SOURCING STRATEGY -RECRUITMENTA SESSION ON BOOLEAN SEARCH

Durga PalakurthyLateral Hiring TeamAvance Consulting

SOURCING & METHODS

Sourcing is a process of finding resumes with in the recruitment process.Sourcing is focussed on identification, assessment and engagement of skilled worker/candidates through proactive recruiting techniquesMethods:Boolean Search on GoogleJob Board SourcingSocial Sourcing

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BOOLEAN SEARCHGeorge Boole – Born on 2 November 1815 in England was known for his BooleanAlgebra ,A system of Symbolic algebra

Most searchable computer databases/search engines support Boolean searching

When performing a Boolean search, you must first choose keywords that best describe your topic. Then you must connect the keywords using operators.

Please note, every search engine has it's own uniqueness and it would return different search results

Now, let us see how Boolean Logic helps in our searches.

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BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Basic Search Operators:AND, OR and NOTBoolean Search ModifiersASTERISK*PARENTHESES()QUOTATION MARKS “”

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Google Field Commands:Inurl:Site:Intitle:

BOOLEAN OPERATORS IN DETAIL

AND - The AND operator provides results with the terms you input. For example, searching "Java" and "Architect" will return pages with both terms - Architect

and Java 

 OR - The OR operator gives results with either of the terms you requested. For example, "Business Development Manager" OR "Account Manager" 

NOT - The NOT operator will not deliver show words in your search results. For example, Hunter NOT Farmer will deliver closer results for Hunter not farmer. 

( ) Parentheses - The ( ) operator allows you to group terms and build longer search strings. For example, Business Development Manager (Banking AND Finance) will deliver search results who are Business Development Manager in the Banking and Financial domain / who works for Banking / Finance organization. 

* - The * operator is a wild card. Adding a wild card will find words contain the wild card. For example admin* will help so you do not have to run separate searches for words similar like: Admin, Administration, Administrator 

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BOOLEAN STRINGS BY KEYWORD -EXAMPLES(app or apps or application)(“BA” or “business analyst” or “business analysis”)(“BI” or “business intelligence”)(“business analyst” or “business analysis”  or ba or ccba or cbap or “business

systems analyst”)(LAMP or (linux and apache and mysql and (perl or php or python)(mobile or android or iphone or ios or blackberry)(network or system or os or nos or “operating systems”)(network or networking or system or systems or “operating systems” or

“information systems”)(“oo” or “object oriented” or object-oriented or “OOP”)(“project manager” or “project management” or PMP)(“ui” or user-interface or “user interface”)(“ux” or user-experience or “user experience”)(Storage or SAN or NAS ) 

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BOOLEAN STRINGS BY JOB TITLE.Net Developer.Net and (VS or “Visual Studio”) and (VB or “Visual Basic” or VB.net) and (ASP or

ASP.net) and (C# or C#.net ) and “SQL Server”Android Developer

Android and SDK and Java Automation Tester

(“qa” or “quality assurance” or “quality analyst” or “automation tester”) and (“cast” or “cste” or “cmst” or certified or certification)

Business Intelligence Analyst(“Business Intelligence” or “BI”) and SQL and (SSIS or SSRS or SSAS or “integration services” or “reporting services” or “Analysis Services”) and (“Business Analysis” or “Business Analyst” or “System Analysis” or “System Analyst” or “Business System Analyst”)

Database Administrator(“database administration” or “database administrator” or “DB Admin” or DBA) and “database design” and (SQL or “SQL Server”) and (SSIS or SSMS or SSRS or SSAS or “Analysis Services” or “Reporting Services”)

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BOOLEAN STRINGS BY JOB TITLEHelp Desk Support(helpdesk or support or technician or “help desk” or “service desk”) and (OSX or

JDE or iSeries or virtual or virtualization or vmware) and (“AD” or “Active Directory”) and DHCP and DNS and (network or networking) and (switches or switching or routers or routing) and (firewalls or security)

