Creative ways to source within Google Docs

 Google Docs is a free resource created by Google to help asset users in so many different ways. For example it can help with content, to creating presentations, to working in (excel) sheets. It something that I use on a weekly basis to work on many different types of projects. Google Docs is a great way to auto-save and maybe it’s the one thing you didn’t notice. Documents or projects can be saved and viewed publicly online. With the help of Boolean and x-raying Recruiters and search across a ton of public content. You can virtually search endless amounts of content. But, for Recruiters searching for resumes, books, patents, or presentations can help discover more candidates online.

 

Below are creative ways to source within Google Docs:

 

1. Basic Boolean String to Find Resumes:

I recommend creating a basic string to find resumes. I would start my searching for a particular job title and then expand on require skills and preferred locations.  Below is an example for searching Google Docs for resume titles. 

site:docs.google.com developer “San Francisco” intitle:resume -example -sample -samples -jobs

 

(Advanced) Resume Boolean String Examples:

I’ve included more advanced searches that expand on resume keywords. I’ve also included a string that strictly focused on finding accounts that include Gmail address info. 

site:docs.google.com developer Atlanta (intitle:resume OR intitle:cv) -example -sample -samples -jobs

site:docs.google.com developer “San Francisco” (resume OR CV OR “curriculum vitae”) -example –
sample -samples -jobs

site:docs.google.com developer “* * @gmail.com” -example -sample -samples -jobs

 

2. Searching in Documents

This example will help search with the document folders within Google Docs. Users can save documents within these folders. 

site:docs.google.com/document/ developer “San Francisco” intitle:resume -example -sample -samples -jobs

 

3. Searching in Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are similar to an Excel document. You can search for directories, participants, to conference attendees list. Just consider what someone might create within a spreadsheet and create a string. 

site:docs.google/com/spreadsheets/ developer (contacts OR participants OR directory OR registrants OR attendees) -example

site:docs.google.com/spreadsheets / “staff directory” -example

 

4. Searching in Forms 

Forms are documents that showcase survey information. You can search for names and other info that someone might ask within a survey.  You can search for participant names, list directories, and other company data intel. 

site:docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ Responses (contacts OR participants OR directory OR
registrants OR attendees) -example
site:docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ Responses “email * * com|net|org” -example
site:docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ “List of *” (contacts OR participants OR directory OR
registrants OR attendees) -example

 

5. Searching in Presentations

You can search for topics and find individuals who have presented within the space. It’s virtually endless for what you could search for within Presentations. 

site:docs.google.com/presentation/ docker -example
site:docs.google.com/presentation/ docker “email * *” -example
site:docs.google.com/presentation/ “organizational chart” -example

 

There’s so many different ways to search within Google Docs. I hope these suggestions above will help you find some great candidates online. 

Quick and easy way to Search for Mechanical Engineers on LinkedIn who are either not working or openly looking out for suitable roles :

Quick and easy way to Search for Mechanical Engineers on LinkedIn who are either not working or openly looking out for suitable roles :

(in this example i have used India - Country Code, if you are in the US, then you need to remove the country code after site: and replace "+91" with "+1")

"This search pulls 211 results"

If don't have time to go through a Long list, then this search is for you.

(intitle:"#opentowork" OR intitle:looking OR intitle:immediate OR intitle:immediately OR intitle:sabbatical OR intitle:available OR intitle:"career break" OR intitle:unemployed OR intitle:"un-employed" OR intitle:"not employed" OR intitle:"not working" OR intitle:"new role" OR intitle:"new opportunity" OR intitle:"new opportunities") site:in.linkedin.com/in intitle:"mechanical engineer" -intitle:graduate -intitle:fresher

Directly getting to the Full Resume Landing Pages on Behance.

Directly getting to the Full Resume Landing Pages on Behance.

In this example i am looking for GRAPHIC DESIGNERS from Bangalore.

In SEARCH 1, I have eliminated Management Professionals

AS WELL AS

Freelancers & Trainers

(Let's just say that our Client Hiring Managers are looking for fill Positions between 5 to 10 years and are not interested to consider Freelancers OR Trainers & they want people who are currently situated at Bangalore)

SEARCH NO : 1 (Though Google Results No. is not always accurate - it shows : 1,420 results for the below search, which is a Steal as you are getting it for FREE)

site:behance.net/*/resume ("Graphic Designer"|"Graphic Design" AROUND 20 "work experience") ("bangalore"|"bengaluru" AROUND 20 "Graphic Designer"|"Graphic design") -founder -ceo -director -"vice president" -freelance -freelancer -freelancing -trainer

SEARCH NO : 2 (we are re-visiting those Profiles which we had excluded in SEARCH 1 to check if some of the Freelancers OR Trainers are currently working with Organizations as Employees)

site:behance.net/*/resume ("Graphic Designer"|"Graphic Design" AROUND 20 "work experience") ("bangalore"|"bengaluru" AROUND 20 "Graphic Designer"|"Graphic design") -founder -ceo -director -"vice president" ("freelance"|"freelancer"|"freelancing"|"trainer" AROUND * "work experience")

Searching Developers Using X-Ray Boolean Searches

 

Searching Developers Using X-Ray Boolean Searches:

"Find Developers with Proficiency in JAVA from Bengaluru OR Bangalore who are Globally Ranked in the Top 1%"

