If all this Boolean is gibberish to you, why not take a look at my Search Engine Guide for Recruiters.Based on George Boole’s mathematical theory in which all variables are either ‘true’ or ‘false’, Boolean search on Google is one of the best sourcing tools for recruiters. There are lots of document sites like Scribd, you could also try site searching issuu, docstoc and SlideShare.
I found that the results I got from Bing were dominated by documents from just one Scribd user. Google seems to get to the CVs of real people much easier than Bing does.
I found a lot of template and example CVs on Scribd so it helps to add -template -sample -example to your string to eliminate these.Īdd industry keywords or job titles to the string to see if there are any CVs of interest to you on Scribd. People upload all sort of documents like reports, magazines, presentations and even CVs. I think of Scribd as a YouTube for documents instead of videos. This search string is looking at pages from the document hosting website Scribd. Site: (CV OR Vitae) (UK OR “united kingdom”) You could try using a job title of interest along with a broad industry keyword. To make the results relevant to you, start by changing the industry and location keywords as appropriate. Even if events aren’t marketing focused, the people on the list might have “marketing” in their job titles.
#Google boolean search strings pdf#
Delegate lists are often in pdf or SpreadSheet formats – so adding something like (filetype:pdf OR filetype:xls) to your string will probably bring back lots of rich results.
You’ll then notice that some of the actual delegate lists in your results are pdf files. You could include people keywords like (attendee OR delegate OR member). This string returns lots of interesting information about marketing sites, networks and events but not much in the way of rich people data. I like to use them though, if only to keep my own thoughts organised. The brackets in these strings are not strictly necessary – Google totally ignores them and the strings follow Bing’s natural order of operations anyway. This could be lists of attendees or speakers etc. This string is looking for lists of people from marketing events in London. List (conference OR expo OR workshop OR seminar) (London OR UK) Marketing Google will take 32 search terms but Bing limits search queries to 150 characters in length. If you’re using long lists of place names like the one above, you might be better to use Google. This means that you see better results with less need to be too exact with your Boolean skills. Those are the largest London boroughs by population as listed on Wikipedia.īing is very good at finding LinkedIn profiles without polluting the results with too many directory pages and the like. You might want to add more location names too – London for example could be expanded to (London OR Barnet OR Croydon OR Ealing OR Bromley OR Enfield OR Wandsworth OR Southwark OR Lambeth OR Redbridge OR Lewisham OR Hillingdon OR Brent OR Westminster OR Newham OR “Tower Hamlets”). Add more skill or qualification keywords to narrow your results. Use different job titles and industry keywords to look for the types of candidates you are interested in.
Your string will then be site:uk./pub “marketing manager” London –inurl:dir You may also see some directory pages coming up in your results, you can get rid of these on Google using -inurl:dir The results for this search include a lot of profiles that just mention London – ensure that you seĪrch uk. to just see UK profiles. This string is looking for the linkedin profiles of marketing professionals in London. So here are three search strings that hopefully will inspire you to write some of your own and find a few names. Sometimes it is useful to get inspiration from other people’s search strings – everyone has different ideas and different ways of constructing a search.
#Google boolean search strings how to#
If you can write your own strings to use with Google or Bing then they will be looking for exactly what you want to find and you will know how to edit them if they don’t give the results you expect. In my opinion, it is really better to be able to write your own boolean search strings and not totally rely on these tools. There are all sorts of tools that will build search strings for you (like RecruitIn or the Boolean Bar) to help you find candidates online.
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