Connect your SmartRecruiters ATS to Recruiter

You can integrate LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect and ATS-Enabled Reporting with SmartRecruiters.

Access the steps below to activate Recruiter System Connect and ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters.

Important to know

For Apply Connect jobs to be wrapped to your dashboard, you need to Set up Automated Job postings.

You can connect SmartRecruiters with LinkedIn Recruiter via the LinkedIn onboarding widget so you can access real-time candidate data without switching platforms.

You’ll need to do the following actions, in sequence, to activate RSC in SmartRecruiters. If you have more than one contract, you'll need to repeat the steps for each contract.

Step 1: Activate RSC in SmartRecruiters
Step 2: Set up RSC integrations in SmartRecruiters
Step 3: Connect individual SmartRecruiters user accounts to LinkedIn Recruiter

Before you begin

Review the following requirements so you can activate the integration in your ATS. Reach out to your internal IT team for help if needed.

Make sure you’re an admin in LinkedIn Recruiter and your ATS. You must have a Hiring Project Creator license with admin permission in Recruiter. See Available license and permission types in Recruiter for more information about permissions.
Remember your Recruiter dashboard name and contract ID. To find your dashboard name and ID, move your cursor over the profile photo on your Recruiter homepage.
Use a supported internet browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Chrome.
Use an incognito or private browser window.
Disable any settings that block third-party cookies or cross-site tracking. Reach out to your internal IT team if you need help disabling cookies/tracking.
If you have more than one contract, you'll need to repeat the following steps for each contract.

Important to know

You need to disable third-party (www.linkedin.com) cookie blocking or content blocking for any widgets to render in your browser, regardless of the browser you use.

Step 1: Activate RSC in SmartRecruiters

To activate RSC in SmartRecruiters, follow these required steps as a prerequisite for the integration:

Sign in as an Administrator.
Click the LinkedIn Recruiter System Connect tab.
Click the checkbox to acknowledge your agreement to share GDPR-compliant data across both platforms, and then proceed.
Click Add a contract.
In the pop-up, click Sign in. Enter your credentials for your LinkedIn Recruiter account to sign in and select which LinkedIn Recruiter contract you want to connect to SmartRecruiters by clicking Continue.

Step 2: Set up RSC integrations in SmartRecruiters

Once you have configured the integration using the steps outlined above, you can activate integrations in one instance, across all packages, within the LinkedIn onboarding widget.

Follow the steps below to enable RSC integrations in SmartRecruiters.

An image of the LinkedIn onboarding widget

Here's a tip

If an integration package or feature is disabled, it's likely your ATS is currently not offering it, or you don’t have permission to adjust this package. Check with your ATS to ensure all features are enabled or to request an integration.

Important to know

The default access level for the Recruiter System Connect integration is set at the contract level. The default access level for ATS-Enabled Reporting is set at the company level.

To set up RSC integrations in SmartRecruiters:

In the LinkedIn onboarding widget, click the Choose integrations button.
Click the checkbox next to Recruiter System Connect to enable Recruiter System Connect.
- Note: ATS-Enabled Reporting is automatically selected by default. You can deselect this if you want to opt out of ATS-Enabled Reporting.
Click Save changes.
- If the connection is taking too long, click Notify ATS to refresh the connection.

RSC is now activated in SmartRecruiters.

Step 3: Set up RSC integrations in SmartRecruiters

Go back into SmartRecruiters and reload the page to verify the integration status. At this point, a one-time sync of historical jobs, candidates, and applications will be initiated in the background. When you set up the integration for the first time, the one-time sync of historical data typically takes anywhere between 2 to 24 hours. Duration depends on the size of your company’s dataset.

Important to know

If you have multiple contracts, click Add a contract again and follow the same steps to enable another contract.

Connect individual SmartRecruiters user accounts to LinkedIn Recruiter. Map your Recruiter seat holders to SmartRecruiters users so that historical InMail messages and Prospect Notes are also synced over from LinkedIn Recruiter to SmartRecruiters.

