Warm Intros in a New Country With No Local Network
You relocated and your whole network is in the wrong time zone. The people who can vouch for you are already here, you just have not mapped them yet.
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A plain LinkedIn search buries the people who would actually help you.
It ranks by prominence, so the most-followed, most-messaged names sit on top. FindWarmIntros surfaces the coworkers who share your school or a past employer - the people most likely to reply - and hands you a ready-to-send intro.
✍️ Ready-to-send intro“Hi - we both studied at [your school]. I’d love to hear about your path to a company you are targeting before I apply…”
… plus everyone else in your network who can put in a good word.
See who can refer you in - pick your target company:
Your network followed you, you just cannot see it
When you move countries, it feels like the network resets. It did not. A big consulting firm, a multinational, or a global grad program scatters people across every major city, including the one you just landed in. The person who sat two desks away in your Mumbai office may now be a hiring manager in Berlin.
The mistake is assuming distance broke the tie. A shared employer or program is a fact about your past, and it does not expire when you change your address. It is often stronger than a local contact you met once at an event, because you already share a real reference point.
How to turn a global tie into a local intro
Work company by company, not person by person. Pick the firms hiring for your role in your new city, then find who inside them shares your specific background.
- Name the exact tie in your first line. Not 'we both worked in consulting' but 'we overlapped on the such-and-such rotation in 2022'. Specific ties get replies, generic ones get ignored.
- Ask for context, not a referral, at first. A newcomer asking 'is this team actually good to work on' is easy to answer in 30 seconds. That reply opens the door to the referral later.
- Use the relocation honestly. 'I just moved here and I'm mapping who I already know at good companies' is disarming and true. People help newcomers when the ask is small.
- Prioritize same-city ties. Someone in your new city who shares your old employer can grab coffee and vouch internally, which beats a warmer contact three time zones away.
Finding those people without hours of digging
The hard part is the mapping. Manually checking every target company for a colleague from your old firm or program is slow, and you will miss people whose profiles do not obviously flag the connection.
FindWarmIntros does the finding-and-ranking part for you. You name a target company and your past employers or programs, and it surfaces the real people there who share one of those ties, ranks them by how strong the overlap is, and drafts an intro that leads with the shared thing. You still send the message and build the relationship, but you skip the search.