© created by Liuda Ziuman, Sourcing Believer, Sourcing Lecturer at EvoTalents.School,

ex-Technical Sourcing Lead at EvoTalents

Boolean operators

• “” quotation marks helps to find web pages only with word that we write in “”

For example, “Software Engineer” and Google will find pages only with Software Engineer.

• () parenthesis helps to find not one word but a group of words

For example, ("java developer" OR "software developer").

• intext: search for keywords or phrases in the text of a web page (not in the title or URL)
• inurl: search for keywords or phrases in page URLs
• site: (also called X-Raying) search the candidates in a specific website

https://recruitin.net creates automatic queries

X-Raying examples

X-Ray search on LinkedIn

• site:ua.linkedin.com/in kyiv ("java developer" OR "software developer") intext:(java spring jsp)
• site:ua.linkedin.com/in kyiv ("react developer" OR "software developer") intext:(react js)
• site:ua.linkedin.com/in kyiv "devOps engineer" intext:(aws terraform)

X-Ray search on Stackoverflow

• site:stackoverflow.com/users (kyiv|kiev) scala
• site:stackoverflow.com/users kyiv (java spring)
• site:stackoverflow.com/users kyiv “big data”