100 Country Codes On LinkedIn

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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.

You will find a wealth of material in our latest presentation “LinkedIn [Sourcing] Solved”.

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

Sourcing Checklist

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I am always happy to do sourcing! With the increased volume of Internet Research/People Sourcing/Name Generation projects we have started using a simple Checklist for clients that I would like to share.

Here are the questions:

  1. Filled out by:
  2. Date:
  3. Job/Role Description (attach)
  4. Notes (what is key; what makes it hard; where you have looked)
  5. Preferred Delivery (Resumes: y/n; LinkedIn Profiles: y/n; Other Social Profiles: y/n; Excel contact lists: y/n; other)
  6. Target Location(s)
  7. Additional Locations (optional)
  8. Ideal Profile(s) (optional) (attach) [this is THE BEST piece of information!]
  9. Salary Range (optional)
  10. Synonym Titles (optional)
  11. Must have skills/keywords (optional)
  12. Avoid skills/keywords (optional)
  13. Years of experience (optional)
  14. Target companies (optional)
  15. Avoid Companies (optional)
  16. Preferred Schools (optional)
  17. Conferences (optional)
  18. Certifications (optional)
  19. Associations (optional)

It can be accesses here: Sourcing Checklist

Here is what I feel is different in the sourcing services we can provide:

  • I can optionally include explanations and interactive sessions to show how I have found the results as part of the project – so that you’ll be training your team as well as obtaining research results
  • We offer a variety of output formats and types of information, checking with you mid-way, with the goal of raising your ROI
  • Well, we are also pretty good at finding people 🙂

The type of a relationship with companies that I have found most rewarding and mutually beneficial is being part-time “on call” as a resource for teams of corporate recruiters. I’d be glad to talk with you if you would like to explore this in better detail. I’d also be curious to compare notes with those who do part-time “most urgent, most difficult” sourcing projects for corporations.

 

Webinar: Boolean Search on LinkedIn – New Date!

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NEW DATE! Join us for a Webinar on November 15

[The webinar on Nov 6 was full. Repeating on Nov 15th.]

Attendees have signed up from: Nike, Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Verizon Wireless, Motorola, Oracle, Staples, The Home Depot, The Footlocker, Experis, E&Y, IBM, Accenture, Gartner, Tata Consulting, Wells Fargo, United Health, Kforce, Randstad, Adecco, and Futurestep, to name a just few companies, and from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Romania, Hungary, Check Republic, Nigeria, Philippines, India, and Australia.

Instant Feedback :” Within 15 mins I had a method to search via Google and have found many potential candidates for a difficult role that I have been working on.” – Clive

Boolean Search on LinkedIn

LinkedIn has an amazing number of ways to search across the human capital data it has accumulated. When someone says, “I have already searched on LinkedIn; can you please look elsewhere?” – chances are, there are alternative ways to go back and find more matching results.

This webinar is for those who use LinkedIn to search for people and want to expand their toolkit and understand the advantages and the limitations of a variety of ways of searching LinkedIn for talent.

Who should attend: Recruiters, People Sourcers, Resourcers, People Searchers, Researchers, Talent Miners, Recruitment Agencies, and Corporate Recruiting Teams. Some familiarity with X-raying, i.e. using the operator site: on Google (or Yahoo) is necessary.

The webinar will include an overview of search techniques, from searching on Google or with a basic account to LinkedIn Talent Finder to LinkedIn Recruiter. (As always, I am not affiliated with any vendors.)

Outline
X-raying for Profiles

  • The Basics
  • Public Profiles Configuration
  • “The Best” Strings
  • Removing Unwanted Results

Searching for Profiles

  • LinkedIn Basic vs. LinkedIn Talent Finder vs. LinkedIn Recruiter vs. X-raying
  • Searching with the Talent Pipeline

Profile Visibility
* LinkedIn Basic vs. LinkedIn Talent Finder vs. LinkedIn Recruiter vs. X-raying
* How to Target, on LinkedIn and by X-raying:

  • Geography
  • Years of Experience
  • Degrees, Schools, and Graduation Years
  • Skills
  • Competitors

Indirect Search: Finding members on LinkedIn by:

  • Similarity
  • Matches for Jobs
  • Viewers of Profiles
  • Posted content
  • X-Raying for Groups

Advanced X-Raying Secrets

The webinar comes with one month of support, the slides, and a video-recording for ALL who sign up (i.e. you do not have to attend “live” if you have a scheduling conflict).

