{"id":5309,"date":"2016-04-26T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/two-minute-tuesday\/record-transfer-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:05:09","slug":"geographic-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcrecruiter.net\/site\/2016\/04\/26\/geographic-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Minute Tuesday: Geographic Searches"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Tuesday, and we have a fresh\u00a0Two Minute Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0tutorial to share! This week’s video shows you a few ways to find records by their location which you might not have tried before.<\/p>\n

If you have any comments\u00a0or suggestions for something we can explain in about two minutes, send an email to twominutetuesday@mainsequence.net<\/a><\/p>\n

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Video Transcript<\/h3>\n

Welcome to this week\u2019s Two Minute Tuesday, Main Sequence\u2019s series of short videos with tips, tricks, and tutorials to make you a more powerful PCRecruiter user.<\/p>\n

This week, we\u2019re going to look at techniques for searching your database by geographical area, and we\u2019ll walk through a few simple searches, showing you some techniques you might not have tried.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with phone number, since area codes can indicate where someone is located, although the portability of cell phone numbers means you\u2019ll likely use this as a starting point and then re-filter your results. We can search the home phone, cell phone, work phone, and so on using the basic search form, but there\u2019s also a comprehensive \u2018All Phone\u2019 option, which looks at every phone field in the record at once. To search by multiple area codes, we can use commas to separate them. For example, searching \u2018All Phone\u2019 for 416,647,437 finds everyone with a phone number near Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n

We can use comma-separation with the City and State too. If we want to find people in Aurora or Naperville, we can select \u2018City\u2019 and enter \u2018Aurora,Naperville.\u2019 Now, there are a lot of cities called \u2018Aurora\u2019 and we only want results from Illinois, so we\u2019ll add \u201cIL\u201d into the State search. PCR\u2019s basic search treats these boxes as AND criteria, so it\u2019s going to give us results with either Aurora or Naperville in the City field AND Illinois in the State field.<\/p>\n

Similarly, using commas in the State field searches for multiple states. A search for OK,AR,LA,TX will find anyone in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, or Texas. But there\u2019s actually an even simpler way to do searches across multiple states or regions like these.<\/p>\n

If you do a Google Image Search for \u201czip code prefixes\u201d you\u2019ll find maps showing how the postal codes are arranged. The states we\u2019re looking for all have a zip code starting with 7, so rather than searching the state field for four states, we can just search for 7 in the zip code field. If we want to search in a more specific area, we can use the first two or three numbers of the zip code. For example, searching 845,856,874,813 finds people near the four-corners of Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, even though that area encompasses multiple cities and states.<\/p>\n

You can also run a more accurate area search with the Zipcode Radius tool. (This feature works with postal codes from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Japan. Max radius 100 miles.) Let\u2019s say we want to find anyone within 50 miles of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. We can do that from the Advanced Search screen. We\u2019ll select Zipcode Radius from the first pulldown. Now, we click on the Radius icon to the right of the field. I don\u2019t know the zip code off hand, so I\u2019ll select City, and begin typing. We pick the desired city from the list, set the radius to 50, and click \u2018Search\u2019. PCRecruiter returns all of the zip codes within the chosen radius, and we can click \u2018Accept\u2019 to add them to the Advanced Search. In the search results, the City column will indicate roughly how far the listed City is from the radius\u2019s center.<\/p>\n

For more Two Minute Tuesdays, subscribe to this YouTube channel and watch our social networks or your PCR login screen. If you have any suggestions for future episodes, send an email to twominutetuesday@mainsequence.net.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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