Possible ways to find Linkedin Candidates Contact information

What are the possible ways to find the Linkedin candidates contact information OR Contact them?

LinkedIn for Sourcing, Recruiting was like having a conversation with 100 Different industry professionals all at the same time. This is the definitive guide for Sourcers, Recruiters looking to utilize all that LinkedIn has to offer. Linkedin is the top networking site used to find candidates and Jobs. And more over it is a social networking site, and which is free of cost to search. Now days many Recruiters, Sourcers and internet researchers are using Linkedin as top priority for their recruiting needs.

Here the challenge is after finding candidate on Linkedin

                 How to contact that person?

There are few ways to find contact info of Linkedin candidates….

1)      First and foremost way is to add that person to your Linkedin professional Network and you can directly contact that person. In other words increase your Linkedin network to reach the candidates.

2)      Secondly by using InMail, directly send an email to candidate about the position, but for Linkedin free account you can only send 10 InMails up to maximum, to have more InMails you need to upgrade your Linkedin free account to Linkedin Premium account.

3)      Try to find candidate details in web search (example: Google, Yahoo, Bing... etc). Some times you may get directly candidate details in web search, if candidate mentioned is contact details in any of networking sites.

4)      We can also try with company email format, if company is following certain email format we can also contact candidate with company email format. (Example: firstname.secondname@xyz.com; firstinital.secondname@xyz.com firstname.secondinitial@xyz.com … etc) then Question here is how to find company email format, you can try this way.

                “Email * companyname.com”

                “*@companyname.com

                “Email me @companyname.com”

             

5)      And we can also find company email formats and contact info in Jigsaw, Zoominfo, and Spoke. Jigsaw is easy way to use to find contact details or company details, where you need to exchange contacts if you need to get contacts. In other words, you need to upload one contact so that you can download one contact.

Zoominfo which is not free to use you need to purchase an account to use it, but Zoominfo has Community Edition which you need to install on your system which share contacts from your outlook, by this way you can use Zoominfo for free. OR you can also do X-ray search. Example: site:www.zoominfo.com "email @twcable.com.com

6)      The other way is to find same candidates on Twitter OR Facebook and contact   them using add request in facebook and sending short message on Twitter.

7)      And for some Linkedin profiles we can see that candidates will maintain personal   blog or personal website, were we have chance to get contact info of the candidates. It’s not for sure that all people will mention their contact info, the other way to find contact info for personal website is using www.domaintools.com . Where we can find domain owner details, and again here it is not for sure that we can find all domain owners, but we can see the details of people who kept their contact info as public, and if it is private we need to purchase the details.

8)      And other few ways is finding candidates details in Plaxo, Xing, pipl, whitepages.com…. etc.

Happy Researching…..

Thanks

Santosh Kumar Kandula

kandulasantosh@gmail.com

What is Security Clearance? And Types of Security Clearances

  

       Security Clearance

  Ø  A security clearance is an authorization that allows access to information that would otherwise be forbidden. Security clearances are commonly used in industry and government. Many jobs in information technology require security clearances. When a security clearance is required for access to specific information, the information is said to be classified. Security clearances can be issued for individuals or for groups.

      Types of Security Clearances:

Ø  Clearances are generally granted to particular level of information, so a job that requires access to confidential information would require a confidential clearance.

  Ø   Security levels are detailed below from lowest to highest:

Ø       Controlled Unclassified Information. Not a classification level, but a marker for information that cannot be distributed.

Ø       For Official Use Only (FOUO). Also known as Official Use Only (OUO). Not a classification level, but a marker for information that must be protected under the Privacy Act or other sensitive data.

Ø       Confidential. Also known as Public Trust. Provides access to information that reasonably could be expected to cause damage to national security if disclosed to unauthorized sources. Often given to military personnel. The investigation requires National Agency Check with Local Agency Check and Credit Check (NACLC) and goes back seven years. The investigation takes a few weeks to a few months. The clearance must be renewed every 15 years.

