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Searching box.net on Linked In

Hey follow Booleaners! I'm trying to figure out how to search for resumes that are in box.net on Linkedin. Does any one know how I would be able to find people on Linkeed in who have their resumes on box.net??

thanks in adance!

Dawn

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Permalink Reply by gary cozin on December 14, 2011 at 12:46pm

Dawn-

This isn't perfect, but will get you close, in Google try the following string:

site:www.linkedin.com "my resume" "box.net" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir -inurl:answers

I usually don't search for resumes in just 'box.net' - I usually search anywhere it says "my resume" or "website * * resume" in the string. The last phrase will bring back resumes in the Website section on a LI profiles where the majority of them are-

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Barry on December 14, 2011 at 3:05pm

Thanks Gary! I really appreciate your help

I aspire to be one third the sourcer you are! :).... one day.....

ps.. what are a couple of your favorite books on recruiting/sourcing that you think could really help someone who is looking to significantly improve those skills?

Dawn

gary cozin said:

Dawn-

This isn't perfect, but will get you close, in Google try the following string:

site:www.linkedin.com "my resume" "box.net" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -inurl:dir -inurl:answers

I usually don't search for resumes in just 'box.net' - I usually search anywhere it says "my resume" or "website * * resume" in the string. The last phrase will bring back resumes in the Website section on a LI profiles where the majority of them are-

Gary

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Permalink Reply by Dave Galley on December 14, 2011 at 3:31pm

Dawn,

The problem is that the "applications" on LI (amazon reading list, box.net, etc) are not really part of the LI profile. LI's native search won't pick them up, and they aren't displayed on public profiles, so it's not really possible to search them.

I actually tried going the other route - finding people's webshares on box.net and linking them back to LI. Since each box.net embed in an LI profile has an RSS link, I had some hope! But box.net has all of the relevant directories blocked in its robots.txt file, so no legit search engine has them indexed and searchable. Unfortunately, each user's "box" has an psuedorandom alphanumeric identifier - just look at this ugly URL: https://www.box.net/shared/x5gn2s1xta/71afc293d4/rss.xml. So it's really not feasible for most of us to try to find people from that end of the link, either.

So, as Gary noted, the only way to really do this at all, is to search for instances where people not only HAVE a box.net on their LI profile to share their resume, but ALSO go out of their way to mention (in one of the searchable portions of the profile) "hey, go look at my box.net resume!".

-Dave Galley