May 25
Searching for University Resume Books
Published by Amybeth (@researchgoddess) at 1:37 pm under Research
A good resource that is available to us is the educational institution(s) listed on our candidates’ resumes. Lots of recruiters don’t know that many colleges and universities have online resume books, many of which are available at no cost! One of my recruiters asked me this morning how to go about finding these resume books, so I thought I would share a couple of ways that I like to use:
inurl:resume book filetype:pdf .edu (college university) – this search is pretty basic and you’ll have to sift through some “noise” but there are university resume books available. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these resume books, the majority of them come in .pdf format, which is why I have filetype:pdf in the search string
inurl:resume book filetype:pdf .edu (college university) (financial banking) MBA – this one gets a little more focused, based on some of the additional keywords
allinurl:resume book .edu – using the allinurl: operator includes the entire line in the URL search….this presents a more narrow, focused search
allinurl:resume book .edu MBA – this is the narrowest search, only returning 5 pages; all pages however are resume books of graduating MBA students from schools like UMD and UMich.
***append: I received some “tough love” from a more seasoned researcher who showed me some even better search strings here:
inurl:~CV book site:edu (*college *university)
inurl:~CV book site:edu filetype:pdf
inurl:~CV book site:edu filetype:pdf 2007
inurl:~CV book site:edu filetype:pdf
inurl:~CV book site:edu filetype:pdf 2007
Obviously these are just samplings; I use lots of other mixtures of keywords and such but this is a good starting point for someone who is not familiar with how to find resume books. If anyone has any other search strings that will find these resources, please feel free to add a comment and contribute!
Great post goddess!!! This is why I am such a fan of your work.
-Jim