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AI in Recruiting
How Can AI Tools Assist Your Recruiting Strategy?
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way people work across a wide range of professions. Among them: hiring and recruiting. In fact, the efficiencies and capabilities offered by AI are especially useful in the fast-paced, competitive field of talent acquisition.
In this guide, you can explore some of the most valuable use cases for this rapidly evolving technology, plus discover how you can tap into innovative AI applications on LinkedIn and beyond.
74% of hiring professionals hope that integrating generative AI into the recruiting process will automate repetitive tasks and free up time to prioritize more strategic work.
“AI has the capability to make our process more objective, effective, and efficient, which can free us up as human recruiters to focus on things that matter, such as relationships and strategic decision-making,”
said Roz Francuz-Harris, Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Zillow, at a LinkedIn Talent Connect talk.
62% of recruiting pros express optimism about AI’s impact on recruiting.
Source: The Future of Recruiting 2025
Lars Schmidt
Founder & CEO at Amplify Talent
If you're a recruiter out there, the best time for you to be leveraging AI tools in recruiting was yesterday. The second best time is today."
Source: AI assisted Search and Projects
Lars Schmidt
Founder & CEO at Amplify Talent
If you're a recruiter out there, the best time for you to be leveraging AI tools in recruiting was yesterday. The second best time is today."
Source: AI assisted Search and Projects
Use cases for AI in recruiting
How does AI technology actually come into play for recruiting and hiring? These assistive features help make you more productive and impactful in your work, cutting down on time-consuming repetitive tasks so you can focus on putting your skills into action.
Search for candidates more quickly and intuitively.
Everyone who’s spent time in the recruiting field knows how challenging and time-consuming it can be to identify ideal candidates for a given position. There’s a lot of research and legwork that goes into getting it right.
AI can lend a valuable assist, helping you search for candidates more easily while still surfacing highly qualified talent pools. For example, AI-Assisted Search in LinkedIn Recruiter enables you to:
- Describe hiring needs in conversational language and get custom search filters.
- Add a job description in the search bar and find candidates that meet the role's requirements.
- Receive actionable insights to expand your search into new talent pools.
- Use AI-supported suggestions to refine your search and uncover even more qualified talent.
Automated resume screening tools and algorithmic candidate fit analysis are also among the ways AI is powering up the search process in recruiting.
Find out how to take your hiring further with Recruiter.
Write job descriptions faster without sacrificing quality.
According to LinkedIn’s The Future of Recruiting, “faster/easier to write job descriptions” is the top benefit of generative AI tools for recruiters, named by 57% of respondents. By embracing these capabilities, recruiters can create more effective, inclusive, and targeted job descriptions that attract the right candidates, while saving a lot of time.
In LinkedIn Jobs, you can use AI-assisted job descriptions to get help creating resonant job descriptions, leveraging a series of inputs such as job title, job location, company, workplace type, job type, and internal skills insights.
Top benefits of Gen AI tools for recruiters
Percentage of recruiters reporting outcomes from using Gen AI tools
Faster/easier to write job descriptions
57%
Automate tasks to spend time one more fulfilling work
45%
Remove daily mundane tasks
42%
Improve overall productivity
41%
Faster/easier to engage with candidates
35%
Draft personalized messages at scale.
Candidates want to receive tailored recruiting outreach that feels like it was genuinely written for them. LinkedIn data shows that personalized InMails see a 40% increase in accept rates. But researching each person individually and writing unique messages for each can be prohibitively demanding. This is one of the biggest ways generative AI can be a major asset.
Using tools like ChatGPT, you can input information and quickly receive a fully drafted, personalized note with details about the candidate. Edit to ensure accuracy and reflection of your personal voice, hit send, and repeat.
In LinkedIn Recruiter, you can use AI-Assisted Messages to further streamline this process, taking into account all the relevant information on a chosen candidate’s profile, your company, and your job description to build a personalized InMail to the candidate.
Learn more on the Talent Blog: 6 Best Practices for Using LinkedIn Recruiter’s AI-Assisted Messages
Automate scheduling and interview coordination.
Some AI tools specialize in handling the logistics of scheduling interviews: coordinating availability between candidates and interviewers, sending calendar invites, and managing any rescheduling that may be necessary.
Glen Cathey
Senior Vice President of Talent and Digital Strategy at Randstad
For sourcers and recruiters, you need to be aware that generative AI is capable of many of the core tasks normally performed by recruiters, such as finding, matching, and reaching out to talent; employer branding, screening applicants, providing candidates summaries for hiring managers, prepping candidates for interviews, negotiating offers, analyzing data, and more.
In light of this, you also need to be thinking about where and how you can add the most value by providing the human element of the recruiting process.”
Glen Cathey
Senior Vice President of Talent and Digital Strategy at Randstad
For sourcers and recruiters, you need to be aware that generative AI is capable of many of the core tasks normally performed by recruiters, such as finding, matching, and reaching out to talent; employer branding, screening applicants, providing candidates summaries for hiring managers, prepping candidates for interviews, negotiating offers, analyzing data, and more.
In light of this, you also need to be thinking about where and how you can add the most value by providing the human element of the recruiting process.”
Take advantage of AI features in LinkedIn Recruiter
With LinkedIn Recruiter, you can take advantage of all the LinkedIn platform has to offer for recruiting and hiring, while tapping into the capabilities of AI to elevate your efforts.
Check out our guide: Using AI-Assisted Search and Projects in LinkedIn Recruiter
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