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100 Country Codes On LinkedIn

If you log out of LinkedIn and look at its home page, you will find some invaluable information, including a list of 100 countries that have their own URL’s. The exception is the US profiles that have the www beginning along with many smaller countries. For your convenience and at the request from my listeners today, here is a list of the codes:

Country	Code
Afghanistan	af
Albania	al
Algeria	dz
Argentina	ar
Australia	au
Austria	at
Bahrain	bh
Bangladesh	bd
Belgium	be
Bolivia	bo
Bosnia and Herzegovina	ba
Brazil	br
Bulgaria	bg
Canada	ca
Chile	cl
China	cn
Colombia	co
Costa Rica	cr
Croatia	hr
Cyprus	cy
Czech Republic	cz
Denmark	dk
Dominican Republic	do
Ecuador	ec
Egypt	eg
El Salvador	sv
Estonia	ee
Finland	fi
France	fr
Germany	de
Ghana	gh
Greece	gr
Guatemala	gt
Hong Kong	hk
Hungary	hu
Iceland	is
India	in
Indonesia	id
Iran	ir
Ireland	ie
Israel	il
Italy	it
Jamaica	jm
Japan	jp
Jordan	jo
Kazakhstan	kz
Kenya	ke
Korea	kr
Kuwait	kw
Latvia	lv
Lebanon	lb
Lithuania	lt
Luxembourg	lu
Macedonia	mk
Malaysia	my
Malta	mt
Mauritius	mu
Mexico	mx
Montenegro	me
Morocco	ma
Nepal	np
Netherlands	nl
New Zealand	nz
Nigeria	ng
Norway	no
Oman	om
Pakistan	pk
Panama	pa
Peru	pe
Philippines	ph
Poland	pl
Portugal	pt
Puerto Rico	pr
Qatar	qa
Romania	ro
Russian Federation	ru
Saudi Arabia	sa
Serbia	rs
Singapore	sg
Slovak Republic	sk
Slovenia	si
South Africa	za
Spain	es
Sri Lanka	lk
Sweden	se
Switzerland	ch
Taiwan	tw
Tanzania	tz
Thailand	th
Trinidad and Tobago	tt
Tunisia	tn
Turkey	tr
Uganda	ug
Ukraine	ua
United Arab Emirates	ae
United Kingdom	uk
United States	www
Uruguay	uy
Venezuela	ve
Vietnam	vn

How to Source on Github

Some professional sites with software developer population that charge recruiters arm and leg to access the user data, like stackoverflow, are quite hard to search. It’s possible, but it’s not easy. Github is a place where excellent developers hang out, that provides its own clean ways to search for its content – and its users:

If you are not a fan of search operators, you can simply do this:

Start searching for users…

Select a programming language…

Add a couple of clever keywords… (not necessarily these, but this example may give you some keyword ideas) and see results like this:

I never said that we should be emailing people as soon as we get hold of lists like this. More research and pre-qualification is always a good idea. But that’s quite a bit of sourced data in one quick shot!

X-raying on Google is also possible but the results are a little harder to browse. Try this:

site:github.com “joined on” “San Francisco” “gmail.com”

X-raying on Bing, however, will not find a single thing:

site:github.com “joined on” “San Francisco” “gmail.com”;

guess, why.

I will be explaining this type of people sourcing techniques in-depth at the upcoming webinar on how to source on professional sites, coming up on Tuesday, January 22nd. As usual, the slides, a video-recording, and one month of unlimited support will be provided for all who sign up.

Thanks to Booleanstring to sharing this...

Thanks

Santosh

The Boolean

The Boolean

Thanks to  Irina Shamaeva for Excellent Post..... 

The grand purpose of this post is to become a substitute for Boolean search cheat sheets, without the need to come back or print it out.

The following is just a bit simplified, to point out the main concepts.

Google understands very limited language. It can include any words in English, but there are no sentences (carrying out a description of an action or a statement) or any English grammar. In some cases Google will search for synonyms of the keywords we use.

RULE #1. If you want several words to be included one after another, use the quotation marks. Here is an example. If you want to stop Google from including synonyms, use the quotation marks around the word.

RULE #2. To use one keyword OR another, use OR (capitalized); to exclude a word from your search use the minus:-jobs. That’s usually not a problem even for those who are new to Google’s syntax.

Google knows about many web pages. But all it knows about a page is pretty much this:

• title
• URL
• words
• images
• links to other pages

Google has no idea about resumes, LinkedIn profiles, or any such complexities.

Therefore, to speak to it beyond typing keywords, we can point it to specific titles, URLs, etc. Google gives us these operators to use:

Operators:

• site: look only for URLs that belong to the site
• inurl: look only for URLs that have a given keyword
• intitle: look only for titles that have a given keyword

There’s also a useful operator filetype: that in fact also looks at URLs and finds files of a certain type, like PDF or Excel.

To navigate Google’s search we need to think “backwards”. Let’s think what we are going to find when the search is successful.

Here is an example: if you look at resumes on indeed.com they all have the URL beginning (http://www.indeed.com/r/) in common:

So, to search for them from Google you can use site:http://www.indeed.com/r or site:http://www.indeed.com inurl:r (add your keywords)

Here is another example; this will search for members of the Boolean Strings Network: site:booleanstrings.ning.com intitle:”Page”

RULE #3. Use operators (site:, intitle:, inurl:) to point Google to the target page structure.

That’s it, folks!

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