How Search Engine Works on LinkedIn and other Job sites

Sourcing Basics

1. How search Engine Works?? Presented by, Triptee Jagtap Priyanka Verma Monica Thummala

2. Topics to be covered What is a Search Engine?? Basic Idea Types of Search Engines How to Search Search Tips Search Settings The Pendulum Technique Interactive Examples Conclusion

3. How To Search?? Enter most important terms first, left to right . Use AND before OR then NOT Add phrases to get specific and narrow down search. Always nest your ORs in parenthesis (Java OR C++).

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8. Search Tips Enter the most important keywords first Try to limit to no more than 8 terms at a time Searches are dynamic, change them often Customize the search engine

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12. Pendulum Technique

13. Understanding the Concept Start with 2 or 3 keywords, then narrow carefully More is too confusing and likely to return too few results Less may return far too many results If your keywords are too general, your results will be inaccurate Vary choice of keywords until results get specific

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17. To Conclude Search Engine is like a Library, learn how to get the results out Use simple strings to get exact results. Do not complicate the search Use the Pendulum Technique, keep on tweaking your strings.

18. Good Luck with your Search