When you draft a message using Hiring Assistant, you can choose to enable prescreening to gather information from interested candidates. This can help save time so you can focus on sourcing the right candidates.
You can enable prescreening for any candidates added to a Hiring Assistant-enabled project, whether added by you or Hiring Assistant. You can set up prescreening when you send your initial outreach message or from your Inbox for candidates you’ve already messaged in a Hiring Assistant project.
Hiring Assistant will provide you with a recommended introduction, list of questions, and a closing message. You can review, edit, and approve the list of questions Hiring Assistant will send to candidates. You can also test the prescreening experience before you send your message to see what it will look like to candidates.
Hiring Assistant can also answer the candidate’s questions at the end of a prescreening conversation if it’s sure of the answer. You can provide additional information for Hiring Assistant to use to answer candidate questions through the project settings.
When you message a candidate and they accept your InMail, Hiring Assistant will find an appropriate moment in the conversation to request their permission to proceed with prescreening. For instance, if the candidate shows interest, Hiring Assistant will initiate the prescreening process. If the candidate requests additional information or actions from you, Hiring Assistant will wait until the candidate is ready to start the prescreening. Additionally, you have the option to manually start the prescreening process at any point in the conversation.
Once Hiring Assistant starts the prescreening process, it’ll use the introduction message provided during setup. If the candidate agrees to proceed with prescreening, Hiring Assistant will go through the list of questions you’ve reviewed and approved during setup. The candidate can ask to be connected back to you at any time. If the candidate declines the prescreening request, Hiring Assistant will connect back to you. Hiring Assistant’s messages will appear to come from “[your name]’s Hiring Assistant” so candidates are aware that the messages are coming from Hiring Assistant.
After Hiring Assistant has gone through the list of topics, it will ask the candidate to share any questions they have about the job for you to answer. Hiring Assistant sources answers to candidate questions from several locations, such as:
When conflicting information is found across these resources, Hiring Assistant prioritizes information in the following order:
If Hiring Assistant can’t answer a question, it will connect back to you.
You can check the progress of the prescreening in your Inbox. At any point, you can take over the conversation by clicking Take over in the message thread in your Inbox.
If a candidate in the middle of prescreening stops responding, Hiring Assistant will send them a reminder after one week. After two weeks of no response, Hiring Assistant will end the prescreening conversation.
After prescreening is complete, you can view a summary of the prescreening conversation, including questions Hiring Assistant could and couldn’t answer, by navigating to the message thread in your Inbox and clicking View summary. You can also find the summary in the candidate’s profile from anywhere in the project. LinkedIn may evaluate the conversations in order to improve the product.
You can continue the conversation with the candidate(s) after Hiring Assistant completes prescreening.
To set up prescreening with Hiring Assistant during your initial message outreach:
Click the Sparkle icon in the upper-right corner of your Recruiter homepage, next to your profile picture, to open the Hiring Assistant dashboard, then click Start outreach below your project. Hiring Assistant will take you to the project’s Pipeline page.
In the Compose Message window, click a candidate’s name to review the AI-generated message draft. The message draft will be uniquely tailored to each candidate.
Optional: Add a follow-up message.
Next to Save time with prescreening, click Add to add prescreening for a single candidate or click Add for all to add prescreening when sending a bulk message. You can modify the introduction message, add or remove prescreening questions, and modify the closing message as needed.
Optional: Next to How it will respond to questions, click the
Optional: Click Test conversation to preview what candidates will see during the prescreening process.
Optional: Click Preview at the bottom of the message to preview the message the candidate(s) will receive.
Optional: Click the
Once you're satisfied with the message draft, click the Send to [name] button to send the message to one candidate at a time or click Send to All to send the message to all candidates.
Prescreening will begin once the candidate accepts the InMail and Hiring Assistant identifies an appropriate moment, such as when the candidate expresses interest or finishes asking questions, to request their permission to proceed. To initiate prescreening immediately, click Start now in the message in your Inbox.
To set up prescreening with Hiring Assistant from your Inbox:
Navigate to your your Inbox and select the candidate you would like Hiring Assistant to prescreen. The candidate may be in your Awaiting Reply folder.
At the bottom of the message, next to Save time by letting me prescreen [name] for you, click Review to add prescreening.
Optional: Next to How it will respond to questions, click the
Optional: Click Test conversation to preview what candidates will see during the prescreening process.
Once you’re satisfied with the prescreening setup, click Enable prescreening.
Prescreening will begin once the candidate accepts the InMail and Hiring Assistant identifies an appropriate moment, such as when the candidate expresses interest or finishes asking questions, to request their permission to proceed. To initiate prescreening immediately, click Start now in the message in your Inbox.
Monitor prescreening progress in your Inbox or filter by status—Not started, In progress, Completed, or Not enabled. At any time, click Take over in the message thread to take over the conversation.
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