Find candidates from specific countries in your X-ray

X-raying LinkedIn is a great way to find candidates on LinkedIn using the Google search engine. It's free and relatively unrestricted.

One of the drawbacks many people encounter while X-raying LinkedIn is that you cannot search for the location field.

There is a way however to search for candidates in specific countries by using country codes in the domain after the site operator.

How to use country codes in an X-ray

Step 1. Use the site operator site: including the /in addition in your Google search to search for LinkedIn profiles. That string looks like this: site:linkedin.com/in

Step 2. Find the country code of the country you want to search in in the below overview (alphabetically ordered).

Step 3. Add the country code to your search, for Canada the search string looks like this: site:ca.linkedin.com/in

Now you only get to see LinkedIn profiles from Canada in your Google search results.