LinkedIn Recruiter features
Explore key components of Recruiter to source, attract, and hire great candidates faster.
Source
Find qualified candidates quickly on LinkedIn’s global network of over 1B professionals.
Use Recruiter as your sourcing tool to find the candidates you need.
Narrow down results to identify top candidates.
• Filter by candidate requirements like job titles, locations, and skills, with 40+ advanced filters
• Save your 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
Automatically surface qualified and interested candidates, with AI.
• Type in your hiring needs and Recruiter, with the assistance of AI, will create the right search filters and optimize your search
• Get tailored candidate recommendations based on your open roles using Recommended Matches
• View similar profiles to your ideal candidate based on job titles, skills, locations, industries, companies and more
• Unlock company information and job titles from candidate resumes for more complete LinkedIn profiles
Prioritize candidates who are more likely to respond.
• Instantly identify candidates who want to hear from you using the “Open to work” filter
• View a candidate’s likelihood of interest, which is based on 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
Optimize searches with keywords and Boolean words.
• 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
Close gender gaps in your talent pool.
• Get notified when your search results are disproportionately male or female
• 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
• Write 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.
Learn more about recruitment management features to enhance collaboration and streamline your processes with Recruiter.
Boost your team’s efficiency with AI-assisted projects.
• Keep candidate search results, applications, and other information in one place
• 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.
• Browse previous recruiter actions to ensure your team doesn’t duplicate steps
• View shared conversation history and mentions to keep everyone aligned
Seamlessly collaborate with your teammates.
• Share candidate profiles with hiring managers or key stakeholders for feedback
• Grant free collaboration licenses — even to teammates who don’t have Recruiter seats
Plan
Improve your hiring strategy with data.
Use LinkedIn reporting and insights to guide your decision-making.
Know exactly how your team is using Recruiter.
• Leverage the Usage Report for visibility into 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
Focus on metrics that matter through custom reporting.
• 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
Discover which messaging works using InMail performance data.
• 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
Gain insight across your hiring funnel to optimize your strategy.
• 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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