Help me....

[Satya Dowluri]

Can you please suggest me the passive and active searches using Boolean String. In fact I am new to Boolean Strings. So please suggest me the best string to get the resumes from social sites like LinkedIN, Twitter etc.

[Kameron Swinton]

Here is a string to use on Google to x-ray linkedin for user profiles:
site:linkedin.com term1 term2 term3 "Location" (inurl:pub|in) -intitle:Directory -inurl:companies -inurl:updates -inurl:jobs

Where term1, term2 and term3 are the specific skills, experience, companies, etc. that you are searching for. For Location, insert LinkedIn's naming convention for the location you're targeting. You can find this by searching on LinkedIn.com for profiles in the zip code radius you're targeting. When you open a profile the location info will be in gray at the top of the profile.

Here is a basic example looking for Java/C++ Software Engineers in San Diego:
site:linkedin.com "Software Engineer" Java "C++" "Greater San Diego Area" (inurl:pub|in) -intitle:Directory -inurl:companies -inurl:updates -inurl:jobs

Good Luck!
-kameron

[TheSourceress]

To x-ray twitter in a similar way, to find more passive candidates, try something like this;

site:twitter.com intitle:on "San Diego" "software engineer" java -jobs

I used intitle:on to search only for profiles - All twitter profiles have a title in the form "Real Name (TwitterUserName on Twitter)"

unlike the linkedin search, I have excluded the word jobs, otherwise your search is flooded with accounts tweeting about job opportunities.

You have to keep in mind that people share much less thorough information on Twitter due to the 140 character restrictions on their bio. For that reason, you can't have too many constraints in your string.

You could also search tweets from people in San Diego talking about relevant keywords. Of course, this doesn't necessarily mean they have the skills you need. This involves thinking about the sort of tweet the person you are looking for might write.

Enter something like this at http://search.twitter.com

keyword1 keyword2 near:"San Diego" within:100mi

or perhaps

Java (write OR written OR writing OR wrote) near:"San Diego" within:100mi

Then take a look at the profiles of those that wrote the tweets you uncover.

[Bret Hollander]

(intitle:”curriculum vitae” OR inurl:vitae OR intitle:vitae) -about -jobs -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit

(intitle:”resume for” OR intitle:”resume of” OR intitle:”Curriculum Vitae” OR intitle:”’s resume”) -intitle:example -intitle:examples -intitle:sample -intitle:submit

(intitle:”resume for” OR intitle:”resume of”) -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit -inanchor:sample -intitle:how -intitle:write

(intitle:resume OR intitle:”curriculum vitae”) + -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -write -sample

(intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:homepage OR inurl:homepage) -jobs -inanchor:apply -inanchor:submit

(resume OR cv OR vitae OR homepage) -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -template -wizard -free -write –sample

~resume (filetype:pdf OR filetype:doc OR filetype:rtf OR filetype:htm OR filetype:html) -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -write –sample

~resume -jobs -apply -submit -required -wanted -template -write -sample -inurl:books -inurl:product

~cv (intitle:blog OR inurl:blog OR intitle:blogs OR blog OR blogs) (rss OR feed OR archives OR posted OR tags OR comments OR trackback OR author) -job -jobs -send -submit -you -inanchor:apply

site:craigslist.org inurl:res

site:devbistro.com inurl:resumes

site:linkedin.com for (inurl:in OR inurl:pub) -intitle:directory -intitle:recently -intitle:”company profile”