How to find a recruiter’s email on LinkedIn

Applying through a job board puts your resume in a pile. An email lands in a person’s inbox, and if it’s short and relevant, most recruiters will at least open it. Here are the places to find that address, starting with the one that works most often.

1. Search LinkedIn posts, not the Jobs tab

Recruiters often announce openings in an ordinary post that ends with something like “send your CV to…”. Those posts don’t appear in LinkedIn Jobs, so most applicants never see them.

1. Type your role and the word hiring into LinkedIn’s search bar, for example frontend developer hiring.
2. Switch the results to the Posts tab.
3. Open the filters, set Date posted to Past 24 hours or Past week, and sort by Latest.
4. Scroll through and look for posts that include an email address.

Searches that tend to surface posts with an email in them:

• "send your resume to" developer
• "share your CV at" hiring
• "email your resume" marketing
• hiring data analyst pune
• QA engineer hiring remote

Add a city or “remote” to narrow things down. If a search turns up nothing, swap “resume” for “CV”. Recruiters in India and the UK use both.

2. Check the recruiter’s Contact info

On a recruiter’s profile, click Contact info under their name. Some recruiters list a work email there, especially ones who hire in volume. It’s often empty, but it takes five seconds to check.

3. Read the job description and the careers page

Smaller companies often put a careers@ or hr@ address at the bottom of the job description or on the careers page of their website. A shared inbox is less personal than a recruiter’s own address, but it’s read by someone whose job is hiring.

4. Work out the company’s email format

If you know the recruiter’s name and the company’s domain, you can often work out the address. Most companies use one of a handful of patterns:

• firstname@company.com
• firstname.lastname@company.com
• flastname@company.com

Find one real address from that company, in a press release, on its website or in a job post, and you’ll know which pattern it uses. Be careful with guesses, though. If too many of your emails bounce, Gmail starts treating your account like a spammer’s, and your real applications end up in junk folders.

5. Collect them in bulk with a browser extension

If you’re applying to more than a handful of jobs, copying emails out of posts one at a time gets old quickly. PostToHired is a Chrome extension that does it for you: open a LinkedIn search, scroll, click Scan This Page, and every email in the posts you loaded is saved along with the post it came from. Nothing runs in the background. It only reads the page when you click.

Check the address before you send

• The domain should match the company. A recruiter at Acme usually writes from @acme.com, not a free email address, unless the post says otherwise.
• Look at who posted it. A real recruiter has a work history and connections at that company.
• Never pay to apply. Genuine recruiters don’t ask for registration fees, “training deposits” or bank details. If a post does, it’s a scam.
• Don’t send ID documents, your Aadhaar or your passport number in a first email, whoever asks.

What to send once you have it

Keep it short, mention the actual role from the post, and attach your resume as a PDF. The next guide has templates you can copy.

Next: How to cold email a recruiter, with templates