Searching ALL Craigslist resumes with one string!

Searching ALL Craigslist resumes with one string!

Here’s a way to search ALL Craigslist resumes at once, without having to go city by city, and running the same search over and over again. I think I’ve found a solution that is much faster and way more effective! In any case, it’s a good bit of information to have, just in case you ever need it.

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So I see a common denominator when opening the resume link of any craigslist sub-site. It is the change in city. The things that stay the same across the entire site are craigslist.org and the inclusion of /res/ in the URL…example:

http://sandiego.craigslist.org/res/
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/res/
http://dallas.craigslist.org/res/

If you are narrowing your search further there would be a sub region added to the URL, but I wouldn’t recommend it…example:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/res/ 
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/res/

http://newyork.craigslist.org/res/ 
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/res/

Since we don’t want to narrow the search geographically we want to isolate the common factors. And since the titles are different, depending on the author of the posting, we want to exclude an intitle: operator. The things we want to have remain in the search string would be craigslist.org and res. The commands would be site:craigslist.org AND inurl:res Just put these commands in your normal Boolean String.

Here’s what I was thinking as an example: Software (engineer OR developer OR architect) C++ site:craigslist.org inurl:res  or inurl:/res/ (whichever command would have higher yield)

Try it out…and tell me what you think? Let me know if you have any questions about this.

Tags: Boolean, Craigslist

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Permalink Reply by Michelle (Shemenske) Hagans on October 28, 2010 at 4:50pm

Have you tried running your search strings at All of Craigs at allofcraigs.com? This will search classified postings on Craigslist nationwide. You can simply put in keywords like "SQL Developer" and city for example. You'll get job postings as well as resumes. Refine your string to weed out the postings.

Permalink Reply by Maria DiLisio on October 29, 2010 at 12:36pm

Thanks Ken - I'm excited to start playing on the Search Tools site, it looks awesome!

Ken Kimbrough said:

I'm new to this group, but somewhat familiar with internet sourcing and Craigslist. After spending an inordinate amount of time noodling out how to search Craig for resumes and setting up a search tool for Craig (www.itjob4u.com/erbauer), I discovered Craigspal. The free version displays some ads which aren't all that intrusive. I expect the paid version eliminates the ads. I haven't investigated if there are any other advantages to the paid version because I get most of what I need with "freebie".

What I like about Craigspal is that you can create global searches (in the most literal sense, since it allows searching other countries) or geographic searches (country, region, or city) and allows you to focus on just resumes. If you want to get out of the business of creating, tweaking, etc. of Google searches for CraigsList, CraigsPal is a winner.

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