Secret Cleared positions

[Matthew Clark]

I've had a hard time finding "secret" cleared Unix administrators in the DC area over the last few months and I would love to expand my sourcing techniques.

 

Outside of physical networking I have mostly just been using monster boolean searches like the one below.

 

"unix admin*"  AND ("secret" OR "ts/sci" OR "ts" OR "clearance")

 

-or-

 

("unix" OR "solaris" OR "AIX") AND "admin*" AND ("secret" OR "ts/sci" OR "ts" OR "clearance")

 

Does anyone have any other good ideas or how I can go about searching for this type of thing on Google or Linkedin and such?

[gary cozin]

Matthew-

There are numbers of ways you can do this - here a just a few quick examples to get you started:

 

In Google:

site:linkedin.com "unix admin" clearance (ts | "top secret" | sci) "location * washington d.c. metro area" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -pub.dir

 

This string opens it up a bit more:

site:linkedin.com unix ~administrator clearance (ts | "top secret" | sci) "location * washington d.c. metro area" (inurl:in | inurl:pub) -pub.dir -recruiter

 

Feel free to alter/change/add key words to refine your searches further-

 

Good luck

 

Gary

[Matthew Clark]

Gary,

 

This is great! Do we have a post somewhere on here that breaks down what the different things you used in that search string indicate?

 

Thanks!

Matt

 

[Matthew Clark]

For example, the significance of

"~ "

 

or the way you wrote (ts | "top secret" | sci)

 

or the * before washington dc metro area

 

or -pub.dir

 

or the purpose of adding -recruiter

 

THANKS again for your help!

[gary cozin]

There are many areas to find the proper syntax for each search engine (they are all different) - go to the Help link on the search engines in their search sections; you may also want to view the posts in this group & the LI Boolean Strings group - they are there-

Briefly:

the (~) tilde symbol tells Google to use find synonyms of the word;

the pipe symbol (|) is the same as OR;

the * tells Google to take the place of a word ( or use mulitple * * for more words);

the - (minus) sign tells Google to eliminate or not bring back what follows it in the results; =pub.dir elimimates a lot of directory noise in the Google results; -recruiter tells it not to bring back profiles in the results of recruiters-

 

Good luck!

 

[Matthew Clark]

Fantastic. Thanks as always Gary.