LinkedIn Recruiter user and license management admins, Product Settings and Account Center Admins, can take a variety of actions to manage user licenses, such as park a license, reassign a license, assign a license to a new user, and more.
Admins manage licenses, permissions, and roles for users based on the user's role in the sourcing and hiring process.
Important to know
The Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type is automatically configured within the Recruiter Admin and Dashboard Manager Admin preset roles. However, you can also apply the permission type within a custom role. Applying this permission type to a custom role allows you to assign an admin that can perform user and license management activities, without using a paid license. To configure this custom role, select the Hiring Collaborator License and the Product Settings and Account Center Admin additional permission setting.
The number of times a license can be reassigned, assigned, and parked each month is limited. This limit varies per contract. For example, an organization with 15 seats is allowed to park 15 licenses, assign 15 licenses, and reassign 15 licenses every 30 days. License action limits (reassign, assign, park) are tracked separately from one another.
Here's a tip
An open license must be available to assign, reassign, or restore (unpark) a license to a user. An admin with billing permissions can add additional licenses to the contract through the LinkedIn Admin Center.
The table below provides details on the various actions admins can take in LinkedIn Admin Center under User and license management.
| Action | What this does | Resource |
|---|---|---|
| Assign a license to a new user | Invite a new user to LinkedIn Recruiter and assign them a license. | Assign a license to a new user |
| Assign licenses to multiple new users in bulk | Bulk-invite multiple new users to LinkedIn Recruiter and assign them licenses. | Assign licenses and permissions to new users in bulk via CSV |
| Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user | Add Hiring Assistant when assigning a Recruiter license; access begins after the user activates their Recruiter license. | Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user |
| Assign a Hiring Assistant license to an existing user | Add Hiring Assistant access for a current Recruiter user. | Assign a Hiring Assistant license to an existing user |
| Assign a Hiring Assistant license to multiple existing users | Bulk-assign Hiring Assistant licenses to multiple existing users at once. | Assign a Hiring Assistant license to multiple existing users |
| Park a license | Temporarily deactivate a user’s license while preserving their work. You can later restore the license to the same user or reassign the work to another user. | Park a license |
| Deactivate (remove) a license and remove user from dashboard | Remove a user’s license by assigning No license, which also removes them from the Recruiter dashboard. | Remove a license |
| Restore (unpark) a license | Reactivate a parked license and assign it back to the original user. | Unpark or restore a license |
| Reassign a license | Reassign a user's work to another user. This will deactivate the former user's license. The following information will be reassigned to the new user: pending message responses, received and archived messages, message templates, open jobs, unarchived and archived projects, saved searches, and notes. | Reassign a license |
| Change a user’s license type | Assign a different license type to an existing user. | Assign a different license to an existing user |
| Change license types for multiple existing users in bulk | Bulk-edit licenses and permissions for multiple existing users at a time. | Edit licenses and permissions for existing users in bulk via CSV |