This is a test...

[Dottie Regan]

We are testing potential sourcing specialists to come up with a boolean string using the descriptive info below. What should I be looking for them to come up with?

Engagement or Account Manager
federal government AND (financial or ERP)
Within 50 miles of 20001

[Paul Westmoreland]

"Within 50 miles of 20001" they should do a "numrange" search with the postal / zip codes in that area, e.g. 20001..20100 AND (possibly include the state/city/metro in various spellings, or the area code, something like this)

if they're searching for linkedin, twitter, facebook type profiles, look for them to include site:whateversource.com and then geographic criteria

"federal government AND (financial or ERP)" - not sure what you mean by financial, do you mean financial softwares? or accountant etc? you'd need to be more specific before testing them. fed government they could have various things like ("department of" OR federal OR "security clearance") etc but a lot more than this, things pertaining to agencies. they could include inurl:gov, a ton of things here.

"Engagement or Account Manager" anything like (sales OR "of sales" OR "account manager")*government

try to clarify the "financial" part though

[Medhavi]

Hi Dottie,

Erp is fine however as Paul has mentioned financial part isn't cleared as it could not be an alternative to erp. Similarly it would be great if you can specify the position as well as the title- "Account manager" is mainly used in sales/business development while engagement managers are mainly involved in strategic, operational, project control or advisory role.

Medhavi

[Dottie Regan]

It looks like these are sales reps that will be selling financial software auditing products to the government. What would you make the string look like in that case? I was also looking at area codes 202, 240, 301, 571 and 703 verses the zip codes, as they gone on forever! Thanks so much for any feedback you can give. Also, would you personally accept a search assignment where someone just gave you those three lines of info and said see what you come back with? I've never had a client want to test before.