Searching ALL Craigslist resumes with one string!

Here’s a way to search ALL Craigslist resumes at once, without having to go city by city, and running the same search over and over again. I think I’ve found a solution that is much faster and way more effective! In any case, it’s a good bit of information to have, just in case you ever need it.

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So I see a common denominator when opening the resume link of any craigslist sub-site. It is the change in city. The things that stay the same across the entire site are craigslist.org and the inclusion of /res/ in the URL…example:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/res/
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/res/
http://dallas.craigslist.org/res/

If you are narrowing your search further there would be a sub region added to the URL, but I wouldn’t recommend it…example:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/res/ 
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/res/

http://newyork.craigslist.org/res/ 
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/res/

Since we don’t want to narrow the search geographically we want to isolate the common factors. And since the titles are different, depending on the author of the posting, we want to exclude an intitle: operator. The things we want to have remain in the search string would be craigslist.org and res. The commands would be site:craigslist.org AND inurl:res Just put these commands in your normal Boolean String.

Here’s what I was thinking as an example: Software (engineer OR developer OR architect) C++ site:craigslist.org inurl:res  or inurl:/res/ (whichever command would have higher yield)

Try it out…and tell me what you think? Let me know if you have any questions about this.