A personal email finder gives you a candidate's private email and phone number instead of the work address you cannot use. 100Hires looks it up from a LinkedIn profile or an email address you already have, then saves the result to the candidate record in your pipeline.
Contact enrichment is a 100Hires Pro feature that runs on your own provider subscriptions. 100Hires orchestrates the lookup across multiple providers in real time. It holds no contact database of its own, so you are not working from a list that has gone stale.
How to find a candidate's personal email address
Start with what you already have: a LinkedIn URL or any email address for the person. 100Hires passes that to its enrichment providers and returns the personal email, work email, phone number, and LinkedIn URL where available.
A LinkedIn URL is the most reliable input for a personal email. You choose which providers run and in what order, whether they search one by one to save credits or all at once to cast the widest net, and which result ends the search.
Found them on LinkedIn. Now you can't reach them
You spend the morning using LinkedIn and Boolean search to build a list of people who fit the role. Then the catch: LinkedIn shows you the person, not their email. The profiles worth chasing are the ones that keep contact details hidden.
Recruiters tell us InMail reply rates have fallen - some teams report 15% or lower on seats that cost $10,000 a year or more. A note sent to a work address either bounces or lands in front of the candidate's current manager.
The usual fix is a stack: a LinkedIn license for search, a separate finder for personal emails, a validator, and an outreach tool - four products, four logins, four bills, before the first message goes out.
Finding the personal email is one half of the workflow. The other half is finding people in the first place, which the 100Hires candidate sourcing tools and Chrome extension handle by pulling profiles from LinkedIn and other channels straight into the right job.
Validation runs through ZeroBounce, which you connect with your own API key under Settings and Integrations. It is the same validation step that helps keep high-volume outreach out of the spam folder.
How 100Hires compares to a typical email finder
Most email finders are built for B2B sales and usually return the corporate address. For recruiting, what matters is where the contact details go next and whether you can reach a passive candidate at all.
100Hires is part of an applicant tracking system, so the email you find becomes an outreach step, not a row in a spreadsheet.
100Hires contact enrichment is a Pro-plan feature and runs on your own provider subscriptions. See 100Hires pricing for current plan details.