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.
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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.
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.
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.