Verifiable Initials Made Easy

Verifiable initials

so welcome everybody to this week's weekly Wednesday webinar today we're going to be talking about how to find people's contact details so we're gonna go through seven steps seven different ways we can find out people's contact details regularly when we find somebody online or in a database or get a referral we don't have their phone number or their email address a lot of recruiters I know get stuck on this they think well I got to move on or perhaps they don't have paid LinkedIn accounts within males and they can't contact the people there are they're confused about how they can reach out to somebody whose blog they find or whose name they find in a web address or on a website whatever it might be so I'm going to give you seven different ways to try and figure out how to find those contact details but just to remind you don't spend hours trying to find someone's contact details go to the shortest route possible okay use your imagination and ingenuity there's more ways than just the seven here we're going to give you a head start on some ways that work really well so what we'll cover and I'll cover that in a second just a quick reminder by the way that this is gonna be tweed eight on the hash tag hash social talent so if you've any questions comments thoughts opinions or advice you can give to our audience please use this social talents hashtag if you're watching on YouTube feel free to throw in your toppings whenever it is as well using that hashtag we always monitor and we're always interested in hearing Europeans and comments so I'm Johnny Campbell those of you who've been on our webinar before know that you can tweet me at social talent that's where you'll find all our tips opinions and musings for the organization and what we do is we we provide an online learning tool called my social talent calm which allows individuals to learn how to use social and technology to recruit so learn how to use LinkedIn Twitter Google+ but also job advertising job boards etc 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try it for free or you can as I said available 20% discount by emailing Vincent my social time com so our seven top tips for finding anyone's contact details begin with how do you find phone numbers and we're going to show you how you can find phone numbers for companies on Google Maps we're also going to show you how to use your ATS I'll remind you how to use your 80s and your email account to find email patterns will talk about the email addresses and contact details in your current social connections I'm going to recommend a tool that you can use to leverage that really easily we'll talk about how to find email addresses on corporate websites so two ways to try and figure that out and also how to find just in general email patterns using some boolean search on Google we'll talk about how you can test different variants of email addresses you might be guessing using a tool called rapportive which we've covered many times before and then we'll give you a link to an auto email variant generation tool so a tool that generates different versions of an email domain and show you how you can verify that using an upload tool into LinkedIn so I hope you enjoy these tips hope they're practical hope you find the candidate contact information you're looking for so our first tip is how to find phone numbers on Google Maps so we're going to use an example here today of Pfizer just as an ear and encompass all these examples using candidates from Pfizer so we're going to find their contact details so we're going to jump in to maps.google.com so maps.google.com basically has addresses of company locations so where is the contact details you may wonder well it also shows not only the company name and but it also shows their address and it shows phone number so if you type into Google the company name you're looking for and also add either the city or the county and the country you're looking for because don't forget that company could have many locations you will most likely and almost always see the main line phone number that is registered for that physical address so not the company's automated a customer's important number that may be in a different country but the physical network the line that exists there that is the main registered number because Google Maps uses this data to build out their mapping information they use the phone line data and they address but they also include the phone number when you look at it so if we jump into Google Maps right now I'll show you my example I want to look up Pfizer in ardent so Pfizer have a facility in Grange castle in Ireland so I'll see it pops up it prompts me to pick from my list there so I click that address from Google Maps and it shows me that location in Ireland on a map and you see Pfizer Grange Castle the full address and sure enough there is a phone number so you see the phone number listed here the country code and the phone number and then the web address of that so the reason that is there is because all this information was taken from the same place and Google displays it all and it works really nicely to find locations of companies but also the actual phone number that exists for that company so if for example in here we're looking to find one of these individuals from from Pfizer in Ireland we could literally just call that mainline number and ask to speak to them any of these individuals that are jumping up here from LinkedIn that are based in Ireland or we can look in any different location so finding corporate phone numbers isn't just about going to the website because I find if you go to the corporate website you might get a general global number or a national number that is in a call center I want the physical number to get straight through to the person who works in that office Google