The document provides tips for using Google to search for resumes online. It recommends using Boolean operators like "intitle:" and "inurl:" to search for resumes that mention the word in the title or URL. It also suggests using minus signs to exclude irrelevant or false positive results. The document further discusses targeting local resumes using area codes, zip codes, and state names to find candidates in a specific location. Finally, it notes that search results may include outdated resumes, and advises using Google's custom time range feature to focus on more recent postings.

1. HOWTO GOOGLE RESUME IN GOOGLE
PREPARED AND PRESENTED
Padmanaban Marimuthu

2. WHY GOOGLE
 There are many good reasons to use
Google instead of a job boards. For
example, when you use the
advanced search feature in LinkedIn,
the results are Limited and
Prioritized by results in your specific
network. When you search on
Google, you have full access to the
range of profiles.
 While using keywords to find the
right resource seems
straightforward, the reality is quite
different. Effectively using Boolean
search and knowing how to navigate
Google can separate finding good
talent from being lost and
floundering in the midst of search
engine results

3. BOOLEAN OPERATORS IN GOOGLE

4. TO BE SPECIFIC
intitle: inurl:

5. INTITLE
 intitle:The query intitle:term restricts results to documents containing term in the title. For instance, [ flu shot
intitle:help ] will return documents that mention the word “help” in their titles, and mention the words “flu” and
“shot” anywhere in the document (title or not).
 Note:There must be no space between the intitle: and the following word.
 Putting intitle: in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting allintitle: at the front of your query, e.g.,
[ intitle:google intitle:search ] is the same as [ allintitle: google search ].

6. INURL
 If you include inurl: in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the URL.
For instance, [ inurl:print site:www.googleguide.com ] searches for pages on Google Guide in which the URL
contains the word “print.” It finds pdf files that are in the directory or folder named “print” on the Google Guide
website.The query [ inurl:healthy eating ] will return documents that mention the words “healthy” in their URL,
and mention the word “eating” anywhere in the document.
 Note:There must be no space between the inurl: and the following word.
 Putting inurl: in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting allinurl: at the front of your query, e.g.,
[ inurl:healthy inurl:eating ] is the same as [ allinurl: healthy eating ].
 In URLs, words are often run together.They need not be run together when you’re using inurl:.

7. SEARCH OPERATORS
 OR – Search for either one, such as "price high OR low" searches for "price" with "high" or "low"(paramvee).
 "-" – Search while excluding a word, such as "apple -tree" searches where word "tree" is not used.
 "+" – (Removed on October 19, 2011). Force inclusion of a word, such as "Name +of +the Game" to require the words "of" & "the"
to appear on a matching page.
 "*" – Wildcard operator to match any words between other specific words.
 intitle: – Prefix to search in a webpage title, such as "intitle:google search" will list pages with word "google" in title, and word
"search" anywhere (no space after "intitle:").
 inurl: – Prefix for each word to be found in the URL; others words are matched anywhere, such as "inurl:acme search" matches
"acme" in a URL, but matches "search" anywhere (no space after "inurl:").
 synonym search – A search can match words similar to those specified, by placing the tilde sign (~) immediately in front of a search
term, such as: ~fast food.
 numeric ranges – A set of numbers can be matched by using a double-dot between range numbers (70..73 or 90..100) to match any
positive number in the range, inclusive. Negative numbers are treated as using exclusion-dash to not match the number.

8. TARGETING RESUMES IN GOOGLE
 When using Google to search specifically for resumes, it’s a
good idea to begin by searching for the word “resume” in
the title and/or the url of web pages.
 For example: (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume)
 Here is a sample result to illustrate how this works – we can
see the word “Resume” in the blue TITLE line, as well as in
the green URL line. The first line of any search result is the
title of the webpage, and the url is the specific web page’s
address.
 Targeting the word “resume” in the title and/or url is very
handy, because for many people, it’s simply common
sense/instinct to either title the web page containing their
resume with the word “resume,” and/or save their resume
using the word “resume” in the name of the file. -

9. ELIMINATING FALSE POSITIVE RESULTS
 A “false positive” result is a search result that
contains your search terms, but does not match the
“essence” of what you are actually trying to find. For
example – if you’re searching for resumes, there are
many sites that will be returned in your search
results that are in fact not resumes, such as sites
advertising resume samples and job postings that
mention phrases such as, “resume Writing …” -

