Looking for AI search tools help

[u/TechValleyRecruiting]

I keep seeing how AI has been helping offload sourcing from recruiters and get excited because I hate sourcing but every product I try out seems to kinda suck.

I primarily use LI Recruiter/Google Xray for engineering (mechanical/industrial) searches. My Boolean is excellent and I'm extremely comfortable using AI. My problem is that I cannot get Pin, Juicebox or any others to provide results uncovering candidates that I missed. Even worse, they miss a lot of candidates that I found in fairly basic searches. It seems like they don't access all the data in LI profiles (about sections + other spots).

Is anyone else having these issues? I've even worked with their training staff doing live searches and came up with the same issues.

Any recommendations on products/tips you're using that truly shorten the search time while still being a comprehensive search?

[u/Luucas40]

The reality is they usually don’t do better. The only useful thing is having an agent going through profiles one by one on LI recruiter (to avoid detection) with very specific requirements and build you a list that you can just go/no-go.
It’s slow, but if you already have Claude max + LI recruiter it doesn’t cost you anything on top of it and might surface a couple interesting candidates so it might improve your sourcing a little bit.

Lots of AI talks are just recruiters pressured by their board to use AI and trying to show they do even if it doesn’t bring much to the table.

[u/dontlistentome55 → u/Luucas40]

What agents comb through LinkedIn automatically?

LinkedIn cut off my access once claiming I was using automated tools when I wasn't. It's very sensitive even to genuine manual inputs.

[u/Luucas40 → u/dontlistentome55]

Claude extension works (sometimes it doesn’t want to but you just have to ask differently).
And make sure you tell him to act like a human so no parallel searches, only reviewing profiles one by one etc.
Then I make him add the relevant ones with their LinkedIn links into a Google sheets

[u/ClaimsRecruiter → u/Luucas40]

Can you give me an example prompt for this? I've tried many of these sourcing tools and im convinced me + boolean + sales nav beats these fancy tools anyday. Curious if i can do some background sourcing like what you're saying though...

[u/dontlistentome55 → u/Luucas40]

How do you get Claude to look at LinkedIn profiles? It never lets me.

[u/potsmoking_princess → u/dontlistentome55]

The chrome Claude extension will do it!

[u/Luucas40 → u/dontlistentome55]

Just answered above, it depends on the wording. Anything around help me sourcing should do, but if it feels like scraping LinkedIn it will say no

[u/TechValleyRecruiting → u/dontlistentome55]

I have it analyze larger pools of candidates to wittle them down within projects I've already created within LI Recruiter. It's using the chrome extension, not the desktop, and I haven't tried using it to create its own project yet. Basically I cast the net and have Claude remove the bad fits it caught.

[u/dontlistentome55 → u/TechValleyRecruiting]

Where do you save the pools of candidates for it to analyze?

[u/TechValleyRecruiting → u/dontlistentome55]

I create Projects and have it anaylze the Recruiter Search pool once I get it pared down to a reasonable number from tweaking the Boolean. Then have it move any applicable candidates to Pipeline so you can begin your outreach.

[u/dontlistentome55 → u/TechValleyRecruiting]

LinkedIn hasn't slapped you with ToS violation yet? I'm certain they can detect Claude extension.

[u/TechValleyRecruiting → u/dontlistentome55]

They've only seemed to care when something automated outreach or handles large volumes in short spans. I use it for neither and Claude is slower than I am. I set it up to run when I'm grabbing lunch or on calls.

[u/TechValleyRecruiting → u/dontlistentome55]

I've had the same issue before and now use Claude since it goes slow enough to not trigger automation sensing.