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Google search script to find Location-specific Profiles on Twitter

If you are looking for location-specific profiles on Twitter, then this Google search string will be handy. The Google syntax to search for Twitter profiles is: site:twitter.com Keyword (State) "City" -jobs For example, if you are looking for mechanical engineers in Dallas , TX , the search string to use on Google will be: site:twitter.com mechanical engineer (Texas OR TX) "Dallas" –jobs Try different variations of the above search string or replace the keyword with related terms to get the desired search results.

Fastest Way To Find Passive Candidates In the Internet

Resumes are everywhere on the Internet. But, if you are not a resume search expert, you will be hard-pressed in finding resumes of your choice. Simple search queries on search engines will return a number of unwanted and irrelevant results. Manually sorting resumes from search results can be a tedious and distracting task. This is where a resume search software such as ResumeGrabber Suite can help you to instantly find passive candidates on the Internet. ResumeGrabber Suite has 100+ expert boolean search strings that enable you to search qualified resumes from the Internet.  ResumeGrabber Suite helps you to: Source and parse resumes from search engines, social & professional networking sites, blogs, personal websites and portals, etc. Import passive candidate  resumes to the most popular databases such as PC Recruiter, BigBiller, ACT!, GoldMine, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, HR XML, etc. Screen candidates and perform candidate background check. All you need t

Passive Candidate Sourcing - Target the Right Talent

Any recruiter who is assigned with the task of finding the right fit for a job opening has to essentially put on the shoes of a treasure hunter. Yes! Recruiting the best candidate for every single assignment is no cakewalk. When it comes to sourcing, Internet is the river of life for recruiters. And the list of avenues where they hunt is numerous. From Social Networking profiles to Job Boards, the options are plenty and the resumes available are uncountable. But most times the best talent remains hidden and cannot be reached through traditional methods. The buzz of passive candidate sourcing has been hovering around the recruiting space for a while now and the most successful recruiters are the ones who have mastered this art. To be fair Boolean Search Experts have had the cherry so far when it comes to finding passive resumes. The simple reason being the major proportion of their sourcing results are passive candidate profiles. While their counter parts are held up with weedi

Network on Industry Sites and Broaden your Candidate Search

As recruiters, it is important that we become familiar with websites representing professional associations for positions that we recruit. For example an IT recruiter should be familiar with HDI (http://www.thinkhdi.com/), the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), Women in Technology International (WITI), etc. If you specialize in Enterprise Architects, then be on The Open Group for Enterprise Architecture Forum, etc. These sites provide valuable opportunities for broadening your reach in the business community and getting to know the group's members, many of whom will be qualified job candidates. Often these sites will also post job openings for a fee.

Source Location Specific LinkedIn Profiles

The site-search method in Google can help you locate profiles of passive candidates from various networking sites. The Google search syntax is site:(site name) (keyword) (state) For example, to search for LinkedIn profiles of Pharmacists from California, you can try the following search string in Google: site:www.linkedin.com (pharmacist) (CA) -inurl:directory By including this search method in your passive candidate sourcing process, you can easily build passive prospect lists from LinkedIn.

Leverage the power of search engines to source passive resumes

With the advent of Internet, search engines play a very vital role in sourcing passive candidates. The search engines indexes the profiles of both active and passive candidates that are available in various sources like job boards, social networking sites, etc. and thus it eases the search process, but the challenge is to screen only the resumes from other irrelevant data that are generally displayed with the search results. Though expert online recruiters use advanced search queries to eliminate unwanted data and fetch appropriate resumes, it takes a lot of time and effort to identify the skill set, structure the query, and customize and modify the search queries based on the search engines. Generating complicated search queries for various search criteria is definitely a Herculean task for the recruiters and they cannot afford to spend their valuable time on this time-consuming and tedious task on a regular basis. ResumeFinder is a complete recruiting solution that helps recruiters t

Passive Candidate Search Made Simple with ResumeFinder

I read lot of email tips and articles on recruiting passive candidates. I google the web sites they visit. I identify forums, discussion groups and social networks. But I'm not able to find out the best of talent pool for my Clients.Is there a way I could Zero in on the passive candidates without having to spend much time googling and networking? eGrabber ResumeFinder allows any recruiter, regardless of training or ability, to quickly locate the resumes of passive Internet candidates using the Google search engine. By simply entering a keyword or two you can see ResumeFinder go after those hard to find passive candidates for your tough assignments. Download ResumeFinder and Get the FREE trial license key of eGrabber ResumeFinder and the link to download Mark E. Berger's book to your email address. Download and use this fully functional software for three days or for 25 finds; whichever occurs earlier.

eGrabber to showcase Resume Sourcing Tool for Google at Onrec EXPO2007

San Jose, CA, Sep 13, 2007 - eGrabber Inc., the leading Silicon Valley-based provider of sales lead and resume data capture and processing solutions, announced its participation at the Onrec EXPO2007 to be held on September 18 /19 at San Francisco. At the show, eGrabber will showcase the latest addition to its portfolio of Recruiting solutions – ResumeFinder. ResumeFinder is specifically designed to help HR professionals quickly search for resumes using Google. Recruiting professionals can use, edit, save and even share ResumeFinders’s patent-pending search string scripts to unleash the full power of Google when searching for passive candidates. To search for passive candidates, recruiters no longer need to be experts in Google’s advanced search commands. Instead they can now enter only the desired resume keywords, and ResumeFinder then programs Google with all the appropriate search strings to find only relevant resumes. “Today, finding passive candidates on Google requires recruiters