Create a project with Hiring Assistant

Who can use this feature?

Hiring Assistant is available as an add-on for LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers. To use Hiring Assistant, you must be assigned the Hiring Assistant Permission and set your language preference to English. 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 in LinkedIn Recruiter can help you efficiently set up a project to find qualified candidates.

You can start from your dashboard or the Projects dropdown, then customize the setup with job details, candidate criteria, or job post URLs. As you share information about the role, Hiring Assistant helps refine your search parameters to improve match quality. Hiring Assistant can review your projects and save you time by pulling relevant requirements from similar projects you’ve previously created.

Start by sharing details about the role you’re hiring for, and Hiring Assistant will help you refine your hiring criteria before beginning the candidate sourcing process. During the chat, Hiring Assistant will offer actionable suggestions for you to review to enhance candidate quality and align with your hiring priorities. You can choose to accept or decline changes. To ensure alignment with your hiring strategy, Hiring Assistant will conduct a calibration by presenting you with an initial batch of profiles for review. This step allows you to confirm the sourcing direction and make any necessary adjustments.

To create a new project using Hiring Assistant:

Click the Sparkle icon in the upper-right corner of your Recruiter homepage, next to your profile picture, then click Start hiring for a new role.
- Alternatively, you can move your cursor over Projects at the top of your homepage and select Create new Project from the dropdown, or click the Add icon next to the global search bar and select New project.
In the Create new project window, in the Describe your ideal candidate textbox, describe the role you’re hiring for. You can include preferred qualifications, workplace location, a job description, an active LinkedIn job post, or any other relevant details.
- Click the Attach icon to include a document, such as a job description.
- Click the Mention icon to mention a profile, or paste the ideal candidate’s profile URL.
- Click the Job icon to add a LinkedIn job post. If you’re using a LinkedIn job URL, ensure the job is promoted to a job slot.
- Click the Microphone icon to activate voice-to-text so you can describe what you’re looking for in your own words. Note: voice-to-text is only available in Chrome or Safari browsers at this time.
By default, the Hiring Assistant will be added to this project selection is set to On. You can toggle this to Off to start the project without Hiring Assistant. Hiring Assistant can be enabled on an existing project at any time.
Click Continue. Hiring Assistant will draft role details and hiring requirements based on your input.
On the right side, review and adjust the hiring requirements for the role details, required qualifications, and nice-to-have qualifications that Hiring Assistant has drafted.
- Click the  Filter icon to define the qualification thresholds candidates must meet.
- Click a qualification to edit it.
- Click  Add new to add a qualification.
- Click the  Remove icon to delete a qualification.
- Click the Star icon to mark a nice-to-have qualification as required.
Click Apply edits to save your changes. Your hiring requirements will be updated.
In the chat, click Review candidates together to evaluate a candidate's profile. This step helps confirm that Hiring Assistant aligns with your hiring strategy.
Review the candidate and click the  Good fit or  Not a fit button.
-  Good fit adds the candidate to your pipeline.
-  Not a fit archives the candidate and asks for feedback on why the match wasn’t suitable.
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You can ask questions about the candidate such as their experience, education, location, and how they fit the role.

Optional: Click No, keep reviewing candidates together to receive additional candidate profiles for review. Repeat until you're satisfied with the setup.
Click Yes, start sourcing for me to finalize your project. Hiring Assistant will begin sourcing candidates based on the details you provided and will notify you on your Recruiter homepage when your project and candidate list are ready for review.
Optional: On the right side, click View Hiring Assistant settings to modify the number of candidates you want Hiring Assistant to source. The default is 15 shortlisted candidates. You can also adjust options for messaging and prescreening candidates.
- Click  Back to chat to return to the chat.
Click View in pipeline to go to your project.
Optional: If you didn’t add a job post during setup, you can create one by clicking Post a job on the left pane of the project.

After your project is created, Hiring Assistant keeps sourcing and shortlisting candidates until it reaches your sourcing goal. When the goal is met, Hiring Assistant pauses until you review or take action. You can manually ask Hiring Assistant to source additional candidates even if you’re already at your goal. Adjust your sourcing goal at any time by clicking Edit settings on your project Overview page.

Important to know

If you exit the project creation page without finalizing your project details, your project will still be created and will be available on the Projects page. Before Hiring Assistant can start sourcing, it will ask you to provide more project details in your project’s Activity log.