Archive for November, 2008
Where can you find the most Bilingual WAN Engineers?
I was reading a discussion in the Boolean Strings group on LinkedIn and someone was having difficulty in locating a bilingual (Spanish) WAN Engineer in the Denver, CO area. It sounded like as good of a challenge as any, so I decided to take a crack at seeing what I could find by searching the Internet via [...]
Google and LinkedIn Search for a Bioinformatics Executive
I came across a discussion in Irinia Shamaeva’s LinkedIn Boolean Strings group and found a search string example for a senior executive of bioinformatics in the New Haven, CT area.
I actually tried the original search suggestion, using Google, and got 0 results:
(filetype:doc OR filetype:wpd OR filetype:wps OR filetype:pdf OR filetype:rtf OR filetype:txt) AND (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) [...]
Booleans for a Senior Tax or Audit Lead/Manager
One of my blog readers recently reached out to me and asked me for help with a search for a Senior Tax or Audit Lead/Manager in a location that’s not in the most populated area of the United States (to put it nicely). They informed me they did not have access to any of the [...]
Resumes on the Internet: Monster vs. Google Round 2
In response to my post of Resumes on the Internet: Monster vs. Google one of my readers commented that “While it may be true that Monster has more resumes than Google, using a zip code search is not a fair comparison for Google. People who post their resumes on Monster are required to enter their zip code, [...]
The Sourcer’s Fallacy
A significant step on the path to secondary sourcing enlightenment is becoming aware of, and not falling prey to The Sourcer’s Fallacy.
The Sourcer’s Fallacy is the conscious or unconscious belief that:
#1 If you haven’t found what you’re looking for in a particular database, social network, or on the Internet – that it’s not there,
And/Or
#2 After you’ve run searches in a [...]
Searching Facebook for Candidates
I recently received a request from a reader to come up with some example Boolean Strings for finding software engineers on Facebook who are from Top 10 schools (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, etc) and live in the Silicon Valley.
***Quick disclaimer***
I am definitely not a Facebook sourcing guru – I don’t see it as a high [...]
Extended Boolean: Proximity and Weighting
Most sourcing, recruiting, and staffing professionals are familiar with the “standard” Boolean operators of AND, OR, and NOT. However, I have found that few are familiar with “extended” Boolean functionality, such as proximity (or adjacency) and term weighting.
Beyond Basic Boolean
Extended Boolean offers sourcers and recruiters significantly more control, power and precision when executing searches, and [...]
Why learn how to master Boolean search strings?
Why bother to learn the arcane art and science of Boolean search logic?
It really bothers me when I read or hear about the idea that sourcers and recruiters don’t need to worry about learning how to craft and execute Boolean queries for talent identification and acquisition. This opinion usually has something to do with the [...]
Where can you find the MOST passive candidates?
So where do you think you can find the most passive candidates?
I think it depends heavily on how you define a passive candidate. Some would argue that anyone can qualify as a “candidate” if they can be found. That would mean that anyone on the Internet is a potential candidate. I see the reasoning behind [...]
