Sourcing & Recruiting Blog

Nothing Impossible!!!

2025-01-20T03:25:00.000-08:00

“During a mathematics course at Columbia University, a student fell asleep and woke up to the sound of his classmates talking.

As the lesson ended, he noticed the lecturer had written two problems on the whiteboard.

He assumed these were homework assignments, so he copied them into his notepad to tackle later.

When he first attempted the problems, he found them quite difficult.

However, he persevered, spending hours in the library gathering references and studying until he was able to solve one of the problems, though it was challenging.

To his surprise, the lecturer didn’t ask about the homework in the next class.

Curious, the student stood up and asked, "Doctor, why didn’t you ask about the assignment from the previous lecture?"

The lecturer replied, "Required? It wasn’t mandatory.

I was simply presenting examples of mathematical problems that science and scientists had not yet solved."

Shocked, the student responded, "But I solved one of them in four papers!"

The solution he discovered was eventually credited to him and documented at Columbia University.

The four papers he wrote on the issue are still on display at the institution.

The key reason the student was able to solve the problem was that he didn’t hear the lecturer say, "No one has found a solution."

Instead, he believed it was a problem worth solving and approached it without frustration, ultimately succeeding.

This story serves as a reminder: don't listen to those who tell you that you can't achieve something, as many young people today are surrounded by negativity and doubt.

Some people intentionally plant seeds of failure and frustration.

You have the power to achieve your goals, overcome obstacles, and fulfill your aspirations. Simply trust in God and keep trying.”

Deep and Dark Web Recruitment

2021-07-26T00:36:00.003-07:00

Deep and Dark Web Recruitment

Every agency or corporate recruiter is using LinkedIn as a primary tool. It’s simple, fast, and you can reach candidates pretty easily. Other recruitment sources are job boards, Google, and so on. But not every great candidate is on LinkedIn, for various reasons, and not everyone can be found by Google X-ray because Google is not able to penetrate the whole internet and all forums. Since technical forums are quite often password-protected and therefore invisible to Google, Bing or Baidu, you can only locate those by using Booleans and advanced operators. But you cannot always access these websites, because they are hidden in the Deep or Dark Web.

Difference between Deep Web, Dark Web and Surface Web

Everything that search engines can’t access, but is still accessible by a normal browser if you have a URL, is part of the Deep Web.

Everything that is hidden for a purpose, and inaccessible through standard web browsers, is part of the Dark Web. That is a small portion of the Deep Web.

You are visiting numerous websites every day. This part of the Internet is called the Surface Web, which you can visit through search engines. But this is only a small part of the Internet, only around 4%. But what about the remaining 96%?

The vast majority of the Internet lies in the Deep Web. Some statistics mention that the Deep Web is estimated to be 500 times the size of the Surface Web, and I believe the size of the web is definitely even bigger than that.

But no one knows how big the Deep Web really is. Some data is hidden for a purpose (password protected websites/forums), and some of these sites cannot be crawled by current search engine technologies. Data that you can find in the Deep Web is hard for search engines to see, but unseen doesn’t equal unimportant. You can find such interesting data in the Deep Web like company databases, address books, etc. The potential for this data is unlimited.

Deep Web pages are operated just like any other site online, but they are invisible to web crawlers. Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex etc.) rely on programs known as crawlers or spiders that gather information by following the trails of hyperlinks that tie the Web together.

Every day, the Deep Web is getting deeper and bigger. Google, Baidu, Bing and the other search engines are going to improve theirs algorithms so they can crawl more data. As the internet grows more and more, it will face the big data problem: how to index, search and analyze all this data.

If you want to find this hidden information or access these hidden web sites, you need special software, such as The Onion Router (commonly known as Tor). To access data on the Deep Web, you use special browser software that helps you reach this hidden part of the internet. Tor is able to help you maintain anonymity online and provides access to so-called hidden services with the .onion pseudo-top-level domain host suffix.

Of course there is a darker side of the Deep Web (fake IDs, stolen passwords…), but it’s also full of a surprising amount of knowledge and interesting data that you can use for your candidate search.

The purpose of this article is not give you a manual on how to source candidates on the Deep Web, but to introduce this part of the Internet to you. The “How to search for candidates on the Deep Web” manual will be a little bit longer than this article.

Deep Web and Dark Web

Deep Web

The Deep Web is sometimes called the Hidden Web or Invisible Web. It is full of pages that cannot be found by crawling. The Deep Web is a part of the internet that is not accessible by these crawlers and search spiders, so you cannot find it over Google, Yahoo, and other search engines. Forums where you can find and contact interesting candidates are quite often password-protected and therefore invisible to Google, Bing or Baidu, but you can locate these forums using Booleans and advanced operators.

One of the Deep Web search engines is Clusty — a meta search engine that combines the results of several top search engines.

Dark Web

This area of the Deep Web is a portion of this part of internet inaccessible through standard web browsers. You will need to use Tor to access the Dark Web.

What is TOR?

TOR (The Onion Router) is a program that makes you anonymous on the Internet. This means that you will be invisible for your internet provider, hackers, ad agencies, and spies, and nobody can tell what you are doing on the Internet without going through a lot of effort.

Note: Accessing the Tor network is legal, although this may not apply to the activities you participate in there or things you can find there.

On Tor you can find password-protected forums, and some of these forums also have a section called “Looking for a job” or “Hire me.”

One of the Dark Web search engines is Ahmia , a search engine for hidden onion sites running inside the Tor network.

Have you ever thought about sourcing candidates on the “Deep/Dark Web”?

Using Tor could unlock the door to a whole “Dark Web World,” and you will see things that you did not think existed online. Reaching candidates in this part of the internet could be your successful sourcing strategy.

Cicada 3301

Cicada 3301 is a name given to an anonymous organization that posted the probably hardest puzzle on the internet. It is basically a recruitment tool and one of the most interesting recruitment campaigns, which consists of a set of complex puzzles with the goal to recruit capable cryptanalysts from the public.

The stated intent was to recruit intelligent individuals by presenting a series of puzzles which were to be solved, each in order to find the next, and taking them into the Deep Web. The Cicada 3301 clues included different communication mediums like the Internet, telephone, music, digital images, pages of books, etc.

No one knows who sets the puzzles, or what the prize is at the end, but some believe it is a recruitment process for the NSA, CIA, MI6, FSB, some mercenary group, or a group of hackers like Anonymous.

The campaign starts with one picture after a designated number of solvers visited particular websites on Tor, and the end of the campaign is when they shut down the website and left only the message that they found the person for them. But the outcome of Cicada 3301 recruiting (and who is behind this) is still a conundrum.