Price: $79
NEW Date: Thursday, November 15
Time: 9 AM PST/noon EST/5 PM London
Duration: 90 minutes

After regirstering your name and email, please wait to be redirected to the payment link or go straight to to http://bit.ly/90min-webinar to complete the registration.

Space is limited.

Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/405574546

 

 

Webinar Special: get the People Sourcing Program Certification Materials (either Level One or Level Two or both) and attend the Boolean Search on LinkedIn webinar as a guest. (Questions? Please email George Glikman).

Country-Specific Regions and Titles on #LinkedIn

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Resourcing in the UK. Part 3: Regions and Titles on LinkedIn

Here is the third of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. (See the posts One/Twitter and Two/Google.) The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere.

I’d like to discuss geographical regions as they are phrased on LinkedIn, and lists of job titles across the UK.

While you are reading this post it’s best to log out of LinkedIn.

A Google search like this

site:uk.linkedin.com/title/assistant

(where you can replace assistant with any other keyword) shows a list of links with short lists of people whose profiles contain the word assistant.

(I am sorry if it may have sounded too complex; it’s not).

You may notice that some of these lists include people from a variety of locations, and those have a “generic” piece of URL in-gb-0-United-Kingdom.

  

Since we are interested in locations at the moment, let’s exclude those “generic” links, and let’s use the keyword senior that would hopefully pick all of the locations. I.e. hopefully there’s someone who has the word senior in their job title for any region.

site:uk.linkedin.com/title/senior -inurl:0

See the locations showing up in the results now?

To collect the titles fast, we may want to use Fastest Chrome (or Fastest Fox) and display all of the results in one page…

…then simply select-all on the page with the search results and paste into MS Excel as text, and see all locations, along with their internal LinkedIn codes…

…and finalize the table of codes and locations using simple sorting and replacing functions in Excel. Here’s the result, below. These are all the locations in the UK as seen by LinkedIn.

The task for the reader is to create a table with an alphabetized list of all possible titles including the word senior.

 

Here is the third of a series of hands-on sourcing examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere.

I’d like to discuss geographical regions as they are phrased on LinkedIn, and lists of job titles across the UK.

While you are reading this post it’s best to log out of LinkedIn.

A Google search like this

site:uk.linkedin.com/title/assistant

(where you can replace assistant with any other keyword) shows a list of links with short lists of people whose profiles contain the word assistant.

(I am sorry if it may have sounded too complex; it’s not).

You may notice that some of these lists include people from a variety of locations, and those have a “generic” piece of URL in-gb-0-United-Kingdom.

 

Since we are interested in locations at the moment, let’s exclude those “generic” links, and let’s use the keyword senior that would hopefully pick all of the locations. I.e. hopefully there’s someone who has the word senior in their job title for any region.

site:uk.linkedin.com/title/senior -inurl:0

See the locations showing up in the results now?

 

To collect the titles fast, we may want to use Fastest Chrome (or Fastest Fox) and display all of the results in one page…

 

…then simply select-all on the page with the search results and paste into MS Excel as text, and see all locations, along with their internal LinkedIn codes…

 

…and finalize the table of codes and locations using simple sorting and replacing functions in Excel. Here’s the result, below. These are all the locations in the UK as seen by LinkedIn.

The task for the reader is to create a table with an alphabetized list of all possible titles including the word senior.

 

Code Location Code Location Code Location Code Location
4542 Aberdeen 4570 Doncaster 4600 Liverpool 4625 Reading
4543 Albans 4571 Dorchester 4601 Lancaster 4626 Redhill
4544 Birmingham 4573 London 4603 Leicester 4626 Redhill
4545 Bath 4573 London 4603 Leicester 4627 Romford
4546 Blackburn 4573 London 4605 Lincoln 4628 Sheffield
4547 Bradford 4574 Edinburgh 4606 Leeds 4630 Stevenage
4548 Bournemouth 4574 Edinburgh 4607 Luton 4631 Stockport
4549 Bolton 4575 Enfield 4608 Manchester 4632 Slough
4550 Brighton 4576 Exeter 4608 Manchester 4632 Slough
4552 Bristol 4577 Falkirk 4610 Keynes 4634 Swindon
4554 Carlisle 4578 Blackpool 4611 Motherwell 4635 Southampton
4555 Cambridge 4579 Glasgow 4613 Nottingham 4637 Sunderland
4556 Cardiff 4580 Gloucester 4613 Nottingham 4640 Shrewsbury
4557 Chester 4582 Guildford 4614 Northampton 4641 Taunton
4558 Chelmsford 4583 Harrow 4615 Newport 4643 Telford
4559 Colchester 4586 Hempstead 4615 Newport 4644 Tonbridge
4560 Croydon 4587 Hereford 4616 Norwich 4646 Truro
4561 Canterbury 4589 Hull 4616 Norwich 4647 Cleveland
4562 Coventry 4590 Halifax 4617 Oldham 4648 Twickenham
4563 Crewe 4593 Ipswich 4618 Oxford 4649 Southall
4564 Dartford 4593 Ipswich 4619 Paisley 4650 Warrington
4565 Dundee 4594 Inverness 4620 Peterborough 4654 Worcester
4566 Derby 4595 Jersey 4622 Plymouth 4655 Walsall
4568 Durham 4597 Thames 4624 Preston 4657 York
4569 Darlington 4599 Kirkcaldy 4624 Preston

