Contest - Confidential Resume Search

[Chris Penny]

Who’s up for a challenge!? We’ve all come across a great resume while searching for a candidate, but low and behold, it’s one of those pesky “Confidential Resumes.” There is no name, email address, phone number, or anything on there to indicate how to get in touch with the candidate. So either one of two things happens:

1. You don’t feel like messing with it, so you move on to the next resume OR
2. You click on the “contact this confidential candidate” link and the job board sends them a message, but you never hear back from them.

Wouldn’t you rather talk to the candidate directly? Perhaps call them on the phone, or email them directly to their email address? Your challenge is to find the contact information of a resume I have posted. The resume is posted on Careerbuilder.com, Monster.com, and Craigslist.org. You may find this confidential resume by searching for the following phrase: "boolean strings network contest.” If you do not have access to Careerbuilder or Monster, you may also view the resume at Craigslist.org:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/res/1284796663.html


The winner of this contest will be the first who provides the following for the candidate:

1. First & last name
2. Phone number
3. All companies worked for
4. Cities the candidate has lived in
5. Educational insitution of the candidate

Email the answers to the candidate’s email address as well as the steps you took to find the candidate’s information.

Good luck!

[Jacco Valkenburg]

Andy, congratulations!

[Andy Rouse]

Thanks Irina - I'll send you an email. I'd be more than happy to share the steps...

Irina Shamaeva said:

Congratulations to Andy Rouse!

Chris and Andy, let's share the steps early next week - would you mind?

Andy, I need your address to ship you the Boolean DVD; please email [e-mail] w/your info. If you'd like to attend a Twitter webinar on Monday, or get a Twitter DVD instead, that would be fine as well.

Thanks,
Irina

[Manish Chandra Gupta]

Andy,If you do not mind, please share the steps with me as well. I am keen to learn this as well. My ID: [e-mail].

Thanks
MG

Andy Rouse said:

Thanks Irina - I'll send you an email. I'd be more than happy to share the steps...

Irina Shamaeva said:

Congratulations to Andy Rouse!

Chris and Andy, let's share the steps early next week - would you mind?

Andy, I need your address to ship you the Boolean DVD; please email [e-mail] w/your info. If you'd like to attend a Twitter webinar on Monday, or get a Twitter DVD instead, that would be fine as well.

Thanks,
Irina

[Justin Day]

Can you send me the steps as well. email ID [e-mail]

[Praveen Jain]

Hi,



I tried to locate this candidate and I found following information of this candidate.



Name: Peter Henkle

Work Phone: [phone]

Companies:

JHG Software - January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
JHG Enterprises - April 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 9 months)
JHG Solutions - May 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 11 months)
PH9 Software Inc. - November 1997 — May 2002 (4 years 7 months)
PH9 Solutions Inc. - June 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 6 months)
PH9 Enterprises - June 1991 — June 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Educational Institute: Radford University, Bachelors , Computer Science , 1987 — 1991



I am not getting his email address.



Steps: I went thoroughly over the resume and then find some unique keywords like WCSF, WCF etc. Then I tried advanced search in Google with complete phrase. Result I got was only one i.e Peter henkle from LinkedIn site. Then i open his profile and verified whether he is the same candidate. Then from his company name I found his work place contact. I tried to get his direct contact details but fail to get it.



Please let me know how much I succeeded in my search and please let me know how can i find his direct contact details and email address.


Thanks,

Praveen
[e-mail]

[Praveen Jain]

Andy can you please send me the steps please [e-mail]

Praveen Jain said:

Hi,



I tried to locate this candidate and I found following information of this candidate.



Name: Peter Henkle

Work Phone: [phone]

Companies:

JHG Software - January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
JHG Enterprises - April 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 9 months)
JHG Solutions - May 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 11 months)
PH9 Software Inc. - November 1997 — May 2002 (4 years 7 months)
PH9 Solutions Inc. - June 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 6 months)
PH9 Enterprises - June 1991 — June 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Educational Institute: Radford University, Bachelors , Computer Science , 1987 — 1991



I am not getting his email address.



Steps: I went thoroughly over the resume and then find some unique keywords like WCSF, WCF etc. Then I tried advanced search in Google with complete phrase. Result I got was only one i.e Peter henkle from LinkedIn site. Then i open his profile and verified whether he is the same candidate. Then from his company name I found his work place contact. I tried to get his direct contact details but fail to get it.



Please let me know how much I succeeded in my search and please let me know how can i find his direct contact details and email address.


Thanks,

Praveen
[e-mail]

[Chris Penny]

Work phone is not correct. These companies, resume, and candidate name are fictitious due to privacy reasons, and therefore, there is not a real phone number, but there is a phone number (fake) out there somewhere!

Praveen Jain said:

Hi,



I tried to locate this candidate and I found following information of this candidate.



Name: Peter Henkle

Work Phone: [phone]

Companies:

JHG Software - January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
JHG Enterprises - April 2004 — December 2006 (2 years 9 months)
JHG Solutions - May 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 11 months)
PH9 Software Inc. - November 1997 — May 2002 (4 years 7 months)
PH9 Solutions Inc. - June 1993 — November 1997 (4 years 6 months)
PH9 Enterprises - June 1991 — June 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Educational Institute: Radford University, Bachelors , Computer Science , 1987 — 1991



I am not getting his email address.



Steps: I went thoroughly over the resume and then find some unique keywords like WCSF, WCF etc. Then I tried advanced search in Google with complete phrase. Result I got was only one i.e Peter henkle from LinkedIn site. Then i open his profile and verified whether he is the same candidate. Then from his company name I found his work place contact. I tried to get his direct contact details but fail to get it.



Please let me know how much I succeeded in my search and please let me know how can i find his direct contact details and email address.


Thanks,

Praveen
[e-mail]

[Bill Ward]

Andy,

This is depressing. I'm stumped. Baby step me through this so I put some sweat equity into this.

Thanks!

Chris Penny said:

Andy Rouse has submitted all of the correct answers to the candidate's email address. I will leave the contest up for those of you who want to search just for the fun/challenge. If any of you would like to know my suggested methods, feel free to send me a message, and I will share my knowledge with you.

[Bill Ward]

I meant Chris. Sorry!

[Chris Penny]

Bill, what is your email address so I may send you my detailed suggested solutions.

Bill Ward said:

I meant Chris. Sorry!

[Kameron Swinton]

I didn't realize it was a fake person so I searched on google, wink, zabasearch, pipl, etc. after I found the 555 number, thinking he must be out there somewhere. :) I did find it interesting that the University he went to has an open alumni email directory, where anyone can search for alumni's email addresses. this person's was not included tho ;)

-kameron

[Merlynn Bertini]

chris,

Could you add me to the list to receive the "steps" to do this search.

Thanks!

Merlynn