Accurately Scraped Data from LinkedIn for Developing HR Solutions
For a US-based HR Solution Provider Company
The company is a leading HR solution provider operating in the Eastern part of the USA, primarily from New York. For the last 30 years, the company has been providing Human Resource solutions to major American firms. With prestige and wide working capacity, the company recently became a top leader in the industry. From finding candidates from scratch to initiating onboarding, the company performs all the tasks as an HR expert.
The company primarily uses public databases to scrap data from them regarding candidates and job details. LinkedIn is one of the famous social media platforms that the company mostly focuses on. It has a separate team to assess and measure data from LinkedIn to develop its HR solutions. However, the company was searching for a partner company that could help by scraping data from LinkedIn. AskDataEntry provides LinkedIn scraping services so the company approached us for help.
Importance of LinkedIn Scrapping Services for HR Solution Provider Companies
LinkedIn is a famous social media platform for job seekers and employers. People engage in a lot of work-related conversations on this platform and engage with other similar kinds of people. Companies find the best talent from this platform and share their hiring insights here. Besides this, the most essential function that this platform plays is to generate B2B leads. Therefore, scraping data from this platform becomes very essential when it comes to developing business strategies. With the help of professional LinkedIn data scrapers, companies can easily get all the data that they want.
A professional LinkedIn data scrapper company must have relevant work experience to perform all the tasks. It's very difficult for an HR solution-providing company to perform data scraping tasks from LinkedIn. Primarily, it is not their core task hence they delegate it with the help of a professional LinkedIn data scraping agency. A professional outsourcing company will perform the LinkedIn X-ray to take out essential data from this platform. Besides that, they use the latest technology to extract data from LinkedIn profiles to meet all HR requirements. Hence, it's proved that outsourcing LinkedIn scrapping services plays a vital role in HR solution provider companies' operations.
Challenges the Company Faced
Scraping data from the LinkedIn platform itself is a challenging task and it needs proper skill and expertise. The company is a core HR solution provider where data scraping is not even a core task. However, they still formed a team among their members to perform the LinkedIn data scraping operation. Therefore, they faced the following difficulties in their way while performing the data scraping tasks.
The internal team with the expertise of HR management has performed the data scraping tasks. They scraped data only related to their field and avoided other things. They just scraped profiles of the people who interacted with them first. However, after a few periods, they started scraping data but were extremely low in quality. Most of their data contains distorted information, broken links, or irrelevant texts. They did not validate any information so it made the database extremely poor.
The team scraped the data and pasted it randomly into the database. They did not even create any folder to save data with a proper name. This made data navigation extremely difficult for them also when it comes to assessing the data. The team also did not follow a proper mechanism to perform the data management tasks. As a result, all the scraped data from LinkedIn got intern-mixed and lost.
At the time when automation is at its peak, the company team still chooses to do the scraping task manually. They went through all the profiles and then copied data from them and kept them in a separate dataset. This has consumers the productive businesses' time that they invested in this non-core activity. In most cases, the team members were not given proper training to perform the scraping work using proper tools.
LinkedIn is always against data scraping thing by unauthorized sources without permission. Despite being an open public platform, LinkedIn updates its platform frequently for more security. However, the company team did not cooperate with the updates and continued with scraping work. Thus, LinkedIn banned some accounts that were involved in the scraping work. It hurts the company's effort to get LinkedIn profile information.
Personalized Solutions AskDataEntry Offered
Providing robust solutions from our end was our aim in this process and hence followed a systematic approach. By handling the project in step-by-step order, we ensured the complete delivery of our solutions to the company. We followed these simple steps for formulating and delivering our solutions to the company.
We initiated the entire process by understanding the requirements of the project. The client conducted two meetings with us to provide us with all the information that we needed for the project. They shared all the data that we needed for the project with accurate measures. It helped us in developing the plan for the entire project with accurate measures.
After clarifying the project requirements, we made a comprehensive plan for this project. We distributed the team members as per the plan and fixed all schedules. We incorporated only skilled people to this project who have performed the work before. We allotted a total of 7 people for this project who all are experts in LinkedIn scraping.
With the best application of cutting-edge technology, we performed all our LinkedIn scraping work. Using this technology helped us get accurate information without missing any elements. The implementation of cutting-edge technology also helped validate addresses, phone numbers, educational backgrounds, and other information. Besides, it also helped in delivering accurate data to the client.
We followed the best practices of data management for this project where we stored all the information accurately in different databases. The client stored all data in one database and created a big blunder there. However, we segregated everything and maintained special categories to save all data.
We used genuine methods to extract data from LinkedIn profiles therefore our IDs did not get blocked. Besides that, we obeyed all the rules and instructions of data security to manage data properly. We are the expert in scraping LinkedIn data and thus we resolved all the complexities that the client was facing easily.
J. Bean
AskDataEntry is amazing with its data entry services and provides more value to data entry work. The company meets the exact requirements that we need for the project. We are very fortunate that AskDataEntry handled our project.
