People that register on Google and Yahoo! to use their applications are offered the opportunity to create a profile.
There are more than 3,430,000 profiles currently listed on Yahoo! and 623,000 on Google. You can surface talent by x-raying these sites. Use these search strings (modify the keywords to match your needs):
Google: site:google.com/profiles engineer
Yahoo!: site:profiles.yahoo.com engineer
Resume builder sites, used to create a job seekers online identity, are surfacing all over the Internet. Some of these sites offer the job seeker free exposure (from the site’s domain). You can site search (or x-ray) the site from Google to surface potential candidates.
Sites to search: emurse.com, resumebucket.com, zumeo.com, visualcv.com
Google search string example:
site:emurse.com engineer -jobs
(Replace the word “engineer” with your keyword(s). Also replace the “emurse.com” site with resumebucket.com, etc.)
