Find Candidates You Can’t Find on Job Boards
If Internet recruiting feels like finding a needle in a haystack, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s a series of articles where we share our secrets for finding passive job candidates online.
Topics: Mining Google and LinkedIn for passive candidates, Boolean search techniques and more.
Get the Boolean Search Ebook for Recruiters
A popular ebook written by one of Stafflink’s top IT recruiters. You’ll see real life examples of actual Boolean search strings that our recruiters use to source difficult-to-find job candidates. You can easily modify these search strings for your own searches…
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Get more out of LinkedIn with Google Site Search
An explanation of Google Site Search. Discover a search string that allows you to search through one website at a time to reveal candidates that may not be accessible through the site’s own search feature. Includes three tips to get even more out of your site searches…
Boolean Search Tips: On the Hunt for IT Candidates
When it comes to technology recruiting the best candidates aren’t easily found. Locate great candidates using the “inurl” Search Syntax. This tells Google and other major search engines to only return pages with a particular word, like “resume” or “cv” for instance, in in the website address…
Tip me Tuesday: Boolean Search Strings Part 2
The Search Syntax “filetype” allows you to identify the type of file you are looking for. This can help you narrow your search results to target resumes or CVs. Find out how to combine “filetype:” with the “inurl:” syntax to further target your search for potential job candidates that are hidden online…
Tip me Tuesday: Boolean Search Strings Part 3
Here’s another super secret tip that will help you access even more of those difficult-to-find candidates with niche skill sets. Google indexes and caches all web pages. Learn how to access a webpage even after it has been taken down or while it is under maintenance by using a helpful search syntax called “cache”…
Flip Flip Hooray: Boolean Search Strings Part 4
Here’s another little known search technique called Flip Search. Using a little known search engine called ‘Exalead’ and the power of flip search, you can track candidates resumes from the websites of their past employers, educational institutes or their social media profiles (think LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook)…
Tip me Tuesday: Boolean Search Strings Part 5
You can extend the reach of your job candidate searches even further by using multiple search engines. What’s the best search engine to use for recruiting purposes? Use this list of limitations and commands to help you determine which search engine to use and how to create an effective search string for each engine…
Metasearch Engines: Boolean Search Strings Part 6
Using a variety of search engines is essential as a recruiter, but metasearch engines will help make your life easier by amalgamating information from multiple search engines. Here are tips to supercharge your searches by creating Boolean search strings for metasearch engines…
What’s a Synonym for Synonym? Boolean Search Strings Part 7
Being a recruiter means knowing as many synonyms as possible for various skills, job categories, and job titles. Learn about Google’s “tilde”/ “~” command to save time and improve the quality of your search results. Tips to help you become a keyword specialist too…
