# Source candidates from LinkedIn - Veezee

You name the role and the company; your agent searches LinkedIn and pulls full profiles for the top matches. The recipe below runs in Claude, n8n, or your own code on Veezee's LinkedIn tools.

## Recipe

1. No signup: mint a free key (`POST /v1/keys/mint`, no body) and call every step below under a shared budget of 200 credits per IP per day. Hit the cap, or need `limit: 30`? Buy a key at [/upgrade](/upgrade); checkout credits the same key.
2. `linkedin_get_company`: resolve the target company once, by URL, slug, or numeric id. Returns the company's numeric id and URN for the search filter. Cost: 4 credits.
3. `linkedin_search_people`: filter by `title` and `current_company` (the numeric id from step 2), `limit: 30`. Returns matches, each flagged `is_anonymous` if private. Cost: 12 credits.
4. `linkedin_get_profile`: for the top 10 non-anonymous results, fetch with `sections: ["experience", "education"]`. Cost: 4 credits per call, 40 credits for 10.

Skip any result with `is_anonymous: true`; `linkedin_get_profile` cannot dereference a private profile. Treat the search match itself as confirmation and move on.

## Total cost

56 credits for one company lookup, one search at limit 30, and 10 profile fetches.

## Limits worth knowing

- Free-key calls and trial keys cap search at 10 results per call; the `limit: 30` step needs a paid key.
- A `current_company` name is matched by LinkedIn natively and works at any limit; a past_company name or company URL caps the limit, so pass the numeric id (from linkedin_get_company) for those at `limit: 30`.
- One search at a higher limit costs less than several at a low limit; a cursor page is priced fresh by its own limit, so paging does not save credits.
- With a paid key, call `get_usage` (free, exempt from the rate limit) before a large batch to check balance; a free key has no account balance to check, but each response reports its own cost.

## Run it

Full reference: [/docs](/docs). A ready-made agent setup prompt: [/agent-setup/prompt.md](/agent-setup/prompt.md).

Installable skill: the [candidate-sourcing pack](https://github.com/veezeehq/veezee-skills/blob/main/skills/candidate-sourcing/SKILL.md) teaches your agent this whole job. Install every pack with `npx skills add veezeehq/veezee-skills` ([/docs/skills](/docs/skills)).