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."

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. 

So, as the year winds down and the rest of the office is on PTO, take a minute away from watching endless streams of YouTube videos at your desk and refreshing your Facebook page to download these worksheets – Boolean Cheat Sheet and X-Ray Search For Recruiters – and give yourself a cheat sheet for 2015 searches before you watch the next cat video. 

Shout-out toProminence for their help in creating these downloadable PDFs that can help you beef up your Boolean skills. You can contact them via e-mail at speaktous@socialprominence.co or via phone at +64 9 551 1516.