Saturday 25 April 2009

Searching the web for potential employees

Using Google to deep search for potential employees seems like a reasonable place to start looking at Internet research techniques. Try the two following search strings on you google page:

~"software engineer" + "Los Angeles" -inurl:job inurl:cv resume

unemployed + "los angeles" + "software engineer" site:linkedin.com -inurl:/dir/ /companies/

~ - the operator for like/related/similar
- the operator for OR
inurl: - field for the information in the actual url address
intitle: - field for the information in actual title of the page
site: - lets you limit the search to a particular site
- - the operator for not (as applied to inurl, intitle, site)


So let's look the strings again:

~"software engineer" + "Los Angeles" -inurl:job inurl:cv resume

Ok, so I'm looking for someone who would identify themselves as something similar to a Software Engineer in Los Angeles who has the sense to use "CV" or "resume" in the url. The "-inurl:job" ensures we don't get all the job adverts for our search terms.

unemployed + "los angeles" + "software engineer" site:linkedin.com -inurl:/dir/ /companies/

This string indicates that I'm looking for someone unemployed in Los Angeles.... on the linkedin.com site.

the "-inurl:/dir/ /companies/" ensures I don't get results pointing to LinkedIn's directory or company profile pages.

Once you get the hang of this, you can construct quite elaborate search strings which will keep your results to less than 1,000.

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