 

 

Resourcing in the UK. Part 2: Following Recruiters on Twitter

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Here is the second of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere.

I’d like to discuss following a list of people on Twitter.

 

Let’s start with creating a list of people, in this case, UK-based recruiters. I think it was Martin Lee who first pointed me to the interesting way Bullhorn Reach constructs their user profiles. Based on what we see, here’s how we could create an email list of UK recruiters:

site:bullhornreach.com/user intitle:uk

Any email extractor can now be used to create a list of email addresses that would look like this:

Here’s a question for the reader: what search would you run on Google to find additional UK-based recruiters who are not included in this list?

(By the way please don’t think that if you have a list of emails it’s a reason to send emails; it’s not what I had in mind at all.)

Now, I would like to follow these people on Twitter. To start with, I import the above list of email addresses into a Gmail account. This, by the way, will show everyone who is already present on Google-Plus:

Then, on Twitter, I point to that Gmail account and get suggestions for following. I can then mass-follow the list.

(By the way, please note how few of these people we would have found by searching their bio’s for the words recruiter or recruitment. That’s a reason why sourcing on Twitter  by searching bio’s may not be as productive as it may seem.)

Resourcing in the UK

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Good People Sourcing (or Resourcing, as they are called in some places) methods are, of, course, independent of industry and geography. Here is the first of a series of hands-on examples – based on some specific searches in the UK – on how to use some People Sourcing concepts. The same techniques can be applied to searches elsewhere.

 

Suppose we would like to get to pages that look “like” this one and also collect the info, without much mouse-clicking, copying, and pasting.

After exploring the page closely and experimenting a little with the amounts of asterisks (“placeholders”) in the Google search string, we could arrive at something like this:

site:aerospacewalesforum.co.uk “name * * title * * ” “telephone * *” “email * * *” “website http* * “

(It’s actually more of art than science in figuring out the asterisks.) Here is what the results look like:

Then, using a parsing tool like Broadlook Contact Capture, we can get this in one click: 

It’s possible to do this parsing more precisely simply with MS Excel, but that would be a few more key- and mouse-clicks.

Then, using some magic, we can find some of those people on LinkedIn (there’s no need for a paid account)…

… and do many more things; but let’s stop here for now.

(By the way please don’t think that if you have a list of LinkedIn profiles it’s a reason to invite them; it’s not what I had in mind at all.)

Here is a question to the reader: how would you change the above search string to also show the address as well, as in this screenshot? 

International People Sourcing Contest

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Are you ready for a people sourcing contest? Two (or more) prizes await the winners.

Prize #1. Attendance at the first-ever live 

People Sourcing Certification Training in London UK

on October 24, 2012 – PLUS – continue with 4 weeks practice and tests online in the 

People Sourcing Certification Program in January 2013

Optionally, you can continue at

the Level Two instead, starting in February.

Additional prizes for the class in London will be given out to those who solve all of the sourcing puzzles, space permitting.

Prize #2. Attendance at the 

People Sourcing Certification Program in January/February 2013

 at the Level One or Level Two (your choice).

Deadline for the Contest: EOB Pacific Time MONDAY OCTOBER 22. When you are ready, enter the Contest Here:

(Don’t worry if you think you got it wrong the first time and can think of some improvements; we’ll accept multiple entries.)