This recruitment campaign from Cicada 3301 was a good inspiration for other cryptographic challenges like Project Architeuthis, developed by The United States Navy. This is based on the Cicada challenge and it’s also used as a recruitment tool for finding the right people with the right skills.

Other agencies like GCHQ also released their ‘Can You Find It?’ competition. This quest is designed to test both experienced and self-taught geeks to crack a series of cryptic codes and the person who can solve this cryptic challenge could be on their way to getting a job as a spy.

The Deep Web and the Dark Web is a great source to find great talents, and it’s a place that only few recruiters operate in. You can search for people in the same space (Surface Web — 4% of the internet) as everybody else, or try to dig deep and use the other 96% of the Internet which only a few others recruiters are using, because the Deep Web is offering a great opportunity.

In this Information Age, the most coveted commodity is information, so the value of the Deep Web is immeasurable, and recruiters and information seekers can no longer avoid its importance.

Have you ever tried to search for candidates there?

Originally published at LinkedIn

Best Tools to Find Email Address

2019-07-26T05:40:00.001-07:00

Here Are Some Tools To Find Any Email Address

Clearbit

Free

Chrome extension

Miss Rapportive? Here is something better.

Clearbit is an immensely popular lead enrichment tool that not only finds email addresses for you but also other company and personal data from its database.

Using their Gmail integration plugin - Clearbit Connect, you can find employee email addresses for any company using only their domain name.

After installing the plugin and connecting your Gmail account, to find any email address, you can click the Clearbit option in the top right corner of your Gmail Inbox and go about typing in the domain name.

This plugin is completely free.

FindThatLead

Paid

Chrome extension

With only the company’s URL, you can find your prospect’s email address using FindThatLead. Enter the domain and click Find Leads to get a list of emails with that domain name. You can then scroll down and pick out your prospect’s email.

FindThatLead also has a chrome extension where you’ll get your prospect’s email address pulled from their LinkedIn profile. Another nifty feature they have is that the plugin will display a certain percentage beside each email address indicating how accurate it is.

VoilaNorbert

Norbert claims that he can find anyone’s corporate email. That’s a bold claim, but he mostly comes through with it.

VoilaNorbert is one the best email-finding tools to come out in recent times. With only a name and company domain name, it can find anyone’s email address and verify it.

VoilaNorbert has a free trial plan that gives you 50 free lead searches. If you want more, there have paid plans.

Adapt.io

Freemium

Chrome extension

Adapt.io has a chrome extension, LinkedIn Email Finder that can help you get email addresses from your prospect’s LinkedIn page and export them to your CRM.

Once you install the extension, go to your prospect’s LinkedIn profile and you’ll see a new option called, Get Email.

You can then export that lead from your Adapt.io dashboard to CRMs such as Salesforce, Zoho, and Pipedrive or as a CSV file.

Saleslift follows a freemium model with their basic free plan giving you 100 email lookups/per month

RocketReach

Freemium

Chrome extension

Using RocketReach you can find anyone’s email address, phone number and more from 50+ sites in a single search. They have a chrome extension that can extract email addresses from sites such as LinkedIn, Crunchbase, AngelList, Google etc.

Once you’re on your prospect’s site, click on the RocketReach plugin and you’ll get a drop-down of the company’s employees,

From here you can add the email addresses you need to your RocketReach list for further prospecting.

RocketReach follows a freemium model where the basic free plan offers 3 lookups per month and export to CSV feature. With the paid plans, features such as API access, Salesforce integration, bulk lookups and more are available

Hunter.io

Paid

Chrome extension

Formerly known as EmailHunter, Hunter.io lets you find email addresses in bulk by company domain.

Pretty simple. If you know the company name, you can just enter it in the provided field and it will show you all the email addresses with that domain name.

Apart from the web version, they have a chrome extension that pulls email addresses from the webpage you are currently sitting on.

You can search up to 100 domains for free each month, and they have paid plans if you want more.

FindThat.Email

Paid

Chrome extension

FindThat.Email is a simple email finding tool that promises a high accuracy rate. It uses data analytics and cross-checks to give you the best possible results.

All you need is the First Name, Last Name, and Domain Name to get your email address.

They also have a chrome extension that works similar to other email finding tools. The plugin automatically pulls the email address when you visit the prospect’s LinkedIn page.

You can create custom and upload email lists for verification. They integrate with MailChimp, Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Zoho CRM.

They have plans starting from $29/month for 500 leads.

LeadGibbon

Paid

Chrome extension

LeadGibbon is a chrome extension tool that automatically extracts the email addresses of your LinkedIn prospects.

Once the plugin is installed, you can search for your prospect on LinkedIn. Below their profile, you’ll see a LeadGibbon button. Click on that, and you can prospect the email.

They offer a 7-day trial period. And have plans starting from $99/per month.

SellHack

Paid

Chrome extension

SellHack is a easy-to-use sales prospecting tool that searches available public sources to find someone’s email address. With only the prospect's name and company domain, SellHack delivers verified email addresses with high accuracy.

They also have a chrome extension that does the same thing.

SellHack has a free trial offering 10 email credits and if you want more, they have paid plans starting from $19/per month.

HeadReach

Paid

HeadReach is a tool that allows you to search for prospect’s email using their name, company name, website. Apart from these, HeadReach has advanced search options that allows you to search for email addresses by job positions, industry, keywords, country, university name, and so on.

They have paid plans starting from 29$/per month.

Toofr

Paid

Chrome extension

Using first and last names, company name and website, you can find email addresses of anyone from countless email address patterns and mail servers, through Toofr’s email finder. They have a Confidence Meter which tells you how accurate the email address is.

Toofr has a chrome extension that lets you find email addresses from the comfort of your current browser window.

Toofr has paid plans starting from $19/month.

Vocus.io

Paid

Chrome extension

A Gmail extension that can find anyone’s email address using their name and domain name. Vocus.io’s targeted search is highly efficient; it creates a combination of possible emails using the name and domain name provided and runs each combination through their email verification to give you the email address you’re looking for.

Their extension not only helps you find email addresses, they also let schedule emails to be sent later, track emails, mail merge, and set reminders.

Vocus.io offers a 30-day trial period after which you can opt for their paid plans which start from $5/per month.

Datanyze

Paid

Chrome extension

Apart from being a technographic tool for sales and marketing reps, Datanyze has a free chrome extension that extracts email address from the current web window for prospecting purposes. You can also export these new contacts to your CRM, Sheets, or other sales email tools with a single click.

Like mentioned before, the chrome extension is completely free.

