Improving Contact Scraping Accuracy in HR Departments | Clay

Improving Contact Scraping Accuracy in HR Departments

Even when using the 'find contact at company' and 'find people' features, I'm finding that certain individuals aren't being identified through these enrichment processes. What steps can I take to confirm that our scraping efforts have been thorough, and specifically, how can I verify that we've accurately scraped all relevant contacts within departments such as Human Resources?

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To verify your scraping efforts are thorough, especially for specific departments like HR: 1. Use multiple scraping tools from Clay's toolkit - our platform offers various capabilities from native scrapers to advanced integrations depending on your needs. 2. Compare results against alternative data sources to identify gaps - check if the data might be available through other Clay features before relying solely on scraping. 3. For structured data like department contacts, use Clay's native scraper which excels at collecting pre-generated formats like lists and contact information. 4. Consider using the Clay Chrome Extension to manually scrape specific company pages that might contain department-specific information.
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Hey, sorry for that. Your best bet here is to use Claygent. Here's how I would be doing this Here's a video showing you how to find more people at these companies: https://cln.sh/pHgLKqxZ Step by step: 1. Run a lookup in your people table to spot missing values 2. Click "add enrichment" (top right) 3. Pick Claygent > Select GPT 4o 4. Create a metaprompter: "Find me the {roles} at {company} who are currently working there - I need their linkedin.com/in URL, full name and job title. Get as many as possible. Leave empty if none found" 5. Choose JSON output and generate to get results as a list 6. Add a run condition so it only runs when the lookup is empty 7. Use "write to other table" to send new finds to your people table (send: full name, job title, linkedin.com/in URL, and company domain) 8. Then you can enrich them Tip: Feel free to flag missing data via row left-click > leave feedback for our team to fix.
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If you’re not finding all the relevant contacts, especially in HR, here’s a solid approach using Claygent to fill in the gaps: Step-by-step: 1. In your People table, identify rows where values are missing 2. Click Add Enrichment > choose Claygent (GPT-4o) 3. Use the Metaprompter and write a prompt like: “Find me the HR contacts at /company who currently work there. I need their LinkedIn URL, full name, and job title. Get as many as possible. Leave empty if none found.” 4. Set the output to JSON 5. Add a run condition so it only triggers if the lookup is empty 6. Use Write to Other Table to send the results to your main People table (include name, title, LinkedIn, company domain) 7. Enrich those new rows as usual You can also flag missing data by right-clicking on a row and selecting Leave Feedback, so our team can take a look. Here’s a quick video walkthrough: https://cln.sh/pHgLKqxZ Let me know if you need help setting this up.