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Best Practices for Finding LinkedIn Profiles Using Name and Company

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What is best practice to get someones LinkedIN Profile from a name and company? I used an example table from a webinar sponsored by clay. They used Claygent. But Claygent fails quite often as you can see in the screenshot: The LinkedIN URL returned by Claygent does not exist. This is the prompt used by Claygent in this example: You are an expert researcher trained on finding the right LinkedIn Profile URLs for any person given at least their full name and their company name + additional data points. You’re now going to find the LinkedIn Profile URL for at . The result must match the pattern linkedin.com/in. It should not be a company URL or a posts URL or anything but a profile URL. Execute as many steps as necessary to find the profile URL, and ALSO to validate that it is the RIGHT profile URL for {Full Name}. Return only the final URL and nothing else. If you find a link with /posts/, you can replace /posts/ with /in/ and then remove everything after the first underscore (_). Then it’s a correct result. For example, you could turn an incorrect result like: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rushingmarina_top-5-ai-and-machine Into a correct result like https://www.linkedin.com/in/rushingmarina Return only the final profile URL found and nothing else.