SignalHire

Paid

Chrome extension

SignalHire is a talent sourcing platform that has a Chrome plugin that extracts your prospect's email address from social media profiles like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, GitHub, and so on. You can also scour for brand new prospects based in their location.

They claim to have a hit rate of 100% when it comes to verified emails in real time. It’s not only email addresses that SignalHire pulls out, you get their other social media links, phone numbers, Skype ID and other popular messengers.

You can instantly send emails from the search stage, export contacts to CSV, and export candidates to your ATS.

They have paid plans starting from 39$/per month if billed monthly and 29$/per month if billed annually.

skrapp

Paid

Chrome extension

Used by major companies like Oracle, Adobe, Cisco, Siemens and so; skrapp is one of the best easy-to-use email finding tools in the market. Their handy Chrome extension adds a nifty Find Email button on your prospects LinkedIn profile page.

skrapp allows you to import your existing CSV leads databases and search for emails. Their cloud servers lets you access your data anytime, from anywhere. You can sync your lead directory with your CRM or Email Service Provider, allowing faster workflow and more flexibility for prospecting.

They have a solid free plan which allows you to search for 150 emails/ per month. Their paid plans start from $39/per month.

FOUND

Paid

Chrome extension

Using FOUND you can pull your prospect’s email address, names, job titles, and company from their website or social media profiles like LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium, Quora, and so on. Apart from this, FOUND also allows you to add these prospects to various lists and perform email outreach all straight from the plugin.

They follow a quote-priced system - each client receives a specific pricing package tailored to meet their needs.

Snovio

Freemium

Chrome extension

Snovio’s chrome extension makes your outbound research easier by helping you find your prospect’s email addresses faster. Get their email addresses along with names and job positions from various domains, and save emails from LinkedIn profiles. You can also send emails to your list of prospects.

Using Snovio you can also check what tech other businesses use, and their Marketplace helps connect freelancers, marketing experts and employers.

They have a basic free plan which offers you 100 credits per month. It’s completely free. However, if you want more they have paid plans started from $19 per month.

LeadMine

Freemium

Chrome extension

LeadMine is a powerful lead generation tool that helps you find not only your prospect’s email addresses, but also their titles, industry, location, company, and more. Save all qualified leads with their information into your list with a single click.

You can export you prospect list into a CSV file for sending emails.

A free plan is available where they offer you 10 credits per month. Their paid plans start from $29 per month.

Interseller

Paid

Chrome extension

Using Interseller you can find new prospects and add their contact information directly into email campaigns. Their chrome extension adds a Interseller button to LinkedIn, AngelList, Crunchbase, and Github profile pages which lets you get that respective profile’s email address.

Add prospects into an email campaign to automate a series of personalized emails for outreach. Interseller integrates with many tools like Hubspot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Bullhorn, Greenhouse, and also has Zapier to keep tabs on all your prospects and communication in one place.

A standard plan of $100 per user per month is available. If you want more features, you can contact them.

emailmatcher

Free

Chrome extension

emailmatcher is a simple tool, if you have your prospect’s name and domain name emailmatcher will search it’s databases for a valid email address. They also have a chrome extension which pretty much does the same thing.

It’s completely free!

maildb

Freemium

A web-based email finding tool, maildb helps you find your email addresses by domain name or by prospect’s name. You can also verify the email ids you find using maildb.

maildb offers 10 requests per month for free. Their paid plans start from $9 for 1000 requests per month.

Lusha

Freemium

Chrome extension

Lusha is a chrome plugin that allows you to extract your prospect’s contact information like email address and phone number from their profile page. An easy and very nifty tool, Lusha brings you the information you need in a matter of seconds.

Lusha offers a free plan for one user and 5 credits. For more, you’ll have paid plans starting from $99 per month.

AeroLeads

Paid

Chrome extension

AeroLeads is a popular tool for email prospecting and works with multiple websites like LinkedIn, CrunchBase, AngelList, etc. to find business emails as well as phone numbers.

When you add a prospect name or domain to AeroLeads, the service automatically checks for verified email addresses and phone numbers.

It is a user-friendly software that works in real-time and claims a 95% accuracy for the email lists thanks to the four levels of email verification.

Their basic plan starts from $49/month for 500 records.

Anymail Finder

Paid

Chrome extension

Anymail finder is an email finder tools which helps you find individual emails as well as build email lists.

When using the tool, enter the prospect’s name and their company website and the tool will guess their email address.

Anymail finder searches billions of web pages and performs direct server validation and charges only for emails that are successfully verified.

They give 20 free credits after which the paid plans start from $18/month.

Discoverly

Free

Chrome extension

A tool specifically designed for recruiters, it is one of the best tools out there in that segment.

Discoverly accumulates a candidate’s social information from platforms like Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and pops out as a sidebar, giving you relevant information.

When using the tool, you to enter a few possible email permutations and Discoverly pinpoints the most likely.

Hiretual

Paid

Chrome extension

Hiretual is an email prospecting tool that allows you to pull up prospect information from across social media channels like Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.

Another tool that is specially designed for recruiters, the tool finds email addresses as well as other useful information like the their title within the company.

Hiretual uses artificial intelligence and collects information from around the web to build a full profile on the person you’re looking for.

Their free trial offers 10 credits after which the premium plan costs $89/month for 200 searches.

LeadGrabber

Paid

Chrome extension

LeadGrabber is one of the most popular email finding tools.

When using the tool, all you have to do is, enter the list of companies and it researches LinkedIn, company websites and Google for the names of CEOs, VPs and other decision makers, returning with a list of email addresses, LinkedIn ids and phone numbers.

The tool also integrates with Salesforce.

The tool gives 50 free records after which it costs $0.10 for additional records(emails).

Free: 100 credits. Paid plans available on enquiry.

Nymeria

Paid

Chrome extension

Nymeria is a great email finder tool if you want to find emails from Linkedin.

The extension allows you to scan through LinkedIn profiles to find verified email addresses, which you can then export to a spreadsheet.

Their basic plan starts from $9/month, which enables you to search for up to 1,000 emails.

Name2Email

Free

Chrome extension

Name2Email is an extension for Gmail.

Using the tool, you need to compose an email and add a full name and domain to the address bar - the tool automatically generates a list of common corporate email addresses for the person you want to reach.

To improve your chances of finding a valid email, you can hover your cursor over the generated addresses. If a popup shows the person’s name; then you’ve chosen the right address.

LeadBoxer

Paid

Chrome extension

LeadBoxer is a great tool for finding as well as qualifying the email contacts.

It is a single tool with many functionalities, like identify potential customers, filtering your email lists, and qualifying your leads through dynamic lead scoring.

