Searching for people on LinkedIn without knowing their company

Hey Guy!

Yes, you can use Find People without referencing a list of companies at all. You could apply the different filters to narrow it down

Ah, it may be confusing but if you click on Find people while inside a table it will try to use/reference companies. It's easier to go to home -> new table -> Find People instead

then you can import into an existing table

Sorry, could you clarify— based on the initial question it seemed you were trying to find people, right? but if you just need to enrich them then I'd use the corresponding integration

Got it, so it sounds like you're trying to enrich them then. Let me take a look to check the setup and recommend options

Hmm, without much context other than their name, the search will likely be too ambiguous. We have an integration called Find & Enrich LinkedIn from Google Search, which would combine google plus enriching a person's profile, but it could potentially return the wrong profile.

I don't think it can identify images so, it would have to narrow it down to just the name, unfortunately.

Okay, so this is the integration that could potentially help with that, but can only return the first match. The other integrations require a company identifier.

Which one (integration or feature)? Find People? it doesn't work as a column where you can dynamically reference values from a column. That would only work when you're trying to reference companies. I think the main reason why that is it's because it would be too ambiguous and decided it was not worth

There is a workaround though. You could convert the list of names as CSV and then add that as input instead. Like so:

Yep, if it finds a match for the name, then yes, it should show all matching results.

I'd just run the search outside of the table, that's why it'll be easier to convert the names into a CSV text you can copy/paste into that field instead

When you use Find People inside a table it will always try to reference a column so it's easier to navigate since that's the most common use case

You could always use a lookup to cross match the names after you cleaned them up

Okay, let me break it down in steps so it's a bit better to picture the workflow:

1. get the names in CSV format. Example: name1, name2, name3...2. From New Table -> Find People -> Paste the names in the corresponding field as shown in the screenshot above. 3. Import the results to a new table so you can analyze them and potentially find the right person: -> if you need the image in this new list, you can use the Lookup Row integration to cross-match the name column from table 1 with the name column from table 2, then you can extract the image into the new table.

No problem, I can check. Which part? the lookup?

Where's the original table? looks like you cross-matched against the same one here, so table 2 against table 2 😅

Got it, was confused lol

there you go, I just changed it to "contains" in case it varied a little bit, that seems to work for now

Then I'd use a formula in a new column to change them to lowercase in both tables then match against that new column

You'd need both, if you want to cross-match between tables, that's the lookup's job.Use the formula generator to clean up or format other columns: https://www.loom.com/share/bbb329dcf708442b9abbdf26e870f596