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Recruiters

The brief, not the search

How do recruiters build a shortlist without a LinkedIn Recruiter licence?

A brief arrives, and the sourcing licence it assumes costs more than the desk does. Cuvy works down a shortlist taken from a search you ran on an ordinary LinkedIn account and hands back what it finds for each person, one credit each, nothing for the ones it misses. A brief that goes on hold costs nothing while it waits, because the people are already bought.

Measured on
Candidate response rate
Work and personal address
One credit, not two
LinkedIn Recruiter licence
Not required
A brief on hold
Costs nothing while it waits

50 addresses free every month · no card

The inbox that matters

A work address is the wrong room for this conversation

Which is why a shortlist carries both addresses rather than only the one the employer runs.

A work address is read at a desk, in a client the employer administers, between two meetings. A personal address is read on a phone in the evening, which is when somebody is actually willing to think about moving. The message can be identical and the reply rate is not, because the room is different.

There is a second, duller reason. A work address dies the week a candidate resigns, and it dies quietly — the mailbox is disabled, the domain still exists, and your follow-up disappears without a bounce to tell you. The candidate you sourced in March is unreachable in June at exactly the point they have decided to move.

Which is why a candidate costs one credit here whether one address comes back for them or three. Charging twice for the same human would turn a sourcing decision into a budgeting one, and the budgeting version always picks the address that is cheaper to find rather than the one that gets read.

One brief at a time

Three steps, and none of them is a licence renewal

  1. Search the way you already search

    An ordinary LinkedIn people search is covered on every plan, free included. Recruiter and Sales Navigator pages come in from Starter at $19 a month — Cuvy reads whatever your licence is already showing you.

    No extra licence
  2. Run it on the shortlist, not the whole result set

    A brief needs twenty good candidates, not two thousand rows. You choose who goes into it, and the price of the whole shortlist is shown before a single credit moves.

    You pick the list
  3. Take the file into whatever you write from

    A CSV, or a push into HubSpot. Confirmed addresses come out on their own; the ones seen a single time come separately with that sighting named, so you know which is which at the moment you write.

    Confirmed kept apart
The rules that matter here

Four things a recruiter should know before the first brief

What never appears on the invoice
A candidate nobody can place is not charged. Neither is a shared mailbox — careers@ and hr@ are not people, and returning one is not a result you asked for.
Days to a deletion
Somebody who asks to be removed is removed, and the request is honoured within thirty days on every plan, free included. A workspace blocklist that keeps a name off future runs automatically is on Scale.
The candidate you placed two years ago
Job-change monitoring flags the people on your lists who have moved, which for a recruiter is not admin — it is the brief. The address at the new employer is found once and not billed twice for the same person.
Briefs arrive in waves
Credits carry into the next month up to twice your allowance, so a quiet month between mandates is not a month of budget written off. Packs bought outright never expire at all.
Questions

What recruiters ask, including the awkward one

Does Cuvy tell me whether a candidate is open to work?

No. It finds a way to reach somebody and stops there — no intent score, no likelihood-to-move signal and nothing inferred about how anybody feels about their employer. Whatever the profile itself says about being open is LinkedIn telling you that on the page you were already reading, and a lookup neither adds to it nor changes it.

A brief goes on hold for six months. Is the shortlist still worth anything?

The list keeps, and so does what you paid for it: saved lists arrive on Starter, and a candidate you have already been handed costs nothing when the brief reopens, whether that is in March or the following January. What does not keep is the work address, which is true of any shortlist that sits — people move, and some of it reopens out of date.

A candidate asks how I got their address. What do I tell them?

That it came from published sources rather than from their LinkedIn profile, that you can say where, and that they can have it removed. Deletion requests are honoured within thirty days and the trust page has the wording and the address to send one to. It is a better conversation had straight than dodged.

Someone asks never to be contacted again. What can I do?

Delete the record: a deletion request covers the workspace rather than just your export, and is honoured within thirty days. If you want a name kept off future runs automatically rather than by memory, that is the workspace blocklist, which is on Scale.

I already have a spreadsheet of candidates. Can I use that instead of a search?

Yes. Upload a CSV of names and companies and the missing addresses are filled in. Rows that already carry an address are not charged, because confirming one you supplied is free — so an old longlist costs only the people on it you never had a way to reach.