The List of a Company Employees

[Irina Shamaeva]

Suppose your task is to create a list of a company employees for a given company and make it as complete as possible based on Internet research, what steps would you take? The list should have the first, last name, the email address and optionally a phone number.

[Suzanne Wells]

I need to know how to do this!!!

[Brenda]

Want to know how to do this!

Brenda

[Shaun Kelly]

Hi folks - two ways I would attempt to do this -

example 1 using Google -
United States Department of Agriculture (chart phone email (org OR organization OR organizational or orgchart)) filetype:doc OR filetype:opx OR filetype:pdf

example 2 using Google to access Linked In for all company names - then do the obvious - track to phone
(LCG Technologies here)

site:www.linkedin.com intitle:linkedin LCG Technologies -intitle:answers -intitle:updated -intitle:blog -intitle:directory -inurl:jobs

Shaun

[Shaun Kelly]

BTW if you do the same serach but use *company wild card you can come up this org chart for MIT
http://web.mit.edu/is/org/IST-services-orgchart.pdf

the string reads: (where * company is - put your target company name)

*company (chart phone email (org OR organization OR organizational or orgchart)) filetype:doc OR filetype:opx OR filetype:pdf

[Sam Velu]

looking into the people folder from the company, searching the doc. type specifically excel

[Howard Frankel]

Sam, please explain your contribution. It looks interesting. Thanks. Howard

Sam Velu said:

looking into the people folder from the company, searching the doc. type specifically excel

[N Robin Gillman, MBA, SPHR]

This is really simple, but it works pretty well. I use the wild card with the company email suffix-example: *@company.com
That way one can be sure to capture the email address. This can be combined with using different filetypes as Shaun mentions. Depending on the company and search engine, one can take different avenues. The biggest obstacle is getting a pure list and filtering out other companies. The org chart idea Shaun used seemed to pull up a lot of good sites. There are a lot of minutes and attendee lists out there that seem to pop up and an inurl or insite or intitle might be good to capture those. Also, there are a lot of specialty groups or social networking sites as Sam mentions that can be searched as well depending on the company.

[Smitha S]

This somehow did not work for me :-(

Shaun Kelly said:

BTW if you do the same serach but use *company wild card you can come up this org chart for MIT
http://web.mit.edu/is/org/IST-services-orgchart.pdf

the string reads: (where * company is - put your target company name)

*company (chart phone email (org OR organization OR organizational or orgchart)) filetype:doc OR filetype:opx OR filetype:pdf

[Irina Shamaeva]

Robin,

*@company.com may seem like a good string to find email addresses, but it's not the best, and here's why:

1) Google ignores special characters; therefore your search is exactly the same as if you had searched for *company.com (try it)

2) * (asterisk) means "a word" in Google, so... your search is in fact the same as if you searched for company.com

If you search for company.com you will find some email addresses however you will find many pages that do not have email addresses but just mention the company URL.

To be sure to land on email addresses you could use this string (it has been discussed on this forum and on the LI group in the past):
"email * * company.com" (quotation marks included).

-Irina

N Robin Gillman, MBA, SPHR said:

This is really simple, but it works pretty well. I use the wild card with the company email suffix-example: *@company.com
That way one can be sure to capture the email address. This can be combined with using different filetypes as Shaun mentions. Depending on the company and search engine, one can take different avenues. The biggest obstacle is getting a pure list and filtering out other companies. The org chart idea Shaun used seemed to pull up a lot of good sites. There are a lot of minutes and attendee lists out there that seem to pop up and an inurl or insite or intitle might be good to capture those. Also, there are a lot of specialty groups or social networking sites as Sam mentions that can be searched as well depending on the company.