Over the past few weeks, I’ve been bombarded by AI recruitment systems that must have pulled my d...Over the past few weeks, I’ve been bombarded by AI recruitment systems that must have pulled my d...
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Mike Higgins
• Jan 4
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been bombarded by AI recruitment systems that must have pulled my details from LinkedIn. LinkedIn scraping ain't easy so I tried to work out what's going on.
The answer is Exa’s AI Powered People Search. They’ve scraped LinkedIn to create a database of around a billion profiles and released tools for it on their MCP. Setting this up was simple. I already use Exa’s MCP for my local models.
Now, I can extract full staff lists, analyse work histories, or search for people by job title and location, all through a chat interface.
Exa is taking a risk though. LinkedIn won’t be happy, and while the data is current now, maintaining a dataset this large seems like a challenge.
Still, it’s a clear example of how quickly things move with MCP. Exa releases a tool and within days, recruiters are using it.
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