With the tool, you can also receive notifications and updates when specific customers engage in conversion activities on your site or read your emails.

Additionally, you can identify the contact information of your website’s visitors.

Their pricing plan starts from $99/month.

Orbitly

Freemium

Orbitly is an easy-to-use lead enrichment tool that lets you upload a list of names, emails, LinkedIn profile urls, Twitter handles, and other social media profiles to fill in any missing lead data, so you can get in touch with the people that matter most for your business.

You can turn any lead record into full contact profiles instantly by uncovering data on over 20 unique fields — like company, employee count, job title, role, and more.

The tool can find emails from just Facebook profiles, Twitter handles, LinkedIn profile urls, phone numbers, or name and company.

Orbitly is a pay as you grow platform and lets you buy as many credits as you need. No monthly subscriptions. Plans start at $9 for 100 lead enrichment credits.

Slik Prospector

Paid

Slik Prospector is a popular email prospecting tool to generate highly-targeted lead lists, thanks to their database of 70 million addresses, with an accuracy claim of 95%.

With the tool, you can filter emails by job title, industry, company size, or location.

Their pricing starts at $70/month for 500 searches.

Best Tools For A Sourcer.........

2018-09-17T07:14:00.001-07:00

Browser Extensions:

GlossaryTech: Helps to define tech related keywords.

Nefarious LinkedIn: Use to see what extensions LinkedIn is scanning for.

SignalHire: Find contact information on individual social media profiles.

ZenSourcer: Email campaign automation tool.

LinkedIn Helper: Use this tool to automate many basic LinkedIn tasks.

AmazingHiring: Search for social media profiles across the web. This tool helps find personal contact information and so much more.

Lusha: Find contact information on individual LinkedIn profiles.

Intelligence Search: Advanced Facebook searching tool.

Hiretual: A sourcing tool that offers contact information and so much more.

Prophet: Find contact information and social media profiles on LinkedIn profiles.

Connectifier Social Links: Find social media profiles on individual LinkedIn profiles.

ContactOut: Find anyone’s email and phone number on LinkedIn.

Candidate.ai: Find contact information on LinkedIn profiles.

Lead Generator: Get private emails of LinkedIn profiles and check their willingness to change a job.

People.Camp: Social Media Sourcing and Application/Lead Tracking Software.

Leadiq.io: Browse LinkedIn Profiles, AngelList Profiles, or grab LinkedIn search results and import into Google Sheets.

Awesome Autocomplete: an extension that supplies additional information on GitHub user profiles.

Full Contact: Gmail add-on that cross-references social media information and gives contact information.

Hunter: An extension that helps find corporate email addresses on LinkedIn profiles.

Connectifier: Search for social media profiles and contact information across the web. (Recently acquired by LinkedIn).

Clearbit Connect: Find contact information on social media profiles.

Tool Kit For FB: Extract valuable Facebook data with this tool.

Improver: Find contact information from social media profiles.

People Search: Find contact information and resumes on social media profiles.

Open Source Intelligence: Use to search in OSNIIT investigations.

Sales Navigator: Cross-reference emails with LinkedIn profiles and so much more.

SeekOut: Find contact information from social media profiles.

Finding Email Addresses:

Email Perm Tool: Guess someone’s corporate email address.

Email Tester: Test any email to see if it works.

Name 2 Email: Find a correct email cross-referencing rapportive.

ScrapeWebsite: Scrapes a website domain for email addresses.

Email Extractor: Extract emails from website pages.

Anymail finder: Helps find corporate email addresses.

Snovio: Helps find corporate email addresses.

Find That Email: Perm tool that auto-generates email address layouts.

Email Qualifier: Use this tool to build cross-reference emails with LinkedIn profiles.

Qwilr Sherlock: Find corporate email addresses with this tool.

NYMERIA: Find emails on individual LinkedIn and Github profiles.

Boolean Generator Tools:

SocialTalent: Generate boolean strings.

Recruitin: Generate boolean strings.

BOOL: Google extension that generates boolean strings.

TalentSonar: Generate boolean strings and search for different file types.

FoxHire: Generate advanced search queries on LinkedIn, GitHub, and Indeed.

Email Finder: Extract email information for social media profiles.

SourceHub: Use this extension to save and create smarter Boolean searches.

Scraping Tools:

WebClipDrop: Scrap valuable data from websites.

Data Scraper: Extract data from HTML website pages.

Outwit Hub: Advanced desktop scrapping tool.

SocialList: Extract social media profiles with this tool.

Scraper: Scraper gets data out of web pages and into spreadsheets.

Tracking Sourcing Tools:

Bananatag: Track emails on Outlook.

Streak: Track emails on Gmail.

MailTrack: Track emails on Gmail.

Hubspot: Track emails and history on Gmail.

Yesware: Track emails on Gmail and Outlook.

Contact Monkey: Track emails on Gmail and Outlook.

People Search Engines:

Skipease: Searches over a dozen people search engine websites.

Pipl: Get contact, social and professional information about people.

True People Search: a search engine that helps find contact information.

Namechk: Check usernames across different social networks.

ZabaSearch: Search engine that helps find contact information.

Spokeo: People search and public records site.

Custom Search Engines: Advanced search engines created by BooleanStrings.

People Search Aggregators:

HiringSolved: Search for social media profiles across the web.

TalentBin: Talent search engine for the entire web. (Recently acquired by Monster).

Entelo: Search for social media profiles across the web.

RocketReach: Search for social media profiles from over 250 million professionals.

SwoopTalent: Find candidates social profiles and contact information across the web.

Sourcing.io: Advanced people search aggregator.

Top Email Finding Tools 2018

2018-09-17T07:12:00.000-07:00

Top Email Finding Tools:

1. Findthat.email

Using findthat.email, one can easily find anyone’s professional/work email. It’s one of the best email finder for 2018. Just type in the name and domain and you will get their email address alongwith the sources where they extracted the email address.

