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If you search for people on LinkedIn, it shows the distribution of the results along its search filters such as Industry, Current Company, etc. I like it a lot! I use the feature quite often to select either current or past companies to be from my target company list, to narrow down the search. Here is something I have noticed …

Boolean search strings should be very long and complex to work well. There are top 5 (or 10 or 20) Boolean search strings that gurus know of. I would do great if I could find out what those strings are! If I have access to Boolean strings templates all I have to do is add keywords, and the search is …

Dear All: I am giving a LinkedIn for Sourcing and Recruiting webinar on Friday 9/24. I am preparing a webinar on Bing. If you have any requests or suggestions for future topics (advanced search, Boolean, Deep Web, Semantic, Tools, Twitter, etc.), please leave a comment or send me a note. -Irina P.S. I am available for custom webinars or face to …

Google Custom Search Engines let us hide “unreadable” operators and reuse them. Search engines on Recruiting Blogs, CVFox, Big5Hire, Referyes are all custom search engines or are based on this technology. Custom engines have their tricky side but it’s not too hard to create a basic one. On your control panel, use the sections “sites” and “refinements” to start with, …

Bing has very limited documentation at the search site. There’s much more available if you just dig a little deeper. Here is the full operator documentation posted to the Boolean Strings Network, take a look. Here are some examples of using the advanced syntax: Looking for an Email Pattern Searching for Resumes Searching for LinkedIn Profiles (thanks for the hint …

Being a really slow typer I love to be helped. However, I don’t think that recently introduced instant search is likely to become a favorite tool. Here’s just a few reasons: I use Google operators, and if you do, too, you may notice that it’s slower with instant search than without. Just try typing intitle:resume OR inurl:resume with and without instant …

In our practice as recruiters once in a while we look at “confidential” resumes, with the name and the contact info stripped off. If we are curious to find out more about the person, we can try to check the person out on the web, perhaps starting with LinkedIn. Here is a quick example. Let’s look at a resume from …

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Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: [This webinar is over and was well attended and appreciated. I will be repeating it in 2 weeks from now. Interested? Send me a note.] 88% of recruiters search for candidates on LinkedIn. Yet many of us would do much better, find more candidates and contact the right candidates if we …

I think Boolean syntax seems hard partially because many people still try to use English to talk with search engines, while software only understands the exact syntax it is programmed to understand. As an example, whether a particular operator works or not on Google is not a matter of someone’s experience or opinion, it is either true or false, such …