Maps is our first tip on how to get that information quite quickly our second tip is to use your own ATS or your email account to see if you can find email patterns so nearly all corporates have consistent email patterns so they will be for example first name surname at corporate dot something and are they be first initials surname some patterns are really obvious some are less but most companies when they have new starters they use some sort of pattern as it's an easier way to distribute email addresses in the corporate if you know the email pattern for one person in the company 99 percent chance you can figure out the email pattern for anybody else once you know the first name and surname of course there are some exceptions to this when they include for example and middle initial or if they have a pattern that includes numbers that seem random but trust me when you look at most of these patterns you'll see some sort of pattern that you can recognize quite easily and you can apply to your emails so this is often overlooked by recruiters but you should search your ATS for other employees who work in the same company or have worked in the same company and see if you have email information on the really quick search of the company name will hopefully bring up some of those individuals this depends on the size of your your ATS database of course and how long it's been up and running but I always find this fairly effective especially for larger companies within the sector you most recruit with it another great way is literally to go into your email account outlook Gmail Hotmail whatever it is and type in the web domain so in this example would use Pfizer comm and we'd find any emails we've ever received from somebody in Pfizer comm R that have had somebody C seen from Pfizer comm maybe a joke an email a friend whatever it might be again it's just the pattern we're trying to identify and this can work really well we're finding those email patterns in data that you already have sitting in front of you the next way we're going to recommend you try and find email patterns is to search your social connections so you probably have lots of LinkedIn connections you might have Google connections you have people on Twitter people on Facebook now you can manually go into each of those tools and try and find your contacts who work in that company or we'd recommend this fantastic tool which we learned about recently called connected HQ so if you go to connected HQ comm you can register an account completely free what you do is you authenticate your social network such as Google and that's your Google Mail contacts LinkedIn Twitter and Facebook and I pulled all of that data together and aggregates all your social connections into one personal CRM tool and then it allows you to search by company location and title this is a boring way to get all your contact details together and then figure out do you know somebody across any of those social networks who works for this company and do you have contact details for them so I'm going to jump in and show you what this looks like so I have already set up a connected HQ account I've often Takei today accounts and all my contact details are listed in aggregated you can see them here on the top you'll see the search I can search by name by company by title by location and by email so for example if I search by company and I search for example for Dell I press search and will show me all of my contacts across my social networks who have the employer name Dell so you'll see that I have people in LinkedIn and Facebook just LinkedIn just LinkedIn down here LinkedIn and Twitter a bunch of different people and I can jump into any of these individuals and I can check out to see do I have contact details for that person so for example I can jump into this person here and if I look down on the site I can see the email I have from one of those places and I can see the pattern for that company and then go figure it out from somebody else so there's tons of uses for connected HQ but from finding people who work in companies and that you're trying to reach out to where you already have connections it's a brilliant way of bringing all your social connections together in one place the next place we're going to have a look at is corporate websites so trying to find emails on corporate websites so rather than going to the website and looking at every single page to see is there an email pattern which can be difficult because most corporates try and strip at and personal email addresses from their website to avoid spammers what we're going to suggest you do is to try and look for investor relations or media relations contacts typically investor relations person or the media relations person the marketing person the press release person is going to have their contact details listed on some sort of press release or investor relations announcement obviously the larger the company the more likely is you'll find this data less likely to find it in smaller companies and what we're going to do is run in Google the following will Google open your your your brackets open your double quotations look for media contact closed quotations or open quotations media contacts closed quotations or open rotations press release codes can take closed quotations and closed brackets and then just add your company name at the end the company name you're trying to target obviously so media contact or media contacts or press release and the company name so if we do this in our example for Pfizer and we jump into Google and say media contact our media contacts or press release in the word Pfizer we find press releases and we find media reports and you can basically jump in for example the first result here press releases which is a list of all Pfizer's press releases and on the left hand side you'll see that they have a