Assign a Hiring Assistant license in Recruiter

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Assign Hiring Assistant licenses to new or existing LinkedIn Recruiter users with an active Recruiter license. If multiple contracts are available, choose the relevant one from the dropdown on the left side of Admin Center.

Assign Hiring Assistant licenses

As a Product Settings and Account Center Admin in LinkedIn Recruiter, you can assign a Hiring Assistant license to users who hold an active Recruiter license in LinkedIn Admin Center.

Hiring Assistant is an add-on license for LinkedIn Recruiter. A Hiring Assistant license enables recruiters to use Hiring Assistant to create projects, source and message candidates, and manage hiring tasks more efficiently.

Who can use this feature?

Hiring Assistant is available as an add-on for LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers with their language preference set to English. Only users with the Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type can manage licenses, roles, and permissions in LinkedIn Recruiter. We’re gradually making this experience available, and you might not have access to it at this time.

License eligibility

To assign a Hiring Assistant license, users must meet the following criteria:

Hold an active Recruiter license:
- Recruiter User
- Recruiter Admin
- Custom Role with:
  - Hiring Project Creator license
  - Recruiter Searcher permission
Have their language preference set to English

Admin requirements

Only users with the Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type can manage licenses, roles, and permissions in LinkedIn Recruiter. Admins can allocate Hiring Assistant licenses to multiple contracts, but licenses are contract-specific and cannot be transferred between contracts by an admin. To request a license transfer to another contract, visit Transfer data between Recruiter dashboards.

The Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type is included in the following:

Recruiter Admin preset role
Dashboard Manager Admin preset role
Custom role when configured with Hiring Collaborator License and Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission. 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.

Here's a tip

To better secure your account, we encourage you to have a back-up admin by assigning the Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission to one or more current or new users on the dashboard. This allows an additional user to manage your contract if you depart the company or go on extended leave.

Assign a license

You can assign a Hiring Assistant license to new or existing users in Admin Center.

Here's a tip

To learn how to assign a license, watch Assign and Manage Hiring Assistant Licenses in the LinkedIn Learning Center, or select a resource from the table below.

License assignment scenario	Resource
Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user without a Recruiter license	Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user in Recruiter
Assign a Hiring Assistant license to an existing user with an active Recruiter license	Assign a Hiring Assistant license to an existing user in Recruiter
Assign a Hiring Assistant license to multiple existing users with active Recruiter licenses	Assign a Hiring Assistant license to multiple existing users in Recruiter

Hiring Assistant access

New users will receive an email to activate their Recruiter license. After the user activates their Recruiter license, they’ll receive access to Hiring Assistant.

Existing users will automatically gain access to Hiring Assistant. It may take a few minutes for the license to appear in Recruiter.