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Person enrichment API for staffing and recruiting firms

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What staffing firms need from person enrichment, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

3 recipes use person enrichment for recruiting / staffing firms using data directly.

  • $5 free credits
  • 800M+ people
  • 65M+ companies

A selection of staffing firms using Forager for person enrichment · plus other recruiting platforms

  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Velox
  • HubSpot
  • SBR2TH
  • PrimeHammer
  • Martyn Bassett Associates
For recruiting / staffing firms using data directly
The job
Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes.
When
A search firm or PE talent partner opens a confidential executive search.
Outcome
Search firms get high delivery and response rates on confidential executive outreach.
Lead recipe 1

Raise executive-search response rates with personal email and mobile

When to use it: A search firm or PE talent partner opens a confidential executive search.

  1. Build the long-list and resolve each executive with POST /person_detail_lookup/
  2. Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall
  3. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates
  4. Send discreet outreach and track delivery and response
InputsOutputs
executive long-listpersonal_email
LinkedIn identifiersphone_number
current role
Lead recipe 2

Source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements

When to use it: A client asks for a scarce profile (e.g. senior Rust engineer in LATAM, structural engineer for a construction project).

Show the steps
  1. Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/
  2. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/
  3. Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ and a mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Silver for reach)
  4. Reach out by phone or WhatsApp and log responses against the open requirement
InputsOutputs
skillscandidate shortlist
senioritypersonal_email
regionsphone_number
Open the recipe: Source senior and specialist engineers for staff-augmentation placements
Lead recipe 3

Re-engage past contractors when their assignment ends

When to use it: A past contractor's current role shows an end date, or the firm's own records show an assignment ending.

Show the steps
  1. Check each past contractor with POST /person_detail_lookup/ (linkedin_public_identifier) for roles with an end_date or no current role
  2. Fetch a personal email via POST /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/, since the client work address will stop working
  3. Fetch a mobile via POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for a call or text
  4. Send the recruiter a list of available contractors matched to open orders
InputsOutputs
past contractor LinkedIn URLsavailable contractors
open orderslast role end date
personal email
mobile
Open the recipe: Re-engage past contractors when their assignment ends
Fields

Fields you get back

  • personal_email
  • phone_number
  • current role
  • candidate shortlist
  • available contractors
  • last role end date
  • personal email
  • mobile

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Person enrichment and the Person enrichment API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates person enrichment at recruiting / staffing firms using data directly, and what they are judged on

  • Product manager who owns the enrichment feature: judged on what users see when they open a record
  • Engineering lead integrating the API: judged on response time and errors they can route on
  • Partnerships or data lead managing vendors: judged on cost per valid result

A selection of staffing firms using Forager for person enrichment · plus other recruiting platforms

  • Clay
    • GTM workflow builders

    Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.

  • Juicebox
    • AI candidate sourcing

    Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.

  • Nooks
    • Power & parallel dialers

    Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.

  • Velox
    • Staffing firms

    Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.

  • HubSpot
    • CRM add-ons

    Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.

  • SBR2TH
    • Staffing firms

    Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.

  • PrimeHammer
    • Staffing firms

    Software studio in Czechia.

  • Martyn Bassett Associates
    • Staffing firms

    Executive search firm for product, sales and marketing leaders at growth-stage software companies.

“Forager leads in accuracy across all regions, Forager's dual strength in accuracy and volume makes it a powerhouse for sales teams that are targeting businesses around the globe.”
ClayStefan K.Data Partnerships
800M+people
65M+companies
How to test it

Test person enrichment on your own sample

  1. Pull a sample. Take profiles your users looked up last week.
  2. Run it. Use a self-serve key, or book a demo and send us the list.
  3. Measure what your users feel. Connect rate for mobiles, bounces for emails, and whether the right person answers.
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do staffing and recruiting firms use Forager person enrichment?

Reach CEO, CFO and VP candidates discreetly on personal channels rather than monitored work inboxes. A full professional profile for a person from a LinkedIn URL, email or phone: experience, education, skills and contact channels. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What does person enrichment cost for staffing and recruiting firms?

Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 person enrichments use 1,000 credits: about $13 of Starter credits month to month, or about $10 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Why do staffing and recruiting firms add person enrichment?

Reach candidates on the channels they actually read. Products like yours are judged on candidate replies, which is why the cost that counts is per result that reaches the right person. Run your own sample to see what person enrichment returns for your users before you build on it.

How to contact C-suite candidates discreetly?

Use /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/ as the first step of the personal-email waterfall. Add a direct mobile from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ for senior candidates.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send LinkedIn identifiers, people feed and applicant personal email. You get back personal_email, phone_number, personal email and candidate shortlist, from POST /person_detail_lookup/, as JSON.

Can we show Forager data inside our product?

Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager data to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.

Am I charged when nothing is found?

Yes. Person enrichment is charged per request, whether or not data comes back. Only mobile and email lookups are free when nothing is found, so try your inputs on a small run before you scale.

Is there a free way to try Forager?

Yes. Create a free account at app.forager.ai: it comes with $5 in free credits and an API key, and there is no credit card to sign up. Run it on records you already know, or book a demo and send us a list: we run it and show you what we find.

How do I find senior engineers by skill and country?

Search candidates by skills, title, seniority and country with POST /person_role_search/. Check tenure and previous employers with POST /person_detail_lookup/.

How accurate is Forager data?

The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

How is person enrichment different from scraping profiles myself?

Scraping means running and repairing your own collection pipeline and deciding what to do when a page changes. Person enrichment returns a structured profile (experience, education, skills and contact channels) from one API call, from data Forager licenses and maintains.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from Make, n8n and your own code. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.

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Platforms and teams that build on Forager
  • Clay
  • Juicebox
  • Nooks
  • Andela
  • HubSpot
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