Use messaging tips to personalize your outreach to candidates in Recruiter

Last updated: 10 months ago

LinkedIn Recruiter shows you key candidate insights and messaging tips to help you create effective, personalized messages to candidates. These tips include information about the candidate’s current employer, the candidate’s Open to Work preferences, the candidate’s skills, and more. Messaging tips appear as you draft to a single candidate.

Important to know

LinkedIn Recruiter uses publicly available information provided by the member or information the member has chosen to make visible to recruiters only. The feature complies with GDPR standards and the data is stored in secure systems and is refreshed every 30 days.

To see messaging tips in Recruiter:

  1. Click the  Compose button associated with a candidate surfaced from search results or your pipeline.

  2. You will automatically see the messaging tips to the right of the Compose Message window.

    • As you draft your message and include details provided by the messaging tips, the checkmark next to the messaging tip turns blue.
  3. To hide the messaging tips, click the Message Insights icon or click the X in the top right corner to delete your message draft.

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