Pricing Plans:

- Free plan: 50 Search Credits and 100 Verify Credits
- Paid plans range from $29 – $999 with maximum 100,000 Search Credits and 500,000 Verify Credits.
Integrations: Salesforce, MailChimp, Zoho CRM, PipeDrive and much more.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding

2. Clearbit

Clearbit integrates with your Gmail account very easily and lets you find email addresses of any company you want to get in touch with. Just type in the company’s name with employee’s first name or job title.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 50 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $199 – $999 and are categorized as Enrichment, Reveal, Risk, and Prospect.
Integrations: Salesforce, Marketo, Slack, Segment, Zapier, and Connect.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding

3. Email Hunter

Hunter email finder is by far our favorite email address finder. Just type in company domain and select what kind of emails you want and just like that you will get all of their public email addresses on your screen.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 100 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $49 – $399 with a maximum of 50,000 Search credits.
Integrations: Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zapier, and HubSpot.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding

4. Snov.io

We stumbled upon this when trying to find an alternative to Email Hunter. This tool is very efficient for find someone’s email address. It finds and verifies and it bifurcates emails into 3 categories: Valid, Invalid and Catchall. Catchall emails are the guessed ones.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 100 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $19 – $139 with a maximum of 50,000 Search credits.
Integrations: No integration. Can be used with Twitter, LinkedIn and much more.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding

5. Voila Norbert

With Viola Norbert, a person can find any corporate email address using First name, last name and domain. Norbert sends a signal to the mail host to verify the email addresses. So, won’t have to worry about the email being wrong and the best part it will find email address free of charge.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 50 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $49 – $449 with a maximum of 50,000 Search credits.
Integrations: Zapier. Coming soon: Salesforce, Pipedrive, Close.io, Drip, and ReplyApp.io
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding. Best for Individual.

Pro Tip: Use the combination of Hunter, Voila, Snov, and FindThat to find and verify anyone’s email address.

6. FindThatLead

FindThatLead is more of a lead manager than an email finding tool. You can easily manage email addresses list. And you just feed the company’s url and bam! You will have all the emails that are related to that URL. It can also be used for Domain Search, Lead Search and Prospector.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 300 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $29 – $399 with a maximum of 30,000 Search credits.
Integrations: No integration.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding.

7. AeroLeads

AeroLeads is among a few prospecting software which works with multiple websites like LinkedIn, CrunchBase, AngelList, etc. to find business emails. It is a user-friendly software that works in real-time and is said to have an accuracy level of more than 95%.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 10 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $49 – $499 with a maximum of up to 5000 records. They also have a custom plan wherein you can customize as per your requirement.
Integrations: Salesforce, MailChimp, Zoho CRM, PipeDrive and much more.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App.
Usage: For an individual as well as Bulk Email Finding.

8. Headreach

Headreach lets you search an email address by Prospect’s Name, Company’s Name, Domain Name, Job Position, Industry, Keywords, Location and many more. This tool helps you build your prospect list quicker and efficiently. This is Sales Prospecting simplified. It is one of the best answer to “how to find someone email address for free by name?”

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 10 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $19 – $79 with a maximum of 500 Search credits.
Integrations: Prospect’s list can be downloaded as CSV to integrate with any CRM.
Available as: Web App
Usage: For targeted prospecting and Individual email addresses.

9. Lusha

Get personal phone numbers and email addresses as fast as you blink your eyes. With Lusha, you can get your hands on any person’s number and email address in no time. It is the best tool if you want to find an individual email address.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 5 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $25 – $119 with a maximum of 500 Search credits. They also have a custom plan wherein you can customize as per your requirement.
Integrations: Salesforce
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual Email Addresses.

10. Anymail Finder

Anymail Finder lets you find email addresses using person’s name and their domain. Anymail Finder searches millions of web pages and performs direct server validation before delivering the email to you. This tool provides 97% accuracy with email addresses.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 20 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $18 – $149 with a maximum of 10,000 Search credits.
Integrations: No integration
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual Email Addresses.

11. Hiretual

This tool works best with social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. It extracts email addresses and personal phone numbers as well. It is mainly used by recruiters as their tagline suggests: “Sourcer/Recruiter’s best friend.”

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 5 Search Credits and 30 Profile Analysis.
- Paid plan is of $89 with a maximum of 200 Search Credits and 600 Profile Analysis. They also have a custom plan wherein you can customize as per your requirement.
Integrations: Any CRM integration in the custom plan.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: This can be used as an individual email finder as well as Bulk Email Finder. Best for Individual.

12. Datanyze Insider

Datanyze Insider is used to research accounts in the most efficient way. Also, build highly targeted prospect lists and export contacts where they need to go in a fraction of the time.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 100 Domain Lookups
- Paid plans for Browser extension ranges from $10 – $50. They also have Data Enrichment and Prospecting plans ranging from $250 – $1000.
Integrations: Salesforce, Hubspot, Marketo, Google Spreadsheets.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For an individual as well as Bulk Email Finding. Best for Individual.

13. ContactOut

Another tool, mostly used by recruiters all around the world to find candidates email addresses. ContactOut LinkedIn extension is very easy to use and they provide 97% accurate email addresses.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 100 search credits
- Paid plans starting from $19/PM. They are currently under maintenance and not accepting any registrations.
Integrations: Works well with LinkedIn
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: This can be used as an individual email finder as well as Bulk Email Finder.

14. Conspire

Conspire analyze your email data and tells you how to get the best introduction to whomever you want to meet. They score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes.

The relationship graph that they provide is based on factors like frequency, speed and the amount of time that they’ve conversed with each other.

Pricing Plans:
- Free
Integrations: Works best with Gmail, LinkedIn, and AngelList.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: To find mutual connections.

15. Discoverly

Another tool for recruiters. This tool help recruiters with context which helps them a lot when they reach out to any candidate. This tool accumulates candidate’s social information from platforms like Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and provides you with this information as a sidebar in your email inbox. This is one of the best free email finder.

Pricing Plans:
- Free
Integrations: Works best with Gmail, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: To find context and social information.

16. Toofr

Toofr helps people find business email addresses using the first and last names, and the company name or website. It uses millions of corporate email patterns and mail server results to give you industry-leading sending rates. It permutes your email addresses which are ranked by confidence levels ranging from High, Medium and Low.

Pricing Plans:
- Free plan: 30 Search Credits.
- Paid plans range from $19 – $249 with a maximum of 40,000 Search credits.
Integrations: No integration.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: For individual as well as Bulk Email Finding.

Bonus Tool:

Now that you how to find an email address and where to find an email address and what it actually costs, what will be your next step? I presume you will want to send emails to your possible prospects and SalesHandy will make it easier for you. Send three mail merge and email marketing campaigns for FREE with SalesHandy.

Pricing Plans:
- Free Plan: Unlimited Email tracking and scheduling. 600 emails in 14 days trial period.
- Paid plans range from $9 – $40 if paid monthly.
Integrations: Works best with Gmail, and Outlook. Zapier and webhook integration.
Available as: Chrome Extension, Web App
Usage: To get insights of your prospect’s behavior and help close more deals.

Hope you find our list of tested email finding tools useful. We will keep on updating it with time. If you believe that there is a related tool that should be on this list, then please do share its name with us in the comment.

