Actions admins can take to manage user licenses in Recruiter

LinkedIn Recruiter user and license management admins, Product Settings and Account Center Admins, can take a variety of actions to manage user licenses, such as park a license, reassign a license, assign a license to a new user, and more.

Admins manage licenses, permissions, and roles for users based on the user's role in the sourcing and hiring process.

Who can use this feature?

Only users with Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type can manage licenses, roles, and permissions in LinkedIn Recruiter. To better secure your account, we encourage you to have a back-up admin by assigning the Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission to one or more current or new users on the dashboard. This allows an additional user to manage your contract if you depart the company or go on extended leave.

Important to know

The Product Settings and Account Center Admin permission type is automatically configured within the Recruiter Admin and Dashboard Manager Admin preset roles. However, you can also apply the permission type within a custom role. Applying this permission type to a custom role allows you to assign an admin that can perform user and license management activities, without using a paid license. To configure this custom role, select the Hiring Collaborator License and the Product Settings and Account Center Admin additional permission setting.

The number of times a license can be reassigned, assigned, and parked each month is limited. This limit varies per contract. For example, an organization with 15 seats is allowed to park 15 licenses, assign 15 licenses, and reassign 15 licenses every 30 days. License action limits (reassign, assign, park) are tracked separately from one another.

Here's a tip

An open license must be available to assign, reassign, or restore (unpark) a license to a user. An admin with billing permissions can add additional licenses to the contract through the LinkedIn Admin Center.

The table below provides details on the various actions admins can take in LinkedIn Admin Center under User and license management.

Action	Description
Assign a license to a new user	Invite new users to Recruiter.
Park a license	Temporarily deactivate a license and keep the user's work. All work can be restored to the original user or reassigned to a new user.
Deactivate (remove) a license and remove user from dashboard	Deactivate (remove) a license and delete the user from the dashboard by assigning ‘No License’ to an existing user.
Restore (unpark) a license	Reactivate a parked license and assign it back to the original user.
Reassign a license	Reassign a user's work to another user. This will deactivate the former user's license. The following information will be reassigned to the new user: pending message responses, received and archived messages, message templates, open jobs, unarchived and archived projects, saved searches, and notes.
Assign a different license type to an existing user	Grant an existing user a different license type.