LinkedIn, the go-to platform for professional networking, job hunting, and skill-building, introduces AI recruiting tool: Hiring Assistant. This new AI agent streamlines recruitment, handling tasks like creating job descriptions, sourcing candidates, and engaging with them. This is all aimed at simplifying the hiring process.
Currently live with select enterprise clients, including AMD, Canva, and Siemens, Hiring Assistant is expected to roll out more broadly in the coming months. LinkedIn has been an early adopter of AI behind the scenes, using it for accurate user recommendations. Now, it’s incorporating AI front-and-center, thanks to its deep collaboration with OpenAI. This powers tools like learning coaches and job-seeker assistance on the platform.
Hiring Assistant is a significant move for LinkedIn, particularly in its B2B segment, which includes the lucrative Talent Solutions suite for recruiters. With this tool, recruiters can upload or draft job descriptions, drawing from listings they admire. From there, the AI builds candidate pipelines, sorting by skills rather than factors like location or education, to provide a more inclusive search.
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The assistant also integrates seamlessly with third-party application tracking systems. It also leverages LinkedIn’s extensive data, covering 1 billion users and over 40,000 unique skills. Upcoming features include automated messaging, interview scheduling, and candidate follow-ups—tasks that take up substantial recruiter time.
LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions, which last reported revenue of $7 billion in 2023, is set to benefit from the enhanced AI integration. Whether recruiters will embrace AI tools like Hiring Assistant as an asset or view them cautiously remains to be seen. LinkedIn, however, is committed to refining the AI experience.
“We’re focused on making Hiring Assistant exceptional,” says Erran Berger, LinkedIn’s VP of Engineering, emphasizing the importance of both user experience and cutting-edge tech in this project.
