The AI-Assisted Messages feature in LinkedIn Recruiter helps you compose unique, personalized InMail messages to candidates with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The AI-Assisted Messages feature is available in Recruiter as part of the messaging workflow. It saves you time, enhances message personalization, and helps you connect with candidates more effectively. Below are answers to common questions about using AI-Assisted Messages.
The AI-Assisted Messages feature is part of the InMail message flow. You can click draft with AI directly in the body of your message, or configure settings to enable auto-drafting of AI-Assisted Messages every time you compose a message.
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You can change the message language within your message draft settings after you draft a message.
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Our research has shown that nearly 75% of hirers hope that generative AI can free up time for more strategic work and that 78% of hirers are likely to use the assistance of generative AI to help message candidates. Additionally, LinkedIn InMail data shows that personalizing messages to candidates can help increase acceptance rates by 40%.
By using the AI-Assisted Messages feature, recruiters save time, foster better candidate engagement, and dedicate more energy toward strategic hiring tasks, such as building meaningful relationships. This feature seamlessly integrates into your existing workflow, helping you connect with top talent faster and more effectively while maintaining high-quality, personalized communication.
The auto-draft setting can be configured at your account license level in Product settings, within AI preferences. The admin on your contract can also configure auto-draft settings for all users on the contract. Company settings will override account license level settings.
For admins, visit: Enable or disable auto drafting of AI-Assisted Messages in Recruiter for all users on a contract
For recruiters, visit: Enable or disable auto drafting of AI-Assisted Messages in Recruiter at the account license level
We use your job post requirements and profile data that our customers and members have chosen to share with us on our platform, and use AI to draft personalized outreach messages. The following data fields are currently used for AI generation (where available):
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Yes, after LinkedIn has generated an AI-Assisted message, you can add personalization elements and custom content to a message in the message's draft settings.
To add personalization elements:
Click
Select available fields such as Skills, Location, or Open to Work.
Click Draft again.
To add custom content:
Click
Next to Company info, click
Add the custom content and a display name.
Click Save.
Click Draft again.
Your custom content will be incorporated in the AI-Assisted message draft for your review. Any custom content you create is available to you only and isn’t visible or accessible to other recruiters on your contract.
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You can insert custom content in all AI-assisted messages on your contract, until you edit or delete it. Custom content and About Company personalization can’t be included at the same time in a message. About Company is available only to Recruiter and Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers with their language set to English.
To edit or delete custom content:
Click
Locate the custom content in the Company info section on the right and click the
No. The feature is optional. Recruiters can continue composing their own messages manually if preferred.
AI-Assisted Messages generates messages based on job post information, data from your profile, data from the message recipient profile, company information, and any custom content. We also run all AI-created content through our existing content filters. While we have taken safety precautions, this feature may produce surprises or mistakes.
If you use the AI-Assisted Messages feature on LinkedIn, you are responsible for reviewing the message draft for accuracy and making any necessary edits. You are responsible for the message content that is sent, and you may be required by applicable law to add additional information, such as a salary range, other pay or benefits information, an applicant privacy notice, or other information.
We are building signals into our products to identify and address any potentially biased content. Additionally, in our testing phase, we have optimized the AI model with direct feedback from recruiters to address any discriminatory, abusive, or biased content.
As with all our products, our teams continuously assess our systems, and if harmful biases are identified, we will work to address them.
No. Message recipients are not notified if your message was drafted using AI.
If there is no associated job post found within the project, the AI model will first check the project context (project metadata, like title, location, etc). If there is no project info found, we will infer information about the opportunity based on the candidate’s current position.
You can check the performance of AI-Assisted Messages in the Recruiter InMail report.
LinkedIn uses a mix of GPT and in-house models for AI-Assisted Messages.
Yes, you can select a message intent to tailor InMail content for specific messaging goals. Your selected message intent will apply consistently across all candidate messages during your current login session, enabling seamless navigation between messages.
When you're composing your message, click Hire for a client in the top right of the message window and select one of the following options:
Business Development is available only to Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers.
Based on your selected message intent, AI-assisted Messages will include the company you’re hiring for in the message draft. If your message intent is set to Hire for a client, your message will include a note stating you’re hiring on behalf of a client, without revealing your staffing firm's name. If your message intent is set to Hire for my company, your message will include the name of your own listed company.
If your message intent is set to Hire for a client, AI-assisted Messages frames each message from the perspective of your staffing agency. For example, it may draft a message to a candidate that says “Our client is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team.”
You can insert custom content in AI-assisted messages from your draft settings. You can reuse the custom content in messages until you edit or delete it. You can’t include custom content and the About Company personalization at the same time in a message. About Company is available only to Recruiter and Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers with their language set to English.
AI-Assisted Messages creates a subject line based on how staffing recruiters prefer to engage candidates. The subject line is clear, compelling, and tailored to the role.
The AI-assisted bulk messages feature is available to LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services (RPS), and LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers. This allows you to send bulk initial messages using AI assistance to up to 25 candidates at once. Sending bulk follow-up messages using AI assistance is only available to LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers.
The bulk message auto-draft setting can be configured at your account license level in Product settings. Select AI preferences and toggle on or off the Enable AI bulk message auto-draft setting. If this setting isn’t visible to you, it’s because the admin on your contract has disabled auto-draft settings for all users on the contract.
If the Enable AI bulk message auto-draft setting is turned on at the account license or company contract level, the message will automatically be drafted when you open the Compose Message window. If you do not have the AI bulk message auto-draft setting turned on, you can choose when to draft initial or follow-up bulk messages by selecting bulk draft with AI directly in the body of a message.
For admins: Enable or disable auto drafting of AI-Assisted Messages in Recruiter for all users on a contract
For recruiters: Enable or disable auto drafting of AI-Assisted Messages in Recruiter at the account license level
No, the AI model will draft a unique message personalized to each candidate by default. Additionally, you can further edit personalization elements to include in the message after the initial draft has been crafted and AI-Assisted Messages will include the message details relevant to those candidates. For example, if you select Open to work, AI-Assisted Messages will include relevant message details for candidates who have the Open to Work signal enabled on their profile.
Any edits you make within one draft apply only to that message, not to the others. However, if you edit the personalization elements in Draft settings and click Draft for all, your changes will apply to all messages. If you're making individual edits, be sure to review and edit each AI-generated draft separately.
When you send a message to only one candidate from a bulk list, the remaining messages will be available for you to review or send in bulk to the remaining candidates.
Once you’ve clicked into the message for a specific candidate, their name in the To field will change from blue to gray to indicate you have reviewed the draft.
You can’t save a draft of a bulk message, but you can save an InMail as a template and send it later.
You can access any bulk messages you’ve sent in the Awaiting Reply folder in your Inbox. If a candidate responds to your message, their message will appear in your Inbox.
You can’t add a candidate to a bulk message you’re currently working on.
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Yes. After drafting a message, open Draft settings and use the Message language dropdown to redraft in any supported language. In bulk messages, selecting a new language redrafts the message for all recipients at once.
When you use a template to draft a message, you can use AI to refine it using the Touch-Up with AI feature. AI-Assisted Messages will incorporate relevant candidate information into your draft to create a personalized message. After LinkedIn touches up your template using AI assistance, you can save the draft as a new template (only available for 1:1 messages).
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If you can't touch up a draft message from a template, it may be because the template is fewer than 300 characters or not in English. This feature is available when drafting initial recruiting outreach messages that use an English template with more than 300 characters. At this time, LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services customers can only touch up a template in 1:1 messages, not bulk messages.