Find the contract in the list and click Connect Users. SmartRecruiters will automatically pull in your LinkedIn Recruiter seat holders.
To connect a LinkedIn user account, start typing their name in the SmartRecruiters User field. Repeat for each user who should be able to use the integration. When you're finished, click Close.

To complete the setup and enable 1-Click Export and InMail stub profile, navigate to LinkedIn Recruiter.

To enable RSC features in LinkedIn Recruiter:

Move your cursor over your profile on your Recruiter homepage and select Product settings from the dropdown.
Click ATS integration on the left rail.
Next to SmartRecruiters, click Edit.
Select Activate In-ATS Indicator and In-ATS profile widget for all contracts in your company.
Select 1-Click Export and InMail stub profile.
Select Activate Reporting feature for all contracts in your company.
Click Save.

Here's a tip

Reach out to your SmartRecruiters rep to sync historical data after completing the configuration.

Access reports to better understand your sourcing and hiring activities across your entire funnel.

You’ll need to do the following actions, in sequence, to activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters.

Step 1: Connect LinkedIn Recruiter to SmartRecruiters (Note: if RSC is already enabled, continue to Step 2)
Step 2: Activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters

Before you begin

Review the following requirements so you can activate the integration in your ATS. Reach out to your internal IT team for help if needed.

Make sure you’re an admin in LinkedIn Recruiter and your ATS. You must have a Hiring Project Creator license with admin permission in Recruiter. See Available license and permission types in Recruiter for more information about permissions.
Remember your Recruiter dashboard name and contract ID. To find your dashboard name and ID, move your cursor over the profile photo on your Recruiter homepage.
Use a supported internet browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Firefox, or Chrome.
Use an incognito or private browser window.
Disable any settings that block third-party cookies or cross-site tracking. Reach out to your internal IT team if you need help disabling cookies/tracking.

Important to know

You need to disable third-party (www.linkedin.com) cookie blocking or content blocking for any widgets to render in your browser, regardless of the browser you use.

Step 1: Connect LinkedIn Recruiter to SmartRecruiters

To activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters, follow the steps above to activate RSC, a prerequisite for ATS-Enabled Reporting. If you have already enabled RSC, proceed to Step 2: Activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters.

Step 2: Activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in SmartRecruiters

Once you have configured the RSC integration using the steps outlined above, set up ATS-Enabled Reporting following the steps outlined below.

You can connect your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with the Recruiter System Connect (RSC) integration, so information from one platform is viewable in the other.

As an admin, you can activate the ATS-Enabled Reporting integration. ATS-Enabled Reporting includes two reports: ATS-Enabled Hiring Funnel report and ATS-Enabled Source report. These reports provide a unified view of cross-platform hiring activity, including insight into hiring funnel stages and industry benchmarks that are only available on LinkedIn.

You can enable the ATS-Enabled Reporting integration when you activate RSC and set up the integration with your ATS.

To activate ATS-Enabled Reporting as you set up the integration with your ATS:

Navigate to the LinkedIn onboarding widget in your ATS and click Choose integrations.
Click the checkbox next to Recruiter System Connect to enable Recruiter System Connect.
- Note: ATS-Enabled Reporting is automatically selected by default. You can deselect this if you want to opt out of ATS-Enabled Reporting.
Click Save changes.
- If the connection is taking too long, click Notify ATS to refresh the connection.

To activate ATS-Enabled Reporting in Recruiter after integrating your ATS:

Move your cursor over your profile on your Recruiter homepage and select Product settings from the dropdown.
Click ATS integration on the left rail.
Next to SmartRecruiters, click Edit.
Under the ATS-Enabled Reporting Settings section, select Activate Reporting feature for all contracts in your company.
Click Save.

ATS-Enabled Reporting is now activated in SmartRecruiters.

Here's a tip

Once you've enabled ATS-Enabled Reporting, register for the Interpret the ATS-Enabled Hiring Funnel and Source Reports course in the LinkedIn Learning Center to learn how to interpret the report.

Once you have completed the steps outlined above, the integrations should be activated in your ATS. For more support, you can contact SmartRecruiters support or email LinkedIn support at LTSATSIntegrations@linkedin.com.