To warm you up for the Contest, here are a few images you will see in the questions:

 

 

The Boolean Language of Google and Bing

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To learn the language of search engines it’s best to start with the advanced search dialogs:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search
http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced

If you’d like to keep a reminder handy on the most essential elements of the search engine syntax, here is one:

Finding Org Charts

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Which Boolean Strings will bring up company organizational charts? This question comes up once in a while from recruiters who come to my lectures and on forums.

Here’s a brief beginner guide on how to find where to find org charts. The post also has explanations applicable to finding sites to search for any information of interest.

 

First and foremost, for 99.99% of the companies out there there are no posted full org charts available for easy viewing online by strangers, for obvious reasons: it is proprietary data. Some companies post partial org charts of their management.

For most companies the org charts cannot be found, even with “strong” search strings, because they are not there. While it may sound trivial, so many people try hard to find what’s not out there -and feel that they don’t know how to search properly!

(1) Let’s imagine that there is a site allowing search for org charts, at least for some org charts. The site(s) might show up in Google search if we use the keywords “org chart” and perhaps also the word “search”, since otherwise we’d mostly find tools to create org charts, which is not of interest at the moment.

The search org chart search brings up a good first result: Cogmap Org Chart Wiki. The site doesn’t try to make money; instead, it offers information exchange. It has 17K charts with almost 300K people. The site was created back in 2006.

The second result, Where to find corporate organization charts, sounds great, but notice that the page was created in 2005, so the info may be a bit outdated (and it is, but is worth exploring).

(Take a look at other results and see what you can find.)

(2) Since we liked Cogmap, a thing to do is also to look for similar sites:  related:cogmap.com This brings up another site that is certainly on target and is useful: The organizational charts of the largest corporations 

(This search also does bring up “false positives” but we can always ignore them.)

(3) We can also search the posts on the Boolean Strings group, the Internet Sourcing Community. Search for charts and you will find Source people on wikiorgcharts – Check it out! The post points to the site Wikiorgcharts which is, like Cogmap, a crowd-sourcing site and has over a million entries and was created in 2011.

(4) If we look for sites that would have org chart(s) for a particular organization, we might assume that in many cases the words org chart will make it to the title or the URL of those pages. intitle:”org chart”  brings up quite a few sites, mostly universities and government sites. (You can exclude some words if you like, such as download, how, software, etc., to remove false positives.)

From the first few minutes of searching we would find lots of those for sites ending in .gov; .edu; .org; and .mil

Here are a few samples of org charts in .gov and .edu sites

Note that some org charts are posted as images, so you can’t Google any names within them; an example is here: NYCHA Organizational Chart (jpg image)

(For those of you who are advanced sourcers: can you figure out what org chart is used for the image above?)

Last Names on LinkedIn

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If you have a basic or a low-paid account on LinkedIn, you can’t see the full names of people who are your third level connections. You can’t see the names of people outside your network. In LinkedIn Recruiter, which is the solution for corporations, you can see all names.

I didn’t realize up till I was at the #sourceIn event yesterday at the LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View, that agencies with the top solution wouldn’t see the names either. Now, LinkedIn has decided to open up the names to agencies as well. GREAT! It should be available soon. (They also have some really cool features coming up in the Talent Pipeline.)

However, if you don’t have that advanced type of account or don’t want to wait until the new feature is implemented for agencies, here is what you can do.

 

(1) Go to the profile in question.

(2) Share it, using the share function, with someone you know who’s OK with it, or with me. (We need to be connected for that; I am gladly accepting all invitations.)

(3) Look for the message you had just sent, in your “Sent Items” under Inbox.

(4) In your message, see the link to the profile with the name that you couldn’t see? Click on it.

There’s no need to have a paid account for it to work. It works in exactly 100% of all cases.

ADDITIONAL INFO. Added on 9/17/2012

Some people can no longer see the “share” link as on the screenshot above. Here is a workaround.

  1. Look at the profile in question and copy its LinkedIn ID (a large number in the URL)
  2. Start sharing a profile that you can share (such as your connection, or share my profile)
  3. Paste this ID into your sharing dialog (in case of my profile the number to replace is 1769200)

This works just like before. Of course it’s a bit more mouse and key clicks but it works.

Also you get to see a link to the person’s public profile if it exists and that one will give you even more info in some cases.

Or, just use this link. Here is the exact link that should work (paste the LinkedIn ID where it says so):

http://www.linkedin.com/forwardProfileMsg?displayCreate=&profileID=PASTEIDHERE&network=I