Craigslist.org,
the leading classifieds site is a good source of resumes if you are
looking for local jobseekers. I said local jobseekers because craigslist is
designed in a way to conduct local community searches only rather than a countrywide
search. Actually craigslist consists of over 500 craigslist sites in all 50 US
states, and over 50 countries, in which each site has a unique sub-domain and content.
For example if you want to search for resumes in New York
City, you have to select New York that will open a new page with a list of all cities, then you have to select New York City from the list which will redirect you to
http://newyork.craigslist.org which includes resumes from New York City
only. Now, to search resumes click on the resumes link at the bottom of the
page, a new page will open up with two search options, either to search resume
titles only or to search all the content of the resumes. If you are looking
for local jobseekers then craigslist is a practical tool and an excellent
source of resumes.
How to conduct
a countrywide search on craigslist?
If you want
to search for resumes anywhere in the US on craigslist, then you have to select
the state, city and then the resumes section every time for the 500 different cities.
I am sure no one will do this, it’s not practical and time consuming process. So
is there an easier way to do this?
To overcome this time consuming process, the easiest technique is to use search
engines to X-Ray craigslist using the site: command. For example,
to do this on Google,
if you are looking for a construction project manager then the search string will
look like this:
site:craigslist.org “construction
project manager” inurl:res
And if you are looking for resumes in a specific state then
the search string would become:
site:craigslist.org
”construction project manager” (California | CA) inurl:res
Unfortunately, this search string will produce irrelevant
results because this will return all the resumes that contain the word California
or CA even if the jobseeker address is not in California.
How to use ReferYes Sourcer to search for resumes on
craigslist?
Recently, ReferYes Sourcer which automates Boolean search strings added
craigslist to its list of sourcing websites that includes the top
social networks and search engines. ReferYes Sourcer handled this in two
ways, the first way is by X-Ray searching on Google which I’ve explained
earlier.
The other way that ReferYes Sourcer searches resumes on craigslist is by selecting
the cities from a dropdown list which saves a lot of time and effort of going
back and forth between craigslist sites. The question you might ask yourself
now, if I can X-Ray craigslist why should I use the city search tool? The answer
is simple, because if you are looking for more relevant results for a specific
location then using the city search will return more reliable search results.
Now, to start searching for people on craigslist with ReferYes
Sourcer go to: http://www.ReferYes.com/source_people.htm