Information Security Manager

“Information Security” and (“Project Manager” or “Project Management” or Leadership or Manager or PMP) and (forensic* or Security+ or CISSP or “security Standards” or “Certified Information Systems Security Professional” ) 

Linux Systems Administrator

(Unix or Linux) and (RedHat or “Red Hat” or Centos or Debian) and (SMTP or DHCP or DNS or LDAP or NFS or SMTP or HTTP or SNMP) and (“Systems Administrator” or “System Administrator” or “Systems Administration” or “System Administration”)

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BOOLEAN STRINGS BY JOB TITLE

PHP DeveloperPHP and SQL and (PostgreSQL or “Pervasive SQL” or Intranet or Linux or Apache or Javascript or HTML or CSS)

Python Developer(programmer or developer or engineer) and python and (mysql or “my sql” or “my-sql”or postgresql) and (django or flask )

Senior PHP Developer(programmer or developer or engineer) and “php” and “sql” and lamp and linux and apache and “javascript” and (jquery or memcache or “apc cache” or nosql or “no sql” or “no-sql” or analytical or analysis)

SharePoint Developer(“SharePoint Designer” or “SharePoint Developer”) and (html or css or xsl or xslt or javascript or jquery or ajax) and .net and (asp.net or C# or vb.net) and (Silverlight or “SQL Server” or SSRS or SSAS or “reporting services” or “analysis services”)

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BOOLEAN STRINGS BY JOB TITLE

Sr. Data Warehouse Architect & Developer(architect or develop* or program* or engineer) and “sql server” and “data

warehousing” and perl and (microstrategy or profiler or “data hygiene” or “etl” or computations or aggregations or analy* or quer* or index or design or deploy or test)

Sr. Linux Administrator(“dba” or “database administrator” or “linux administrator”) and linux and apache and (redhat or fedora or centos) and vmware and (tomcat or mysql)

Web Designerhtml and javascript and css and (photoshop or illustrator or adobe) and (flash or actionscript or macromedia) and (“Java Server Pages” or JSP or Java or “Active Server Pages” or ASP or “Google Web Toolkit” or XML or Oracle or IIS) and SQL

Web Developer(html or html5) and (css3 or css) and javascript and (“Web Developer” or “Web Design” or xml or jquery or ajax)

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SOME IMPORTANT TIPS

Sourcing requires judgement, creativity, analysis, common sense and pattern Recognition

Understand Title , Skills and Concepts Analyse and Define relationship between words

and concepts Intuit and infer experience by context (resume

parsing)Many best people have average resumesThink and Perform research on JDNo single search can find all qualified candidates. So

find using successive search and mutually exclusive filtering

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FOR BETTER RESULTS:

Run multiple searchesStart with maximum Qualifications (See MAX

/MIN Slide)Use the NOT Operator to systematically filterEnd with minimum

qualifications

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MAX/ MIN

Required : A, B, C Desired: D,E Implicitly: FA +B +C + D + E +FA+ B + C + D +E + ( NOT F)A+ B + C +D + NOT E + FA+ B + C + NOT D + E + FA + B +C + NOT D + NOT E + FA + B + C + D +NOT E + NOT FA + B + C + NOT D+ E + NOT FA+ B + C + NOT D + NOT E + NOT F

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Dr. Michio Kaku believes the job market of the future will be “dominated by jobs involving common sense (e.g. leadership, judgment, entertainment, art, analysis, creativity) and pattern recognition (e.g. vision and non- repetitive jobs)

That’s good news for Sourcers and recruiters who perform sourcing!

 Sourcing requires judgment, creativity, analysis, common sense and pattern recognition (instantly making sense of human capital data).Human Sourcers

have dynamic ability to learn, understand and instantly relate new concepts and through direct experience and observation

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Sourcers of the future will be human capital data analysts who are experts in HCDIR & A – Human Capital Data Information Retrieval and Analysis

HAPPY SOURCING