LinkedIn contacts
Import your LinkedIn connections and find their contact details.
The people you already know are often the fastest hires. My LinkedIn Contacts turns your LinkedIn connections into a private, searchable contact list in Tahoe. You download your connections from LinkedIn, upload the file once, and then search them, add notes and resumes, and look up their emails and phone numbers.
In the side panel, choose Contacts, then My LinkedIn Contacts. Your contacts are only available inside your Tahoe account and are never posted back to LinkedIn.
Get your connections file from LinkedIn
LinkedIn lets you download a copy of your data, including a file called Connections.csv that lists your first-degree connections. Requesting it takes about two minutes.
Request your data
On LinkedIn, open Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data. Select the larger data archive and request it. In Tahoe, the import screen has a Open LinkedIn data settings button that takes you there.
Wait for LinkedIn's email
LinkedIn emails you when the archive is ready. LinkedIn says larger archives can take up to 48 hours. You can close Tahoe and come back later.
Find Connections.csv
Download the archive, unzip it and find the file named Connections.csv.
Import the file
Open the import
Click + Add Contacts (or Add my LinkedIn contacts if your list is empty). The My LinkedIn Contacts tab of Add Contacts opens.
Upload Connections.csv
Click Choose Connections.csv, or drag the file onto it. Tahoe recognizes LinkedIn’s columns and matches them for you. The whole file imports, however many connections you have.
Check and import
Look over the preview and click Import with the number of contacts, such as Import 1,284 contacts. Column matching and preview
When it finishes, Tahoe says how many connections it imported and how many contacts your network now holds. To update your list later, import a newer Connections.csv: people already in Tahoe are refreshed, not duplicated, and rows without a name are skipped.
Your contact list
Search with Search by name, company, position, email, or phone…. The list shows 25 contacts per page. Click the Name, Company, Position or Connected on heading to sort by it.
| Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Name | Photo, name and a link to the LinkedIn profile. |
| Work and personal emails, labelled Work and Personal. | |
| Phone | The phone number, if known. |
| Company | Where they work, from LinkedIn. |
| Position | Their job title, from LinkedIn. |
| How we met | Your own note, such as where you met. Click + Add how we met to write one. |
| Resume | Resume on file, or + Add resume. |
| Connected on | When you connected on LinkedIn. |
| Enrichment | Where contact lookups for this person stand (below). |
| Actions | Add info, Enrich and delete. |
Add details by hand
Click Add info (or the How we met or Resume cell) to open Add contact info. You can change the name, add a work email, personal email, phone, company and position, write how you met, add a photo and attach a resume (PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF or TXT, up to 10 MB). Click Save contact info.
Look up emails and phone numbers
Select contacts on the current page and click Enrich selected, or click Enrich on one row. The Enrich dialog opens: tick company email, personal email or phone, check the estimate and start. You pay only for the details Tahoe finds, and looking up details needs a paid plan. Enrich contact details
While a lookup runs, the cell says Finding…. When it ends, the cell shows the detail, Not found (nothing to find, not charged) or Try again (the lookup failed, not charged). Tahoe saves every email and phone it finds automatically.
| Enrichment status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Not enriched | Nobody has looked up this contact yet. |
| In progress | A lookup is running. |
| Enriched | Tahoe found what you asked for. |
| Partially enriched | Tahoe found some of what you asked for. |
| Email not found | No email was found. Not charged. |
| Phone not found | No phone was found. Not charged. |
| No data found | Nothing was found. Not charged. |
| Failed | The lookup did not finish. Not charged. Select the contact and try again. |
Delete contacts
Use the delete button on a row, or select contacts and click Delete selected. Tahoe asks you to confirm. This removes the contacts from your LinkedIn contacts list only: other recruiting lists and your outreach history are kept.
Example
Jordan Rivera at Kestrel Labs wants to know who in their network could fill an operations role in Ohio.
Jordan imports Connections.csv once, then types “operations” in the search box. Twelve contacts come up. Jordan selects the five strongest fits, clicks Enrich selected (5), ticks only Company email and starts the run. Four emails come back (4 credits) and one contact shows Email not found, at no cost.