contact Pfizer media relations now I jump into that I find the actual individuals and media relations who are responsible for these press releases and sure enough I find their contact details including their email addresses this gives me email patterns I can work with to try and then predict what the email patterns are the candidates I'm looking to reach out to probably are so finding patterns on corporate websites is much easier when you look for words like media contact or press release that are most likely going to be associated with information that is typically in large companies available on the web so next step we're going to try and find email patterns using a boolean search so this can be a really quick and effective way to try and find emails for individuals in regardless of what the company might be so what you do is you go to Google and you type in the following using open quotations for double quotations you put in the word email space and asterisks another space and other asterisks and another space and then the domain and that you're looking to try and find Pat email patterns for and don't forget to close your quotations so really really important that you use double quotations in this you have to use them and that you use two of those asterisks in the middle separated by spaces so spaces before the asterisks and spaces after the asterisks don't type two main com type in the domain of the company you're looking fine patterns for so for example in this case we'll type in Pfizer calm so let's have a look at how this works in practice so when we go into Google and we type in open quotations email spaced asterisks space Asterix space Pfizer calm we basically enclose our quotations we find on our list we find emails tend to pop up so we'll ignore the generic email addresses like this we're looking for individuals so people's names so we start seeing people's names here now for a global company like Pfizer you're going to get people all over the world so what I recommend is you add the city name or country name for the location you want to find people in because sometimes it changes country by country and when we do this and we slow scroll down you find for example this email address and this email address there to me one email address is now the pattern to is so scroll through a few of those results until you're happy that there's a consistent pattern as we can see here the pattern is first name dot surname so we can basically try and verify this for any we're looking for then to be sure a good way to try and verify what you've got the pattern is to go to mail test or com this is a free website that allows you to put in what you think is the email address of somebody and will tell you if it works but I will tell you that if it works two-thirds of the time so let's go back in here and find someone who is working in Pfizer let's say for Barry Downey here and let's go into mail tester and we think its first name dot surname so we put in buried Danny at Pfizer calm and we check address so we check address this pings the mail server but it doesn't tell Pfizer were looking to find it doesn't tell them televisor who I am it's this website mail tester and don't worry Barry's not going to get a notification that someone's trying to figure out his email address so what you'll see down the bottom here is we get green email address is valid so it's the bottom line we're looking for the color in you either see red green or amber so if you get a green just make one small change to the email address with an email address that doesn't shouldn't work then recheck it just to make sure you're not getting false positive reads from mail tester because some web domains do give you a yes for everything so when you're going to know for something that you know to being correct and you get a yes for something that should be correct you know that that will go through to bury quite easily if you see amber in your address so for example if you try and verify social talent address you'll see amber in the bottom line or orange that just means that it's not verifiable doesn't mean it's correct doesn't mean it's incorrect it just means you kind of have to ignore it it's not verifiable through this method this is a great way to trying to figure out email patterns and find them very very quickly so next up we're going to test very 8 variants of different email addresses using a tool called rapportive so perhaps we can't think of what the email pattern is or can't find it and it's not verifiable perhaps by male tester well we can use report if that's report of com so this is a plug-in that works for Gmail so Gmail only and doesn't work with Internet Explorer so as long as you're using a different browser to Internet Explorer and you do have a gmail account this can be a really really handy tool for you so the process is you go into reporter comm and you click Add rapportive to Gmail this will bring you to the next page that allows you to download it from the Chrome extensions gallery if you're using Chrome for example when you click on this link it brings up the Chrome extensions page on the top right corner you'll see a blue button that says add to Chrome when you click that blue button you'll be prompted to install or cancel you'll install it and the blue button will change to green like it is on my screen at the moment that's it rapportive is installed when your next login to your Gmail screen you'll see the report and button up the top here to the left or your user name all you have to do is click on that once and then connect your social networks so you'll enter Kate LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Google any of those that you have access to my recommendation is to at the very least authenticate your Google and your LinkedIn and now if you basically reach out to somebody you're looking for example