Stale job title flagger: find former, retired and open-to-work contacts in a lead list
In short: Upload a list, pick the title column, and rows whose title says former, retired, open to work or similar are flagged with the words that triggered it. Limit: It reads only the wording of the title; it cannot know who has really left a job.
Upload a CSV or .xlsx file, or paste it with a header row, and pick the title column. Titles that say former, ex-, retired, open to work, left the company or student or intern are flagged, with the words that triggered each flag. Choose which reasons count. You can download the whole file with the flag, the rows to keep, or only the flagged rows.
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Sample result
Six example titles flag 5 rows: Former CTO at Acme, Ex-Google engineer, Open to work, Retired and Marketing Intern; VP of Sales is kept.
- Rows flagged
- 5
- Reasons ticked
- 5
- Rows checked
- 6
What this means for you
A clean title does not show which addresses exist; a check does.
- Former, ex, retired
- Open to work
- Left the company
- Words that triggered it
- Stale titles
- Lead list
- CSV
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Stale titles out? Check the addresses before you send.
- Download the rows to keep, or use the check button under the result, which carries their addresses across.
- Upload or paste it at /verify. Every address gets a live mailbox check, and the first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.
How do I flag stale job titles in a lead list?
- Upload the file as a CSV or .xlsx, or paste the cells with the header row first.
- Pick the column that holds the job title or profile headline.
- Tick the reasons that should count: former role, retired, looking for work, left the company, student or intern.
- Look at the flagged examples, then download the full file, the rows to keep, or the flagged rows.
Example
- You enter
- Six titles: VP of Sales, Former CTO at Acme, Ex-Google engineer, Open to work, Retired and Marketing Intern, with every reason ticked.
- You get
- 5 rows flagged and 1 kept: two former roles, one looking for work, one retired and one student or intern. VP of Sales is kept.
- Limits
- Runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded. It reads the wording only, so a flag is a prompt to look, not proof that someone left.
Which titles does it flag?
Five kinds of wording. Former role: former, formerly, ex or previously before a title, as in Former CTO or Ex-Google engineer. Retired. Looking for work: open to work, seeking, between jobs, in transition. Left the company: no longer at, departed, was at, or left a company in a year. And student or intern.
Each flag names the words that triggered it, so you can see at a glance whether it is a real signal.
Why does this matter before outreach?
A profile export is a snapshot, and some people change the headline the day they leave a job. Writing to a Former VP of Sales as if they still hold the role looks careless, and the address may bounce a few weeks later when the company closes the mailbox.
Flagging these rows lets you drop them, or move them to a separate list that gets a different message.
How should I use the flags?
Treat a flag as a prompt to look, not a verdict. Intern is a real, current job title, so untick student or intern if you sell to interns. A title can also say former for a side role while the main one is current.
Run the kept rows through the job title normalizer, then check the addresses at the end with the button under the result.
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- SDRs
- Remove people whose headline says open to work before a cold sequence goes out.
- Sales operations
- Move former-role contacts to a separate list instead of the main campaign.
- Recruiters
- Do the opposite: pull the open-to-work rows out of a candidate list into their own file.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- It reads only the wording of the title; it cannot know who has really left a job.
- Words in English only.
- A flag can be a false alarm, such as Ex Libris Manager or an intern you want to reach.
- Only the first sheet of a workbook is read.
Common questions
- What counts as a stale title?
- One that says former, ex-, retired, open to work, seeking, between jobs, no longer, departed, or student or intern.
- Can I turn off a reason?
- Yes. Untick any reason, for example student or intern, and those rows are no longer flagged.
- Does it check LinkedIn?
- No. It reads only the text in your file and never visits a profile.
- Why is intern flagged?
- Because many B2B lists want decision makers. Untick it if interns are your audience.
- What do the three downloads contain?
- All rows with a flag column, only the rows to keep, and only the flagged rows to check.
- Is my file uploaded?
- No. It is read in your browser and goes nowhere.
A tidy list can still be full of dead addresses.
Extracting, deduplicating and syntax checks all work on the text of an address. None of them can tell whether the mailbox exists. Only the server that hosts it can answer that, through an SMTP check, and that is what the paid product does.
- Upload the cleaned file as it is: CSVs up to 100,000 rows
- A real SMTP mailbox check on every row, with catch-all detection
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