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The
Journal also printed a series of tricks to find resumes on the Web that
might be of use to job hunters who want to know who they might be
working with. The tricks are summarized below:
Tips
for finding resumes online:
- Flipping:
Find resumes or conference rosters to a company that might yield
biographies, e-mail addresses and other details. Use a search
engine, such as AltaVista. Use Link: or linkdomain: (Hotbot)
to search for links to a certain company's Web site. Type
Link: (name of company) and "title" and title:resume.
E.g. Link:IBM and "engineer" and title:resume.
- X-raying:
Identify employees by going to those places on a company's web site
that are not accessible from the home page. Type host: or url:
before a company's name with the key words. E.g.
host:lucent.com and "public relations"
- Peeling:
Find staff directories or contact lists embedded in web addresses.
Look at long addresses and systematically cut them back until you
reach words like "resumes" or "people" or
"attendees" to see if name lists show up.
- Anchor
Search: Web pages
have words called "anchors" that describe the page and
that can be a giveaway. Type anchor:"view resumes"
and "title." E.g.: anchor:"view
resumes" and "public relations"
- Harvesting:
Look at documents, resumes and home pages for keywords, links,
references and locations that can assist further searches.
- Peer
searches: Use a
metasearch engine to find people with similar qualifications.
Have the metasearch engine search on key information such as the
company's e-mail address or name and see if it turns up staff
rosters.
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