Different Internet Techniques

Internet Technique that a recruiter must know:-

Ø X-Raying,

Ø Flipping,

Ø Peeling Back,

Ø Search Engine,

Ø Free Sites,

Ø Boolean Operators,

Ø Job Portals,

Ø Blog Directories

Ø Networking Site

X-RAYING:
A method of looking inside a specific web site to find what's there. Using this technique, recruiters can find documents and web pages that aren't directly accessible via links on the main public home page. When you 'x-ray' a website, you effectively get to examine every document that resides there so long as they are not behind firewalls or password protected.
Example: To find any “software engineer” - could be a document/file or a word/phrase within a document that resides within the website Oracle.com.
In Altavista search - host:oracle.com AND software engineer
In Google search - site:www.oracle.com AND software engineer

FLIPPING:
Flipping is an effective method used to find the relationships between web pages based on how they are hyperlinked together. This search is especially useful for finding people who have links to the company or have worked for a specific company.

Flip searching may pull up company directories, email lists, and other company related information. Flip Searching is a powerful tool that can uncover many hidden resumes and candidates.

Example: To find any “software engineer” – could be a document/file or word/phrase that links back to Oracle.com.
In Altavista search - link:oracle.com AND software engineer
In Google search - link:www.oracle.com AND software engineer

PEELING BACK:
As the name suggest Peeling back is the process of “retracing the path” of the url especially when one gets an Error 404 (File not found). This process is engage so as to locate the information elsewhere on the site or locate the specific “root” folder where one can find similar or additional data specific or related to the search.

Internet Recruiters tend to give as much weight to URLs as we do to page descriptions. When we see something interesting in the path of a URL like "people" or "staff" or "meet the staff", etc., we "peel back" the URL to see that page. If we are blocked from viewing the page, we x-ray the page to find the keyword in the URL that will lead us to the page we are seeking.

Example: By peeling back or keying backspace starting from the point where the url ends we can then access the people link from the ce.uta.edu homepage and find the names of all the faculty members.
url: http://www-ce.uta.edu/people/faculty/hoyos/research.html OR
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/mrtg/

We "peel back the URL by highlighting and deleting the right portion of the URL. In this example, we are peeling back to look at a homepage. These are easy to identify, as homepages almost always have a ~ or / in their URL. Peel back till you get home page- http://people.ee.ethz.ch. You will find a link which shows all the names of students and staff members

HARVESTING OR MINING:
Harvesting involves reviewing a document, such as a resume or home page, and finding key words, links, references and locations that assist with subsequent searches.

Some recommended search engines on the Web are:

http://www.Google.com, http://www.Atlavista.com, HotBot.com, InfoSeek.com, http://www.Yahoo.com, http://www.Dogpile.com, msn

FREE POSTINGS

www.Todays-Classifieds.com,www.Job-Ad-venture.com

www.GoFreeLance.com, , www.HireNet.net, www.TheJobBox.com,

www.TheJobSpider.com, www.CareerFile.com, www.JobAhoy.com,

www.JobAdsUsa.com, www.GetJob.us, www.JobKabob.com,

www.Work-At-Home-Jobs.us,

FREE RESUME BANKS/SITES

siliconindia.com, jobdhundo.com, Telecommute-Jobs.com

Passive-Candidates.com (Foreign Countries), Resumezapper.com (Foreign

Countries), ProgrammerBlaster.com, findaresume.com,

scguild.com, Jobvertise.com, DevBistro.com, TheJobSpider.com

ResumeWahoo.com, jobfront.com, SiteExperts.com, contractengineering.com

Jobs.net, ifebp.org, javajobs.com, as400network.com, areajobs.com, naukri 2000.com

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Boolean search operators can drill down and find the information we are looking for faster. These operators are used to weed out irrelevant pages thereby narrowing our search results to find exactly what we are looking for. Boolean keys should be in Capital letters.

But these Boolean operators are different for different search engines.

Boolean Key

AND - The AND operator delivers results with the terms you requested. For example, searching resume and oracle will return pages with both terms - resume and oracle.

OR - The OR operator delivers results with either of the terms you requested. For example, MCSE OR M.C.S.E.

NOT - The NOT operator will not deliver certain words in your search results. For example, Java NOT coffee will deliver closer results for JAVA Programmers and not Java Coffee.

NEAR - The NEAR operator locates words that are located in close proximity to other words. For example, Java NEAR Programmer. Not every search engine supports this operator. It finds words within 10 words of each other. But, not every search engine supports this operator.

( ) Parentheses - The ( ) operator allows you to group terms and build longer search strings. For example, NOT (submit AND employer) will avoid pages with both names.

Wild Card - The * operator is a wild card. Adding a wild card will find words contain the wild card. For example program* will help so you do not have to run separate searches for words similar like: programmer, programming, program

URL Search - searches for pages that have specific word in the URL or web address. Example - url:resume

Page Title - searches for pages that have specific words in page title. Example - title:resume

“ “- Exact phase.

Example of Complex Search String

resume AND (java or JavaScript) AND program* AND (New York or NY or 212) AND NOT (coffee or submit)

* In some case we recommend to go to the advanced search option within the search engine.

Search Engine Quick Guide

.	AltaVista	HotBot	InfoSeek	Northern Light	Snap
AND	resume AND oracle +resume +oracle	resume AND oracle	+resume +oracle	resume AND oracle +resume +oracle	resume AND oracle
OR	resume OR oracle	resume OR oracle	Default is OR automatically	resume OR oracle	resume OR oracle
NOT	resume NOT submit +resume –submit	resume AND NOT submit Select “Must not contain”	+resume -submit	resume NOT submit +resume -submit	resume AND NOT submit Select “Must not contain”
NEAR	oracle NEAR programming (finds words within 10 words of each other)	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported	Not Supported
" "	“sales manager”	Select “Exact Phrase”	“Document must contain exact phrase”	“sales manager”	Select “Exact Phrase”
( )	resume AND (sales OR “sales manager”)	resume AND (sales OR “sales manager”)	Not Supported	resume AND (sales OR “sales manager”)	resume AND (sales OR “sales manager”)
* (Wild Card)	develop* (finds develop or developer or any other word starting with develop)	Not Supported	Not Supported	* replaces multiple characters, % replaces one character	Not Supported
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