGrabber Newsletters When you run a search in Google, you will notice the “Cached” and “Similar Pages” links at the end of each search result. Google is always saving copies of new pages it visits so if that page disappears, you will still be able to view it in the “Cached” link. You may not see this link for some search results and that is because the owner of the web site may have requested Google not to cache the page or the page was not indexed in the first place. The “Similar Pages” link will give you links to other web sites that are relevant to your search. Say, you are looking for engineers in the Bay Area with a Memory Flash background and living in the 408 area code. Your search string would look like this: (intitle:resume | inurl:resume) "flash memory" 408 You will see a number of search results and when you click the “Similar Pages” link, it will give you additional names, websites and associations of potential candidates. Give it a try to increase your pr

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Many recruiters use Google to search for resumes, and there are a few “Google extras” that could come handy. date: is used with keywords searches for related documents within a recent date range. date: hurricanes 3 searches for documents on hurricanes posted within the last three months Safesearch: is used with keywords searches for documents, but excludes adult sites. safesearch: movies returns results about movies but leaves out the adult movie sites. Q&A - Type your question into the search box and your answer will be at the top of the box. Typing Population of USA returns the answer 295,734,134. To get the weather in St. Louis, MO, type Weather St. Louis, MO Currency Conversions - ­Type in 5 USD in GBP and you get the answer, 5 U.S. dollars = 2.83221933 British pounds.

Here is a lesser known and under utilized search method you can use when searching for resumes using Google. You can even narrow down your search to zip codes. Let’s say you want to search for resumes in the St. Louis, Missouri area. Type the following string in Google. (resume | homepage) 63000..63199 You can provide a zip code range separated by 2 dots and no spaces in between the two numbers. This technique is not entirely foolproof, as many people do not put their home addresses on their Internet resumes. You would normally try this search, but run a second search using a combination of State and area code information. Source: eGrabber Newsletters

Source: eGrabber Newsletters Have you used the “anchor” tag in a search engine search string? It is an easy way to get lots of free resumes. This works well in Google, but may work in other search engines as well. Everyone knows that you can search for Internet resumes by looking for “resume words” in the titles and URLs of web pages. Another method is to search for words or phrases that are hyperlinked. Assuming that many resume sites use the term “view resumes” to access their resume database, try this: 1. Go to www.google.com. 2. Click the blue link to the Advanced Search page. 3. Type view resumes (without quotes) into the field that says “with the exact phrase”. 4. Scroll down to “Occurrences” and select “in links to the page”. 5. Click the “Google Search” button. This will result in thousands of hits with some interesting looking results on page one. Click on the first hit, corrosionjobs.com, a site that specializes in people in the corrosion industry. Select Engineering and hit