Before you begin recruiting or sourcing for your next position, take a look and see what candidates you already have in your “pipeline”. X1 is a great tool that will search your computer for all resumes you have. 

This tool will search your computer desktop, electronic folders, and entire hard drive and pull up the results for you based on the criteria you ask it to search. There are other tools out there in the desktop search tool space such as Copernic, Windows Desktop Search and Google Desktop Search, but X1 is my favorite. It’s a matter of preference and amount you are willing to spend (or amount your company will pay for).

To show an example of X1 in use, I want to find resumes I have of candidates who are skilled in Java and who are local to Washington, D.C. I use the search box and put in as many descriptive key words around Java and related technologies such as J2EE and JSP for instance. I include the words developer, programmer and others for more detail. I also include 202, 703 and 301 area codes to find resumes with telephone numbers that match. You can see in the screen shot below the exact search string I used and some of the results. X1 allows for boolean search strings (AND, OR and NOT) so there are tons of possibilities when you use it.

I also included the search string here as well: