Boolean Searches

8/3/2019 Boolean Searches

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Mastering search engines Boolean

searches


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If I were to ask you, What is the VERY first thing

you need to begin an online search for acandidate?

A) A Job Description

B) A meeting with the hiring manager to discuss theparameters of opportunity

C) Basic knowledge on how to research resumes andleads online

D) Time to perform the search


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Search engines what is it?

Search Engine = Information

Billions of Pages = Resources = Sourcing

Sourcing= Recruiting


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Stop Words

All search enginesignore "stop" ornoise words

because they haveminimal informationalvalue and are foundso commonly in all

language.


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Keyword Quick Tips

Put your most important keywords first in thestring.

Most search engines are insensitive to whetheryou use upper, lower, or mixed cases in your

search.Start with basic search and keep filteringKeep trying different ways to write the keyword


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Basic Google Operators

AND (JUST A SPACE IN GOOGLE)OR = |

NOT = -

()

~ Tilde (or synonyms)

* WILD CARD


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Comparing Search Engines

Search Engine GOOGLE YAHOO LIVE / MSN

Boolean Logic -, OR AND, OR,NOT,

( ), -

AND, OR, NOT,( ), -

Fields intitle,inurl, site,more

intitle,inurl, site,more

intitle, site, loc, url

Specials Asterisk *

tilde ~

Use ofstop

word

instead of*

| - Pipe


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Lets see an example on how to go about it

Chartered Accountant (intitle: resume | inurl: resume)

Chartered Accountant (intitle: resume | inurl: resume)

submitopeningstemplatetipssubmissionsamplesexamples

Chartered Accountant (India) (intitle: resume | inurl:

resume)submitopeningstemplatetipssubmission samplesexamples


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Specific file types

Narrow your search by looking for specific file types:Good for weeding out HTML files, and job postings.

Word = Doc

PDF = PDF

PPT = PowerPoint XLS = Excel TXT = Text RTF = Rich Text Format

(intitle:resume | inurl:resume | intitle:cv | inurl:cv |intitle:vitae | inurl:vitae) ("sap hro" | sap. payroll)filetype:doc (India) -jobs -job


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Adding a minus sign in front of certain keywords in yoursearch will reduce searchengine noise.

Here are few list that may be used during the booleanstrings:

Apply , submit , Openings , templates , sample , example ,careers , post , reply , search , jobs , tips etc

SYNTAX (for YAHOO)

Linkdomain this finds the pages that links anywhere on aparticular domain (and not just the homepage)

Eg: linkdomain: ibm.com intitle: resume C++Region this allows you to target your searches tospecific geographic areas

Eg:region: asia intitle: resume C++ apply jobs


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X-raying Linkedin on Google

Any profile data that:cannot be searched inside LinkedInis available on the openwebWhich can be searched using Google.

Few examples:

site:www.linkedin.com location * Mumbai area java sql

We can search for people who have worked at their

current job for 2-10 years:

site:www.linkedin.com F&A (india) present 10..20 years
http://bit.ly/q4OuQ1http://bit.ly/q4OuQ1


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people who have worked at two (or more) givencompanies:

site:www.linkedin.com at google atfacebook marketing manager (india)

people who stopped working in 2011:

site:www.linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub productmanager 2011 * years OR months (india) -present -inurl:dir

Easiest way to get profiles from the X-ray method:

[inurl:linkedin.com{SCM}]


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Other Ways

X-raying Google+ profiles on Google

Yahoo Groups

Groups and associations pertaining to the specific skill

set, that is available on webPlease follow Jim Stroud on LI, FB, Twitter for constantupdates on web research


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Happy researching/recruiting

thank you

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