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LinkedIn Recruiter features
Source, connect, and hire the right candidates faster.
SOURCE
Find qualified candidates faster on the world’s largest professional network
Use Recruiter as your sourcing tool to find the candidates you need.
- Filter by candidate requirements like job titles, skills, locations, and more using 40+ advanced filters
- Save custom filters to cut down manual work on your next search
- Integrate your ATS with Recruiter to easily identify candidates who are in your ATS and access real-time candidate data without switching platforms
- Describe your hiring needs and let Recruiter create and refine search filters for you
- Get AI‑powered candidate recommendations based on your open roles using Recommended Matches
- Explore similar profiles that mirror your ideal candidate based on job titles, skills, locations, industries, companies, and more
- Automatically pull company information and job title data from resumes for more complete LinkedIn profiles
- Identify “Open to work” talent instantly
- View likelihood‑of‑interest indicators backed by real hiring signals like “Interested in your company”, InMail acceptance rates, and more
- Increase the likelihood of an InMail response by up to 20% when reaching out to candidates found through these filters
- Narrow or expand your keyword searches to find the exact profiles you’re seeking
- Use quotes and modifiers like “and” or “not” in search strings to focus your search even more
- Get notified when search results skew by gender
- View the gender ratios of unbalanced searches
- Apply search filters that add more equal representation to your candidate pool
Pro tip: Candidates found in Recommended Matches are up to 35% more likely to accept InMails than candidates found searching in Recruiter alone.
Source candidates more efficiently with these 4 LinkedIn Recruiter search tips
CONNECT
Build meaningful candidate connections through authentic touch points and enhanced messaging
Reach out to both active and passive candidates directly in Recruiter.
Effectively engage quality candidates using InMail
- Send up to 150 InMails per Recruiter seat
- Draft highly personalized InMails with one click using AI-assisted messaging
- Save time with customizable InMail templates and bulk-messaging capabilities
- Schedule and send automated follow-ups to stay top of mind
Simplify candidate outreach
- Take the right next step with Suggested Actions that prompt you to reach out to saved candidates, respond to InMails, and more
- Sync your email and InMail in Recruiter for a centralized view of candidate conversations
- Schedule secure, virtual candidate engagements directly from Recruiter through Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google meets
- Connect your CRM to Recruiter so you can nurture candidate relationships using up-to-date LinkedIn data
Did you know? InMails get a 300% higher response rate than regular emails that feature the same content.
Find quality candidates faster with LinkedIn Recruiter.
MANAGE
Manage candidates more efficiently as a team
Keep your team aligned with shared context and insights. Use Recruiter’s management features to enhance collaboration and streamline your processes.
Boost your team’s efficiency with AI-assisted projects
- Keep candidate search results, applications, and notes in one place so your team shares the same context
- Share projects with your team to stay organized and up to date
- Track progress of your projects with top-level stats and get real-time notifications to help you take action
- Track how talent moves through the pipeline with custom pipeline stages and candidate conversion rates and performance
View your team’s entire history with candidates
- Avoid duplicate steps by browsing previous recruiter actions
- Stay aligned with shared conversation history and @mentions
Seamlessly collaborate with your teammates
- Share candidate profiles with hiring managers and stakeholders to collect feedback quickly
- Grant free collaboration licenses — even to teammates who don’t have Recruiter seats
Pro tip: Need to remember something important about your candidates? Add notes to their profiles in Recruiter, and tag teammates for visibility.
MANAGE
Manage candidates more efficiently as a team
Keep your team aligned with shared context and insights. Use Recruiter’s management features to enhance collaboration and streamline your processes.
Boost your team’s efficiency with AI-assisted projects
- Keep candidate search results, applications, and notes in one place so your team shares the same context
- Share projects with your team to stay organized and up to date
- Track progress of your projects with top-level stats and get real-time notifications to help you take action
- Track how talent moves through the pipeline with custom pipeline stages and candidate conversion rates and performance
View your team’s entire history with candidates
- Avoid duplicate steps by browsing previous recruiter actions
- Stay aligned with shared conversation history and @mentions
Seamlessly collaborate with your teammates
- Share candidate profiles with hiring managers and stakeholders to collect feedback quickly
- Grant free collaboration licenses — even to teammates who don’t have Recruiter seats
Pro tip: Need to remember something important about your candidates? Add notes to their profiles in Recruiter, and tag teammates for visibility.
PLAN
Improve your hiring strategy with trusted data
Use LinkedIn reporting and insights to guide your decision‑making.
- Gain visibility and confidence with Usage Reports across all recruiting activity on your contract
- Identify trends and opportunities in your team’s Recruiter workflows
- Save your favorite reports and automatically send them to relevant stakeholders
- Showcase the value of Recruiter and the impact of your team’s efforts through custom summary reports
- Create unique reports that reflect your company’s needs
- Segment your reports by teams, user locations, and other powerful filters to discover what’s most relevant
- Get granular data on your team’s InMail send, acceptance, decline, and response rates
- Compare template response rates to know what resonates with candidates
- Track the equitability of your hiring process using InMail response rate gender analytics
- View your candidates’ entire hiring journeys, from awareness to hire
- Compare industry benchmarks to analyze your performance across funnel stages
- Explore data from all stages of your hiring funnel by integrating your ATS with LinkedIn Recruiter via Recruiter System Connect (RSC)
Pro tip: You can create and export customized reports based on users, projects, or applicants.
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