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Submitted by Beatrice Mcombasa (not verified) on Thu, 03/12/2009 - 12:01am.

Hi Glenn,

I am currently doing a resume search for Family Practice Physicians. I am using the health care hiring site from infogist as one of my search engines. This particular site has two options for conducting searches(passive candidates and active candidates). I am however unable to get any active candidates and yet, I thought this would be easier than searching for passive candidates. I am not sure where I am going wrong, could it be in filling the keywords or job titles?because I have followed the instructions given to the latter.
Your kind assistance will be highly appreciated.

Thanks.

RE: Healthcare Hiring

Submitted by Glenn Gutmacher on Mon, 03/16/2009 - 2:43pm.

Hi Beatrice,
I can't say I know this board very well, so I just re-registered there. There are two different search pages.

1) The active resume search you did for keywords FAMILY PRACTICE in their Physicians/Surgeons category would probably be fine on a site that actually had a critical mass of doctors' resumes. It appears this one has very few. In fact, the only state I checked that had anything was Massachusetts (a leading area in the medical field) - and even that had only one doctor with the keywords Family Practice on it (http://www.healthcarehiring.com/cgi-bin/display_resume.cgi?ID=151). Note at the bottom of the page that this resume was added in December 2001. In fact, if you look for all Physicians/Surgeons in Massachusetts (no keywords typed), it's only two resumes total and the second person miscategorized herself!

2) Then I tried their passive candidate search (http://www.healthcarehiring.com/cgi-bin/view_resumes.cgi) which lists tips indicating support for standard Boolean search. So I tried various searches which all yielded poor results.  In addition, all results came from the Altavista search engine, which was the top search engine until 2001, when Google and Yahoo became the leaders.

Together, #1 and #2 lead me to conclude that this site was never popular and search functionality on this site is very old, and it is not actively maintained. I recommend not wasting any further time on this website.

Glenn Gutmacher
VP JobMachine, ACES
www.jobmachine.net 

glenn@jobmachine.net

Software Licensing Managers

Submitted by Wendy (not verified) on Wed, 02/25/2009 - 10:21am.

Hi Shally,
I am doing a search for software license managers and recall you mentioning a long time ago about finding names of software developers listed right on the software product license as part of the credits. Can you please refresh me on how to find those credits.

Thanks,

RE: finding people in software credits

Submitted by Glenn Gutmacher on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 9:13pm.

Hi Wendy,
Finding names of software developers listed right on the software product license as part of the credits will require that you have the software installed on your computer, though not all make it apparent. One that does for most of their software products is Adobe. For example, if you launch Adobe Acrobat Pro, under the Help menu, select About Adobe Acrobat Pro, then click the Credits button. It displays over 100 names from the product team. You also see credits at the end of many video games.

However, that's not sourcing, not very efficient (unless you own a ton of software!) and it's going to mostly show you developers and designers, not software license managers. You can also try searching for @author on Google Codesearch and Koders, but again, that's for software developers. LinkedIn would be a better bet to find software licensing people efficiently (I get 731 results searching for software AND licensing in the job title field, and over 24,000 searching in the keywords field).

Glenn Gutmacher
VP JobMachine, ACES
www.jobmachine.net 

glenn@jobmachine.net

Google Cheat Sheet

Submitted by curtnordeen on Tue, 02/10/2009 - 1:30pm.

I just bought a copy of the Google Cheat Sheet and entered the following:

Oracle SSIS PL/SQL "SQL Loader" (inurl:~resume | intitle:~resume

My search results came up only with companies that were advertising for jobs with those skillsets, not resumes.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Curt N

Oracle SSIS Search String

Submitted by Shally Steckerl on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 4:20pm.

Curt I had replied to you privately but noticed that since then you put your question up here publicly so I am taking the initiative to copy my response here as well - hope you don't mind! 

Before I start, you don't need PL/SQL since you already have "SQL Loader" which is far more specific a skill requirement so I took out PL/SQL.

One immediate suggestion that came to mind to eliminate the jobs is to just take out results with job or jobs in the title:

Oracle SSIS "SQL Loader" (inurl:~resume | intitle:~resume) -intitle:job -intitle:jobs

 


Which gives us a cleaner set of results, about 51 for me (I have preferences set to search English only pages):

 

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&hs=LgK&q=Oracle+SSIS+%22SQL+Loader%22+%28inurl%3A%7Eresume+%7C+intitle%3A%7Eresume%29+-intitle%3Ajob+-intitle%3Ajobs&btnG=Search 

A slight variation of this would be:

Oracle SSIS "SQL Loader" ~cv -you -sample -intitle:job -intitle:jobs

Using the ~cv instead of the intitle:~resume to try and grab some results that the other may not have picked up.

I also had this other idea to move Oracle into the intext: field so you don't get a bunch of pages called Oracle something or with URL's having oracle in there, and rather the word oracle appears as part of the body of the document. Along with that I thought we should also get rid of the ~cv or ~resume altogether and try intext:present because you see resumes often have the word present in them but so do profiles like on LinkedIn and other places like that, hopefully expanding your search to more than just resumes. Removing the word "you" from results helps eliminate commercial pages and other fluff.

SSIS "SQL Loader" intext:Oracle intext:present -you

And another variation of that is using pronouns instead of using -you:

SSIS "SQL Loader" intext:Oracle intext:present (me OR my)

Try those then let me know what other techniques you liked on the CheatSheet but gave you inadequate results. I would recommend for example finding employees at competitors, and doing some deep dives on LinekdIn. Keep in mind when you do that you can't use such specific skills words, you will have to focus more on direct company names and job titles.

 

Cheers,
Shally
Founder, JobMachine, Inc.
www.jobmachine.net/shally

Company current employee directory/listing

Submitted by jmath on Wed, 01/28/2009 - 8:11pm.

I'm a Sourcer supporting a team of sale recruiters and many times I'm asked to target specific companies and find the names of their current employees that are in specific roles.  If we're working on 40 different markets across the United States searching for the same profile, rather than searching each geographic market individually I'm looking for a more efficient way.

Out of those several target companies, I'm Google Searching using advanced Boolean trying to come across a listing of current employee, a break down of each location and it's member and their titles, a tracking spreadsheet of company issued cell phones, etc...

So far I've been unsuccessful and I'm hoping you can help change that!  Below is an idea of the search string logic I was using:

site:targetcompanywebsite.com inurl:(directory OR phone listing OR branch OR internal contacts) 

RE: Company current employee directory/listing

Submitted by Mark Berger on Thu, 01/29/2009 - 4:18pm.

Oh, those days of yore. Actually, way back when...when the Internet was a novelty, one could actually find company directories and organizational charts for many companies on the Internet. That is until they realized that every recruiter in the country was calling every one of their employees. So, today, that information is often protected behind firewalls. 

If you want to use a search engine you could try:

("i worked on" OR "i work on" OR "my team" OR "our team") companywebsite skillterm jobtitle

to maybe snag some pages of company employees not on the site, or you could try

site:companywebsite (inurl:staff OR inurl:employees OR inurl:people OR inurl:team)

to search for pages inside your target company that might have names of employees. Otherwise, try

site:linkedin.com inurl:companies companyname

and you will get the names of all the employees that work for that company that have a LinkedIn profile. You can also try:

site:zoominfo.com companyname to see what ZoomInfo might have.

There are many other ways, but not quite as easy as you would like it to be.

Mark E. Berger, CPC, CIR
Swat Recruiting