The Boolean

The Boolean

Thanks to  Irina Shamaeva for Excellent Post..... 

The grand purpose of this post is to become a substitute for Boolean search cheat sheets, without the need to come back or print it out.

The following is just a bit simplified, to point out the main concepts.

Google understands very limited language. It can include any words in English, but there are no sentences (carrying out a description of an action or a statement) or any English grammar. In some cases Google will search for synonyms of the keywords we use.

RULE #1. If you want several words to be included one after another, use the quotation marks. Here is an example. If you want to stop Google from including synonyms, use the quotation marks around the word.

RULE #2. To use one keyword OR another, use OR (capitalized); to exclude a word from your search use the minus:-jobs. That’s usually not a problem even for those who are new to Google’s syntax.

Google knows about many web pages. But all it knows about a page is pretty much this:

• title
• URL
• words
• images
• links to other pages

Google has no idea about resumes, LinkedIn profiles, or any such complexities.

Therefore, to speak to it beyond typing keywords, we can point it to specific titles, URLs, etc. Google gives us these operators to use:

Operators:

• site: look only for URLs that belong to the site
• inurl: look only for URLs that have a given keyword
• intitle: look only for titles that have a given keyword

There’s also a useful operator filetype: that in fact also looks at URLs and finds files of a certain type, like PDF or Excel.

To navigate Google’s search we need to think “backwards”. Let’s think what we are going to find when the search is successful.

Here is an example: if you look at resumes on indeed.com they all have the URL beginning (http://www.indeed.com/r/) in common:

So, to search for them from Google you can use site:http://www.indeed.com/r or site:http://www.indeed.com inurl:r (add your keywords)

Here is another example; this will search for members of the Boolean Strings Network: site:booleanstrings.ning.com intitle:”Page”

RULE #3. Use operators (site:, intitle:, inurl:) to point Google to the target page structure.

That’s it, folks!

Possible ways to find Linkedin Candidates Contact information

What are the possible ways to find the Linkedin candidates contact information OR Contact them?

LinkedIn for Sourcing, Recruiting was like having a conversation with 100 Different industry professionals all at the same time. This is the definitive guide for Sourcers, Recruiters looking to utilize all that LinkedIn has to offer. Linkedin is the top networking site used to find candidates and Jobs. And more over it is a social networking site, and which is free of cost to search. Now days many Recruiters, Sourcers and internet researchers are using Linkedin as top priority for their recruiting needs.

Here the challenge is after finding candidate on Linkedin

                 How to contact that person?

There are few ways to find contact info of Linkedin candidates….

1)      First and foremost way is to add that person to your Linkedin professional Network and you can directly contact that person. In other words increase your Linkedin network to reach the candidates.

2)      Secondly by using InMail, directly send an email to candidate about the position, but for Linkedin free account you can only send 10 InMails up to maximum, to have more InMails you need to upgrade your Linkedin free account to Linkedin Premium account.

3)      Try to find candidate details in web search (example: Google, Yahoo, Bing... etc). Some times you may get directly candidate details in web search, if candidate mentioned is contact details in any of networking sites.

4)      We can also try with company email format, if company is following certain email format we can also contact candidate with company email format. (Example: firstname.secondname@xyz.com; firstinital.secondname@xyz.com firstname.secondinitial@xyz.com … etc) then Question here is how to find company email format, you can try this way.

                “Email * companyname.com”

                “*@companyname.com

                “Email me @companyname.com”

             

5)      And we can also find company email formats and contact info in Jigsaw, Zoominfo, and Spoke. Jigsaw is easy way to use to find contact details or company details, where you need to exchange contacts if you need to get contacts. In other words, you need to upload one contact so that you can download one contact.

Zoominfo which is not free to use you need to purchase an account to use it, but Zoominfo has Community Edition which you need to install on your system which share contacts from your outlook, by this way you can use Zoominfo for free. OR you can also do X-ray search. Example: site:www.zoominfo.com "email @twcable.com.com

6)      The other way is to find same candidates on Twitter OR Facebook and contact   them using add request in facebook and sending short message on Twitter.

7)      And for some Linkedin profiles we can see that candidates will maintain personal   blog or personal website, were we have chance to get contact info of the candidates. It’s not for sure that all people will mention their contact info, the other way to find contact info for personal website is using www.domaintools.com . Where we can find domain owner details, and again here it is not for sure that we can find all domain owners, but we can see the details of people who kept their contact info as public, and if it is private we need to purchase the details.

8)      And other few ways is finding candidates details in Plaxo, Xing, pipl, whitepages.com…. etc.

Happy Researching…..

Thanks

Santosh Kumar Kandula

kandulasantosh@gmail.com