Candidate profiles and insights in Recruiter and Recruiter Lite

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Candidate profiles in LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Lite include all candidate information in one place. Features like @mentions and shared conversation history make it easier to collaborate with colleagues and ensure you have the entire candidate story, while privacy controls ensure conversations remain protected.

You can access a candidate’s profile card from your search results, Recommended Matches, Talent pool, or Pipeline in a project. Click the candidate’s name and their profile will slide in from the right side of the page so you don’t lose your place in your search results. Candidate insights on the candidate's profile card and on the candidate's profile highlight key characteristics to help you find qualified candidates.

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Candidate profile cards

Candidate profile cards show the following information:

  • Verification badge – If a candidate has been verified, for example, having their employment at a specific company confirmed, you’ll see a verification badge next to their name.
  • Experience – This section provides a summary of the candidate’s professional experience. Job titles displayed in this section may come directly from the candidate’s LinkedIn profile or resume.
  • Education – Displays the educational institutions the candidate attended.
  • Tags – Any tags added to the candidate's profile by you or other recruiters on your Recruiter contract will appear here, helping you organize and categorize candidates.
  • Skills Match – Highlights relevant skills from the candidate’s resume that align with your job post. Click a skill to open the candidate’s full profile and review their qualifications in detail.
  • Interest (available in Recruiter only) – The "Likelihood of interest" feature allows you to quickly identify candidates who are likely to have an interest in the opportunity. It summarizes key interest signals, including:
    • Job-seeking actions (e.g., "Open to work").
    • Engagement on LinkedIn (e.g., responding to InMails).
    • Interactions with your company (e.g., following your company page).
  • Activity – Displays the candidate's activity within your workflow, including:
    • Their current stage in your project or applicant tracking system (ATS).
    • Messages exchanged.
    • Notes, tags, and other relevant actions taken on their profile.
  • Saved by – Indicates the recruiter who added the candidate to the project’s pipeline.

Important to know

The Interest section on the candidate profile card, along with Open to work, Engaged in job market, and Company follower, are available in Recruiter only and aren’t available in Recruiter Lite. Candidate details such as the Premium badge and number of roles held at current company may no longer appear on the candidate profile card. To view a candidate's full profile, click the candidate’s name and their profile will slide in from the right side of the page.

Candidate profiles

Candidate profiles include the following tabs:

  • Profile – The candidate’s LinkedIn profile.
  • Projects – A list of all projects where the candidate has been added to the pipeline.
  • Messages – Your message history and shared conversation history with the candidate.
  • Feedback – Feedback left by hiring managers.
  • Attachments – Attachments added by you or another user on your dashboard.
    • Attachments sent through InMail conversations will only remain in the your inbox and won't be transferred to the Attachments section on the candidate's profile. To appear under the Attachments section on a candidate's profile, it must be included by a candidate in a job application or uploaded on the candidate's profile by you or a user on your dashboard.
  • Recruiting activity – View any activity recruiters on your contract have taken on the candidate's profile.
  • Recruiting Tools – Access notes, reminders, links, tags, custom fields, and other tools to help you and your team stay organized.

Candidate insights

Candidate insights highlight key characteristics on candidate profiles in Recruiter. This helps your hiring team easily view key insights on the candidate's profile card or on their profile to help evaluate candidates more efficiently and identify relevant candidates.

On the candidate's profile card, in the Experience section, you can see the candidate's years of experience and how many roles they've held at a company.

On the candidate's profile, in the Summary section of the Profile tab, you can view the May be open to changing jobs candidate insight. This candidate insight is available in LinkedIn Recruiter and isn’t available in Recruiter Lite. It includes information based on:

  • News coverage of company layoffs for the candidate’s current company.
  • Spikes in departures for the candidate’s current company.
  • If a candidate has been with the company longer than the median time for employees with that job title at the current company.

Important to know

The May be open to changing jobs candidate insight isn’t shown if the candidate has explicitly signaled Open to Work, and this insight isn’t shown for LinkedIn members from your company. The May be open to changing jobs insight and Open to work signal are available in Recruiter only and aren’t available in Recruiter Lite.

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