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LinkedIn profile export and contact finder for recruiters
Exporting LinkedIn candidate profiles and verified emails into spreadsheets or CRMs for recruiters.
Why it can work
- Manual copying of profiles eats time during sourcing sprints.
- LinkedIn seat costs are too high for many agency recruiters.
- Recruiters cannot export Recruiter Lite profile data to spreadsheets.
Watch out
- LinkedIn may block scraping or restrict data export tools.
- Email verification accuracy may not meet recruiter expectations.
First moveInterview independent recruiters about their export and enrichment workflow this week.
How it scores
Stars come from the evidence below; each row links to it. How the Itch Rank works
How much it itches 26 of 40
Will people pay 0 of 35
The job to be done
Build and export candidate contact lists
When a sourcing sprint or outreach campaign requires candidate details from LinkedIn, the recruiter needs to pull profiles and verified contact emails into a spreadsheet or CRM, so they can run repeatable outreach without manual copying.
How often posters face it
- Daily5
- One-off1
Pain proof
8 complaints from 1 community
LinkedIn Recruiter Boolean searches return inconsistent filter results and manual workarounds trigger profile view limits.
Independent recruiter on LinkedIn Recruiter Lite cannot export profile data such as name, title and company into a spreadsheet.
Pulling email addresses from LinkedIn profiles manually is a bottleneck for a repeatable outreach workflow.
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Copying candidate profile details from LinkedIn one by one into a tracking spreadsheet eats huge time during a high-volume sourcing sprint.
Executive search firm wants CRM profiles updated automatically when candidates change jobs on LinkedIn, instead of one-at-a-time Chrome extension updates.
Agency recruiter cannot get verified contact emails for passive candidates found on LinkedIn, and LinkedIn seat costs are too high.
Headhunter needs to build vertical-specific candidate lists from LinkedIn outside the company ATS and cannot find an affordable tool to do it.
Recruiter received an 80+ candidate PDF report from a search firm and cannot easily export LinkedIn Recruiter outreach data into a spreadsheet or ATS.
Who they pay today
No G2 category matched; 3 new launches on Product Hunt
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Creators pitching it
1 pitch on YouTube
If you started today
A first version, from what posters ask for
First version
Sources
Not found yet: Paid tasks, Success stories, Funds raised, Product sunsets, Compliance needs, Search trends. A missing layer scores zero in the Itch Rank.