A coaching client asked me to show him how to find someone to speak with who previously worked for the firm they are interviewing with. Here’s how.
Summary
Someone asked me for more information about how to search for someone who works at a particular company. And my idea was, because this person is interviewing four particularly organization, he should talk with former employees to get some insight into the person he's meeting with had the culture of the organization. So I want to show you how to get to the area where you do that search.
So, I'm going to use a company here as an example. We’re going to use Accenture. It could be any company, and we're gonna ‘do an Accenture search. We’re going to do it in “People.” And once we’re there, we want to go to “All Filters.” And from “All Filters,” you have lots of different choices.
Now, I have a subscription where I am a paid customer, but I'm not a Sales Navigator or Recruiter function. But if you notice here, you can search by name, title. This is going to be “Current Company,” school they went to, connections. Where this is, (which is going to be in the United States), I'm not looking for current companies. I'm going over to the lower left to “Past Companies.”
Now, they happened to have a populated with Accenture, but you could put in any firm whatsoever into that area. As you can see, you could look at whether this is going to be an English-speaking profile, what industry this person might be in, the schools that they've attended, any number of criteria. But overall, the idea here is really very simple.
If you're looking for someone to speak with who previously worked at an organization, you go to the “All People” filters, Accenture, People (And I didn't put it in Accenture at that point). So again, People as bringing up everyone, I know which is currently 21000 some odd people I know, the “All Filters. “
If you're looking for someone to speak with who previously worked at an organization, you go to the “All People” filters, Accenture, People (And I didn't put it in Accenture at that point). So again, People as bringing up everyone, I know which is currently 21000 some odd people I know, the “All Filters. “ And then scroll down in the lower left, like I said, in this case, Accenture is there, but you could put any company into the area.
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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a career and leadership coach who worked as a recruiter for what more than 40 years. He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with more than 1100 episodes, “Job Search Radio,” “and his newest show, “No BS Coaching Advice” and is a member of The Forbes Coaches Council.
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