Asked about bibliographic search skills for application
I would assume 'bibliographic search skills' means the ability to find appropriate literature 'from scratch' as @Tobias suggests. If that's the case, can I recommend a book that helped me with my literature searching, and can be read easily within a day:

Booth A, Papaioannou D &amp; Sutton A (2012) Systematic Approaches to a Successful Literature Review. Sage Publications Limited.


It's written from a health science perspective, but I found it useful in the social science to identify search terms, databases, perform searches, and filter results.