for Scott so Scott here we think we might know the pattern Scott we're way we're going to basically go into our gmail account and we're going to basically type in an email to what we think will be his at work address so let's say we're just purely guessing at what the patterns are here if this individual has registered that business address against any social network on the right-hand side of the screen we're going to get it to pop up and verify that the person actually and does exist and that's the right email address now if you don't get a ping you don't get a match it doesn't mean it's incorrectly just means that perhaps that person didn't register that address against any social network which is completely understandable so let's try it for Barry down here and seeing Barry has registered his email address against any social networks so we know that this is correct in advance but let's say we didn't and we type in Barry downy at Pfizer calm well this will do is again Guan ping Facebook Google Gmail Twitter any of the social networks that it has access to and we'll try and verify it and then you'll get a positive result you'll see the person's photograph their job title from that network if you see connection with any network it means this has worked and that the the image is matching the right person on that email works so a positive match means you can go ahead and send an email and if you don't get a positive match it just means that perhaps that person hasn't verified are you have an incorrect email address so this can prove very advantageous in trying to reach out to people and verify them as well because you also find all their social connections and you can connect with them there as well so the last thing I'm going to show you is how to basically generate lots of different options so an auto email variant generation tool and then use that with LinkedIn so what do I mean by that well first of all you have to download a spreadsheet the spreadsheets available from bit ly forward slash email variants so it's in plural will tweet that as well so bit ly forward slash email variants so you can look at that I'm basically you can download a spreadsheet that looks something like this so this spreadsheet basically allows you to fill in a couple of fields here so for example I can put in first name surname and the domain I think I'll find that person's at web address under and it will produce a list of all the different variants that you could possibly have of that email address first name last name first initial surname all these different variants so really simple to will then basically copy the email addresses will open up a spreadsheet so once we copy that we open up a new spreadsheet and what we do is we paste now when you're pasting it's really important to go to paste special not just paste and you'll spec you'll paste the actual text of that so not the actual formula because the formula you're copying and actually isn't the text it very just generates like that in Excel you'll paste it in here and when you go to paste special and paste as text you'll get the email addresses there you're going to go to file save as and you're going to save that as a comma separated value file CSV not an Excel workbook it has to be CSV and call it something you'll remember so I've called it Pfizer test Pauline for example so what you've typed once you save that CSV file what are what I'm going to do is we're going to go into LinkedIn in a certain place in LinkedIn in fact LinkedIn calm forward slash upload contacts and make sure you put a capital C on contacts so this web address will share with us but Martin Lee in the UK and there are different ways in LinkedIn to get to this but this is the one page that still works you go to LinkedIn calm forward slash upload contacts contacts with a capital C and what you do is you'll come to this page so when you get to this page here you can basically choose the file that you've saved so you find that where you've saved it you then upload that file by clicking upload contacts file it will work for about 30 to 60 seconds and then it will show you in a list of all the file all the email addresses you've imported all of those different variants there might be 60 or 70 variants but the one that is correct should have a match against somebody on LinkedIn so for example you'll see this blue in button to the right-hand side of the address that is accurate if you see for example here without a blue and without the person's job title it means that it just doesn't know if that's correct or not or it's not registered against any LinkedIn member so it searches all LinkedIn member should email addresses and if there's a match you'll see it there doesn't mean you have to connect with the person you can just cancel the process there but you will be able to figure out which of those patterns is the correct pattern for that person so nice little way of doing it I'd probably exhaust all the other mate means first before you do that too but it can be really effective so next week on our weekly Wednesday webinar at when the wheat next webinar is going to be March 27th it's going to kick up of kick off at 4:00 p.m. UK are in time that's 5 p.m. Central Europe time but don't forget that is actually 12:00 noon or 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time in the US are 9 a.m. Pacific because we don't change your clocks in Europe to British summer time until this weekend so I'm sorry that the following weekend so I think the weekend of Easter is when Europe changes its clocks whereas the u.s. changes clocks a couple of weeks ago our last weekend and so we're going to basically have to basically recognize that for our differences normally we're at 11 a.m. Eastern 8 a.m. Pacific but for this webinar only it's going to be 12 p.m. Eastern and 9 a.m. Pacific so put that in your diary you