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http://duckduckgo.com
Use DuckDuckGo instead of Google and get: Search 100s of sites directly, search for phone numbers, addresses and keyword searches for resumes
without Boolean.
www.emurse.com a website provided by AOL to help people create and host resumes online. Emurse resumes can be downloaded as PDF, MS
Word or text files.
www.big5hire.com
www.thefreeredbook.com The Ultimate Passive candidate search tool. The Red Book of Passive Candidates Online Edition contains over 1
million qualified professionals that are currently working today.
http://www.passive-candidates.com/
http://websearch.recruiting.com
http://www.recruitingtools.com/2009/12/16/free-keyword-tool/
http://www.peopletoucher.com/search/intro.php
VisualCV.com a well presented resume database that combines the candidate’s traditional resume with audio, video and a digital career portfolio.
Egrabber Resume Finder
www.cvfox.com
http://websearch.recruiting.com
www.scribd.com is a great resource for hard-to-find resumes, training info, and CV’s
http://www.candidatesdirect.com/ spider LinkedIn profiles based on your input critieria, cull names and dump to excel to create a calling list.
it finds any phone/email it will add that too and if not provide some possible email formats. I like that it retains the original profile link. It only
searches LI.
I can recommend the Peopletoucher Search tool:
http://www.peopletoucher.com/search/intro.php
Great tool for finding candidates on LinkedIn.
BrightFuse.com: The candidate profiles include a brief biography, job history, education, and links of the candidate's social profiles.
Resumebucket.com a resume database for the U.S. market only. provides the option to downloaded the resume as PDF or MS Word file or to
send a direct message to the candidate
Xing.com: A global business and professional network with a focus on the European region.
ReferYes Sourcer http://referyes.com/source_people.htm/ the leading passive candidate sourcing tool added new resume and candidate
profile sources to its list of sourcing websites, and I thought it is a good idea to share this list with everyone:
www.Brupt.com A cool site that utilizes Google as a search engine but will only populate documents in Word, PDF, Excel, or PowerPoint. The
cool thing is that you don't have to be a Boolean buff to use it, however the traditional boolean strings and wild cards do apply to narrow a search.
resumeswap.com
Spoke.com a professional network similar to LinkedIn, its candidate public profiles include a brief biography, job history, and education of the
candidate.
http://radaris.com people search tool
www.Pipl.com
www.Whoozy.com
http://wink.com
www.zabasearch.com
Tweepz (for Twitter)
www.peekyou.com
www.spokeo.com
http://leapfish.com is a metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo and MSN (Live) realtime after you tell it which engine to use.
http://www.exalead.com/search/
http://www.hotresumesearch.com/
http://www.recruitingblogs.com/page/passive-candidate-search
http://tweepsearch.com/
http://search.twitter.com
www.resumeswap.com
Other resources
Mailtester.com (for searching and validating email addresses)
http://www.glassdoor.com (for salary information and comparison)
http://www.engineersalary.com/ nation's leading and most comprehensive salary source for engineers and engineering managers. The
Engineering Salary Calculator enables technical professionals to survey, compare and stay up to date with the latest engineering salary information
http://www.blackdog.ie/google-bing/search.php Interesting site using both Google & Bing side-by-side.
www.watchthatpage.com If you want to keep tabs on when a candidate changes companies, Just put in the direct URL to their LinkedIn web
profile and WatchThatPage will check everyday to see if there are any changes
www.vonei.com Website offers online video interviews with 2 or more people (in case you want to add in the hiring manager, a SME, or someone
else). Monthly service plans starting at $34.95. They offer a 14 day free trial if you want to check it out. Service also allows sharing of documents,
resumes, applications forms, etc.
http://www.recruitchute.com/recruiters.php RecruitChute is a 100% free resource for Recruiters, Sourcers and HR Professionals. It is a
resume delivery service helping active and passive job seekers connect with employers. Their CV gets delivered to a database
http://www.irelaunch.com/ Site devoted to those looking to get back into the workforce or return to school after an extended absence.
http://www.hrhero.com/ HRhero.com provides legal information, training, and compliance tools on state and federal employment law,
supervisor training, and employee management for human resources and other business professionals. Great source for getting the most up-to-date
employment law info.
http://www.rileyguide.com/ The Riley Guide is a directory of employment and career information sources and services on the Internet. It is
primarily intended to provide instruction for job seekers on how to use the Internet to their best advantage, but recruiters and other career service
industry professional will find information here to help them also.
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