In business, finding people who went to the same school as you is not only a great ice breaker but a chance to turn a new contact into a new business or career opportunity so here is a small guide for french people to find french people and narrow down results to specific countries, industries, companies of interest.
When you are an expat or planning a trip abroad, it helps finding people like you
When you are an expat, finding other expats with the same nationality as you, is a fantastic way to create new relationships and new opportunities on both sides.
When you are an expat in the United Arab Emirates, where 90% of the population are expats, using Linkedin effectively to find decision-makers or professionals with the relevant nationality is a great advantage and time saver.
At Extra Mile, we know Linkedin (our founder worked there) and we have been helping businesses in the UAE with their business development and marketing goals for a few years now.
So we have created Linkedin searches compiling all top universities, business schools and engineering schools in each country. Some searches include up to 400 schools in one country.
Top 3 reasons why finding people by nationality is an advantage
- Networking with people of the same nationality.
- When selling services or products based on nationality. For example, Air France might want to target French people and UK Financial Advisors might want to target British expats
- Finding contacts within prospects who are the same nationality as you or one of your colleagues to increase the likelihood for them to respond or meet with you
Find all french on Linkedin in the United Arab Emirates or other countries.
Click the link to see search results on Linkedin.com with all people who graduated from top schools and universities in France
Use filters on Linkedin for free to narrow down results to your targeted audience
Locations
Filter to people based in your country or your target territory
All filters→ Industry
Filter to people working in your industry or your target industry
All filters→ Company or Past Company
Filter to people working or having worked in a specific company
All filters→ Job title
Filter to people having relevant job titles
For example: (Head OR Director) AND Marketing will only show people with “director” and “marketing” or “head” and “marketing” in the results
Connections = 2nd
Filter to people being in your 2nd degree network.
…this means you have at least one mutual connection with all of them.
…this means you can identify paths for introductions or referrals
If you are in sales or marketing, this is gold. 💰
If you use Sales Navigator, these searches can be saved as alerts to be updated regularly on new french people arriving in the UAE, a specific industry, specific roles, etc.
We also provide search results url for Linkedin Sales Navigator.
Just get in touch.
Hope it helps
Methodology:
For each country, we compiled list of top universities, business schools and engineering schools from various sources.
We then created a search on Linkedin and added each school one by one and save the final search results for you.
Same process for Linkedin Sales Navigator.
For example, for France, the list include the top 400 schools by alumni size
Here is a limited list of the top schools in France included.
Example of top universities, business schools and engineering schools in France
Name | Type | Rank |
Sorbonne University | University | Top 10 |
Institut Polytechnique de Paris | University | Top 10 |
Université Paris-Saclay | University | Top 10 |
University of Paris | University | Top 10 |
PSL Research University | University | Top 10 |
École des Ponts ParisTech | University | Top 10 |
Aix-Marseille University | University | Top 10 |
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | University | Top 10 |
Université de Bordeaux | University | Top 10 |
University of Montpellier | University | Top 10 |
Université Grenoble Alpes | University | Top 20 |
Agrocampus Ouest | University | Top 20 |
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne | University | Top 20 |
Sciences Po | University | Top 20 |
Université de Lyon | University | Top 20 |
Université Côte d'Azur | University | Top 20 |
Centrale Nantes | University | Top 20 |
University of Lille 1 Sciences and Technology | University | Top 20 |
University of Strasbourg | University | Top 20 |
University of Toulouse | University | Top 30 |
INSA Lyon | University | Top 30 |
Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) | University | Top 30 |
Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | University | Top 30 |
Universite de Lorraine | University | Top 30 |
Nantes Université | University | Top 30 |
CNAM - Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers | University | Top 30 |
Ecole Centrale de Lyon | University | Top 30 |
Université de Rennes 1 | University | Top 30 |
Université de Caen Normandie | University | Top 30 |
Université Clermont Auvergne | University | Top 40 |
Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III | University | Top 40 |
Université de Bourgogne | University | Top 40 |
UVSQ Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines | University | Top 40 |
EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales | University | Top 40 |
ESIEE Paris | University | Top 40 |
INSA Toulouse - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées | University | Top 40 |
Montpellier Business School | University | Top 40 |
Université Savoie Mont Blanc | University | Top 40 |
Université Gustave Eiffel | University | Top 40 |
University of Poitiers | University | Top 50 |
Université de Tours | University | Top 50 |
Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC) | University | Top 50 |
CY TECH | University | Top 50 |
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole | University | Top 50 |
Université Lumière Lyon 2 | University | Top 50 |
Ecole normale supérieure | University | Top 50 |
École Polytechnique | University | Top 50 |
AgroParisTech | University | Top 50 |
L'Institut Agro Montpellier | University | Top 60 |
INSEAD Executive Education | University | Top 60 |
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs Sud Alsace | University | Top 60 |
Université d'Angers | University | Top 60 |
University of New Orleans | University | Top 60 |
Université de Bretagne Occidentale | University | Top 60 |
Mines Paris | University | Top 60 |
Faculté Des Métiers de l'Essonne | University | Top 60 |
Université de Limoges | University | Top 60 |
HEC Paris | Business School | Top 10 |
ESSEC Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
EDHEC Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
Emlyon Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
Grenoble Ecole de Management | Business School | Top 10 |
KEDGE Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
NEOMA Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
ESCP Business School | Business School | Top 10 |
The American business school | Business School | Top 10 |
SKEMA Business School | Business School | Top 20 |
TBS Education | Business School | Top 20 |
Montpellier Business School | Business School | Top 20 |
Audencia | Business School | Top 20 |
ESC PAU Business School | Business School | Top 20 |
Université Paris Dauphine-PSL | Business School | Top 20 |
IAE Paris - Sorbonne Business School | Business School | Top 20 |
Sciences Po | Business School | Top 20 |
IÉSEG School of Management | Business School | Top 20 |
Rennes School of Business | Business School | Top 20 |
ESSCA Ecole de management | Business School | Top 30 |
EM Strasbourg Business School | Business School | Top 30 |
EM Normandie Business School | Business School | Top 30 |
Toulouse School of Management | Business School | Top 30 |
BSB – Burgundy School of Business | Business School | Top 30 |
ISC Paris | Business School | Top 30 |
ESC Clermont Business School | Business School | Top 30 |
PSB Paris School of Business | Business School | Top 30 |
Aix-Marseille Graduate School of Management IAE - Aix-Marseille University | Business School | Top 30 |
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School | Business School | Top 30 |
Grenoble IAE | Business School | Top 40 |
ICN Business School | Business School | Top 40 |
Excelia | Business School | Top 40 |
iaelyon School of Management | Business School | Top 40 |
INSEEC Grande Ecole | Business School | Top 40 |
École des Ponts Business School | Business School | Top 40 |
EDC Paris Business School | Business School | Top 40 |
IAE Lille | Business School | Top 40 |
ESIEE Paris | Engineering School | Top 10 |
EPF Ecole d'Ingénieur-e-s | Engineering School | Top 10 |
Grenoble IAE | Engineering School | Top 10 |
École Polytechnique | Engineering School | Top 10 |
IMT Atlantique | Engineering School | Top 10 |
Disclaimers
1. You cannot search people by nationality on Linkedin but if you search by schools of a specific country, the big majority of people in the results will have the nationality of the country. 2. If the country has a big attraction power towards foreign students or has world-class MBA or executive programs attracting executives or students from around the world, the results might be slightly diluted but you can remove those international schools manually if you want and still have great value from the results 3. At ExtraMile, we are against any form of discrimination, and our tactics are meant for networking and business not to recruit in a discriminatory way. Please use our Linkedin superpowers responsibly!