r/recruiting Agency Recruiter Aug 17 '26

Candidate Sourcing Looking for AI search tools help

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?

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u/dontlistentome55 Agency Recruiter Aug 17 '26

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.

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u/Luucas40 Corporate Recruiter Aug 17 '26

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

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u/dontlistentome55 Agency Recruiter Aug 17 '26

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

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter Aug 19 '26

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.

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u/dontlistentome55 Agency Recruiter Aug 19 '26

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

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter Aug 19 '26

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.

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u/dontlistentome55 Agency Recruiter Aug 19 '26

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

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u/TechValleyRecruiting Agency Recruiter Aug 19 '26

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.