Searchbase for recruiters: candidate and client sourcing from job boards and social, in one prompt

Quick answer: Recruiters run two searches all day: who is hiring right now, and who is available. Searchbase answers both from public sources and hands you a table instead of forty browser tabs. Describe your ideal customer. Searchbase finds them across Europe in one prompt, with the source on every cell. A city-and-role map of open roles costs a few hundred credits, and the Free plan renews 150 credits every month with no card.

What recruiting teams ask for

Write the brief the way you would write it for a resourcer. Name the city, the role, the seniority and the columns you want.

• "Every company in Berlin that has posted a backend engineering role in the last thirty days, with the job title, the posting date, the company website and the careers page."
• "Startups in Lisbon hiring their first sales manager, with headcount, funding stage if it is public, and the founder's LinkedIn."
• "Design studios in Copenhagen with fewer than 30 people, their website, generic email and the roles currently open."
• "Companies in Warsaw advertising remote data engineering roles in English, with the salary band if it is published."
• "Public profiles of front-end developers in Barcelona who list React and have a personal site or a public portfolio, with the portfolio URL."
• "Every medtech company in the Netherlands with an open regulatory affairs position, plus the name of the HR contact if the careers page lists one."

The first four are client-side searches, the kind that fill an agency's business development pipeline. The last two are candidate-side, and they work on what people have chosen to publish about themselves.

What comes back

A table that streams in while the agent works. For a hiring-signal map the columns are usually: company name, website, city, size band, the open role title, the posting date, the job board the posting appeared on, the careers page URL and a generic contact email.

For a candidate shortlist the shape is different: name or handle, the public profile URL, the city as stated on the profile, the skills or stack listed, a portfolio or personal site, and a public contact route where the person has published one.

Every cell has a chip linking to the exact page the value came from, a freshness badge, and the extraction method. In recruiting the freshness badge earns its place: a role posted eleven weeks ago is a different conversation from one posted on Tuesday, and the badge tells you which you are looking at before you pick up the phone. Values that cannot be verified stay n/a. A blank salary column means the salary was not published, not that the agent gave up.

Sources that matter for recruiters

Searchbase reads any public web page, nine job boards, twelve social platforms, company pages, business directories, press and three ad libraries.

The nine job boards are the centre of gravity here. They are what turns "who is hiring in Dublin" from a week of manual checking into a table, and they carry the posting date that makes the row actionable.

Company career pages matter almost as much, because plenty of European companies, especially mid-sized ones, post roles on their own site and nowhere else. Reading the page directly catches those.

Social platforms carry the candidate side. What a person publishes about their own work, a portfolio, a repository, a professional profile, a public bio, is the material a shortlist is built from. Today teams use LinkedIn Recruiter for this; Searchbase reads across the public web instead of one network, which changes what you can find rather than replacing a seat-based tool you may already have.

Directories and press fill in company context: funding, new offices, expansion, the things that tell you a company is about to hire more than one person.

The three ad libraries matter least in recruiting, though they are occasionally useful as an employer-brand signal when a company is actively running recruitment ads.

A worked example

Take the prompt: "Every company in Berlin that has posted a backend engineering role in the last thirty days, with the job title, the posting date, the company website and the careers page."

The agent plans first, and shows you the plan. It decides to sweep the job boards for the role and the city, deduplicate the companies behind the postings, then read each company page to pull the website and careers URL.

It searches, collects postings, and reads. Each page read costs about 1 credit, a social profile about 3. If you also wanted a written brief on the Berlin backend market rather than a table, a Deep Research report costs 20 to 40.

A thirty-day window on one role family in one large city usually produces a few hundred page reads, which fits inside a Starter month. Rows arrive as they are extracted, so you can watch the first twenty land, confirm the columns are what you meant, and stop or refine before spending the rest.

The output is a list of companies with a live hiring signal, dated, sourced, and ready to be worked as business development or as a market map for a candidate you are placing.

From the table to the first message

From the rows, the agent drafts outreach. It writes email and LinkedIn sequences for the contacts in the table, using the specifics of the row: the role they just posted, the date, the stack in the description.

You review everything. Searchbase drafts, it does not send. The review step is mandatory, and launching from the campaign wizard is still being switched on progressively, so the dependable workflow today is to approve the drafts and export them into the ATS or sequencer your desk already runs. Nothing goes out until a person decides it should, which in recruiting is not just a safety feature but a quality one, since the recruiter always knows something the row does not.

Pricing for a recruiting team

Free renews 150 credits a month, no card, with JSON export. Enough to map one role family in one city and see whether the columns land.

Starter, €29 a month, gives 1,000 credits and CSV export. This suits a solo recruiter or a small desk running a couple of market maps a month.

Pro, €79 a month, gives 4,000 credits, API access and rollover. This is the usual fit for an agency desk, because the API pushes rows into the ATS directly and rollover covers the uneven rhythm of recruitment, where a quiet August is followed by a heavy September.

Business, €199 a month, gives 12,000 credits and webhooks. Take it when you want standing monitors, for example new postings in your specialism across three cities arriving automatically rather than being re-run by hand.

Prices are in euros, billed annually, from a European company.

Frequently asked questions

Can Searchbase find candidates, or only companies? Both, with a difference in kind. Company-side searches work on job boards and career pages and are very complete. Candidate-side searches work on what people have published publicly about themselves, so they surface the people with a visible professional footprint.

Where does candidate data come from? Public pages: professional profiles, portfolios, personal sites, public repositories and directories. Every value links back to the page it came from, so you can see exactly what was read. Anything not publicly verifiable stays n/a.

Is this a replacement for a recruiting seat tool? Not exactly. Today teams use LinkedIn Recruiter for structured search inside one network. Searchbase reads across the wider public web, which is stronger for hiring signals and for people whose work lives on a portfolio rather than a profile.

How current are the job postings? Each row carries a freshness badge with the collection date and links to the posting itself, so you can see the posting date rather than trusting an index.

How many credits does a market map cost? About 1 credit per page read and 3 per social profile. One role family in one large city over a thirty-day window typically lands in the low hundreds of credits.

Does the agent contact candidates for me? No. It drafts the messages and you approve them. Sending from the campaign wizard is still rolling out, so today you review and export.

Prices checked on 2026-09-08 on searchbase.org.