What HR Mapper Does & How It Works
HR Mapper is an independent, free web tool that generates Google Boolean search queries for finding HR professionals at Indian companies. Here's the methodology and reasoning behind the project.
The Problem This Tool Solves
Recruiters and job seekers in India often need to find HR professionals at specific companies. Commercial recruitment platforms impose restrictive search limits and charge significant annual licensing fees (often ₹75,000 to ₹2,50,000 per seat) to access search features.
Meanwhile, Google's public search index already contains publicly accessible professional profiles across LinkedIn, GitHub, Naukri, and other platforms. The challenge is that writing syntactically correct Boolean search strings manually is tedious and error-prone — a single missing quotation mark or uncapitalized operator breaks the query.
HR Mapper automates this query construction process: you enter a company name and optional location, and it generates multiple pre-formatted Google X-Ray search strings ready to execute.
How the Query Engine Works
The core query engine takes your input (company name, location, optional domain) and combines it with:
- Indian HR title variations: The query engine includes title arrays covering legacy enterprise bands (AVP HR, DGM HR, Delivery Partner TA), modern startup titles (Head of People, Strategic HRBP), and manufacturing designations (Plant HR Head, IR Manager).
- Multi-platform site: operators: Queries are generated for 12 platforms including LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed India, IIMJobs, and others. Each uses the correct domain path format for that platform.
- Negative exclusion operators: Common noise terms like
-jobs,-dir,-pulseare appended to filter out job postings and directory listings from results. - Proper Boolean formatting: The engine handles quotation wrapping, uppercase OR operators, parenthetical grouping, and URL encoding automatically.
Limitations & What This Tool Does NOT Do
Transparency matters. Here's what HR Mapper does not do:
- It does not access any private database or scrape any platform. It generates search queries that you execute on Google.
- It does not guarantee that the people returned by Google are currently employed at the target company. Google's index may be outdated.
- The email permutation feature generates common email format guesses (e.g., firstname.lastname@company.com). These are statistical guesses, not verified email addresses.
- The AI Find People feature sends your natural language request to an external AI service for processing. This is not client-side.
- Result quality depends entirely on Google's index and whether professionals have public profiles.
Design Principles
The core design decisions behind the HR Mapper query engine.
Automated Boolean Syntax
Google X-Ray search requires strict operator syntax (site:, intitle:, quotation marks, uppercase OR). The query engine programmatically formats these operators to reduce manual syntax errors.
Indian Corporate Title Mapping
Designed for Indian organizational structures — including legacy enterprise bands (AVP HR, DGM HR), startup titles (Head of People, Lead HRBP), and manufacturing designations (Plant HR Head, IR Manager).
Privacy-Conscious Design
The core Boolean query generator runs in your browser. No login required. We do not scrape behind paywalls or harvest candidate profiles. The AI-powered Find People feature uses an external AI service for natural language processing.
How We Handle Your Data
Public Data Only
Generated queries target Google's public search index. We do not scrape, harvest, or access any paywalled databases.
Local Storage
Saved companies and search preferences are stored in your browser's localStorage. We do not maintain user accounts or server-side profiles.
AI Feature Disclosure
The "Find People" AI chat feature sends your request to an external AI service. See our Privacy Policy for details.
Try the search query generator
Enter a company name and get pre-formatted Google Boolean search queries, or explore the company directory.