Call them purple squirrels or whatever you want, but finding candidates isn’t so easy. Your job is to find those (fill in whatever animal and color you want here), and to find them before they’re talking to someone else about another opportunity. But without the right skills, the hunt takes time.

And you know the saying “time is money.” That is never truer than in our fast-paced, candidate driven industry. You need to be faster than the other recruiters and if you’re just getting started in recruiting or sourcing, your Boolean searching skills probably aren’t cutting it.

Now, I’m going to stop bs-ing on Boolean because we both know you didn't click on this article to read about squirrels. Bottom line, we’ve made it easy for you to find the right candidates with these 25 searches written by our own sourcing expert Ryan Leary.