Researching Corporate Email Formats

2018-07-23T21:10:00.004-07:00

Researching Corporate Email Formats

If we know someone’s name, company, and email format(s) used at the company, chances are that we could construct that business email address. Here are some ways to figure out the email format(s) specific companies are using.

1. Collections of Formats

Online collections of corporate email formats have been shared across our groups. I will list some of them here; please feel free to suggest other sites in the comments. Of course this information needs to be verified.

There is a collection of email formats, phone numbers, and more for the Fortune 1000 companies that I ran across, that can be found by Googling. Here is the file; I am not sure how precise the info is but this may be a good start.

2. Googling for Examples

When I search for a company email pattern, I pretty much never look them up in the sources like the above. I find it easier to do a few Google searches like this:

“email OR contact me at * bankofamerica.com”
“email OR contact me at * autodesk.com”

Here is a variation of this “Googling” method, using X-Raying LinkedIn. I am omitting “me“, compared to the searches above, since I expect to mostly see emails for people (vs. “info” “sales” “support” etc.) on LinkedIn profiles:

linkedin.com “people you know” “email * * apple.com”
linkedin.com “people you know” “email * * sap.com”

Please note that Google is still behaves pretty badly with Captcahs. If you do advanced searching using X-raying and asterisks, you may want to switch to a custom search engine I have created for this purpose. It is available here on the blog, or use its public URL.

3. Guessing and Verifying

Check the post from 2013:

Find Almost Anybody’s Email Address with #LinkedIn

4. Use This Custom Search Engine – Reveal Email Formats

This Custom Engine is based on a well-known site Zoominfo, that contains contact information, found on the Internet. To use the search engine, enter a company domain name, as an example, chevron.com, into the search box, and see what happens.

You can use its public link or just search below:

Reveal Email Formats

Here are some cool examples of its usage (Scroll down on each of these pages to see the results):

Emails for GE.com
Emails for Dell.com
Emails for Pfizer.com

Thanks to booleanstrings.com for this wonderful Article...

What Does a Talent Sourcer Actually Do?

2018-07-09T12:47:00.001-07:00

Talent acquisition is a constantly evolving field and, as the market becomes more competitive, acquiring the right talent for any role presents an increasing number of challenges. This often means that recruitment specialization (including sourcing) is key to having an efficient, effective talent pipeline. Furthermore, as part of a larger talent acquisition strategy, we believe that talent sourcing is an integral element of an effective recruitment process.

However, the role of a talent sourcer is often shrouded in mystery; some business leaders are able to value its efficacy, others, often through ignorance, suspiciously view it as something that is overly simplistic and narrow in scope. The question then remains: what does a talent sourcer actually do on a day-to-day basis and how does the role integrate into a company’s overall talent acquisition strategy?

In order to effectively incorporate talent sourcing within a larger recruiting framework, HR/recruiting leaders need to be able to effectively define the role of a sourcer. While there is a variety of interpretations, here is a simple one that can be used: a sourcer sources talent by employing proactive recruiting techniques to find and identify skilled candidates, both active and passive. That said, what this means in reality is somewhat open to interpretation. In fact, the sourcing role can be fulfilled either as part of a normal recruiter’s daily tasks or by a dedicated sourcing specialist. The role can be uniquely stretched and applied depending on the company’s needs and culture. Regardless of who takes up the sourcing position, a few key concepts define what it means to be a sourcer. Familiarizing yourself with these will allow you to determine exactly how the role should fit within your own organization.

Broadly speaking, talent sourcing can be split into two fundamental techniques:

Primary Sourcing
Primary sourcing (otherwise known as telephone sourcing) leverages techniques to identify candidates and gather information that is not otherwise available in the public domain. This may involve cold calling individuals or companies to uncover data such as job roles, titles and responsibilities, email addresses, or current employment status. Once suitable talents are found using this method, the most effective way of contacting the candidates can be identified.
Secondary Sourcing
Secondary sourcing (or internet sourcing) employs a variety of techniques for the deep mining of candidate information through online channels. This spans the gamut; from social media profiles to the more obscure places on the internet such as forums, blogs or private websites. Today, the wealth of information available online means that HR software has become a crucial weapon within a talent sourcer’s arsenal. Again, once a sourcer has identified a candidate through a particular online portal, the candidate can then be contacted using the most effective channels.

These two approaches are the nuts and bolts of talent sourcing, a solid foundation from which the best sourcers work. However, the daily tasks involved within the role can be further subcategorized, which begs the question: what does the day-to-day life of a sourcer look like?

Day-to-day — what is sourcing in recruitment?

It’s worth reminding ourselves at this point that talent sourcing is a proactive, rather than a reactive, methodology. Here, the proactive approach aims to identify both actively searching and passive candidates through the use of techniques such as headhunting or referral follow-ups (otherwise known as “push activities”) that reach out to a specific target audience. Proactive techniques that make up the core role of the talent sourcer include:

Boolean Sourcing — Using Boolean operators on major search engines or social media sites to find potential candidates through targeted keywords
Board Sourcing — Scanning job boards using keywords or search operators
Database Sourcing — Leveraging a company or organization’s existing database of potential talents
Network Sourcing — Utilizing network connections, both online and offline (LinkedIn etc.) to uncover potential candidates
Phone Sourcing — Cold calling or otherwise contacting potential candidates by phone
Mobile Sourcing — Engaging potential candidates through SMS text messaging

Additionally, sourcing personnel may specialize in particular areas of the discipline—allowing even greater scope for specific investigative skills to be integrated within a larger team. For example, one colleague may focus entirely on phone sourcing, whereas another may be invested in complex and highly refined Boolean search strings. Naturally, a talent sourcer with a specialization will focus on a more limited and defined set of daily tasks, which fit into a team’s wider strategy. However, it is important that sourcers remain versatile and flexible enough to competently fulfill all aspects of the role, with some taking up a jack-of-all-trades approach dependent upon the requirements of the department.

Where does sourcing fit into your talent acquisition strategy?

What makes sourcing so important in today’s market is the speed and specialization with which a talent sourcer can find and identify the right potential candidates for any given position—often providing insightful and surprising results that may have otherwise been overlooked. Whereas traditional recruiters may be more skilled in selling a candidate on a job or company, sourcers are often much better at discovering the candidates and determining what actions need to be taken to interest them in discussing an opportunity in the first place. This means that the integration of a dedicated talent sourcer is the ideal way to build and manage a hiring pipeline, filling it with leads that can be followed up on with recruiters who can close the deal.

If you haven’t already incorporated sourcing into your recruiting processes now is the time to start. Sourcing can help you build and maintain a competitive advantage in terms of the quality of people you hire. Without it you may struggle to fill your company with high quality employees.

