Matt Grove - Sourcing Round Table - Talent42 2015

Finding Passive Candidates By Targeting Filetypes Talent42 Sourcing Roundtable ■ June 910, 2015 5 TIPS FOR SEARCHING ON FILETYPE: 1 2 3 4 5 Contact Information Recruiting Toolbox, Inc. www.recruitingtoolbox.com Matt Grove Principal [email protected] If we search for resumes in a search engine, we can narrow our results to only those types of files that are common resume formats. Common file types for resume are: PDF, DOC, DOCX, HTML, HTM, and PHP. We can also search for attendee lists for conferences, events, and meetings of talented tech people. “software development” attendees (intitle:directory OR inurl:directory OR intitle:list OR inurl:list OR intitle:roster OR inurl:roster) @microsoft.com Attendee and member lists are very often saved in Excel, we can use a search string with a command to specifically target Excel files like in this sample: filetype:xls (attendees OR members OR participants) (roster OR list) Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Search for content by doing an image search in your favorite browser. Image searches are simple and quick. Use some quick keywords and adjust a setting to only show pictures of faces – that way you get real people. There’s even a handy Chrome extension from Google or a reverse image search by TinEye. If you want to find out more about attendees at conferences and events, be sure to use sites like Meetup.com and Lanyrd.com to see who is attending and speaking all kinds of conferences worldwide. You can also use sites like CardBrowser.com, if you don’t mind paying for the information.

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Finding Passive Candidates By Targeting Filetypes Talent42 Sourcing Roundtable ■ June 9-‐10, 2015

5 TIPS FOR SEARCHING ON FILETYPE:

5 Contact Information

Recruiting Toolbox, Inc. www.recruitingtoolbox.com

Matt Grove Principal [email protected]

If we search for resumes in a search engine, we can narrow our results to only those types of files that are common resume formats. Common file types for resume are: PDF, DOC, DOCX, HTML, HTM, and PHP.

We can also search for attendee lists for conferences, events, and meetings of talented tech people. “software development” attendees (intitle:directory OR inurl:directory OR intitle:list OR inurl:list OR intitle:roster OR inurl:roster) @microsoft.com

Attendee and member lists are very often saved in Excel, we can use a search string with a command to specifically target Excel files like in this sample: filetype:xls (attendees OR members OR participants) (roster OR list) Keyword 1 Keyword 2

Search for content by doing an image search in your favorite browser. Image searches are simple and quick. Use some quick keywords and adjust a setting to only show pictures of faces – that way you get real people. There’s even a handy Chrome extension from Google or a reverse image search by TinEye.

If you want to find out more about attendees at conferences and events, be sure to use sites like Meetup.com and Lanyrd.com to see who is attending and speaking all kinds of conferences worldwide. You can also use sites like CardBrowser.com, if you don’t mind paying for the information.