AI-Assisted Search and Projects in LinkedIn Recruiter is a generative AI (GAI) feature that will save time by enabling you to quickly search for candidates, create projects, and get recommendations just by stating what you need in your own words into a prompt box. You’ll find this feature in your homepage, project creation, and search experience.

AI-Assisted Search

AI-Assisted Search interprets your input and builds a search using filters that reflect your intent. Whether you're looking for candidates with specific skills, similar profiles, or based on a job description, the tool helps streamline your search process.

You can enter queries like:

• “Find me Marketing Managers in Dublin with sales enablement experience”
• “Find me someone like [ideal candidate’s name]”

After your initial results, AI-Assisted Search offers suggestions to help refine or expand your search.

With AI-Assisted Search, you can:

Start a search for candidates in several ways

• Type a plain language query in the search bar. For example: “I need a software engineer in Sydney, Australia.”
• Run a Boolean or traditional keyword search in the search bar. For example: “software engineer” AND (javascript or SQL).
• Click the icon on the right side of the search bar and select from one of the prompt template options:
  • Generate or refine a boolean search: Create or improve Boolean strings with AI suggestions.
  • Ask for Al insights about your talent pool: Ask for insights about your talent pool like top skills, companies with layoffs, or common job titles.
  • Create a search from a profile: Use @ to reference a member’s profile and find similar candidates.
• Click Show filters to manually adjust filters or try different inputs.

Discover Advanced AI-Assisted Search

With Advanced AI-Assisted Search, we expand on AI-Assisted Search (standard) capabilities to go beyond simply matching on filters. Advanced AI-Assisted Search matches hard-to-define critical skills not typically listed on candidate profiles or resumes, but are often listed on job descriptions, such as “has experience solving ambiguous problems” or “can lead large, cross-functional work streams.” By better understanding a recruiter’s intent, Advanced AI-Assisted Search delivers better search results and provides more thorough qualifications and skill representation for candidates.

With Advanced AI-Assisted Search, you can start a search for candidates in even more ways: 

• Paste in intake notes from a hiring manager
• Type in your hiring goals
• Paste a job description or job link directly into the search bar to find candidates who meet the role’s requirements

Advanced AI-Assisted Search enables you to use plain text language which then gets translated via AI into required and preferred qualifications, alongside existing filters (e.g. title, industry, schools, companies, and locations) to obtain more accurate search results. After the initial search, you can easily review which qualifications were met and where gaps exist for each candidate.

With Advanced AI-Assisted Search, add, edit, or delete qualifications in the filter pane on the left, and view an AI summary on the candidate profile card detailing why they’re a good fit. Each candidate’s profile card includes a relevance label that indicates how well their qualifications match your criteria. 

• High qualification relevance indicates 70% or more qualifications matched, 
• Medium qualification relevance indicates 30% or more matched, and 
• Low qualification relevance indicates less than 30% matched.

Note: Advanced AI-Assisted Search is currently available to LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers whose language setting is English. It is not available to LinkedIn Recruiter Professional Services (RPS) customers.

Refine your search with AI

• Receive actionable insights to help you think outside the box and expand your search.
• Use AI-powered suggestions to uncover more qualified talent.

Ask questions and provide feedback

• Ask product-related questions directly in the search bar (e.g., “What are automated pipeline stages?”).
• Provide feedback using thumbs up/down icons to improve future results.
  

Track your usage

• You can view the performance of AI-Assisted Search in the Recruiter Usage report. To view the Usage report from your Recruiter homepage, move your cursor over Reports and select Usage from the dropdown.

AI-Assisted Projects

AI-Assisted Projects allows you to describe your project needs in your own words. Whether you're setting up criteria like location or job type, or asking questions about project settings, the tool responds with relevant recommendations to help you build a more effective project.

Examples of inputs:

• “Make the project remote and full-time”
• “How do I change the visibility of my project?”
  

AI-Assisted Projects uses your input to configure project settings and suggest ways to improve your search outcomes.

With AI-Assisted Projects, you can:

Create and refine your project with AI

• Use your own words to create your project. The conversational experience will set up the right criteria to match.
• Use AI-supported suggestions to refine your project and uncover even more qualified talent.
• Receive actionable insights to refine your project.
  

Ask questions and provide feedback

• Provide in-product feedback by clicking the thumbs up or thumbs down icon if the results do not meet your expectations so the product can learn from this and improve over time.
• Ask a question related to your Recruiter contract or experience. For example, you can ask “How do I change the visibility of my project?” to learn more.
  

Talent Insights in AI-Assisted Search and Projects

If you have LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Talent Insights, you can dig further into surfaced insights by clicking on the View Talent Insights button at the top right of the search within an existing project. You can also enter “Show me a report for this Talent Pool” or “Generate a report for this talent for major cities on the West Coast” into the chat box to generate a Talent Insights report.

You can ask for the following types of recommendations in AI-Assisted Search and Projects, depending on your license type.

Related tasks

• Sign in to Recruiter
• Search with AI-Assisted Search in Recruiter
• Create a project with AI-Assisted Projects in Recruiter
• Set your default search method in Recruiter
• Generate the Recruiter Usage report
• Search for prospective clients using Business Development mode in RPS+
  

Learn more

• AI-Assisted Search and Projects in Recruiter FAQ
• Learn about AI-Assisted Search and Projects
• Using AI-Assisted Search and Projects in LinkedIn Recruiter
• Recruiter Usage report terms and definitions
• Explore Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) FAQ