Candidate profiles in LinkedIn Recruiter include all candidate information in one place. Features like @mentions and shared conversation history make it easier to collaborate with colleagues and ensure you have the entire candidate story, while privacy controls ensure conversations remain protected.
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You can access a candidate’s profile card from your search results, Recommended Matches, Talent pool tab, or Pipeline tab in a project. Click the candidate’s name and their profile will slide in from the right side of the page so you don’t lose your place in your search results.
Candidate profile cards
Candidate profile cards show the following information:
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Experience – A summary of the candidate’s experience. Job titles under Experience may appear from member resumes.
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Skills match – Relevant skills from the candidate's resume that match your job post.
- Click a skill and click View profile to open the candidate’s profile.
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Interest (available in Recruiter only) – “Likelihood of interest” helps you quickly identify interested candidates by summarizing and highlighting key interest signals from job seeking, InMail activities, and company info, such as Open to work, Active talent, and Interested in your company.
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Activity – The activity on the candidate’s profile, such as the candidate’s current stage in your project or ATS, messages, notes, tags, and more.
Important to know
The Interest section on the candidate profile card, along with Open to work, Active talent, and Interested in your company, are available in Recruiter only and aren’t available in Recruiter Lite. Candidate details such as the Premium badge and number of roles held at current company may no longer appear on the candidate profile card. To view a candidate's full profile, click the candidate’s name and their profile will slide in from the right side of the page.
Candidate profiles
Candidate profiles include the following tabs:
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Profile – The candidate’s LinkedIn profile
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Projects – A list of all projects where the candidate has been added to the pipeline
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Messages – Your message history and shared conversation history with the candidate
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Feedback – Feedback left by hiring managers
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Attachments – Attachments added by you or another user on your dashboard
Important to know
Attachments sent through InMail conversations will only remain in the recruiter's inbox and will not be transferred to the attachments section on the candidate profile. To appear under the attachments section on a candidate profile, they must be included by a candidate in a job application or uploaded on the candidate profile by a user on your dashboard.
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Recruiting Activities – Access to Notes and other tools to help you and your team stay organized
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Recruiting Tools – Access notes, reminders, links, tags, custom fields, and other tools to help you and your team stay organized
Candidate insights
Candidate Insights highlight key characteristics on candidate profiles in Recruiter and Talent Hub. This helps your hiring team easily view key insights on the candidate profile card or on their profile to help evaluate candidates more efficiently and identify relevant candidates.
On the candidate's profile card, in the Experience section, you can see the candidate's years of experience and how many roles they've held at a company.
On the candidate's profile, in the Summary section, you can view the May be open to changing jobs candidate insight. This candidate insight is available in LinkedIn Recruiter and isn’t available in Recruiter Lite. It includes information based on:
- News coverage of company layoffs for the candidate’s current company.
- Spikes in departures for the candidate’s current company.
- If a candidate has been with the company longer than the median time for employees with that job title at the current company.
Important to know
The May be open to changing jobs candidate insight isn’t shown if the candidate has explicitly signaled Open to Work, and this insight isn’t shown for LinkedIn members from your company. The May be open to changing jobs insight and Open to work signal are available in Recruiter only and aren’t available in Recruiter Lite.