Archive for November, 2011

How to Convert Quotation Marks in Word for Boolean Searches

Tweet Have you ever used Microsoft Word to build and save Boolean search strings to be able to copy and paste entire searches into LinkedIn, Monster, Dice, or your ATS ? I did for quite some time, until I ran into a problem. Many years ago, I noticed that several sites, including Monster, Dice, and [...]

Best Practices, Boolean Search Tips and Tricks, How-To's

Bing’s Semantic Search, Phonetics and Undocumented Operator

Tweet I was recently performing some searches on Bing and came across something curious that I had never noticed before. I’m not exactly sure if what I found is new or simply something I’ve overlooked in the past. I updated Twitter with “Did you know that Bing supports the + query modifier?” on November 10th, wondering if [...]

Bing, Google, Semantic Search, x-ray search

Boolean Search Strings, Referrals and Source of Hire

Tweet I read an article on ERE about the other day titled “Love Writing Boolean Instead of Recruiting? Then Don’t Read This Post.” While I happen to be pretty good at and thoroughly enjoy writing Boolean queries for talent mining, I actually love the entire recruiting life cycle. Sourcing is a means to an end, [...]

Boolean, Human Capital Data, Information Retrieval, Job Boards, Referral Recruiting, Source of Hire, Sourcing Automation