Recruiter System Connect (RSC)

Recruiter System Connect (RSC) integrates LinkedIn Recruiter with your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to simplify your hiring process. The integration helps you understand the end-to-end candidate hiring process and solves the challenge of having to toggle between different systems. It enables you to get up-to-date candidate information, boost collaboration while improving the candidate experience, and access more applicant data in Recruiter. For customers with one or more Recruiter Corporate (including SMB) or Recruiter Professional Service (RPS) seats, RSC is included as part of your Recruiter license at no additional cost. However, as some ATSs may charge a separate fee, please confirm with your ATS. RSC is not available for Recruiter Lite customers.

Who can use this feature?

RSC is available with select ATS partners.

Important to know

You must be a Recruiter admin and have admin access within your ATS to enable RSC. When you enable RSC, you are agreeing to sync historical candidates, applications, and jobs data to LinkedIn from your ATS. You control this data. LinkedIn only uses this data to improve your product experience and will never share your data with other companies or use it to create new LinkedIn profiles.

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If you would like to change your Company ID (LinkedIn will update your Company ID if you have requested changes to your account hierarchy, such as merging with or separating from another account), then LinkedIn and your ATS must disable the RSC integration first, otherwise it will break. To do this, you can submit a request to LTSATSIntegrations@linkedin.com to disable the RSC integration in LinkedIn and inform your ATS to disable the RSC in their system. When you re-enable RSC with the new Company ID, it takes up to 7 days to re-sync the data so that RSC features can begin working again.

RSC features and access levels

By default, Recruiter enables RSC features on a contract-by-contract basis for individual contracts (i.e. dashboards) that sit under your company’s account. This policy aims to ensure that the data shared within each contract is accessible only to users on that contract.

Recruiter highlights features available to that contract as they are enabled or disabled. If you want to enable RSC features for all contracts in your company, go to Product settings > Advanced > ATS and CRM Integrations and, next to the integration, click Edit, then select the “Activate In-ATS Indicator and In-ATS Profile Widget for all contracts in your company” checkbox. Admins can select or clear the “all contracts at your company” checkbox without contacting support for assistance. To disable certain contract access, please contact LinkedIn Support.

If you enable RSC for all contracts in your company, you are activating limited RSC features for all contracts/dashboards at your company. Activating RSC for all contracts at your company does not activate the InMail stub profile, InMail, or Notes history features (see table below for more details). If you wish to turn on these features for a given contract, go to Product settings for that contract or activate from the Onboarding Widget.

Default access – If you activate RSC for a given contract/dashboard, then Recruiter enables all features of RSC, including InMail and Notes visibility in the ATS only for that contract. You don’t need to enable full company access before turning on these contract-specific features.
Full company access (e.g., when you toggle “Activate In-ATS Indicator and In-ATS Profile Widget for all contracts in your company”) – Activates the In-ATS Indicator, In-ATS Profile Widget, and 1-Click Export across all contracts. Admins can choose to toggle off this access and instead enable RSC features on a contract-by-contract basis.

Important to know

Default and full company access are not mutually exclusive. When you turn on full-company access, you do not lose or change your default access on the contract you activated; you simply don’t have to visit each contract to activate RSC features included in full-company access.

Please review the chart below to learn more about which features are activated by default access and which features are activated by full company access.

Feature	Description	Full company access	Default access
In-ATS Indicator	Recruiters can see candidate profiles and application history from their ATS within LinkedIn to help quickly prioritize new leads and avoid contacting the wrong candidates or those whose application is already in the system.	Yes	Yes
In-ATS Profile Widget	An iframe within the ATS that displays a LinkedIn member profile when the ATS candidate profile matches a LinkedIn member.	Yes	Yes
1-Click Export	Recruiters can quickly export a LinkedIn member from Recruiter to a job requisition in their ATS.		Yes
InMail History API	Allows your ATS to retrieve InMail messages sent and received within Recruiter, and make them available for users to view in the ATS.		Yes
Notes History API	Allows your ATS to retrieve all profile notes created within Recruiter, and associate them to the appropriate ATS record for users to view.		Yes
InMail Stub Profile API	Allows your ATS to retrieve LinkedIn profile information, including shared contact information, when a member responds to an InMail.		Yes
Recommended Matches	Brings LinkedIn automated sourcing directly into your ATS.	Yes	Yes
Unified Search Widget	Enables RSC users to leverage the LinkedIn search experience to source candidates on LinkedIn and in their ATS.	Yes	Yes

Important to know

Some ATS partners do not support the Unified Search Widget and/or Recommended matches.

You can view tags, including a Do not contact tag where applicable, from your ATS in Recruiter. To view tags in the Talent pool or Pipeline tab of a project in Recruiter:

In the Activity row of the candidate’s profile card, move your cursor over In ATS to see tags.
Click the candidate’s profile and expand the Recruiting Tools section to see tags.

LinkedIn-powered information within the ATS

RSC Profile Widget will only be displayed in your ATS to individuals who are logged into their LinkedIn Recruiter seat license.
Recommended Matches Widget is only available to licensed seat holders. When enabled, this feature is visible to all users at your company that have a Recruiter seat.

Important to know

Some ATS partners do not support Recommended Matches. If your ATS doesn't support Recommended Matches, it will not be available.
Unified Search Widget is only available to licensed seat holders. When enabled, this feature is visible to all users at your company that have a Recruiter seat.

Important to know

Some ATS partners do not support Unified Search Widget. If your ATS doesn't support Unified Search Widget, it will not be available.

Request access to RSC

Once your ATS partner has implemented the onboarding widget in your ATS, you can enable the RSC features. See Integration features supported by an ATS for a list of ATS partners.

The following ATS partners require you to reach out to them to enable RSC features:

Avature
Bullhorn
Bullhorn Connexys
Bullhorn Jobscience
Bullhorn for Salesforce
iCIMS
Saba Lumesse

Enable RSC

ATS instructions for active partners are available in Integration features supported by an ATS. If you’re not an ATS partner, fill out and submit the LinkedIn Request Integrations form to get updates on connecting your ATS with Recruiter.

Note: Once implemented, you can’t opt out of specific features within RSC. It’s a standard integration for all customers with a minimum set of requirements. However, some data fields that are sent over via the integration are optional, such as the ATS data fields that populate in the In-ATS Indicator. Please reach out to your ATS representative if you have questions on whether certain data fields are optional for you.

Disable RSC

Once you've enabled RSC, you’re the Data Controller of your Personal Data as defined in the LinkedIn Subscription Agreement (LSA) (or your governing LSA with LinkedIn). If there is ever a time when you’d like to disable the Recruiter System Connect integration or remove this data, you can request to disable or explicitly delete your ATS data at any time by contacting ltsatsintegrations@linkedin.com.

If you are using RSC to post jobs, make sure to close the active jobs in your ATS before your request to disable RSC. After RSC is disabled, you can no longer use RSC to close your jobs. After disabling RSC, you'll need to re-post your jobs using a LinkedIn Job Posting product to reopen them. Additionally, reach out to your ATS to notify them the integration has been disabled so that they stop calling our APIs.