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If you’re active professionally, Staffer may already have a profile for you, built from public sources, before you ever sign in. The first time you sign in, you claim it: confirm it’s you, or tell Staffer it isn’t and start fresh.

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How claiming works

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Staffer checks your sign-in email first

If the email you signed in with matches a profile a company already has on file for you, you’re done. Your profile is confirmed automatically and you land on your dashboard.
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No automatic match: connect LinkedIn or search your name

You’ll see Verify with LinkedIn first. Signing in with LinkedIn confirms you control a LinkedIn account, but Staffer can’t check that it’s the same LinkedIn profile as the one you’re claiming, so this alone doesn’t fully confirm you (more on why below). Search by name and Set up manually are the other options.
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Confirm the match

When Staffer finds a possible profile, whether from your email, LinkedIn, or your name, it shows you a preview: name, title, company, and a short headline. Click Yes, this is me (or This is me if there’s more than one candidate) to claim it.If a company is already working with that profile, a name search or LinkedIn URL isn’t enough to claim it. Staffer offers to confirm it’s you by email instead (see below).

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Fully confirmed or partly confirmed

Not every match proves the same thing, and Staffer treats them differently. You’re fully confirmed if the email you signed in with matched what a company already had on file for you, you built your profile from scratch, you confirmed it through an emailed link (below), or Staffer support verified you by hand. You’re only partly confirmed if you signed in with LinkedIn and picked a matching profile, searched your name and picked a result, or reached your profile through a link a recruiter sent you. The reason: none of those last three actually prove the profile is you. Anyone can type your name into a search box or paste your LinkedIn URL. LinkedIn sign-in only proves you control some LinkedIn account, not that it’s the one behind the profile you picked.

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What stays locked until you’re fully confirmed

With a partly confirmed profile you can still edit almost everything, your headline, career summary, skills, languages, location, and preferences all save normally. Four things don’t:
  • Editing your name, email, phone, or LinkedIn URL
  • Withdrawing consent from a company
  • Removing a company’s access to your profile
  • Deleting your account
Staffer locks these because they’re the fields and actions someone could abuse if they’d only claimed your profile by guessing your name or LinkedIn URL. See Your data and privacy for what each of those actually does.

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Confirming through email

If Staffer can’t accept your claim because a company is already working with that profile, it offers to email you a one-time confirmation link. The link goes to the address the company has on file, never one you type. Open it and click Yes, this profile is mine. Your claim is then fully confirmed. The link works once and expires after 24 hours. This is only offered while you’re claiming a profile, and only if a company has an email address for you. If it isn’t offered, or nothing arrives, email support@staffer.com and Staffer will verify you by hand.

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Starting from scratch

If nothing matches, choose Set up manually. Staffer creates an empty profile under your account. Adding a LinkedIn URL is optional. If you have one, add it so Staffer can check you don’t already have a profile. This route is fully confirmed immediately, since you built it yourself. Fill in the rest from Your profile.

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If the wrong profile shows up

Email support@staffer.com either way:
  • If someone else already claimed the profile that’s actually you, mention the profile and Staffer will help sort out the dispute.
  • If you’ve already claimed a different profile and this isn’t it, the wrong one needs to be released before you can claim the right one, since you can only own one claimed profile at a time.

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Common questions

No. Signing in with LinkedIn only proves you have a LinkedIn account, not that it’s the one attached to the profile you picked. It’s recorded as a partly confirmed claim, the same as picking a result from a name search.
Email support@staffer.com. You can’t change identity fields yourself while partly confirmed. The email confirmation link is only offered while you’re first claiming a profile.
Not yourself. One account owns exactly one profile. Email support@staffer.com if you claimed the wrong one.