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Advanced search Strings + Innovative Uses of Special Commands = Better Sourcing Results! to eliminate a term from your results, precede with - (single dash) 2+ word phrases, surround with quotation marks or add a period or asterisk between (i.e.: business.analyst is the same as "business analyst" TYPE of search Find Resumes Using Google COPY and PASTE EVERYTHING INTO site INDICATED REPLACE UN

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Cheatsheet Sampler

Advanced search Strings + Innovative Uses of Special Commands = Better Sourcing Results! to eliminate a term from your results, precede with - (single dash) 2+ word phrases, surround with quotation marks or add a period or asterisk between (i.e.: business.analyst is the same as "business analyst" TYPE of search Find Resumes Using Google COPY and PASTE EVERYTHING INTO site INDICATED REPLACE UN

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A Recruiter’s Advanced Cheat Sheet Sampler

Advanced Search Strings + Innovative Uses of Special Commands = Better Sourcing Results!

! Instead of the Boolean OR between two choices, use pipe character above the Enter key. Example: (me | my)
! To eliminate a term from your results, precede with - (single dash), which is the NOT Boolean, and no space after the dash
! 2+ word phrases, surround with quotation marks or add a period or asterisk between (i.e.: business.analyst is the same as "business analyst")

TYPE OF COPY AND PASTE EVERYTHING INTO SITE INDICATED


SEARCH REPLACE UNDERLINED TERMS WITH YOUR OWN.
Find Resumes KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 KEYWORD3 (inurl:~resume | intitle:~resume)
Using Google KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 KEYWORD3 ~resume (me | my) -~job
KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 KEYWORD3 (ext:pdf | ext:doc | ext:rtf) ~resume -~jobs
KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 (~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ) -intitle:~job -intitle:~jobs
[Append a zip code number range to any of the above and instantly localize your search results.
Example: ASIC Embedded (inurl:resume | intitle:resume) 30002..31999 returns only results in GA]
Find Resumes inbody:resume KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 KEYWORD3 -job -jobs -send -submit -you
Using Live.com
Find Mailing KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 archive (inurl:list | inurl:mail | intitle:list | intitle:mail)
List Archives
Find Association ASSOCIATIONNAME (directory | contact | list) (inurl:member | intitle:member)
Member List
LinkedIn Hack site:www.linkedin.com intitle:linkedin KEYWORDS -intitle:answers -intitle:updated -intitle:directory
MySpace Hack KEYWORDS ~cv site:myspace.com (CityName | AreaCode1 | AreaCode2) ST
(works on Google) Ex: software (engineer OR developer) ~cv site:myspace.com (Atlanta | 404 | 678) “, GA” -intitle:jobs
JigSaw Hack site:jigsaw.com intitle:in.jigsaw's COMPANYNAME -intitle:from -intitle:contacts
Resumes on Blogs KEYWORDS resume (me OR my) (inurl:blog OR intitle:blog OR inurl:weblog OR intitle:weblog)
Find People ("I worked on" OR "I work on" OR "my team" OR "our team") KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2
by Pronouns The more generic the term, the more useful to combine company with product/project name

Ongoing Results from Google searches


! If you are searching Google Blogsearch, you can create an RSS feed for ongoing results instead. Select
"RSS" link near top left of the search results then follow "Blog Subscription Tips" box above.
! If you are searching Google groups (newsgroups/Usenet) or the main Google web search, use their Alerts
(RSS is not involved): Go to www.google.com/alerts and paste your full search string in the Keywords
box. Enter the email address where you want to receive new matching results on an ongoing basis.
From the select menu, whether you want it to search the Web, groups, etc., or all. Choose how often
you wish to receive results in the other select menu. You can set as many alerts as desired, and edit or
remove them at any time.
Ongoing Results from Live.com searches
! If you have Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (recommended for this; free download at
www.microsoft.com/ie): When viewing search results, click the orange RSS button in your MSIE toolbar.
The page will change, then click “Subscribe to this feed”. It will prompt you to save it (name & folder
location can be changed). Feeds appear under the tab next to Favorites near top left of browser.

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