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Topic: Do you do international Linkedin Searches? Improved X-ray!!: s that it only allows you to search one country simultaneously while for a lot of my jobs I really don't care where people are coming from. It now means that I have to run a search several times in order to make sure I have the maximum amount of candidates. I can of course try and search through the search engine of Linkedin directly and see what it gives me but the results have not been optimal. If I add say (Netherlands OR Belgium) to my keyword search I get a lot of false positives simply because of people having those words in their profile. One of my favourite ways of searching Linkedin is not using linkedin at all, it's the all-mighty X-ray. X-ray explained Now, hopefully most recruiters are comfortable with x-ray but for the less boolean-gifted recruiters a quick explanation: x-ray is a Google search string that allows you to focus on one particular site. If I put site:linkedin.com in my Google search it will give me only results from.............right, LinkedIn! There are big advantages to x-ray over a LinkedIn search and that is that you really can see all of the public profiles on linked and you can actually contact them. Reason for this is that a) your search results is limited by the size of your network and b) LinkedIn allows you to see the LinkedIn profile if you come in through this back door where if you did a normal search it wouldn't allow you if that person was outside of your network. Whenever you do an x-ray on Google don't forget to add inurl:pub OR inurl:in -intitle:directory in order to eliminate pages where such a groups and events. To further narrow it down add -inurl:updates. To give you an idea of the power of this string: it gives 30.200.000 hits. I would say much of the population of Linkedin The international X-ray For the more advanced recruiter that wants to search internationally there are some ways to limit the search to a specific country or some specific countries. Glen Cathey wrote an article about how to do this after I had contacted him about some international search he had done. To recap his research: You can do a search on postal codes on Linkedin: If you take a large city as say Amsterdam, The Netherlands you see that in the city there are several postal codes Now if we do a search on Linkedin with the postal code 1000 in the Netherlands you will see that all of them have in their profile "Amsterdam Area, Netherlands". And with that "area, country" we can play. My own research completes Glen's list and below a list of all the structures that are being used "Area, France" "Area, Germany" "*, United Kingdom" "Area, Switzerland" Area, Belgium Area, Netherlands Area, Sweden Area, Spain *, Finland Area, Norway *, Russian Federation *, Portugal Area, Italy *, Ireland Area, Denmark *, Austria As you can see most countries in Europe follow the "area, country" setup except for the UK but what can you expect from a country where people drive on the wrong side of the road? Now, let's say I need a user experience expert in the Netherlands? A what? Yeah, sorry but I had this search recently so might as well take that one. A search on "user experience" in the whole of the Netherlands gives me 1239 hits. I'm not going into how I can increase it by perhaps looking at other job titles, that is not the meaning of this article. An x-ray on google site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:updates (”Area, Netherlands”) "user experience" gives me 2.510 hits. A lot better of course, way too many results and I would need to narrow it down but I've just doubled the number of candidates. Now this seams to work but if I'm searching for more countries I may run into the Google limit of 32 words in the boolean search. As well I've found that somehow not everybody has a region mentioned in their profile which would render the "area, country" string useless. In a niche market like UX I can't afford to lose out on a single candidate. The Holy Grail of international x-rays So here is what I've found and if I'm not mistaken nobody else has blogged about it. So here is my ticket to fame :-) LinkedIn has recently changed all the personal links on peoples profiles. Now, US-based profiles haven't changed and still are http://www.linkedin.com/in/NAME but as I'm based in Spain my personal link has changed to http://es.linkedin.com/in/tedmeulenkamp. A check on other profiles gives that profiles in the UK now have uk.linkedin.com, in Germany de.linkedin.com and the Netherlands nl.linkedin.com. I have not (yet) compiled a list of all the country codes but they seem to be following the standard country codes used globally. So wow, Linkedin has actually placed a country code in the personal links of all their members! Have I found the holy grail for international linkedin x-rays? So before we bring out the champagne (or cava in Spain) let's test this. site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory -inurl:updates inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" gives me 2.990 hits. Not bad as it increases the amount of hits over the previous one because of the before mentioned fact that not everybody has a region in the profile but they surely have had to give their country when signing up. But we are still not there, what if, just imagine, what if the country code is only used in personal profiles and not on any other pages. That would mean we could get rid of inurl:pub OR inurl:in as thus save space. site:linkedin.com -intitle:directory -inurl:updates inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" gives me exactly the same amount of hits as my previous search and that is just awesome! It really means that we can leave out inurl:pub OR inurl:in. But wait, wait, wait. What if we leave out -intitle:directory and -inurl:updates? site:linkedin.com inurl:nl.linkedin.com user experience" again gives me the same amount of hits. AMAZING!!! We went from a pretty lengthy search string to this compact, easy to remember, easy to use search string! Just to be complete if you want to use this string for a multi country search you just put in inurl:nl.linkedin.com OR inurl:be.linkedin.com OR etc). So folks, run the following and bookmark it for your international searches: site:linkedin.com inurl:nl.linkedin.com KEYWORDS". Change the country code and keywords and rock on! Conclusion There is so much more to get out of Linkedin by using an X-ray and now with this new search string you can actually very accurately search per country and profit of the larger network and accessibility of the x-ray search! And dear friends in the US, sorry but because you still have the original profile links you still need to use the full search string.…; Added by Ted Meulenkamp at 6:20am on November 16, 2009

