The out-of-network search unlock feature in LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services (RPS) and Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) allows you to unlock profiles of candidates who are outside your 3rd-degree network to view their profile details and contact them with InMail.
RPS comes with an allotment of 30 monthly unlock credits per seat. RPS+ comes with an allotment of 50 monthly unlock credits per seat.)You only need to unlock an out-of-network profile once, and your account will have access to it from that point forward.
For more detail on how to use RPS+, visit our RPS+ Community page.
The following applies to unlock credits:
- The number of out-of-network profile unlock credits on your RPS and RPS+ contract will be reset to the maximum amount on the first of each month.
- Unlock credits are pooled across users.
- Unused unlock credits do not carry over to the following month.
- You can't buy more out-of-network unlock credits. To be able to access out-of-network profiles without restrictions, you can contact your LinkedIn account representative to consider upgrading your Recruiter Corporate license.
As described in Section 3.1 of our Privacy Policy, member profiles on LinkedIn.com are visible to all LinkedIn customers and members, though you are still limited to only being able to contact members who are in your network. Profile search unlocks enable you to view and contact out-of-network members in RPS and RPS+. Learn more about member profile visibility on LinkedIn.