2025 LinkedIn Hiring Release | Wave 2
What’s new in LinkedIn Recruiter, Jobs, and more.
Next-level candidate matching. Personalized outreach at scale. AI-assisted content creation. Explore the latest enhancements.
Explore product innovations designed to help you quickly find, connect, and attract top talent.
Launching now through October 2025. (Dates subject to change.)
Features launching now through June 2025
Say hello to our smartest, most advanced search yet.
We’re enhancing our AI-Assisted Search experience to deliver better search results, helping you find high quality candidates, faster.
Spend less time creating queries.
Simply drop in an existing job description or your intake notes to start your search — skip the extra step of perfecting your prompts or filters.
Uncover highly qualified candidates.
Go beyond standard filters or keywords on profiles. AI-Assisted Search matches based on the specific qualifications you’re looking for, even those critical, harder-to-define skills not explicitly listed on resumes.
Instantly identify top talent.
Quickly scan to see which qualifications were met, review their relevant skills and experience, and identify what gaps may exist.
Don’t miss out on metrics.
Gain deeper insights into AI-Assisted Search usage with in-product reporting. You’ll be able to access account-level metrics, user-level tracking, and tools to drive adoption.
*Rolling out in English first.
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Reach candidates who better match your needs with an enhanced job seeker experience.
We’re enhancing the job seeker experience to help increase the discoverability of your roles and the quality of applicants.
With AI-powered job search, job seekers can find more relevant roles based on the details that matter to them — increasing visibility of your jobs to the right candidates.
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With job match insights, we’ll help nudge qualified candidates to apply to your role and encourage those who aren’t to explore more relevant opportunities.
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Features coming soon: July through October 2025
Unify your hiring workflow by connecting LinkedIn projects to open roles in your ATS.
By connecting LinkedIn projects to your ATS requisitions, you can see sourced candidates and applicants all in one place — whether they’ve applied on LinkedIn or through other channels. With a unified view, you can reduce duplicate work, refine your searches based on real-time insights, and identify top talent faster.
Note: These features may require Job Wrapping and/or Recruiter System Connect.
Find candidates based on deeper insights
Features launching now through June 2025
Touch up your message templates with the help of AI.
With AI-Assisted Touch-Ups, you can easily elevate your scaled outreach. Receive tailored enhancements on your existing templates and leverage AI to further personalize every message — saving you time and allowing you to focus on what matters most.
*Rolling out in English first.
Attract 3x more qualified applicants with Apply Connect, available for new ATS partners.
Apply Connect will support 23 ATS partners, including new additions like Bullhorn, iCIMs, JazzHR, Jobvite, and SmartRecruiters. Integrate your ATS with LinkedIn to streamline the application process, gain real-time applicant insights within your ATS, and enhance the candidate experience.
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Simplify your workflow with new CRM Connect partners.
CRM Connect syncs data between your CRM and LinkedIn Recruiter, helping you save time building talent pipelines and strengthening candidate relationships. And now it will support four new CRM partners — Beamery, Paradox, Phenom, and Radancy.
Features coming soon: July through October 2025
AI-Assisted Messages is expanding to more languages.
Members with German, Dutch, Polish, Simplified Chinese, or Turkish as their preferred languages will soon be able to automatically draft highly personalized 1:1 messages to candidates with the help of AI.
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Get to the interview stage faster by meeting hiring managers where they’re at.
With Hiring Manager Collaboration, you can quickly share candidate profiles with hiring managers directly on Microsoft Teams, allowing you to easily obtain feedback on candidates and reduce time to hire.
Connect with top candidates faster
Features launching now through June 2025
Save time by automatically drafting Life Tab content with the help of AI.
Members who engage with your Life Tab are 3.4x more likely to become a hire compared to those who don’t. Now with AI-Assisted Content Creation, you can quickly draft compelling Life Tab content using your approved website and employer brand content — then refine your message based on audience insights.
*Rolling out in English first.
Get in front of active job seekers with new media placements — now in the EU.
Now available in the EU, Company Discovery Ads will help you drive awareness of your organization with a new media placement on the Jobs Home tab that highlights your Career Page content to showcase your culture. Delivering the right message in the right place matters – members who engage with Company Discovery Ads are 3x more likely to accept an InMail.
Effortlessly attract in-demand talent
Don’t miss out on these previously-released features.
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Send highly personalized messages at scale.
With AI-Assisted Bulk Messages, you can boost candidate engagement by sending personalized messages to up to 25 candidates at once, tailored to their profiles and relevant job posts.*
*Rolling out in English first.
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Get a headstart by rediscovering past candidates.
When you post a job, we'll connect your hiring data and instantly surface relevant past matches, such as prior sourced candidates and top applicants.
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Stay top of mind with talent.
With Interested Candidate Alerts, members who express interest in your company will automatically receive an in-feed notification with your latest jobs and posts – helping you keep a warm talent pipeline.
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Spend less time switching tools and more time connecting.
Save time by managing InMails and emails in one place. With Email Connect, you can integrate your email with Recruiter, allowing you to send messages from either platform, keep track of candidate communication, and ensure a more seamless candidate experience.
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Search on your own terms.
Describe who you’re looking for or ask Recruiter to build a Boolean string. Recruiter will quickly surface top candidates and give suggestions to improve results along the way.
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Get to a shortlist of top applicants, fast.
Type in what you’re looking for, in your own words, and AI-Assisted Applicant Management will automatically surface the most relevant job applicants for your role.
*Rolling out in English first.
Make the most out of our latest innovations.
Unlock a step-by-step guide on using AI-Assisted Search.
Explore how you can leverage AI-Assisted Search to maximize your efficiency while freeing up your time to prioritize more strategic work.
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