Thanks for this wonderful post Dustin Robinson

2016-07-15T11:21:00.001-07:00

The Top 15 Sourcing and Recruiting Mistakes

2016-07-15T11:20:00.001-07:00

50 Best People Search Engines to Track Down Anyone

2015-05-05T10:51:00.001-07:00

50 Best People Search Engines to Track Down Anyone

The Internet has a wealth of information, and not surprisingly, lots of that information is about people. You can find just about anything you want about someone online, including public records, addresses, and high school photos. If you’re looking up a long lost friend or family member, be sure to check out these resources.

White Pages

White pages are great for helping you find addresses and phone numbers for people.

Whitepages.com: The official WhitePages offers people search, reverse lookups, and beyond.
Whowhere: Whowere is a great white pages resource, with a phone lookup and more.
The Ultimate White Pages: The Ultimate White Pages makes it easy to search many different white pages all at once.
Superpages: Superpages offers people search, public records, and more.
Anywho: Find people by name and address using Anywho. This site offers searches on the iPhone as well.
InfoSpace: You can find people through the white pages on InfoSpace, and even set your own default location.
AOL White Pages: AOL’s people search directory offers an easy way to locate people.
Switchboard: Switchboard’s website allows you to search by phone, find public records, and more.
411 Locate: Use 411 Locate to find people through white pages and even reverse phone lookup.

People Finders

Use these search engines to find basic information and beyond on just about anyone.

ZabaSearch: ZabaSearch offers searching by name and telephone number, offering numbers and addresses for free.
LexisNexis: LexisNexis is one of the most trusted names in finding information about people.
Whozat?: In this people search engine, you can fill in as much information as you have to find people.
Peoplebot: Peoplebot makes it easy to find addresses, phone numbers, satellite photos, and more.
Yasni: Yasni offers information about anyone’s name online.
Wink: With Wink, you’ll be able to find people based on highly refined searches, with distance, schools, groups, interests, and more taken into account.
Spock: Spock will help you find out where your friends are online with pictures, blogs, social networks, and web links.
CVGadget: Check out this search engine to find people on a variety of people searches at once.
Pipl: Find people by username, phone, email, or names on Pipl.
PeekYou: PeekYou profiles make it easy for people to find your websites, social networking, pages, and other stuff about you online.
Infopeople: Infopeople’s search makes it easy to use a variety of search engines at once to find people.
iTools: This search tool will look at a variety of different people searches, including international locations.
ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo offers a great source for finding both people and companies.
Spydentity: Spydentity will search all of the major search engines, social networks, image sharing sites, news, and blogs to find who you’re looking for.
SquidWho: SquidWho offers a people-powered Who’s Who online for celebrities and regular people alike.
Google: Even though specialized search engines are great, it’s hard to beat the firehose of information you can find about people on Google.
Reunion: Get reunited with people from your past, and find out who’s searching for you on Reunion.com.

Public Records

Use these search tools to look up criminal records, marriage certificates, business information, and more.

PublicRecordsNow: Using this search engine, you can find public records including date of birth, relatives, and addresses.
PeopleFinders: With PeopleFinders, you can search for background checks, criminal records, and business ownership.
Public Records Pro: Get an instant public background records search from this website.
Background Check Gateway: Use this website to find information about identity theft, public records, background checks, and employment screening.
Mamma: Mamma offers a people search as well as a public records search.
Government Registry: With this website, you can find criminal files, court records, and more.
Search Detective: Search Detective has a reverse phone lookup, public records, and more.
Abika: Use Abika for free background checks, court record searches, and more.
Intelius: Intelius has it all-background checks, reverse cell phone directory, screenings, and more.

International

Need to find someone outside of the US? Check out these resources.

411.ca: Find people in Canada using this local search engine.
192.com: Use 192.com to find personal records, people, and more in the UK.
123people: Here you’ll find a free people search for public records in the US, France, Spain, and beyond.
People Search: People Search offers a free people search directory for Australia.

Social Media

Make use of these social media tools to find and connect with people online.

Facebook: Facebook offers a fun and easy way to locate your friends online.
LinkedIn: Search for people, companies, and more in your network and out through LinkedIn.
iSearch: iSearch offers a way to search the social web.
MySpace: MySpace is a great way to find old friends from school and work.
Friendster: Using Friendster, you’ll be able to locate your friends within the social network.
Twitter: Find the Twitter streams of your friends, family, and acquaintances using Twitter’s search option.
Orkut: Discover new people through your friends and communities on Orkut.
Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com’s search will help you find family around the world, current and past.
Plaxo: Find out who you know and stay in contact with them easily using Plaxo.
Ryze: Similar to LinkedIn, Ryze makes it easy for you to find your friends and networking contacts.
Classmates: Classmates.com offers a great way to look up your old friends from high school, military, college, and more.

Eight Ways to Guess and Verify Email Addresses

2014-11-25T06:11:00.002-08:00

Suppose you are determined to find someone’s email address. With the new LinkedIn InMail policy, some say, this may happen in their practice more often. The post below outlines top eight ways to figure that email address out,starting with a list of guesses.

Before we go there: as the creator of one of the most popular email-finding techniques Rob Ousbey says,

With great power, comes great responsibility.

Let’s keep that in mind! (Don’t spam anyone.)

To find someone’s email address, you can try to come up with a number of guesses, using “email permutators”, known email formats for employers, and, perhaps, your imagination. For larger companies, try this custom search engine to find company email formats.

Note #1: Researching company email formats deserves a separate blog post; I am not covering it here in any detail.

Note #2: The eight verification techniques listed below can work with whole lists of guesses. Verifying just one or two email addresses can be done in some additional ways; that would be the subject of yet another blog post (coming soon).

Once you have a list of email address guesses, here are the eight ways to try and pinpoint the correct address. These eight methods all work in different ways, so if you are not successful with one, you can try another and you may succeed. Each of the 8 ways is quick to try; all are free except the last one.

