Although it’s perhaps not directly in the spirit of this post, this is a super-powered google tip. It relates to only one particular tiny piece of information, but a valuable one. E-mail addresses. You can google “*@example.com″ (with the quotes) to find references to the format used by different companies for the email addresses of their employees. Plug the person’s name into the format, and you can easily email them directly, often getting around various sorts of gatekeepers. How useful this is will depend critically on what sort of job you have. Maybe it even has applications for the small army of academics on Less Wrong.
If you are searching for jobs, you can use LinkedIn to locate the person who would be your boss (often LinkedIn doesn’t show the person’s full name, in which case if you google their exact title and company, the LinkedIn search result for that person will show up WITH the full name; it’s only hidden within LinkedIn itself) and email that boss directly (you do know to never submit your resume to HR, don’t you?). If you want to talk to a venture capital investor, google to find their direct e-mail address. If you want to e-mail all of the heads of all the businesses in your industry sector, likewise. If you want to harass the regional manager of Dairy Queen because of the lousy service you received, go wild.
Bonus pro-tip, there are free e-mail verifier services that you can use to further verify the address, depending on how the company’s e-mail server is configured.
Although it’s perhaps not directly in the spirit of this post, this is a super-powered google tip. It relates to only one particular tiny piece of information, but a valuable one. E-mail addresses. You can google “*@example.com″ (with the quotes) to find references to the format used by different companies for the email addresses of their employees. Plug the person’s name into the format, and you can easily email them directly, often getting around various sorts of gatekeepers. How useful this is will depend critically on what sort of job you have. Maybe it even has applications for the small army of academics on Less Wrong.
If you are searching for jobs, you can use LinkedIn to locate the person who would be your boss (often LinkedIn doesn’t show the person’s full name, in which case if you google their exact title and company, the LinkedIn search result for that person will show up WITH the full name; it’s only hidden within LinkedIn itself) and email that boss directly (you do know to never submit your resume to HR, don’t you?). If you want to talk to a venture capital investor, google to find their direct e-mail address. If you want to e-mail all of the heads of all the businesses in your industry sector, likewise. If you want to harass the regional manager of Dairy Queen because of the lousy service you received, go wild.
Bonus pro-tip, there are free e-mail verifier services that you can use to further verify the address, depending on how the company’s e-mail server is configured.
Apparently there are services that help with this.