Topic: The Sourcers We Are (And Aren't) Part I: sourcers in the world and is the star of the video posted on the main page of the MagicMethod Network. If you’ve never seen the “Impossible Mission” clip it’s over on the right at the site, down some and it’s called “Phone Sourcing YouTube Video.” Go watch it. It’s not long and it’s fun and it kind of sets the stage for this story and I’ll be here waiting for you when you get back. *** Back so soon? Fun, huh? Anyhow, Pam and I ventured down to the AfterDark event and the following event transpired. It’s the first part of a series I’m writing about phone sourcing. This is a TRUE STORY about phone sourcing based on real characters and this time, names have not been changed to protect the – well - we won’t call them innocent or guilty because, to tell you the truth, the participants really had no idea what they were getting themselves into! All that being said, here we go. *** Sourcecon Seattle just ended and I have a story to tell. For those of you who have attended SourceCon After Dark, the place where Sourcecon revelers meet on the event's first night to mingle and tingle you know the fun goes late into the dark night where all sorts of nightmarish scenarios tipple on the edges of sourcer/recruiter imaginations. You know, the kinds of things that take the fun out of living. One such nightmare became reality around 8:30 on the first night of the unparalleled and innovative sourcing event for Sourcecon attendee Bill Staadt (Twitter: @macwin11se) My associate Pam and I had arrived around 9pm to a lively and jam-packed room where most of the crowd gathered around the Sourcecon Grand Master Challenge Bar where several contestants were earnestly whaling against each other for the industry’s treasured crown based around Internet sourcing. Pam wandered off while I went to get a cup of coffee. A young man with a light-grey hoodie pulled up over his head with a half-open laptop in his hands approached Pamela and said to her, very seriously, “I need a phone sourcer.” “What’s wrong?” Pam asked, noticing his troubled expression and serious countenance. “I just got an email from my boss. He’s angry. A candidate we had scheduled for a second interview tomorrow just pulled out of consideration. The client is ready to make an offer and we don’t have a back-up!” “She said she’s accepting another offer from another company.” About this time I walked up to the two standing there, off to the side away from the madding crowd and, noticing the earnest discussion going back and forth, nudged Pam and asked, “What’s goin’ on?” Pam leaned out sideways and quickly brought me up to speed on the situation and I asked the young man what he thought could be done to remedy it. “I know she has three coworkers. I’d like to find out who they are,” and with that he sat down and opened his laptop fully and the bright screen revealed that old, familiar LinkedIn profile of a young woman whose right column connections were being eagerly harvested as potential fill-ins for the candidate who had the nerve to just drop out. “You think they’re in there?” I quizzed, pointing at the laptop screen with the bright LinkedIn glare. “This might be one – this looks like it could be one – she’s a consultant who works at the airline the candidate works for,” he replied, hopefully. The tale grows dark. “A consultant? This woman is a consultant working for an airline? What consulting company does she work for?” “I don’t know,” he said, shaking his head ominously. “Your client was about to make an offer and you don’t know what consulting company she works for?” He blinked. “Let me see her resume. What does her resume say?” I asked bossily, thinking maybe he overlooked it and surely with my old phone sourcing eyes I’d see what his young Internet sourcing eyes had missed. It wasn’t there. All that was there was that she was working as a “Project Manager” at a major Midwest airline in their IT Loyalty Integrated Marketing organization. “She and probably about a thousand others,” I thought to myself. “Do you have her work number?” I asked. “I don’t,” he admitted. About this time our presence had attracted the attention of two other phone sourcers and we all began excitedly poring and pecking and pawing over and at one another over ways and means of attacking this problem. We had our own Phone Sourcing Grand Master Challenge going on at the other end of the room (near the bar) and nobody even knew about it! What’s worse, and what niggles at me in my dark hours, is the belief (my own stinkin'thinkin' - the thing I'm always warning others against) that nobody would have cared (or understood, really, what was going on) even if they did know! Over the next few days I’m going to regale you with the tale of how two lowly phone sourcers with the help of one extremely dejected and worried Sourcecon attendee at 7:15 the next morning successfully found not only the Consultant with the missing work phone/company affiliation but also the three Consultants (and their direct dials and company affiliations) who worked with her, their manager and the other people in the same group who were employees of the airline and also several managers, senior managers and the entire group (all with titles/direct dials!) under another manager as well as the director of the Loyalty Integrated Marketing organization group they all reported under. All names this poor dejected and worried Sourcecon attendee could send to his own boss by 11 that same morning and learn by mid-afternoon that two of the names had been not only phone screened but also scheduled for interviews the very next day (Friday, October 4)! Stay tuned. Bill has promised to keep us apprised of developing events. This story is exciting. You’re going to enjoy it. I guarantee it. I’m going to tell you how we did it and Bill is going to bear witness to the facts, as he hinted in his October 3, 2013 tweet from Sourcecon to the world: Bill Staadt ‏@macwin11se 3 Oct #sourcecon I just witnessed Phone Sourcing magic! You guys rock! (you know who you are). Yes, Bill, we know who we are! Part II…; Added by Maureen Sharib to Phone Sourcing at 6:29am on October 19, 2013