Getting Started with Search
To search for a resume, type a few descriptive words in the search box, and press the Enter key or click the search button. Resumark produces a results page with a list of resumes that are related to your search terms, with the most relevant search results appearing at the top of the page. By default, Resumark returns only pages that include all of your search terms. So to broaden or restrict the search, include fewer or more terms. You do not need to include "and" between the terms. For example, to search for someone with engineering and computer background, type the following:
Resumark.com utilizes Google™ search technology that uses sophisticated text-matching techniques to find resumes that are both important and relevant to your search. Every search result lists one or more snippets, or excerpts from the resume, to display the search terms in context. In the snippet, your search terms are displayed in bold text so that you can quickly determine if that result is from a resume you want to download.
Spelling
For U.S. English searches, a single spelling suggestion is returned with the results for queries where the spell checker has detected a possible spelling mistake. The spell checker feature is context sensitive.
Capitalization
Resume searches are not case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you enter them, are handled as lower case. For example, searches for "george washington," "George Washington," and "George washington" return the same results.
Word Variations (Stemming)
Resumark searches not only for your search terms, but also for words that are similar to some or all of those terms. For example, if you search for "info" or "info*," Resumark will also search for "information," "informing," "informant," and other related variations. Variants of your search will be highlighted in the snippet of text that accompanies each result.
Common Words
Resumark search ignores common words and characters, such as "where" and "how," as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results. Resumark indicates that a common word has been excluded by displaying details on the results page.
If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can include it by putting a plus ("+") sign in front of it. Include a space before the "+" sign, but not after it. For example, to search for resumes with IT Consulting (for Information Technology), type the following:
Alternatively, you can enclose a series of words with quotation marks and do a phrase search.
Date Sort By default, search results are sorted by relevance, with the most relevant result appearing at the top of the page. If you want to sort the resumes by date instead, click the Sort by Date link. The most recent resume appears at the top of the page and the date of each file is returned in the results. Results that do not contain dates are displayed at the end and are sorted by relevance.
Expanding Your Search
You can expand your search by using the OR operator. To retrieve resumes that include either word A or word B, use an uppercase OR between terms. For example, to search for a resume for sales experience in Canada or Mexico, type the following:
Refining Your Search
Since Resumark returns only resumes that contain all of the words in your query, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding more words to the search terms you have already entered. The refined query returns a subset of the resumes that were returned by your original broad query. If that does not get the results that you want, you can try to exclude words, search for exact phrases, or restrict the search to a range of numbers. These techniques are described in the following sections.
Word Exclusion
If your search term has more than one meaning, you can focus your search by adding a minus sign ("-") in front of words related to the meaning you want to avoid. Make sure you include a space before the minus sign. You can daisy chain a list of words you want to exclude.
For example, to search for Java (programming language) and exclude search results about coffee or beans, type the following query:
Resumark will return pages about Java that do not contain the word "coffee" or "beans."
Phrase Searches
Phrase searches are useful when you are searching for famous sayings or specific names. You can search for an exact phrase or name in the following ways:
By enclosing the phrase in quotation marks. Resumark will return only resumes that includes the exact phrase you entered.
By using phrase connectors—such as hyphens, slashes, periods, equal signs, and apostrophes—in between every word of your search query.
Phrase connectors and quotation marks join your search words as a single unit. For example, if you type the following query, Resumark treats it as a phrase search even though the search words are not enclosed in quotation marks.
Range Searches
You can confine your search query within a certain range. You can set ranges for dates, amounts, meta tags, and so on. The following subsections describe ways you can refine your searches with ranges.
Number Ranges To search for resumes that contain numbers within a range, type your search term and the range of numbers separated by two periods (".."). You can set ranges for sales amounts, salaries, commissions, and so on. Be sure to specify a unit of measurement or some other indicator of what the number range represents.
For example, to search for salaries between $20,000 and $25,000, type the following:
Date Ranges You can search for resumes that contain dates that fall within a time frame. To use date range search, type the following:
The search term
The daterange: operator
The start date
The range separator (depending on the date format, it is either two periods or a hyphen)
The end date
Do not add a space between the search operator and the date range. The dates could be in either of the following formats:
The YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601) format. Date ranges using this format should be separated by two periods ("..").
The Julian format. The Julian date is calculated by the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC. For example, the Julian date for August 1, 2001 is 2452122. Date ranges in this format should be separated by a hyphen ("-").
For example, to search for a sales manager resume that was updated within a specific two-year period, type the following:
The earliest date that you can use in your date range search is January 1, 1990.
