Enable Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams - IT and Recruiter admins

Last updated: 21 hours ago

Who can use this feature?

This feature is available to select organizations with a LinkedIn Recruiter or LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) contract that includes Hiring Assistant, the language setting set to English, and a Microsoft 365 plan with Teams on a Pro, Business, or Enterprise plan. We’re gradually making this experience available, and you might not have access to it at this time. Learn more about Hiring Assistant here.

Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams helps recruiters and hiring managers collaborate more easily by bringing candidate sharing and structured feedback directly into Microsoft Teams.

Hiring Assistant connects LinkedIn Recruiter with Microsoft Teams so recruiters can share candidate profiles in chats, and hiring managers can submit feedback that syncs automatically back to Hiring Assistant. This improves alignment, expedites reviews, and helps recruiters refine sourcing.

Setup requirements

Enablement requires one action from an IT Admin and one from a Recruiter Admin. Both steps must be completed before recruiters can access the integration in Microsoft Teams and begin sharing candidates.

Important to know

Candidate profile data and hiring manager feedback are not stored in Microsoft Teams or Microsoft systems. Candidate information and feedback are rendered through a secure LinkedIn experience and stored only within LinkedIn production systems.

Prerequisites

Ensure these requirements are met before enabling Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams so IT and Recruiter admins can complete setup successfully.

IT admins

  • Permissions to set up and manage Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams
  • Exchange Online deployment (hybrid or on‑premise Exchange is not supported)
  • Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) account with access to: 
    • https://entra.microsoft.com
    • https://admin.teams.microsoft.com
  • One of the following directory roles:
    • Global Administrator
    • Privileged Role Administrator
    • Cloud Application Administrator
    • Application Administrator
    • Custom directory role with permissions to grant app access
  • Supported Microsoft Teams plan (Pro, Business, or Enterprise)

Recruiter admins

  • Recruiter or RPS+ contract with Hiring Assistant enabled
  • Recruiter language set to English

Steps to enable Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams

Step 1 — IT admin: Install the app in Microsoft Teams

As an IT admin, you need to install the Hiring Assistant app into your Microsoft Teams tenant. This step typically takes about 5-10 minutes.

To install Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams as an IT admin:

  1. Sign in to http://admin.teams.microsoft.com.

  2. Search for LinkedIn Hiring Assistant and install the app.

  3. Under Manage Apps, in the Users and Groups tab, ensure the integration is set to be available to everyone.

    • Users won’t receive a notification that this app is available. Hiring managers will only be prompted to install the app via a one-click message the first time a recruiter shares a candidate with them.

    Here's a tip

    Under Setup policies, you can install the app for all users in your organization to prevent hiring managers from having to manually install the app. From a user experience perspective, all employees will receive an immediate "Welcome" notification from the bot in Microsoft Teams. Choose this path if you want the tool pre-installed and plan to send an internal announcement to your hiring managers beforehand.

  4. Click the Admin Consent Link for the LinkedIn Hiring Assistant app and accept the permissions required.

  5. Click the Admin Consent Link for LinkedIn Recruiter and accept the permissions required.

After you install Hiring Assistant for Microsoft Teams into your tenant, a Recruiter admin can enable the integration for all users on their contract by following the steps below.

Step 2 — Recruiter admins: Enable the integration in Recruiter

As a Recruiter admin, you need to enable the Microsoft Teams integration in your contract’s Product settings. This step typically takes about 5 minutes.

To enable the Microsoft Teams integration in Recruiter as a Recruiter admin:

  1. Move your cursor over your profile picture in Recruiter and select Product settings from the dropdown.

  2. Click Partner integrations on the left pane. 

  3. On the Browse tab, locate Hiring Assistant - Microsoft Teams.

  4. Click Install and follow the instructions in the window that opens to install the integration.

  5. Click the Manage tab.

  6. Move your cursor over Microsoft Teams in the Collaboration section and click Show details.

  7. Click the Available for use in organization toggle to enable the integration.

  8. In the Enable Microsoft Teams window that appears, click Enable.

Once these actions are complete, recruiters can access the app in Microsoft Teams and begin sharing candidates.

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