G2

Lucear S.

Senior Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Manager

Staffing and Recruiting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/10/2026

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"Apollo.io Powers High-Volume UK Recruitment with Granular Search and Smart Outreach"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Apollo.io?

I rely on Apollo.io every single day for our high-volume UK recruitment sourcing, and the feature that moves the needle most for me is its granular search filter builder paired with the Chrome extension for LinkedIn outreach. We hire heavily across tech, finance, and healthcare, and I can layer niche filters like visa sponsorship eligibility, current notice period, and recent job change activity to zero in on relevant candidates, instead of scrolling aimlessly through generic profiles.

The saved search library and sequence templates cut down my repetitive outreach work drastically. This targeted workflow saves me roughly three hours each week that I once spent manually compiling candidate lists and rewriting introductory messages for our client mandates. I build separate outreach sequences for permanent tech roles, locum healthcare placements, and contract finance talent, and I can tweak the send cadence to stay aligned with UK working-hour guidance.

An unexpected benefit is how well its engagement scoring helps me prioritise. Apollo flags candidates who open our emails or click our links, so my team can focus follow-ups on people who are actively interested rather than wasting time on cold leads. We also map candidate data back to our internal tracking sheet, and the native Zapier triggers auto-log new leads, which keeps our pipeline clean without constant manual updates. It’s made it far simpler to scale sourcing while still respecting UK recruitment marketing rules around consent and outreach timing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Apollo.io?

My biggest frustration with Apollo.io comes down to its limited native controls for UK recruitment compliance, which creates extra admin overhead for our team. We need to adhere to UK GDPR and electronic outreach rules, but Apollo does not have built-in regional consent tagging tailored for candidate outreach. When we run sourcing campaigns for healthcare or tech talent, we have to manually log opt-out preferences separately, because the platform’s global suppression list can’t distinguish between candidates who opted out from UK recruitment messages versus other marketing. This adds around two hours of manual audit checks per campaign, and there’s real risk we accidentally re-message someone who has withdrawn consent.

I also find the email deliverability reporting lacks enough breakdown for our multi-client recruitment work. We run sequences for dozens of separate client mandates, yet there is no simple way to segment bounce and open stats by individual job requisition. My recruiters struggle to spot when a sequence for a finance contract role is underperforming versus one for permanent NHS-aligned healthcare placements.

The Chrome extension also glitches occasionally on LinkedIn candidate profiles, failing to pull visa and notice-period details reliably.

I’d love to see dedicated UK recruitment compliance fields, requisition-level reporting tags, and more stable profile parsing. Those changes would remove a lot of our manual compliance work and make the platform safer for regulated candidate outreach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Apollo.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Apollo.io, our recruitment team was juggling disjointed spreadsheets and LinkedIn tabs to source talent for tech, finance and healthcare openings. We struggled to build targeted candidate lists at scale and track outreach performance consistently, which meant our recruiters spent most of their time hunting profiles instead of building meaningful conversations with candidates.

We struggled with slow, manual sourcing and fragmented outreach tracking, but now we can build highly filtered searches and run segmented email sequences, which has resulted in roughly a 35% jump in qualified candidate responses across our client mandates. I create dedicated searches for requirements like visa sponsorship availability, contract readiness and relevant sector experience, so we no longer waste time reaching out to mismatched talent.

Our team previously copied candidate details one by one into our tracker, but Apollo’s Chrome extension pulls profile data in seconds and auto-logs every send, open and reply. For a typical high-volume healthcare recruitment campaign, this cuts around 7 hours of repetitive admin work each week. We still manually validate every candidate against UK employment and immigration rules, but Apollo removes the heavy lifting of list building and sequence management. It lets us prioritise warm leads based on engagement signals, helping us hit client placement deadlines faster without stretching our small team too thin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.