How to exclude college grads?

[Irina Shamaeva]

One of the webinar participants last Friday asked an interesting question: "Can you give an example using the NOT search to exclude college grads?"

So, if we are looking for people who have several years of experience after college, what can we use in our Google searches? Below I will suggest several substrings that can be used that I came up with.

If we can think of some words that are likely to show up in recent grad's resumes, we can try to exclude them. (What would those words be?)

Perhaps we chould try to exclude .edu sites from the search.
-site:edu

Perhaps only recent grads are likely to list their classes? We could exclude
-"classes taken"

or similar expressions.

It might be a better approach is to use words that are likely to be on resumes of experienced people.

One idea that comes to mind is to use the numrange function and include years that would likely be on resumes of experienced people.

intitle:resume | inurl:resume 1990..2005 [keywords]

Or, we can include this:

"2..7 years * experience"

which will bring resumes of people with anywhere from 2 to 7 years of experience.

We can try to use the word experienced (exacltly):

+experienced

or other words along those lines like accomplished, ...

We could use words (perhaps verbs) that apply to work experience rather than college experience. If it's a software engineer, the work experience would be described by one or more of:
implemented, designed, maintained, lead, etc.

What are some other ideas?

[Kameron Swinton]

One thing I've found is to use -intern or -internship, people generally remove these from their resume after they've been out of college a few years.

-kameron

[Kelly Dobbins]

Try eliminating GPA scores and test scores, like GRE, SAT, etc. as well. Irina's number range command for more than x years ago works pretty well too! 1990..2004 for example.