Plucker vs LinkedIn Recruiter.
Recruiter gives you the whole of LinkedIn and a search box. The list is only as good as the boolean string, and the shortlist only as good as the hours you spend opening profiles. Plucker does that reading for you, every profile against your brief, and hands back the ones worth a call.
| Compared on | LinkedIn Recruiter | Plucker |
|---|---|---|
| Where you start | Filters and boolean strings you build and tune yourself. | A brief in plain English, or the job ad pasted in. |
| Accuracy | Matches the words in your search. Everyone with the right title comes back, fit or not. | Reads every profile in full and scores it 1 to 10 against the brief. The wrong people are set aside before you see them. |
| Who reads the profiles | You do, one at a time. | Plucker does, with the reasoning written out for every name. |
| When the titles run dry | You rewrite the search. | The next wave widens on its own: adjacent titles, alumni, nearby locations. |
| What you hand the client | Profiles you have written up yourself. | A ranked list with the reasoning for every name, as a read-only link. |
| Reaching candidates | InMail, built in. | Not included. Plucker finds contact details for the people you star. |
| Working together | Export any Plucker shortlist as a LinkedIn Recruiter CSV and carry on in Recruiter. | |
Keep Recruiter for
InMail, and the odd search you want to run by hand.
Use Plucker for
The shortlist itself. The right people, already read and ranked, with a written case for every name your client sees.