Hiring Assistant is an AI agent in LinkedIn Recruiter that helps teams source candidates faster, streamline outreach, and evaluate applicants more efficiently.
Achieving success with Hiring Assistant depends on both admins and recruiters understanding their roles and following best practices tailored to their responsibilities.
Admins are responsible for enabling Hiring Assistant across the organization. Admin actions, from assigning seats to configuring settings, directly impact adoption, engagement, and measurable outcomes.
These best practices will help you maximize the impact of Hiring Assistant to drive meaningful recruiting outcomes.
| Task | Best practices |
|---|---|
| Drive excitement | - Appoint a strong internal sponsor (ideally a leader). - Have the sponsor send a kickoff email that highlights the strategic importance of Hiring Assistant, key use cases, and the users’ role. |
| Set expectations | - Let users know that Hiring Assistant has a learning curve. Those who invest time see strong results. - Encourage users who aren’t engaging to release their seat for others. |
| Offer training | - Facilitate peer-to-peer learning with product champions. Emphasize that clear prompts lead to better AI outcomes and that constructive feedback improves Hiring Assistant’s performance. - Share LinkedIn Learning Center resources and encourage completion of knowledge checks. |
| Build community | - Encourage tip sharing, questions, and best practices. - Foster a collaborative environment to support continuous learning. - Encourage recruiters to explore the Hiring Assistant Hub in the LinkedIn Talent Community. |
| Assign the right users | - Use LinkedIn Admin Center to assign licenses. - Identify recruiters who actively sourcing and managing 3+ roles with clearly defined skills. - Select 1–3 early adopters to mentor peers and share best practices. - By week 3, 100% of users should have created a Hiring Assistant project and sent a minimum of two InMail messages to a Hiring Assistant-sourced candidate. Engage early with any users who haven’t met this threshold to encourage adoption and success. - Visit Optimize Hiring Assistant license assignment to learn more. |
| Evaluate success | - Measure time saved, candidate engagement, and pipeline improvements. Share success stories across the organization. - Monitor adoption milestones (e.g., project creation, InMail activity) and reassign seats if users are inactive. |
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| Task | Best practices |
|---|---|
| Enable full project access for public projects | - Set up access within your contract’s Product settings. This ensures that all users can view and access all public projects and allows Hiring Assistant to proactively surface projects it deems relevant to specific users. |
| Enable integrations | - Enable Recruiter System Connect (RSC). RSC allows you to 1-click export candidates Hiring Assistant sources into your ATS. - Enable Apply Connect. Apply Connect lets you instantly post jobs from your ATS to LinkedIn. As applicants apply, they’ll be visible in your ATS and LinkedIn, where Hiring Assistant will review the applicants and give recommendations of who is a top applicant. |
Hiring Assistant helps recruiters source great candidates, quickly identify top applicants, and efficiently message them. Recruiters play a central role in unlocking its full value by using Hiring Assistant consistently, engaging with AI-driven recommendations, and sharing feedback to improve outcomes.
These best practices are designed to help you make the most of Hiring Assistant and drive stronger, more efficient recruiting outcomes.
| Task | Best practices |
|---|---|
| Enable Hiring Assistant on a project | - Enable Hiring Assistant to receive AI-sourced candidate recommendations for your project, or enable Hiring Assistant on a job posting to have its support reviewing applicants or Apply Starters. |
| Write effective qualifications | - Use specific, role-relevant criteria to source the right talent. - Visit Qualifications Best Practices for Hiring Assistant for tips. |
| Provide feedback on candidates | - Calibrate candidate criteria upfront and share feedback post-sourcing to continuously improve Hiring Assistant’s results. |
| View candidates sourced by Hiring Assistant | - View and manage Hiring Assistant-sourced candidates directly within your project pipeline. |
| Send personalized InMails | - Use Hiring Assistant to reach out to top candidates with tailored communication. Hiring Assistant matches roles with qualified candidates and drafts outreach messages with AI, saving time and improving accuracy. |
| Update promotions settings | - For users who currently direct applicants off of LinkedIn to apply but wish to collect applicants on LinkedIn to unlock Hiring Assistant’s evaluation features, it’s important to enable Collect Applications on LinkedIn Recruiter within the Promotion settings page in Recruiter. This user-specific setting ensures that when jobs are posted to your slots, applicants are collected within LinkedIn Recruiter, enabling Hiring Assistant to evaluate them effectively. |
| Continue learning | - Attend live workshops in our LinkedIn Learning Center, explore the Hiring Assistant Hub in the LinkedIn Talent Community for ongoing support, and complete knowledge checks. |