Tags in LinkedIn Recruiter are labels that the hiring team can apply to candidate profiles. These tags streamline the candidate sourcing process to help organize and categorize candidates.
As the Product Settings and Account Center admin, you can create up to 300 tags on your LinkedIn Recruiter contract for users to add on candidate profiles. You can add, edit, and remove tags at any time.
Tags can be created to indicate specific information such as:
- Candidate skillsets (“JavaScript” “UX Research”)
- Hiring stage (“Phone Screened”, “Panel Interviewed”)
- Recruiter notes (“Follow up next quarter”, “Referral”)
- Project or team alignment (“VCA Expertise”, “Copy Editing”)
- Event attendees (“Live Session”, “Webinar tutorial”)
- Relocation (“Open”, “San Jose”)
- Language proficiency (“Bilingual”, “Spanish”)
Important to know
If you delete a tag from your Recruiter dashboard, the tag is deleted from any profile.
If you edit a tag from your Recruiter dashboard, the name of the tag changes on any profile.
If a candidate appears in a search or is saved to a Pipeline prior to a tag being deleted, that deleted tag will still display in your search results or Pipeline. The tags will not appear in the profile slide out, since you have deleted the tags. If the candidate appears in future searches, the deleted tag will not be visible.
As an admin, to manage (add, edit, or remove) tags for users on your dashboard to use on candidate profiles:
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Move your cursor over your profile picture at the top of your Recruiter homepage and select Product settings from the dropdown.
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Under Recruiter Settings on the left pane, click Tags.
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Select an action you'd like to take on the Manage tags page:
- Add a tag: Click Add new. Next, enter the tag name(s) you'd like to create (per line) and then click Add.
- Edit a tag: Click
Edit icon next to the tag you'd like to update. Make the changes and then click checkmark to save your updates. Note: Click Cancel to go back without saving your changes. - Remove an existing tag: Click
Delete Tag icon next to the tag you'd like to delete.