Hiring Assistant in LinkedIn Recruiter can help streamline your job posting. With this feature, you can add an existing job draft or job post to create a job post more efficiently and faster. You can add an existing job that appears on the right-hand pane to replace any job details you’ve entered.
To post a job with Hiring Assistant:
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Click the Jobs tab.
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Click the Post a job button in the upper-right corner of the Jobs page.
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On the Step 1: What job do you want to post? page, enter the fields below:
- Company: Type your company name and select the appropriate option from the dropdown. You must first have a LinkedIn Page created for the company that you are posting a job for.
- Job title: Type in the job title and select the appropriate option from the list of standard title suggestions that appears.
- Workplace type: Select the type of workplace from the dropdown.
- Job location: You can add the exact street-level address for your job post, however, we’ll only display the city-level address. Jobs with a street address will show up in more searches and recommendations and will enable job seekers to view their commute time.
- Select the Employment type and Seniority level from the dropdown. The seniority level refers to the position level you expect a candidate to hold at your company.
- In the Company industry and Job function fields, select up to three options. To add an industry or function, type it in the text box and select the appropriate option from the dropdown that appears. To remove an item, move your cursor over it and click the
Remove icon. - Enter a job description. You can click the Reformat with AI button to have Hiring Assistant reformat your job description to make it easier to read.
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Under the Add skills section, you can add up to 10 skills needed for the role. Begin typing the skill and select the relevant option from the dropdown.
- As you fill and edit your job attributes, you can view the Targeting Insights module to see how changes impact your available applicant pool on LinkedIn. These real-time insights are directly powered by LinkedIn’s marketplace data.
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Under Pay, enter the base pay amount for the role and select the frequency. You can add additional compensation types that are available by clicking + Add compensation types.
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Under How would you like to receive your applicants?, select how you would like candidates to apply by clicking on one of the following options:
- Recommended: Let candidates apply with their LinkedIn profile and attach their resume – This option is recommended and prompts you to confirm the email address to which you would like the notifications sent. Choosing to have LinkedIn collect applications and notify you won’t disclose your email address to applicants.
- Direct applicants to an external site to apply – This option prompts you to provide the URL of the external site (i.e. your company’s applicant tracking system).
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Under Add to a project, choose the project you want to associate your job with. To create a new project for your job, enter the name of your project and then click Create new.
Note: Hiring Assistant is automatically added to the project but can be disabled by clicking Remove from project.
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Click Continue.
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On Step 2: Add screening questions page, select the screening questions you'd like to add to the application process. The system populates relevant screening question(s) based on the job description you’ve entered.
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Next to Qualification setting, select the checkbox to filter out and send rejections to applicants who don’t meet any must-have qualifications.
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Click Continue.
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On the Step 3: Here are 2 ways to enhance your job page, you can enhance your job post in the following ways:
- Click Show profile on the job post to add a profile to your job post if you want to make your profile visible while posting a job.
- If applicable, under Add job tracking, enter a Tracking pixel and Employer job ID.
- Under Select provided benefits, select the benefits provided by the role.
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Click Preview if you’d like to preview what your job post will look like to potential applicants.
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Click Finish to post your job.
Hiring Assistant will create a project with qualifications based on the job post and will notify you when applicants are ready for review. You can update the qualifications and hiring plan in the Hiring Assistant activity section of the project’s Overview page.
Once your job is posted, you can automatically archive and send rejection messages to out-of-country applicants applying to your job posts and to applicants who don’t meet the required screening qualifications.
Your job will remain open for 30 days, unless you renew the posting. You can post multiple jobs to the same project, but only the most recent job will be visible to job seekers. All applicants from all jobs associated with the project will still be available on the Applicants page in your project and rejected applicants will be available in the Archived candidates section of the Pipeline page.
Related tasks
- Sign in to Recruiter
- Create a project with Hiring Assistant
- Review candidates sourced by Hiring Assistant
- Message candidates with Hiring Assistant
- Prescreen candidates with Hiring Assistant
- Review applicants with Hiring Assistant
- Enable or disable Hiring Assistant in a project
- Assign a Hiring Assistant license in Recruiter