Obviously I don’t have my work emails listed on LinkedIn. Yet people (recruiters, salespeople, vendors) who find me from LinkedIn often email me to my work email, and this is at several different jobs now. I assume they can just guess, but it’s not always the same formation, and how can they be sure? Anyone know what they do?
They may ask their friends who work at ur company to look it up for them
Recruiters sometimes take a contact list with them when leaving a company. And then use it at the new company by sharing leads with another recruiters. This is a clear violation of non-solicit agreement, but this happens occasionally.
The format is typically the same company wide. Once you have one email all you need to know is the name of whoever you want to email. Assuming your first and last name are accurate in LinkedIn it wouldn't be that difficult.
There are some online tools out there that scrap emails and suggest the winning first name last name pattern. Even without tools you can guess the email address and if it’s wrong you’ll get a bounce back and you can try again. Essentially you get unlimited tries for guessing someone’s email until it goes through.
why r u even on LinkedIn? It’s useless spam. Delete your account
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Firstname.lastname@company.com or some pattern that can be easily guessed?