Create Connected Projects in Recruiter

Who can use this feature?

Connected Projects and Hiring Assistant are currently available to a subset of LinkedIn Recruiter customers whose language setting is English and whose ATSs support Recruiter System Connect Plus (RSC+). We’re gradually making these features available, and you might not have access at this time. You can see if your ATS supports RSC+ here. You can learn more about Hiring Assistant here.

With Connected Projects, you can link LinkedIn Recruiter hiring projects to job requisitions synced from your ATS through RSC+. Each Connected Project creates a single source of truth for your team to manage every applicant (onsite LinkedIn Apply and offsite ATS applicants) in one place. If LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is enabled, Connected Projects provides the context Hiring Assistant needs to evaluate your ATS applicants alongside sourced candidates.

Use Connected Projects to seamlessly manage applicants from your ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter in one unified workspace.

Working in a Connected Project

Inside a Connected Project, you have a single workspace where you can:

View all your applicants in one place: Connected Projects shows applicants from both onsite (LinkedIn Apply) and offsite (ATS via RSC+) sources together, clearly labeled by application source, ATS logo, and current application stage.
Quickly focus your applicant list: Easily filter applicants by source or by their current stage in your ATS, helping you prioritize your workflow and manage applicants efficiently.
Confirm your hiring criteria (if using Hiring Assistant): If Hiring Assistant is enabled on a Connected Project that you own, you’ll be prompted as the project owner to confirm or adjust your role details and qualifications. This ensures that Hiring Assistant evaluates applicants accurately. This step is required to initiate Hiring Assistant applicant evaluation.
Get automatic evaluations and recommendations: After Hiring Assistant evaluates your applicants, you’ll see evaluations displayed on each applicant’s profile within the Applicants tab, streamlining your decision-making process. More details on applicant evaluations are available here.
View applicant evaluations in your ATS: Hiring Assistant evaluations will be visible in your ATS via the Recruiter System Connect Profile Widget.

Before you begin

There are a few requirements that need to be met to create a Connected Project:

RSC+ must be enabled. Your LinkedIn Recruiter contract must have an active integration with your ATS through RSC+, visit  the RSC+ Hub to learn more.
You need appropriate access to requisitions in your ATS. If you are not a Recruiter contract Admin, you must be listed as the job requisition’s owner or as a collaborator to create a Connected Project. If no access control exists for a given job requisition, you’ll be able to view it and connect it to a hiring project.
Hiring Assistant must be enabled. To use Hiring Assistant to evaluate applicants from your ATS, your Recruiter contract must have Hiring Assistant enabled and you must hold the Hiring Assistant permission.

Important to know

Each RSC+ job requisition can connect to only one Connected Project at a time in a single contract. To change the connection, you’ll need to archive the existing Connected Project first, then reconnect the job elsewhere.

Step 1: View the ATS job requisitions

In Recruiter, click Projects in the top navigation.
Click Connect ATS job requisitions in the top right.
On the ATS job requisitions page, click one of the two tabs to view your requisitions:
- Requisitions with matching projects (default)
- Requisitions without matching projects
Requisitions appear with the newest first, prioritized as:
- Jobs you own
- Jobs owned by others
- Unassigned jobs

Important to know

If your admin turns on the Require admins to manage requisitions without owners setting, un-owned requisitions are hidden from non-admins. In that case, only admins can link or create Connected Projects for those jobs.

Step 2: Link or create a Connected Project

If the requisition matches an existing project:

Stay on the Requisitions with matching projects tab.
Review the pre-selected project match listed under your Recruiter project.
Confirm or select another matching project.
Click Connect to project. The requisition links to the existing project, syncing applicants automatically.

If there’s no existing match:

Go to the Requisitions without matching projects tab.
Confirm or edit the assigned owner if necessary (admins only).
Click Create new project. Recruiter creates a new Connected Project using the requisition details.

Here's a tip

If automation is enabled by your admin, unmatched requisitions automatically create Connected Projects without needing manual action.

Step 3: Perform bulk actions (optional)

To perform bulk actions:

Select multiple requisitions using the checkboxes.
Review suggested actions (either linking to existing projects or creating new ones).
Confirm or adjust assigned owners as needed.
Click Connect [number] projects. All selected requisitions will be processed at once.

Step 4: Work within your Connected Project

After creating your project:

Go to Projects and open your Connected Project.
Under the Applicants tab, view all candidates labeled by source (LinkedIn or ATS) and their ATS status.
If Hiring Assistant is enabled, confirm hiring criteria when prompted. Hiring Assistant then automatically evaluates applicants and provides actionable recommendations (Advance, Review, or Archive) visible directly in the candidate profiles.

Step 5: Reconnect a requisition (if needed)

To connect a requisition to a different project or contract:

Archive or delete the existing Connected Project.
Repeat the steps above to create or link the requisition again.

This workflow helps you efficiently manage applicants from multiple sources, empowering quicker, more informed hiring decisions.