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Everyone knows Google is awesome now lets think a point, which makes this search engine extraordinary. Google search is flexible, easy and very effective to refine thousands of same websites and give you the most relevant results. In all these years of my blogging experience, the only thing I learnt is you can find anything in Google. Say it just free stuff, or paid stuff, hobbies, lifestyle, blogging, computer, technical, anything……. even resumes too.


In our next articles we will go in detail regarding the other tips and tricks for best search results. For now lets see, how recruiters can extract resumes from Google.

Searching resumes by filetype: and inurl:

Searching resumes by filetype, most of the people saves resumes basically in two formats over the internet either in word docs or PDF’s. So the search is restricted only to these types as of now.

Lets assume we are looking project manager resumes

Step 1: Go to Google and type filetype:doc ( specifying the file format to google to only search word docs).

Step 2: After filetype:doc, type inurl:resume ( filtering the search even more and asking google to only look for links which has resume in their urls)

Step 3: specifying the position title/ technical skill details will complete a search string, as we are looking for project manager, the search string would be like



                                          filetype:doc inurl:resume project manager


If you search with this string in Google, you will find 4520 results online; all are word doc files with resume in url and project manager in the resume. Now if you even want to filter few more, quote project manager and check the results



                                        filetype:doc inurl:resume “project manager”


So now we have 2190 results completely filtered word doc files with resume in url and project manager as a whole in the resume.

Now after you search is completed in word doc format, lets shift our search to pdf format resumes, keep the search as it is just changing the filetype:pdf



                                              filetype:pdf inurl:resume project manager
 we have around 11,200 results for the pdf formatted project manager resumes, now to filter your results even more, quote project manager in inverted commas and check the results.
 
 
                                              filetype:pdf inurl:resume “project manager”
 
I know this is a simple but yet very effective technique to find resumes online. Try checking resumes for different position titles.


In the coming articles, we will see more tips and tricks on to enhance your search skills in google…keep reading

Good luck