Berger Bites: Results Ranking in Live.com
Most search engine enthusiasts know that many resumes we find are quite dated. I see resumes regularly that have not been updated in five or six years. I am a big believer that the date of the last update is not necessarily a factor in deciding whether to try and reach a likely prospect. Many people live and work at the same place for a much longer time period than that. Having said that, I realize many would rather at least start with the most recent postings, especially if there are a lot of results to review.
The Live.com search engine makes that easy for you to do. The first step is to run your search. Once your results are in view, click the link to Advanced. Here is a screen shot of what you will see.
And here is a close up of the Advanced window. Notice the last entry, Results Ranking.
When you click on the Results Ranking link. Here is a screen shot of the window you will see next.
And now a close up of the Results Ranking window.
Grab the slider bar with your mouse and push it up towards Updated Recently. Then close the window. You will notice a new search term in the live.com search query box. If you pushed the bar all the way to the top it will look like this:
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From here just run your search again and the most recently posted or updated results will appear at the beginning of your search results.
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Mark E. Berger, CPC, AIRS CIR has been recruiting since before most of you were born. He has been involved in Internet recruiting and sourcing since its infancy in the early nineties starting with classified ads on AOL and Compuserve. Many resources on recruitment technology, including those for Internet passive candidate sourcing and recruiter databases can be found by visiting his website at www.swatrecruiting.com.
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Hello Jim! And nice to see you blog Mark!! Can you permanently set your “Results Ranking” bar to updated recently on Live? I was not able to figure that out. Any way to do that or it has to be run each time you run a query? Would be great if there was a way to set that!
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