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") (intext:"Language overview" intext:"Java " intext:"India") (intext:bengaluru OR intext:bangalore)

OR

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") ("Language overview" "Java " "India") (bengaluru OR bangalore)

"Both Searches return the same number of results"

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"Find Developers with Proficiency in JAVA from Bengaluru OR Bangalore who are Globally Ranked in the Top 1% OR Top 2%"

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" OR "Top 2" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") (intext:"Language overview" intext:"Java " intext:"India") (intext:bengaluru OR intext:bangalore)

OR

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" OR "Top 2" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") ("Language overview" "Java " "India") (bengaluru OR bangalore)

"Both Searches return the same number of results"

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"Find Developers with Proficiency in JAVA from India who are Globally Ranked in the Top 1%"

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") (intext:"Language overview" intext:"Java " intext:"India")

OR

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") ("Language overview" "Java " "India")

"Both Searches return the same number of results"

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"Find Developers with Proficiency in JAVA (from anywhere) who are Globally Ranked in the Top 1%"

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") (intext:"Language overview" intext:"Java ")

OR

site:profile.codersrank.io/user/ "Scores & Badges" ("Top 1" AROUND 5 "Global Rank") ("Language overview" "Java ")

"Both Searches return the same number of results"

Boolean Search on Google to find the Resume

 

•       Boolean Search can be applied on Google to find the resumes too. As we know that people make their personal profiles and post resumes on Internet in large numbers, it is always a good idea to check Google for recruiting purposes too.

•       The Syntax for finding a resume on Google is

  (intitle: Resume OR inURL: Resume OR intitle: CV or inURL: CV) AND (“ Manager” OR “Supervisor”) AND (Test OR Testing OR Test Case OR Test Plans) –jobs –samples –”sample resume” –”Resume writers” (CA OR California)

 (intitle: Resume OR inURL: Resume OR intitle: CV or inURL: CV) AND (“ Mobile” OR “Wireless” AND Chips OR “Semiconductors”) AND (Test OR Testing OR Test Case OR Test Plans) –jobs –samples –”sample resume” –”Resume writers” (CA OR California)

Social recruiting and sourcing tools

360social

360social is a browser plugin allowing you to analyze the full social footprint of people you

want to connect with directly in your browser. The plugin is especially useful for recruiters

because you get to “see everything about anyone” without having to run multiple searches

across platforms. Verified profile information including profile pictures, skills, links to social

media, email addresses and phone numbers are presented in a simple sidebar. The free version

of the plugin covers 140+ social networks. 

Entelo

Entelo software platform leverages big data, predictive analytics, and social signals to help

recruiting organizations find, qualify, and engage with talent. It offers 2 modules: outbound

and inbound recruiting. Entelo pulls in candidates and relevant work experience from

many sources online into one place (eg. from GitHub, Dribbble, Quora, Twitter, and more).

They also offer a kind of “listening” function which helps you track what’s happening with

passive candidates you’ve targeted.

Hired

Hired delivers a curated pool of responsive candidates, so you can spend less time sourcing and

more time interviewing and hiring. Hired is a career marketplace for the world’s knowledge

workers with a great pool of tech professionals and programmers. They’re bringing together

job seekers and the companies who want to hire them. Employers get access to a hand-picked

pool of candidates who are interested in new roles with an unmatched transparency into

competing offers so they can recruit and hire with insight. The end result is an efficient,

effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.

HiringSolved

HiringSolved makes it faster and easier to find the right person for any job. This people

aggregator gathers data from across the web and filters the most relevant ones.

HiringSolved describes itself as “Google for talent”. This platform makes it easy to find

people to hire: it finds and combines data from many sources including resumes, websites,

social profiles, forum posts, and contact information to create a HiringSolved profile.

HiringSolved’s mission is to find everyone and make the information easy to search in a fast,

usable interface.

Recruit’em

Recruit’em is an interesting social recruiting tool that helps recruiters search for candidates

on LinkedIn, Google+, Stack Overflow, GitHub, XING and Twitter. Recruit’em writes complex

Boolean Search Strings for you. Google Search can be a powerful tool to pinpoint the kinds

of social profiles you’re looking for—but anything beyond a simple query can become a real

challenge. This is where Recruit’em can be of great help for IT sourcers and recruiters.

Sourcing.io

Sourcing.io helps identify the best software engineers for your company with millions of

engineers indexed. You can browse and filter the data to find the perfect hire. It also takes

social recruiting into account so your team can use its existing network to find engineers

as the best candidates often come through referrals. Sourcing.io surfaces all of the

people connected to your team on networks like GitHub, Bitbucket and other developer

communities like Stack Exchange to mine top developers with the highest credibility.

How to Scrape Github Profiles easily?

Here is a delightfully easy way to get an Excel spreadsheet from a search for Github users.

1. Install Chome Extension AutoPagerize. It will allow appending the 2nd, 3rd, etc. search results pages to the bottom of the current page, creating one long page that contains all the results (or as many as you wish). It works in Google search results as well as in Github search results.
2. Search for the languages and locations on Github – for example, language:java location:amsterdam:
3. Scroll down, letting AutoPagerize create a long page containing as many results as you wish.
4. Install and run Chome Extension Instant Data Scraper from webrobots.io.

Voila – you can now export scraped, parsed results into Excel:

(Note that in this case there’s no need to locate the “Next” button since all the results are within the page.)

Enjoy!