Manage groups in LinkedIn Admin Center via CSV in Recruiter

Last updated: 3 months ago

Groups are a great way to easily organize specific set of users. Admins can quickly create groups then assign licenses and set permissions via groups. 

After groups have been created, you can easily manage, add, and remove group members. 

Important to know

If you are trying to perform bulk actions on more than 2K users, to avoid long upload times, use one of the following methods: CSV uploads or Groups (segment users into separate sections and take bulk actions on them).

To manage group users via CSV: 

  1. Sign in to Recruiter.

  2. Click your profile picture at the top of your Recruiter homepage and select Go to LinkedIn Admin Center from the dropdown. 

  3. Click Manage users via CSV.

  4. Select from the dropdown: 

    • Download all users via CSV: If you'd like to add all users to groups. 
    • Download filtered users via CSV: If you'd like to add specific users to groups. 
    • Upload CSV file 

  5. Add any User attributes, Groups, or Licenses you'd like to filter by and click Download CSV. 

  6. Open the downloaded template in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets and in a new column, add one or more of the following: 

    • groups: To set a specific list of groups you'd like that user to have. 
    • add_to_groups: To add users to new groups. 
    • remove_from_groups: To remove users from groups. 

  7. In each groups column, add the name of the group you'd like to create, add user to, or remove user from. For example, in the groups column, the following is listed: Sales, Engineering, Support

    Here's a tip

    The user will be added to each of the groups listed in the groups column and will be removed from any groups not listed in this column. 

  8. In LinkedIn Admin Center, click Add new users to the right of the page, and select Add users by CSV in the dropdown that appears. 

  9. Click Upload CSV and add the CSV file you updated with group columns. 

  10. Your CSV will upload and changes to users and groups will be automatically applied.

When adding or removing users, please keep the following in mind about the groups column header: Both the groups and add_to_groups column headers can be used to create new groups by adding a new word into the column. 

Example: If you have existing groups Sales and Engineering you can create a new group Support by adding a comma and the word into the groups column (Sales, Engineering, Support) or by adding the word into the add_to_groups column (Support). 

Whatever groups are listed in the groups column will be the full list of groups the user is part of. 

  • If you delete a group from this column, the user will be removed from the group. 
  • If you add a group to the column, the user will be added to the group. 
  • You can also add new columns add_to_groups and remove_from_groups to supplement to the groups column for group management. If you utilize this header, you override all current groups to which a user belongs and removes them from any groups that are not currently listed. 

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