SEARCH MASTER

Pushpalatha Manyam

CONTENT Searching on Job Boards

Planning your Location Search

Universal search method

Boolean Search (AND, NOT, OR, “ “, ( ),????)

During Early stages of recrutiment methods used IQ test, personal interview due to the demand of surplus talent available in the market later it is

Advertising, Publishing and Head Hunting has come into picture. It was only in 19th Century the Job boards has come into existance aiming to

provide one stop solution for the Job Seekers and the employers.

• It is a Job search Engine that facilitates job hunting.• A job Seeker can typically post his resume and apply

for the desired role in the company.• While a Recruiter can post job Ads and search

potential candidates• Naukri.com, Monster, Career builder, Indeed, Shine,

Times Jobs are some of the job boards are in maximum use.

Searching on Job BoardsFollowing are the general Options that

any Job Board have - • Keyword and Boolean Search• Experience Range• Location Criteria• Education Criteria

To have a better understanding lets get into a Job Portal for a practical experience

Once you login to the portal you can find Tabs like

Main Menu, Job & Responsibility, Resdex, Reports & Responsibilities.

To Search - Either Click on serach Resume under

Main Menu or Resdex.

There are different options available to search a desired CV. Advanced Search :It is a basic search where we can find CV on Key

Skills, Experience Range, Qualification, Location and Salary range. There are 2 search Options - Keyword Search and Boolean

SearchBoolean operators, i.e, ‘AND’, ‘OR’, ‘NOT’ are used in creating search

queries to generate accurate and precise results.

The Advanced Search is now enhanced with a set of three keyword boxes -

Any, All, Exclude Any– will search for resumes containing at least one of the keywords

mentioned in this box All– will search for resumes containing all the keywords mentioned in

this box Exclude– exclude resumes containing any of the keywords mentioned

in this box

• EZ Search : It is an option to find all candidate updated in last 1 Year sorted by relavance.4-5 Key words can be mentioned in inverted commas and seperated by comma

eg: "Digital Advertising","marketing"

To Find a range. eg: to find 5 to 10 Years experience mention 5-10 with Suffix Yrs / Years to find 5 to 10 Lakhs Salary Mention it as 5 Lakhs - 10 Lakhs

• IT Search : It is an extension for Advanced Search to find the candidate with IT Skill set

1.You can select upto 5 IT Skills and select the minimum Experience for each skill2.Select resumes with ‘Any of the skills’  or ‘All of the skills’3.Check ‘Search IT Skills in the Entire Resume also’ if you also want to see resumes that may be an approximate match to the skills you mentioned

• My Search:It is a customized form of Advanced search where you can select the filters as per the need.

• Role Search : It is similar to IT Search where you can mention the skills required and can filter based on the functionality.

• Save Search : You can save your desired search by clicking save option.Steps: Select the CV's click Save to folders. Then save click save Resumes and

create the "New Personal Folder and Save" with the search name.This saved search can be used for future refernce and can be modified and

make changes.It can also be shared with the Sub users.

Managing the saved search

Reaching candidate from the Portal

• Mass Mailing : After the saving the search you can reach out the candidates on the mails. Select the candidate to reach , Clieck on Send Mail.

Which opens the mail format where you can mention the job details, salary and experience details.

Mass SMS: You have a paid version for sent SMS to the candidates directly from the portals.

Planning your Location Search

• Based on the clients requirement, need in terms of the urgency , confidentiality and the budget we have to prepare a search strategy and a recruitment plan including the Executive Search, database search or through Advertisement search.

Executive search• There are some positions that demand unique skills and are mandatory in terms of their technical knowledge, profession. •  A research on the target companies, role, designation has to be done to identify the potential candidates in the market. • This would make the work easier and help us understand role in depth, increases our ability to attract the candidates.

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Database SearchBeing there in the recruitment industry for many years we should have had a

good database on all the positions

• Finance, Accounting and Corporate Finance• Risk Management, Compliance and Internal Audit• Legal and Company Secretarial• Human Resources, Administration, and Training and Development• Information Technology and ERP Systems• Marketing, Public Relations and Communications• Banking and Financial Services• Property and Asset Management• Retail, Hospitality and Customer Services• Sales, Distribution and Business Development• Manufacturing, Engineering and Supply Chain

• Advertisement Search

• we can advise our clients on the most appropriate media ad campaigns to promote the position. This would be posted under the recruitment brands to attract the high quality candidates.

UNIVERSAL SEARCH METHODThere are 5 steps which can be followed in order to cut down the

lengthy recruitment process of finding the right candidate.Step 1 : Understanding the requirement. • It is obvious that we get the requirement details from the HR Manager but the

specs of the requirement can get diluted by the time it comes from the Hiring manager to the recruitment consultant. So we may get either too many details on the role or very limited which may not help you to pick the right candidate.

• So it is always advised to speak to the Hiring manager whom the hired candidate would report to get Apple to apple information.

Step 2: Jot down all the list of skill sets a hiring manager is looking in the New team member.

• Listen to the skill sets required for the role and list down the skills which would not only give you a clear picture on the required skill set but will also help you to find new synonyms of the skills.

Eg: SKILLS for a Marketing role : • Marketing• Promotion• Business• Market penetration• Selling• Sell

• List each and every individual skill and the job title which can be grouped as individual terms or multiple words.

• By including a space between each word the space acts as the AND operator in your Boolean string.

Step 3 : Research and list synonyms• Look at the requirement thoroughly anf find the synonyms, Words, Phrases

that can be used for search. It is a part of string.• Seperate each Synonym with "or"

Step 4 : Run the Search• You can use the same search in Advanced search Section of

Step 5 : Remove unsuitable results• Check the search and Filter the words by using and "Not" to get more

refined search results.

This method would take time but this research will make you more effective in the long run.

Implementing this will help you to contact maximun people who are more accurate suitable for the role in less time.

Boolean Searching

• Boolean logic is a system of showing relationships between sets by using the words "AND," "OR," and "NOT." The term Boolean comes from the name of the man who invented this system, George Boole It is used in many electronic searching tools to define a search string.

Here are some examples of boolean search strings:

Marketing AND DirectorDirector OR HeadDigital NOT BTL

( ) parentheses/ "Nesting : It is required for that occours inside words to be searched t. This is called "nesting." • Parentheses is used to group terms to be joined by boolean operator OR, AND, NOT

Eg : "Sales Management" AND "P&L" AND (digital OR"online*")

Quotation Marks " " : Used to search combined words eg: "Digital Marketing"

Excluding -Word : To neglect word in search - word is used. Eg: Marketing -"Exhibition"

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