I need a string

[Ashley Batstone]

Looking for a PC/LAN Engineer needing the following experience (plus more):
x86 platforms
boot to SAN experience
MS Cluster Services
Altiris
Enterprise Servers
Red Hat Linux
VB Scripting

Can anyone help?

[gary cozin]

Ashley-

You can try the following string in Google:

site:linkedin.com ("network engineer" | "lan engineer") ("VB Scripting" | linux | "Enterprise Servers" | Altiris | "MS Cluster" | SAN | x86) "greater new york city area" (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory

You will need to modify/refine to produce less results . Please play and change the key words & locations - when I included 'all' your specs together by removing the | symbol (which represents 'OR'), it didn't produce any results- so you'll need to 'play' with it further-

Gary

[Dave Copps]

Hi Ashley. We see this problem in search all the time. If you build a search query requiring ALL of those terms and phrases you will find practically no one - too many required terms. Some products will break your search up and run (LAN Engineer AND x86) and then (LAN Engineer AND Altiris) etc.... and then order the results by frequency (which candidates occured in the result list of most searches). This really does not work very well. Ask your client which skills are MUST HAVES (dont apply unless you have it) and which ones would be NICE TO HAVE. From there you can build your boolean strings.

Gary's string below is excellent. Narrow it by putting a plus sign in front of a MUST HAVE term at the front of the query. for instance if Linux was absolutely required the query would look like this:

site:linkedin.com +linux ("network engineer" | "lan engineer") ("VB Scripting" | "Enterprise Servers" | Altiris | "MS Cluster" | SAN | x86) "greater new york city area" (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory

Your results go down from 21,000 to about 200 or so.

hope this helps!

Dave

[Dave Copps]

Also Instead of using "microsoft cluster" - use MSCS. Might also axe LAN engineer and use Network Engineer.

Good Luck.

Davo

[gary cozin]

Dave - thanks for your compliment!

Dave Copps said:

Hi Ashley. We see this problem in search all the time. If you build a search query requiring ALL of those terms and phrases you will find practically no one - too many required terms. Some products will break your search up and run (LAN Engineer AND x86) and then (LAN Engineer AND Altiris) etc.... and then order the results by frequency (which candidates occured in the result list of most searches). This really does not work very well. Ask your client which skills are MUST HAVES (dont apply unless you have it) and which ones would be NICE TO HAVE. From there you can build your boolean strings.

Gary's string below is excellent. Narrow it by putting a plus sign in front of a MUST HAVE term at the front of the query. for instance if Linux was absolutely required the query would look like this:

site:linkedin.com +linux ("network engineer" | "lan engineer") ("VB Scripting" | "Enterprise Servers" | Altiris | "MS Cluster" | SAN | x86) "greater new york city area" (inurl:pub | inurl:in) -intitle:directory

Your results go down from 21,000 to about 200 or so.

hope this helps!

Dave