Find emails with Rapportive (by Rob Ousbey). LinkedIn recently changed Rapportive , so this technique is less powerful now: it won’t cross-reference against any Social Networks, other than LinkedIn, any longer. But the technique still works, by finding the LinkedIn profile registered with the correct address, if the profile exists.
Find Almost Anybody’s Email Address with #LinkedIn: this, actually, works differently from Rob’s technique. This is dynamic cross-referencing; Rapportive provides cross-referencing against stored information, which can, in some cases, be incomplete or outdated. It’s pretty reliable and provides up-to-date information.
Find Almost Anyone’s Email Using MS Outlook: this technique will check email address guesses against LinkedIn, Facebook, and possibly XING, depending on your Outlook version.
Uploading a list of emails to Gmail will identify those with Google-plus accounts. Unfortunately, this is not 100% reliable in our experience, meaning, it may miss the correct profile even if it exists; it’s still worth a try, of course.
The post Find People on Google-Plus by Emails has a few more relevant hints.
Uploading a list of emails to Gmail will let you to cross-reference them on Twitter. This will not work with large lists, as our experience shows, but will work just fine with a few dozen email guesses.
You can verify a list of email guesses against Facebook. This option is not easy to find! On the page Invite Your Friends locate the link “Import your email addresses” and point to a text file with a list of emails. No worries, you can use it without inviting anyone. Cancel all the invites – and see which email address is right. Note that if you work with a larger volume of addresses to verify (say, for several people at once) and wanted to look at the imported list in detail, the page Manage Contacts is not that helpful, but exporting your Facebook data would be. In the exported data you will clearly see the addresses which have and have not been identified as belonging to members. (I guess there’s another blog post this can be expanded into.) The downside to exporting is that you can’t select only some data to download, so you’ll have to get a complete archive.
Finally, tools like Mailtester.com provide free email checking for one address at a time. They “ping” email servers without sending an actual email. We know that they only work with some email servers. Checking email lists using that technique is offered by a good number of vendors for a price; I have not used that, so my comments will be minimal. Aaron Lintz has pointed me to this site as a good one.

Thanks to irina for Great Post....

Passive Search Tool

2014-07-29T23:35:00.003-07:00

Just check out my new Passive Search Tool.

www.passivesearch.in

Find Almost Anyone’s Email Using MS Outlook

2014-03-31T13:58:00.001-07:00

Find Almost Anyone’s Email Using MS Outlook

In the following post I am going to explain how to easily and quickly test all of the guesses for a person’s email address all at once using MS Outlook.

MS Outlook has an add-on called Social Connector. I have Outlook 2013 and the Social Connector is built in; for this latest version you need to turn it on. For earlier Outlook versions you need to add it which is easily done.

You can then connect Outlook with your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts and (depending on the version) with other social sites. I was able to add XING to my Outlook.

Here’s How to Find Almost Anyone’s Email Address.

The example below is for a “sample” person with the common name David Smith who works at Microsoft.

I am starting off by generating a list of guesses for the email address (or, perhaps, several email addresses) for the person. As a sample list of guesses I am trying variations of the email using @microsoft.com and several free email provider extensions such as gmail, yahoo, hotmail, and aol.

Note: These email guesses I am using are not “optimal” for a case like this; you are on your own to set a list of guesses. Ideas and templates are welcome; please share. What I am going to explain is how to test the guesses out all at once.

Step 1. Create a list of guesses for the email address and save in a csv file:

Step 2. Import into Outlook pointing to these values in the file to be imported as email addresses:

Step 3. Here is what the list look like after importing. You can see the email addresses that have been identified on each of the networks!

The identified LinkedIn profiles stand out, having a little blue “in” on the pictures.

Your being connected with the people with the given addresses doesn’t affect the identification; it always works; or let’s say, it works the same for everyone.

Have you read the post up to here? Here are a couple of notes on relevant previous blog posts that you may have thought of.

1) Correct, you know how to find email addresses using Rapportive. It’s explained in the great post Find (Almost) Anybody’s Email Address | Distilled along with an excel table that helps to generate a list of guesses for the email addresses at bit.ly/name2email.

The above way is different. It’s better in some cases – and faster- because:

- it looks the email addresses up vs. looking up in the acquired data (as Rapportive does). This is more up-to-date, which can make a difference in better identification of the email address.

- it shows the whole list at once; you can have a list as long as you wish. If the list is long, you just scroll the list, there’s no need to mouse over every address. This is much faster.

If someone is not on LinkedIn and not on Facebook, but is identified by Rapportive, the referenced post would work better; if you are really after an email address, try both!

2) Great! You have read my most popular to-date post

it will also find people who are on other social sites, most importantly, Facebook.

Thanks for reading. Enjoy!

Thanks to Irina Shamaeva for great Idea!

kandulasantosh - Google Search

2013-11-20T11:25:00.001-08:00

kandulasantosh - Google Search

100 Country Codes On LinkedIn

2013-04-09T04:12:00.002-07:00

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

2013-04-02T00:11:00.001-07:00

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

2012-09-25T11:33:00.004-07:00

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

2012-01-06T02:36:00.001-08:00

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

2011-11-12T10:01:00.000-08:00

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

2011-10-21T20:56:00.000-07:00

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

2011-08-24T07:05:00.001-07:00

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

2011-08-24T07:01:00.001-07:00

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

2011-07-10T05:18:00.000-07:00

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

2011-07-05T08:56:00.000-07:00

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!

How To: Google X-Ray Search LinkedIn

2011-07-02T05:02:00.000-07:00

Google X-Ray Search LinkedIn

This week’s topic covers how to do an X-Ray search of LinkedIn using Google.

Using Google to perform an “x-ray search” of LinkedIn is one of the best ways to find the profiles of people that are outside of your network. X-Ray searches work for any website, but we’ll focus on LinkedIn for now.

To perform an x-ray search, you simply start your search with the following search criteria:

site:linkedin.com

I will use an example of a recent search I did in an effort to find individuals with software security experience. Here is an example of one of the search strings I used in Google:

site:linkedin.com “greater seattle area” security (intrusion OR authentication OR firewall) support network* CISSP –profiles

When examining this Boolean search string you will probably notice a couple of things. For one, I did not use “AND” in between several of the words. The reason for this is two-fold: one, Google recognizes spaces as the “AND” operator and, secondly, since Google limits the number of words you can use in a search (I believe it is 25), you don’t want to waste valuable “real estate” with the “AND” operator if you don’t need it.

You will probably also notice that I included “-profiles” at the end of my search. Why did I do this? The reason is to eliminate results that will show up for a list of profiles that are sometimes unrelated to what you are looking for and only clutter your search results. Try taking it out of your search string and you will see what I am talking about. Any time you add a minus sign (-) in front of a word it will filter and not show results with that word, also known as a “negative” keyword.

Another thing you may have noticed was the asterisk (*) after the word “network.” In case some of you are unfamiliar with this Boolean operator, it is the “wild card” operator, meaning it will show any word that has “network” as its root. For example, this search will provide results that include the words “network,” “networking” and “networked” among others.

Stay tuned for more tips and tricks from kandula in the coming weeks. In the meantime…Happy Hunting!

Regards
Santosh Kumar K

Happy Hunting !