How To Use Mailscoop To Level Up Your Job Search

Welcome to Mailscoop, a networking tool you can use to easily find the email addresses of people you want to network with. Whether you're looking for a recruiter, a hiring manager, a CEO, or some other decision maker - Mailscoop can help you find their email address (or share its best guess!).

If you've never used an email lookup tool before, no worries! Keep scrolling to learn exactly how to use this thing, as well as more info around email finders in general so you understand how they work. Finally, we'll walk through some frequently ask questions so you can get easy answers!

Ready? Here we go:

How To Find Contact Information In 3 Simple Steps

The great part about Mailscoop (besides the fact that it's free) is that it's incredibly easy to use! All you need to get started are three pieces of information:

• Your contact's first name
• Your contact's last name
• A link to the website of the company where your contact works

Let's say we wanted to find our CEO, Austin Belcak’s, email address. We already know his full name so we just need a link to his company’s website (cultivatedculture.com).

With that in mind, our search would look like this:

How Do You Know You Have The Right Email Address?

Great question! While email lookup tools like Mailscoop are super helpful, they're still making educated guesses based on publicly available data.

When you search for an email, Mailscoop tries to find a match based on public data (for example, the email being posted on the internet somewhere). If it can’t find an email with that method, it will make an educated guess based on public information such as email taxonomies and formats.

Due to this, email lookup tools are never going to be 100% accurate 100% of the time due to a variety of factors. That’s why Mailscoop gives you a confidence score. When you run a search, you’ll get 3 different confidence levels:

• We’re pretty confident this is the right email
• We couldn't verify this email, this is our best guess
• We couldn’t find this email or ran into an error

If you get the green dot, you’re good to go! We’re super confident this is a valid email address since Mailscoop was able to verify it using public data.

If you get the yellow dot, this means that the email might be valid but it’s probably worth confirming before you send.

If you get the red dot, this means that we couldn’t find any solid information on the email or taxonomies and formats. This usually happens when there’s an issue with the domain or that the company’s taxonomies aren’t publicly available.

What To Do If You Get A Yellow Or Red Dot?

If you get a yellow or red dot, it’s worth trying to confirm the email address. One option we recommend is VerifyEmailAddress.org. Simply plug in the email address that Mailscoop gave you and it will run a search to verify the email:

What If Mailscoop Couldn’t Find The Email Address I Was Looking For?

No email lookup tool out there is going to be 100% accurate 100% of the time. All of them, including Mailscoop, are making educated guesses based on the information they have.

There are a whole bunch of reasons why Mailscoop might not return an email address.

The company's email server may not allow for verification and / or they may have systems in place to confuse verification systems.

There may be several people with the same (or similar) names and Mailscoop is having trouble differentiating.

There may be a funky email convention that the company uses for some of their employees' emails. For example, Austin’s email at Microsoft was a weird combination of his first and last name in a single word. Email finders have a hard time with those.

We'd rather tell you we can't find a match than give you one we're not 100% sure about or can’t make an educated guess on.

If Mailscoop can't find the email of the person you're looking for, you have a couple of options:

Try Different Formats With Mailtester VerifyEmailAddress.org - Since we know that VerifyEmailAddress will validate the right emails, you can try plugging in different combos to see if something fits. For example:

• [first name]@website.com
• [first name].[last name]@website.com
• [first initial][last name]@website.com
• [first name][last initial]@website.com
• [first name]_[last name]@website.com
• Etc.

Reach Out Via Another Medium - Another option is to reach out via another platform. We recommend any channel where they're professionally active. LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora, and Medium are all great examples. We don’t recommend reaching out to anyone via personal channels.

Mailscoop’s Purpose And Your Obligation To Use It With Integrity

Mailscoop was built to help job seekers respectfully build their networks to improve their outcomes. Our networking strategies focus on connecting with people in ways that are high integrity, thoughtful, and respectful. That is the only way that the information Mailscoop provides should be used.

We do not recommend or condone reaching out to people and simply asking for jobs, referrals, or the like. That approach is more likely to frustrate your contacts than it is to generate the results you’re looking for. It’s also not aligned with our philosophy of respectful outreach. Instead, we advise taking a thoughtful approach to building an authentic and genuine relationship with the person you are contacting. This article provides some context around our networking philosophies along with some examples to help illustrate this point (though respectful outreach isn’t limited to the contents of that article alone).

Important: Mailscoop was not built for commercial purposes or to be used with malicious intent. By using Mailscoop, you acknowledge and agree not to use the tool for any malicious or commercial purpose and you expressly accept any liability that comes from any use for prohibited purposes.

Using Mailscoop for any purpose other than to respectfully network is absolutely prohibited and a violation of our site’s Terms of Use. By using the tool you agree to those terms and assume all liability for the actions you take with the information Mailscoop provides.