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LinkedIn Name Finder is a fantastic shortcut.

Using Google, we can find most of these hidden names in your LinkedIn Advanced Search results by performing a simple copy and paste. This procedure taps into the contacts’ public profile, which includes the name, since most contacts do include their names in these public profiles.

Search Example: Quality Manager or Quality Control Manager in the Food & Beverage or Food Production industries within 100 miles of 53098. It yielded twenty-nine contacts. Our goal is to find as many names as possible.

RESULTS:

Copy the first line of each contact from the search results — title and company — then go to www.google.com, and, using quotations to phrase it exactly, paste the line into the Google search box. Make sure you use Google because this does not work in all search engines.

Google search results for each unnamed contact are listed below. Clicking on the name takes us to the contact’s page, where we find the option to View Full Profile. I have deleted last names in the interest of privacy.

Our search was successful in two of the four cases, giving us the names of contacts Bajta and James, but one contact (Quality Manager at Family Fresh Pack) has kept his/her file private, and the last search (Quality Manager at PepsiCo) produced numerous results.

If we add “Greater Chicago Area” to narrow this final search, we come up with Stacie *****, Quality Manager at PepsiCo in the Greater Chicago Area. Click on Stacie *****: Directory to go to the Directory, then scroll down to find her information.

RESULTS: Clicking on Stacie's name will take you to her Full Profile option.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Carol M. Martin CPC, CIR, CSSR** has been an Executive Recruiter for 24 years. Her company, Martin Management, Inc. was created in 1988. The first ten years of business were food industry, manufacturing job orders, from Production Supervisor to Vice President of Manufacturing. The company then evolved to supplier(working only the candidate side)in all manufacturing industries, filling operations positions as well as all types of engineering titles.
Carol holds a BA Degree in Communications from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.

You can Reach Carol at her site : http://www.internet-recruiting-toolbox.com/martinmanagement.html

Invite her to join you on LinkedIn - martinmanagement@charter.net

Or join her LinkedIn Group - Internet Recruiting Toolbox - Share internet recruiting tips, training, and strategies.

**CERTIFICATIONS:
CPC - Certified Personnel Consultant
CIR - Certified Internet Recruiter
CSSR - Certified Social Sourcing Recruiter

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