The recruiting-sourcing workflow
- Pick a target company — a competitor you want to poach from, or a company in your client's industry.
- Export its people — you get the list with each person's headline (their role) and location.
- Filter to the roles you want in Excel — search the headline column for "Engineer", "Sales", "Designer", a seniority keyword, or a city.
- Enrich and reach out — drop the profiles into your ATS or a contact-finder, then run personalised outreach referencing their current company.
Other workflows
- B2B prospecting — map the buying committee at a target account: who's in procurement, who heads the relevant department, who the decision-makers are.
- Competitive org intel — track headcount by function at a competitor over time; a spike in "Sales" or "Engineering" headlines signals where they're investing.
- Event & partnership prep — before a meeting, pull the company's people to know who you might be talking to and their backgrounds.
- Market mapping — export several companies in a category and combine the lists to size a talent pool or a total addressable market.
What LinkedIn exposes
LinkedIn's People tab is a faceted search over current and former employees. Profiles you're not connected to may show as "LinkedIn Member" with their headline and location still visible — that's LinkedIn's privacy default, not a limitation of the exporter. The result set is capped by LinkedIn at roughly 1,000 people per company; for larger companies, narrow with LinkedIn's own People-tab filters before exporting.
Plan limits
Per-company size scales with your plan. Free (no signup): up to 100 people per company. Personal: 5,000. Premium: 50,000. Business: 250,000 — see pricing for the full feature comparison and API tiers for the API-specific limits.