Last week, a colleague messaged me:
“Hello Irina! how are you? I just love your GitHub Search tools! it’s awsome! such a gift for the community.
I wonder if you can help me with the easiest way to enrich github search results with LinkedIn profiles… LinkedIn URL’s. in bulk.”
If you only have a few addresses to check, the old Outlook online trick will do the job. But my friend had several hundred records.
So here are some approaches to mass-cross-referencing lists of emails against LinkedIn and getting lists of the matching profile URLs and other profile data.
- In LinkedIn Recruiter, you can upload 200 emails at a time and get the URLs back. (paid subscription; reliable matching)
- In SeekOut, you can upload a long list of emails and export the info, including the URLs. (paid subscription)
- Cleabit allows you to upload a list of emails for free and will show you the percentage identified and some demographics, but you will need to pay per record for individual contacts.
- In ContactOut, you can upload a list of emails and download the profiles. Each enrichment costs points. I do not have enough experience with this reverse look-up to say anything about its quality or completeness.
- Or, alternatively,
USE A HM-HACK; see below:
If you do not have access to LinkedIn Recruiter, here is a little-known way to still get yourself the ability to upload lists of emails and get the members’ basic info and URLs back, just like subscribers do. Find a friendly colleague, your first connection, who does subscribe to LinkedIn Recruiter, and ask them to make you a “Hiring Manager.” This will give you the full function of email list uploading without either side paying extra.
As a reminder, our fullest sourcing course for Recruiters is coming up. – JUNE 4-7 & 11-13 @ 8 AM TO 9 AM PACIFIC EACH DAY:
Seven-Day Sourcing Bootcamp, June 2024