Brief, pithy and to the point. You might know about targeting free resumes via the title tag in Altavista or Alltheweb, but are you aware of how many more resources Google offers you to find the same thing?
Google is a recruiter's dream, yes it is. It results are based upon link popularity (among other criteria) so you can be assured your searches will yield you a much more targeted selection of documents for your needs.
Google doesn't use the OR construct. Thus, the more keywords you use, the fewer results you'll get (because you're providing more and more specifications).
Some of Google's special search thingees include:
intitle: (corresponds to the title tag). intitle:resume should return results that have the word 'resume' within the title.
allintitle: makes sure all the words specified show up in the title tag. allintitle:resume engineer will return pages that have the word 'resume' and 'engineer' in the title. Oddly, note how no quotes were required.
inurl: (corresponds to the url tag). inurl:resume will return pages like http://www.lingstar.com/docs/resume.html (yes I mocked that up for a photo shoot for one of my books. Note the teapot reference).
allinurl: all the words specified shows up in the URL! allinurl:resume new will return pages like http://www.dis.org/dice/resume-new.doc
site: (correesponds with the host: or domain: tag) site:free-for-recruiters.com will return results only from that site.
You can learn more about what's available at http://www.google.com/help/operators.html
So! How can you take advantage of this rather superb ability in Google? Let's say you wanted to target resumes from Unix professionals in near NYC. NYC's area code is 212: you could search for:
intitle:resume "New York" 212 unix
You could then vary the area code and state to target NJ and surrounding locales.
Try the following interesting searches:
resume inurl:resumes.*.com
"view resumes" intitle:resume
The above touches only the tip of the solar system regarding what you can accomplish with Google... upcoming ezines will reveal even more.
Have a Great Search.Good Luck.
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