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For Becoming
a Sourcing Superhero
Tim Collins,
Chief IT Recruiter
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Contents
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About Sta!ink
• Do you have trouble finding job candidates with the skills you need?
• Are you looking for professionals with highly in-demand skills?
• Do you waste your time sorting through unqualified resumes?
Keep reading and discover the latest and greatest strategies for
sourcing talent.
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Understanding
AND, OR and NOT
Use AND to find pages that contain all of the search terms
Use OR to find pages that contain either of the search terms or both of
the search terms.
Use NOT (or a minus sign) to eliminate search terms and remove
unwanted pages from your search results (-job -jobs removes job
postings so you can find more resumes)
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Building the
perfect search string
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Put the minus sign (-) right before that keyword (no space) and add it
to the end of your search string. This eliminates those unwanted items
from your search results.
For example, put -job -jobs at the end of your search string to eliminate
job postings from your results.
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Use quotation marks to search for search terms with more than one
word, such as “business analyst” and “capital markets”
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Mortgage Advisor
(inurl:resume OR cv OR vitae) (mortgage* advisor) Toronto -job -jobs -court
Financial Planner
(inurl:resume OR cv OR vitae) (“financial planner” OR “wealth management” OR
“risk management”) Toronto -job -jobs
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Sourcing on Blogs,
Portfolios, Github and
Videos
Blogs, portfolios, Github and videos are gold mines for finding job
candidates. People who share their expertise online tend to be
creative, generous and passionate about their work.
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Go to recruitin.net, select a tab on the left, fill in the blanks and POW…
Recruit’em builds the search string for you.
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Here’s how:
Recruit’em gives you two options: To save search string or to open the
search results in Google.
Click Open in Google to see the search results. Now you can tweak the
search string to get even better results.
However, after you open the search in Google, you can add search
terms and use the OR operator if you want to make your search more
specific.
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