Advanced Google Search for Recruiters

We all know how powerful Google is and how internet recruiting has revolutionized the hiring process. Nearly everyone has placed their resume online at some point or another. But that means there are millions of resumes online. At the time of this writing a Google search for the term, "resume speech pathologist", returned 174,000 results. Who has the time to sift through all these pages in search of the required information. Fortunately Google has built-in capabilities that will help internet recruiters narrow their search results and decrease the amount of time spent doing sifting through search results.

The "+" Search

The good people at google have programmed the search engine to ignore phrases like "how", "where", "the", also digits and numbers and letters are often ignored. They feel these are unimportant, slow down the search process itself and don't improve the search results.

Example: the search term "resume speech pathologist +CCCSLP" returns 697 results; with the first page having more useful information than the first several pages had in our first example above. Remember, place a space before your plus sign.

The Synonym Search (~)

From time to time, one may need to search not only for the search term, but for it's synonyms as well. In that case, use the tilde (~) before the word in the search.

Example: Here's how to search for both speech pathologist and speech therapist.

"resume speech ~pathologist"

The OR Search

To include pages that include either of two search terms, one only needs to use the OR operator.

Example: "resume speech pathologist geriatric OR SNF"

The Domain Search

Google can be used to search within a specific domainas well.

Example: To search for a resume on the linkedin.com site use a term like this:

"resume speech pathologist site:www.linkedin.com"

Finally, using the Google advanced page offers even more chances to narrow a search and improve the quality of pages one receives. One can search using various parameters like: a date range, limits results from other countries with the region restrictions offered; find pages in english only and more.

So as you can see, an internet recruiter can easily find a wealth of information, quickly, by using the above operators and making use of the advanced search page on Google.

About the Author

TM Claude is President and CEO of SpeechJob.US, the web's leading source of jobs relating to Speech Language Pathology.

http://www.speechjob.us

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Comment by Jason Simmons on February 23, 2011 at 1:36pm: TM, while I agree with the above comments. There are MUCH better search algorithms out there to manipulate/target Google, yahoo, bing and the like. This is the most generic of any search string or Boolean technology. Anyone agree with me on this? Have you heard of Shelly Stacker; if not spend the next 20 minutes googling him and watch a video.

J

Comment by TM Claude on February 23, 2011 at 1:57pm: My plan was to start slowly and provide more information in future posts. Thanks for your contribution. ....Always someone who wants to out-know ya

Comment by Amber on February 23, 2011 at 2:47pm: TM, thanks for the post. I am still learning search techniques so everything helps in my case!

Regarding Jason's comment above; the correct name is Shally Steckerl. (Makes googling him easier...)

Comment by Jason Simmons on February 23, 2011 at 3:00pm: TM, my comment was not intended to out "know-ya". Apologies if it came off in that way. I was just trying to add constructive value to the post. It might have helped to know you were planning on adding additional information at a later date. Amber you are 100% corrent! :-)

J