Finding a complete list of employees at a company can be useful for lead generation, sales prospecting, and CRM enrichment.
For example, you may want to find:
All employees at a company
Engineers at a specific company
Decision-makers at a particular company
Sales employees in the United States of specific company
The traditional approach is to gather all of this information manually. But when you need to do this for thousands of employees for multiple companies, manual research becomes a time-consuming and difficult to scale process.
In this guide, we'll first look at the traditional ways people find employees on internet and their limitations. Then, we will show how to use EnrichmentAPI's Employee Finder API to find employees using a company name, with the optional filters for domain, location & role and get whole list of employees with information such as their names, titles, descriptions and professional profile URLs.
Traditional Way To Find Employees Of A Company Manually?
Before using a tools, there are several ways to find employees manually on internet.
These methods can work when you only need a few contacts, but they become difficult to manage when you need employee lists at scale.
Search the Company's Website
The first option is to check the company's website. Many companies have pages such as, About Us and Our Team pages where you might find:
Company Website âž¡ About/Team Page âž¡ Employee Names âž¡ Job Titles
But the problem is that most of the company website don't list every employee. A company may have hundreds and thousand of employees but may only show its leadership team on its pages.
Search the Internet
Another common method is to use search engines to find people associated with the company.
You might search for queries such as:
"employees at Stripe"
"Stripe" "VP Sales"
"Stripe" "Software Engineer"
"Stripe" "Marketing Manager"
You can then manually collect the information, but this can only work for researching a small number or people and it is not efficient way to build a large employee database.
Use Search Operator
Another manual approach is using search operators to narrow down results by using site: operator.
For example:
site:lin**din.com/in "Stripe" "Engineer"
This can help in finding individual profiles, but it still requires manual searching, filtering, and collecting results.
How to Extract an Employee List Using Employee Finder API?
Instead of manually searching for employees, you can use EnrichmentAPI's Employee Finder API to get the employee lists on dashboard or by integrating API in you application.
The API requires a company_name and supports optional parameters for domain, job_title/ role, location.
Let’s Test Employee Finder API
To test API, you need to sign up for EnrichmentAPI.
After registering you'll land on API Playground and from there click on Employee Finder API.
After this you'll land on Employee Finder API's Playground, where you can test the API.
Here, you see the request parameters, let's say you're looking for engineers at specific company.
Your inputs could be:
Company: Stripe
Domain: stripe.com
Job: Engineer
Location: San Francisco
And if you want to integrate API into your own application click on Get Code button on right side to get the ready to use code snippets in preferred languages. Here is the Python Code:
1import requests2 3resp = requests.get(4 "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/employee_finder",5 params={6 "api_key": "6aa7f24dea7606a3075faf38",7 "company": "Stripe",8 "location": "San Francisco",9 "domain": "stripe.com",10 "filters": "Engineer",11 },12)13print(resp.json())Instead of manually searching through profiles, you receive the matching results in structured JSON as well as in on dashboard.
JSON response:
1{2 "success": true,3 "company": "Stripe",4 "people": [5 {6 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-kennedy-94388046",7 "slug": "peter-kennedy-94388046",8 "name": "Peter Kennedy",9 "title": "Staff Software Engineer at Stripe",10 "description": "Staff Software Engineer at Stripe · Experience: Stripe · Location: San Francisco · 500+ connections on LinkedIn ... San Francisco, California, United States.",11 "profile_id": "peter-kennedy-94388046",12 "get_more_data": "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/person?api_key=6a3e36a740a6b22504bed408&profile_id=peter-kennedy-94388046"13 },14 {15 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/atav32",16 "slug": "atav32",17 "name": "Brian Zhang",18 "title": "Engineering at Stripe",19 "description": "Brian Zhang. Engineering at Stripe. Stripe University of Maryland - A. James Clark School of Engineering. San Francisco Bay Area. 3K followers 500+ connections.",20 "profile_id": "atav32",21 "get_more_data": "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/person?api_key=6a3e36a740a6b22504bed408&profile_id=atav32"22 },23 {24 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmwilson",25 "slug": "ryanmwilson",26 "name": "Ryan Wilson",27 "title": "Payments @ Stripe | 2x founder | 3x startup CTO",28 "description": "Experience · Principal Software Engineer. Stripe. Jun 2021 - Present 5 years 4 months. San Francisco, California · Staff Software Engineer. Stripe. Jan 2019 - Jun ...",29 "profile_id": "ryanmwilson",30 "get_more_data": "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/person?api_key=6a3e36a740a6b22504bed408&profile_id=ryanmwilson"31 },32 {33 "linkedin_url": "https://uk.linkedin.com/in/carolineswu",34 "slug": "carolineswu",35 "name": "Caroline Wu",36 "title": "Software Engineer at Stripe",37 "description": "Software Engineer at Stripe · Experience: Stripe · Education: UC Berkeley ... San Francisco Bay Area. Education. UC Berkeley. Bachelor's Degree Industrial ...",38 "profile_id": "carolineswu",39 "get_more_data": "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/person?api_key=6a3e36a740a6b22504bed408&profile_id=carolineswu"40 } and more..........41 ],42 "status": 20043}The biggest advantage of using an API is that the workflow can be automated and for non-technical users, they can simply download the the CSV file from the dashboard itself.
Moreover, you can enrich each employees by using Enrich Profile button and get their email using Find Email button.
Use Cases for Employee Finder API
Sales Prospecting: Find employees at target company and identify people who may be relevant to your sales process.
Recruiting: Recruiters can search for employees at specific companies and get the potential candidates based on their current roles and professional profiles.
CRM Enrichment: You can use the employee data to add contacts to company records and create more complete view.
Lead Generation: Instead of starting with individual names, you can start with companies and use filters to discover specific employees of your choice.
Conclusion
Finding employees manually at any company can work when you only need a handful of employees. But when you need to build employees lists across multiple companies, manually searching websites and professional profiles become headache.
With EnrichmentAPI,s Employee Finder API, you can start with company name and get whole list of employees with information such as their names, titles, descriptions and professional profile URLs.