10.  In order to remove most non-resume false positive
results, you can use Google’s version of the Boolean
NOT operator, which is the minus sign, to prevent
your search from returning results with words such
as sample, job, etc.
 For example: (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) -job -
jobs -sample -samples
 Other ideas of terms you can try to eliminate that
may return false positive results:
 -eoe -submit -free -”resume service” -template -
”resume service” -”resume writers” -”resume
writing”

11. TARGETING LOCAL RESUMES
 Some people who decide to make their resume
available on the Internet also decide to publish a phone
number. To find these folks, you can try and include
local area codes in your search in attempt to find them.
 Here is an example of a search using area codes to
target people who live in Cary, NC : (intitle:resume OR
inurl:resume) -job -jobs -sample -samples -“resume
service” (919 OR 984)
 What you’ll notice, however, is that searching for area
codes can easily produce false positive results, as can be
seen in the screenshot below – which are the first 2
results from the search. Result #4 mention the number
984, but it’s not referenced as an area code, so they are
false positive, non-local results.

12.  To clean up the false positive results that mention 919 or
894 but are not of resumes of people who live in Cary, NC
you can add the state and state abbreviation to the search
as well as exclude more non-resume terms and phrases:
 (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) -job -jobs -sample -
samples -template -”resume service” -”resume writers” -
”resume writing” (919 OR 894) (NC OR North Carolina)
 While there are still a good number of non-resume false
positive results, this can be expected because we didn’t
even search for any keywords/skills. Once we do, we will
notice a significant drop off in false positives

13. USING ZIP CODES
 Another way to search for local resumes is to target a zip
code radius.
 Using a central zip code of 27511 in Cary, NC and targeting
a 4 mile radius, we can use that zip code radius application
to get a range of zip codes from a low zip code of 27511 to
a high zip code of 27513.
 Java (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) -job -jobs -sample -
samples -”resume service” 27511..27513 (NC OR North
Carolina)
 Sample results: you can see the zip code search worked
beautifully

14. BE AWARE
 Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when
searching for local resumes:
 Not everyone will publish a phone number on their resume
 If they do publish a phone number on their resume, it could
be a cell phone with a non-local area code if they relocated
from another area – this is why is can be helpful to search
for zip codes as well as area codes
 If they don’t publish a phone number at all, they should at
least mention a city and/or state

15. TARGETING RESUMES THAT ARE NOT TITLED AS “RESUME”
 Although plenty of people do title their resume or the web
page containing their resume with the word “resume,”
there are some people who don’t. After searching for all of
the results that DO contain the word “resume” in the URL
or title of the web page, you need to try to eliminate them
from future search results using Google’s NOT operator, the
minus sign, to specifically target the results that don’t
mention resume in the title or URL.
 Don’t be tempted to try and write that as -(inurl:resume OR
intitle:resume), because Google will not read that search
string in the manner in which you intend. Instead of
eliminating results with the word “resume” in either the
URL or the title, Google will in fact will do the exact
opposite.
 Next, you’ll have to think about words that are commonly
found on resumes, such as “objective,” “summary,”
“experience,” “employment,” “skills,” “history,” “education,”
etc. Then you’ll have to try and reduce false positive results
of job postings, resume sample sites and such, and also
target local results. Putting it all together, your search
string could look like this:

16.  Java -intitle:resume -inurl:resume (objective OR summary)
(experience OR history) education -job -jobs -sample -
samples 27511..27513 (NC OR North Carolina)

17.  Here comes the next question …How genuine these
resumes are ….is these resumes current dated or its
an old ones
 I have a solution for you. After your final keywords
you need to click the Tab Search Tools in the google
page.
 Then select Custom Range under Anytime.. You will
get the resumes posted on the given time frame
.
 You can’t change your Country where you browse
from, Google had blocked that option.

18. CONCLUSION
 I’ve provided you with a quick overview of how to
effectively utilize Google to search for resumes on the
Internet. Be aware though - all is not perfect in when
hunting for resumes in google.
 I gave you an outline how to source a resume from google
now its your turn to add some keywords to end up with
your perfect search in google.

19. THANKS
Prepared and Presented by
Feel free to write to me if you have any questions
Marimuthu.padmanaban@gmail.com