![]() ![]() Some people who decide to make their resume available on the Internet also decide to publish a phone number. eoe -submit -free -”resume service” -template -”resume service” -“resume writers” -“resume writing” Targeting Local Resumes Area Codes ![]() Other ideas of terms you can try to eliminate that may return false positive results: (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) -job -jobs -sample -samples In order to remove most non-resume false positive results, you can use Google’s version of the Boolean NOT operator, which is the minus sign, to prevent your search from returning results with words such as sample, job, etc. Eliminating False Positive ResultsĪ “false positive” result is a search result that contains your search terms, but does not match the “essence” of what you are actually trying to find. For example – if you’re searching for resumes, there are many sites that will be returned in your search results that are in fact not resumes, such as sites advertising resume samples and job postings that mention phrases such as, “submit resumes to…” Targeting the word “resume” in the title and/or url is very handy, because for many people, it’s simply common sense/instinct to either title the web page containing their resume with the word “resume,” and/or save their resume using the word “resume” in the name of the file. The first line of any search result is the title of the webpage, and the url is the specific web page’s address. Here is a sample result to illustrate how this works – we can see the word “Resume” in the blue TITLE line, as well as in the green URL line. When using Google to search specifically for resumes, it’s a good idea to begin by searching for the word “resume” in the title and/or the url of web pages.įor example: (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) ![]() Whether you are new to searching the Internet for resumes or you are a veteran Interent sourcer, I’ve included some tips, tricks, and observations for the novice and expert alike. 1% (based on the tests I've run), so that should not diminish the technique's usefulness.Want to learn how to find resumes on the Internet using Google? You’ve come to the right place! However, those profiles constitute only about. Some other profiles are included for no apparent reason. "San Francisco, California" vs "San Francisco Bay Area"). Some of those might be members who spelled out, as the location, their town vs. Some profiles of the members in a given area will still be found if you exclude the area name in the keywords field. The above is almost true, but not 100% true. Now - sorry - I have mislead you a little bit. When you use the tip, look up the way LinkedIn spells out the target area - it's best to include its exact name in quotes: Tip: exclude, using the operator NOT, the full geo-location name in the keywords in a LinkedIn search, to find members outside of that geo-area. Say, you can search for professionals in the US outside of the Greater Chicago Area. If you are a Recruiter, you can search for non-local candidates, who might relocate. So, to address the two search challenges outlined at the beginning of the post: when you are searching without a location specified, you might want to also search excluding your own area, as shown above. With that in mind, it's quite straightforward to construct a search that will be looking outside of an area just add NOT in the keywords to the search: However, company locations are not included in the search index so it's "not too bad"). (Sure enough, there might be "false positives" - members who used these words in the body of their profiles. you can search for "San Francisco Bay Area" or "Auckland, New Zealand" in the keywords and find people from those areas. One new search feature - that is not described in any documentation, by the way - is that geo-location names and industry names on LinkedIn profiles are now included in the search index. That's the second case.īefore LinkedIn switched to the Galene search algorithm, we couldn't do much about that type of a search. If you are a Recruiter and you have exhausted searching in a target area, and now want to look for people who might want to relocate, you would want to search outside of that target area. If you want to see some profiles outside of your area, with the existing search UI, all you can do is specify each of the other areas and look there not exactly convenient.Ģ. ![]()
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