In the market for SAS programmers? Do they seem to be evading your reach? Never fear, here is a quick tutorial on how to use Google to find them (or at least, some of them).

How to Source SAS Programmers

• I ask Google to look for the term “resume” in the title of every web document in its database

• I add the keyword SAS

• I then ask Google to include any of the following terms: programmer, engineer or developer

• Since “Education” is almost always listed on a resume, I add that term to my query.

• A lot of times when I am sourcing from the web, I find a lot of sample resumes. These sample resumes are good for people who are trying to figure out how to format their resume, but not so good for me. I don’t need them in my search results, so I ask Google not to include them.

• Even if they have numerous copies of their resume available, people typically refer to them as “my resume” or “resume of” when posting them online. On a webpage, I hardly ever see a resume written in the plural. If I come across “resumes,” it’s probably on some sort of job site. That doesn’t belong in my search results, please. So I ask Google to stop showing results that contain the word “resumes.”

• I also request that Google not display results containing the word “apply.” Why? You guessed it, right? The usual usage of “apply” is “Please apply here for the position,” and I don’t want that in my results either.

So with all of that said, here is how my search string would look.

intitle:resume SAS (programmer OR engineer OR developer) education -intitle:jobs -sample -resumes -apply

At this writing, 500 results were returned and the overall majority were resumes. Feeling SASsy? Give it a try.

Happy Hunting!