Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user in Recruiter

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Assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new LinkedIn Recruiter user when you assign a 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 a new user in LinkedIn Admin Center.

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.

A Hiring Assistant license enables recruiters to use Hiring Assistant to create projects, source and message candidates, and manage hiring tasks more efficiently.

You can assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user when assigning them a Recruiter license. The user must activate their Recruiter license to access Hiring Assistant.

You can assign a Hiring Assistant license to users with the following roles:

Recruiter User
Recruiter Admin
Custom Role (with a Hiring Project Creator license and the Recruiter Searcher permission)

To assign a Hiring Assistant license to a new user:

Move your cursor over your profile picture at the top of your Recruiter homepage and select Manage users in Admin Center from the dropdown.
On the Users tab, click Add new users and select Add users by email from the dropdown.
Enter the user’s email address in the Add users text box and click Add.
Under Select a role, choose one of the following:
- Recruiter User
- Recruiter Admin
- Custom Role with the Hiring Project Creator license and the Recruiter Searcher permission
Select the checkbox next to Assign Hiring Assistant Tier [number].
Click Confirm.

The new user will receive an email to activate their Recruiter license. Once they activate their license, they will be able to access Hiring Assistant. It may take a few minutes for the Hiring Assistant license to appear in Recruiter.