FREE REPORT – The 2007 Resume Sourcing Survey

Thank you for this initiative, Jim. Anything that takes all the raw data out there and tries to make some sense of it for recruiters is useful. I think a couple of key takeaways for sure are: 1) you can’t just use one major search engine, and even if you do, Google isn’t necessarily your best choice; 2) When searching for resumes by filetype (a good practice if you want to eliminate job postings and other garbage from your results), there are some non-intuitive choices that apparently work better. It will be interesting to see how the industry responds to this, to see what form this analysis should take in future years, and what work by others will build off of it.

Wonderful Job. I am a new recruiter and this is the kind of information that gets me excited about our work.

Thanks.

HI Jim, Thank you for such useful information. As a researcher it does helps me immensely to know what and where and how I should dig for information at the quickest and most accurate method. Your knowledge and experience and your selfess act of sharing it with others are indeed very commendable. I’ve blog on the survey at http://www.letznetwork.blogspot.com/

Jim

You really did a nice job on this Resume Sourcing Survey. I greatly appreciate your methodology of employing a variety of angles as it allows us to draw some credible and actionable insights from your work.

I also appreciate you sharing it with the recruiting community. Thank you for the valuable learnings.

Excellent info. I was really surprised to see php on top of the list among the most overlooked…
My eyes would be open wider for other formats.

Jim, this is outstanding. I especially think the sections on keyword mentions and the top 10 lists based on search engine are valuable. This will certainly help me target specific search engines depending on what industry hat I am wearing on any given day. Well done!!

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Hi Jim and other friends,

I am a new recruiter and I request for your help in sourcing Resumes from the internet.

We extensively use job portals only and that does not give me any edge over the recruiters as everybody subscribes to job portals.

I do not know how to search for Resumes using yahoo/google etc. how so i type keywords lets say for the following skill sets:
C++, Unix, Storage domain?

Could you please help giving me a few examples of how to conduct the search or write the strings for the searches?

regards,

Yes Jim , You are, as yours survey indicate , yahoo has been indexed much more resumes even more than google has no value . As i saw , google always index pages with evaluation of its compareable authoritive and usefullness on the network but yahoo has other criteria that covers wideer webpages.