Find a Candidate Using a LinkedIn URL

If you know the LinkedIn URL of a specific candidate, you can use part of the URL to look for their profile in SeekOut.

This feature is available for users with Essential, Professional, or Enterprise licenses.

If you know the LinkedIn URL of a specific candidate, you can use part of the URL to look for their SeekOut profile.

How to Find a Candidate Using a LinkedIn URL

Go to the candidate's LinkedIn profile

  • Copy the unique part of the URL. (Don't copy the forward slashes.)

The URL may contain the candidate's name or a string of numbers.

Screenshot of LinkedIn URL

Go to the SeekOut search page

  • Click on the Public Profiles tab

  • Toggle the Boolean tab above the search box

  • Paste the URL into the search box

  • Hit Enter on your keyboard to search for the candidate.

When successful, the candidate's enriched SeekOut profile will be the only search result.

Screenshot of URL search in product

I tried this and I couldn't find the candidate's profile in SeekOut.

This may happen when the person has recently changed, privatized, or deleted their public profile information.

Platforms like LinkedIn have visibility and privacy settings that can be controlled by the individual user. If a prospect has elected to hide their profile visibility from public sources, then that profile info will not be available or updated in the SeekOut database.

Once a candidate has changed their LinkedIn profile from private to public, it can take a few weeks for the profile to be updated within SeekOut.