Ø       Secret. Also known as Collateral Secret or Ordinary Secret. Provides access to information that could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the national security if disclosed to unauthorized sources. The investigation requires an NACLC and goes back seven years. The investigation takes a few months to a year. The clearance must be renewed every 10 years.

Ø       Top Secret (TS). Provides access to national security, counterterrorism, counterintelligence or other highly sensitive data that could cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed to unauthorized sources. The investigation requires a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) and goes back 10 years. The investigation takes three to 18 months. The clearance must be renewed every 5 years.

Ø       Agency-Specific Clearances

Ø       Many federal agencies use customized clearance levels such as:

Ø       L clearance -- Civilian access to nuclear materials and information (U.S. Department of Energy [DOE], Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC])

Ø       Q clearance -- Access specifically relating to atomic or nuclear-related materials for non-military personnel (DOE, NRC)

Ø       Bureau of Immigration (BI) clearance -- Used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Ø       National Agency Check with Inquiries (NACI) -- Used by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

Ø       Yankee White -- Administrative nickname for a background check for personnel working with the president (Executive Office of the President)

Ø      Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI)

Many agencies append Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) to Top Secret clearances for a combination known as TS/SCI. Information access is assigned in "compartments" for a short or extended time so that a person with access to one compartment has no access to others. Compartmented access could include cryptography, overhead reconnaissance, communications intelligence or nuclear stockpile information. Specific SCIs are known as "riders" when appended to clearances. 

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) uses both SCI and a similar concept, special access programs (SAP), for exceptionally vulnerable information. SAP access could include information such as stealth technology. 

Both SCI and SAP designations require an SSBI investigation plus a special adjudication process.

Non-Government Clearances

Private-sector organizations occasionally use the term "security clearance" when granting access to sensitive information.

Search Google for LinkedIn profiles with current experience

You can search for LinkedIn profiles with current experience in a particular domain.

The Google search syntax is as follows:

keyword (site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" Experience Present

For example, if you want to search LinkedIn profiles with current experience in banking, the Google search string will be:

banking (site:www.linkedin.com/pub OR site:www.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" Experience Present

To Restrict Search to ONLY USA


banking (site:us.linkedin.com/pub OR site:us.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" Experience Present




If you want to search only for UK 


banking (site:uk.linkedin.com/pub OR site:uk.linkedin.com/in) -"pub/dir" Experience Present


Happy Sourcing...... Please comment your thoughts....

Thanks

Kandula Santosh Kumar

Finding Company Email Patterns

There are many ways to find company email formats, but most successful ways to find Email Patterns are

• “email * company.com” (plus some optional keywords)
  and/or “email * * company.com” (I have added one more asterisk). Sometimes you will have to exclude addresses starting with “support”, “info”, or “sales” to get to “human’s” emails; we all know how to do that. It’s not necessary, however, to remove false positives if we see enough results to come to a conclusion.
  Here’s a simple example:
  “email * companyname.com”
  If nothing can be found, you may want to find out whether the company website domain and the email domain differ and correct the search appropriately.

Finding Company Email Patterns

There are many ways to find company email formats, but most successful ways to find Email Patterns are

•  ”*@company.com“
• “*@@@@@company.com”
• “*\company.com” (or try using any other special symbol instead of \)
• “*company.com”

How to Search for Google Plus Profiles

Searching for Google-plus profiles is no problem at all, whether you are already on Google-Plus or not. Here’s a direct link to a sample search:

Search for people on Google-Plus

- and please compare this with

Search for Google Profiles

See the difference? I have changed just one symbol in the search URL. The latter search returns both Google profiles and Google-plus profiles.

Unlike Google-profiles most Google-plus-profiles have a link to “send an email”. It’s sourcer’s paradise!

The search for people returns up to 1,000 results. (I think they could do better here.)

We can also X-ray Google-Plus, but apparently Google has not indexed all Google profiles yet (ha!), so people search returns better results. Advanced search operators do work in the dialog. There’s one very subtle difference in the search results display: instead of “Google+” – which is the page title – they show “Google Profile“.

Note: You will not be able to find me on Google Plus (yet).

