Anyone looking for outreach automation in DACH recruiting meets the LinkedIn tools first: Dripify, Waalaxy, LinkedHelper, Lemlist. They are mature, well documented — and they automate LinkedIn.
The problem: LinkedIn is not XING
For many DACH audiences the better-quality profiles are still on XING — and in recruiting there is also XING Talent Manager, which has no LinkedIn equivalent at all. A LinkedIn tool cannot work there, however good it is.
Effixient named this gap before we did, positioning itself explicitly as “the LinkedHelper / Dripify / Lemlist automation tool for XING”.
What to expect from a XING tool
The mechanics are familiar: contact requests, messages, follow-up sequences, stopping on a reply. The difference is the integration — if your candidate list comes out of TalentManager, the tool has to be able to fetch it from there.
What stays the same — and what should make you sceptical
XING has its own limits on contact requests and action rates, exactly as LinkedIn does. A tool working inside your own account is subject to them. Promises of “unlimited” or “safe from bans” are a warning sign in both worlds.
Using both in parallel is entirely normal, incidentally: LinkedIn for international roles, XING for the DACH market.