In LinkedIn Recruiter, you can easily compose and send unique, personalized messages to candidates with Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistance through AI-Assisted Messages. Check out some FAQs about this feature.
This feature is part of the message compose flow. When you click the Compose icon associated with a candidate, you'll see a button that says Draft with AI in the message body.
Auto drafting of AI-Assisted Messages can be turned on or off by your admin at the contract level or for yourself at the seat level. To do this, follow the steps in Enable or disable AI-Assisted Messages auto drafts in Recruiter.
Yes, you can create and add custom content to a message from the Personalization menu. Any custom content you create is available to you only and isn’t visible or accessible to other recruiters on your contract. On the right-side of the Compose Message window, click Custom content to add additional information, such as details about your company benefits. In the Custom content field, enter up to 500 characters, add a name in the Display Name field, then click Save. Custom content will be inserted into the message draft as written. To edit the custom content, locate the custom content in the Company info section on the right, and click the Edit icon next to the display name. To delete the custom content from the Personalization section, click the Edit icon and click Delete.
Important to know
You can’t include both custom content and About Company at the same time in a message. You must click the custom content element to add it to a message draft; it won’t be automatically added to a message. About Company personalization is only available to LinkedIn Recruiter customers whose language is set to English.
Our research has shown that nearly 75% of hirers hope that generative AI can free up time for more strategic work and that 78% of hirers are likely to use the assistance of generative AI to help message candidates. Additionally, LinkedIn InMail data shows that personalizing messages to candidates can help increase acceptance rates by 40%. And that's why we're offering AI-Assisted Messages to help recruiters save time, boost candidate engagement, and free up time for the more strategic parts of your hiring process like speaking to and building relationships with candidates.
The use of this feature is optional. You are still able to compose your own message content and send it.
We leverage the data that our customers and members have chosen to share with us that is already input into our platform and then we use AI to help format and create all the elements of an outreach message. Certain fields include:
- The opportunity: job title, responsibilities, location, salary, workplace type, employment type, seniority, etc. for messages with job context
- Good fit: prioritized skills/skill match with job title, experience, past companies/roles, past interest in company, past applications, open to work, current/past schools, etc.
- Recruiter/Company/Team background: recruiter info, company info, culture, values, etc.
AI-Assisted Messages will be based on data from your profile, company information, and the job information. We also run all AI-created content through our existing content filters. While we have taken safety precautions, this feature may produce surprises or mistakes. If you use the AI-Assisted Messages feature on LinkedIn, you will still need to review the message draft for accuracy and make any necessary edits. You're still responsible for the message content that is sent, and you may be required by applicable law to add additional information, such as a salary range, other pay or benefits information, an applicant privacy notice, or other information.
We are building signals into our products to identify and address any potentially biased content. Additionally in our testing phase, we have optimized the AI model with direct feedback from real recruiters to address any discriminatory, abusive, or biased content.
As with all our products, our teams continuously assess our systems, and if harmful biases are identified, we will work to address them.
No, your message recipient will not be notified that AI assistance was used to craft the message.
If there is no associated job post found within the project, the AI model will first check the project context (project metadata, like title, location, etc). If there is no project info found, we will infer information about the opportunity based on the candidate’s current position.
You can check the performance of AI-Assisted Messages in the Recruiter InMail report. To view the InMail report from your Recruiter homepage, click Reports and select InMail from the dropdown.
For Recruiter customers whose language is set to English, AI-Assisted Messages uses a LinkedIn in-house model. For Recruiter customers whose language is not set English, AI-Assisted Messages uses a GPT model from OpenAI.