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WHO CAN YOU FIND ONLINE?
BY KATHARINE ROBINSONFIND THESOURCERESS ONLINE
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THE VITAL STATISTICS
World Population: 6,845,609,960
Total Internet Users: 1,966,514,816 (That’s 29%)[As of March 2011]
UK Population: 62,348,447
Total UK Internet Users: 51,442,100 (That’s 82.5%)
UK Facebook Users: 27,806,860 (That’s 54% of internet users)[As of August 2010]
How Much Information does the internet contain?
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WHAT ARE WE ALL DOING ONLINE IN THE UK?
1 in 4 UK internet users have a blog
60% of internet users read blogs
64 % have a profile on a Social Network
¼ use their mobile phone to surf the web
1 in 3 agree with the statement “I couldn’t live without the internet”
[Stats via Simply Zesty Ltd]
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EVER THOUGHT ABOUT GOOGLING FOR A CANDIDATE?
A quick Google search for CV related data returns an estimated 800 million web pages.
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WHAT IS A SEARCH ENGINE?
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A SEARCH ENGINE IS A GIANT DATABASE
A database full of webpages
• Text on the page
• Title of the page
• URL (address) of the page
• The type of file
• Date
• Other data about the page
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LET’S LOOK FOR A CV
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WHEN BUILDING YOUR SEARCH STRING
The intitle: operator
CV type keywords
The filetype: operator
Industry, job title and/or skill keywords
Location
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LET’S LOOK FOR LISTS OF PEOPLE
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(conference OR exhibition OR seminar OR workshop) (filetype:pdf OR filetype:xls) (list OR directory) (attendee OR delegate OR members)
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COMPONENTS OF YOUR SEARCH STRING
Location
Job titles or industry keywords
List keywords
Event type keywords
Name keywords
Filetyples
Page titles
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FIND TARGET COMPANIES
LinkedIn Company Search: http://www.linkedin.com/companies
Industry Associations
Yellow Pages
ZoomInfo
Wikipedia
Google Sets
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TARGETING COMPANIES
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TARGETING LINKEDIN
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SEARCHING LINKEDIN
site:uk.linkedin.com
Add keywords
• Location
• Job title
• Companies
• Skills
• Qualifications
• Group names
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GOOGLE ADVANCED SEARCH
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GOOGLE ADVANCED SEARCH
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RESOURCES
Using Google:
Google Guide (not from Google): http://googleguide.com
Advanced Search: http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
Google Alerts: http://google.com/alerts