Happy Hunting :-)

Update Your LinkedIn X-Ray Searches for Location Names

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across something on LinkedIn that I am surprised I never noticed before – I’m not even certain if/when LinkedIn made the change.




Finally sitting down to write about it, I highly doubted that I could be the only person to have discovered this interesting little find, so I did some quick research and found that Gary Cozin and Cathy Ou recently noticed it as well.




What am I talking about?
I’m talking about the fact that LinkedIn has alternate location names for certain postal codes.
While some locations only have one location phrase, I’ve found many have two and some have as many as nine! If you use Internet search engines to “X-Ray” LinkedIn for public profiles and you only use one location phrase, you may be unknowingly excluding people you actually want to find!

Alternate Location Names on LinkedIn


I personally discovered that LinkedIn has multiple location phrases when I went to edit my profile a couple of weeks back.

I wasn’t changing my location, but this caught my eye:

Apparently, “Greater Atlanta Area” is the default.

Having noticed “Atlanta, Georgia” for the first time, I immediately when to Google and Bing to see how many people did not use the default “Greater Atlanta Area” location name.
I tried this search: site:linkedin.com “location * atlanta georgia” -”greater atlanta area” (inurl:pub
inurl:in) -dir

As you can see, after a few false positive results, plenty of people use the alternate location phrase/name. But don’t be fooled by Google’s estimated 100,000+ results – if you click through all of the pages you will end up on page 50 with slightly shy of 500 results.

Switching to Bing, I tried something similar: site:linkedin.com location near:8 “atlanta georgia” -”greater atlanta area” -dir


Bing claims nearly 3,000 people use the alternate LinkedIn location phrase/name, but if you click through to the last page of results, you should get slightly over 500. Interestingly, I noticed some false positive results crept in that should have been excluded by the search – but looking further into that is another post entirely.


So What’s the BIG Deal?

Although my test searches didn’t discover a ton of people using the alternate location name in Atlanta, if you don’t include the alternate location phrase(s) in your LinkedIn X-Ray searches of your target locations, you will unknowingly relegate people who do not use the default location phrase into the realm of LinkedIn’s Dark Matter – profiles that exist but your searches prevent you from discovering them.

For example, here are about 24 people in the Atlanta area who mention Java or J2EE on their LinkedIn profiles that cannot be retrieved with an X-Ray search that only targets “Greater Atlanta Area.”

 

What you should notice is that the public profiles of people who use the alternate location name show only the specific non-default location name that was searched for…

…however, if you click on “View Full Profile,” you will see something different – both the user-selected, non-default location name as well as the default location name:

 
 
 
On the full profile, you can mouse over either location listed and use them as a faceted search. On a public profile listing, you cannot click on the location name to conduct a search.


How Many LinkedIn Location Name Variants Are There?

While it appears that there is a pattern of 2 location phrase/name options for major U.S. cities (I checked New York City and a few others – you’ll have to check yours), I did stumble across the fact that some areas within certain countries have many more location names to choose from.

For example, check out this list for Postal Code AL2 1AB in the U.K.!

That probably isn’t the only postal code/area in the world that has more than a few location names, so if you rely heavily on X-Ray searching LinkedIn for sourcing talent, I highly recommend you scope out all of the location names for all of the cities/areas you source from.




On the opposite end of the spectrum, some of you don’t have to worry about multiple LinkedIn location names at all – some locations and even countries don’t have any postal codes and/or LinkedIn doesn’t recognize them, so there is only one location name (unless I am missing something):

 
 
 
 
 
Update Your LinkedIn X-Ray Searches


I’m not sure when LinkedIn enabled the ability for users to choose amongst multiple location names per postal code – do you know?



Regardless, I’m excited to share this on a global scale – if use Internet search engines to “X-Ray” public profiles on LinkedIn, be sure to search for all of the location names that users in your target geography have to choose from. If you don’t, you are likely to unknowingly prevent some available results from being returned.


Of course, if you have a LinkedIn Recruiter account, you don’t really have to worry about finding people via X-Ray searches…



Happy hunting!