LinkedIn Hiring Assistant
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is the AI agent add-on to LinkedIn Recruiter that sources, evaluates and messages candidates. Quote-based.
Quote-based pricing
Bottom line
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is an AI agent inside LinkedIn Recruiter that turns a role brief into sourced candidates, ranked applicants and drafted InMails. It is a quote-based add-on to a Recruiter or RPS+ contract, with no published price or trial. It fits corporate and staffing teams already on LinkedIn Recruiter who handle 3 or more well-defined roles.
Stands out for: It sources only from LinkedIn's 1B+ member network and uses signals other tools cannot see, such as your team's past Recruiter activity and InMail history, excluding anyone messaged in the last 3 months. RSC+ lets it evaluate applicants from your ATS alongside LinkedIn applicants, and a Microsoft Teams integration brings hiring managers into feedback. It runs in 7 languages.
Watch out for: You cannot buy it on its own: it requires a LinkedIn Recruiter or RPS+ contract, and LinkedIn Recruiter is listed separately in this directory as the parent product. Admins must assign Hiring Assistant licenses per seat, and LinkedIn says access is rolling out gradually, so some accounts may not see it yet. Sourcing is limited to LinkedIn members, and outreach runs through InMail rather than email or phone.
Overview
Hiring Assistant is LinkedIn's AI agent for recruiting, built into LinkedIn Recruiter and sold as a paid add-on. It is available to LinkedIn Recruiter and Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) customers who are assigned the Hiring Assistant permission, and it works in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
A project starts with intake. You describe the ideal candidate or attach a job description or live LinkedIn job post, and Hiring Assistant turns that into qualifications, drawing on your team's past Recruiter activity for similar roles. When a job is posted in Recruiter, the agent is added to the project by default and can be removed.
It then sources in the background, running many searches across LinkedIn's 1B+ members and posting a summary to the project's activity log, with first candidates usually within about 20 minutes. You give feedback on profiles and it adjusts. It also evaluates applicants from LinkedIn and, through Recruiter System Connect Plus, from your ATS, then drafts InMails for up to 25 candidates at a time with optional prescreening questions.
Pricing is not published. LinkedIn quotes Hiring Assistant as part of a Recruiter agreement priced on seats, hiring volume, company size, region and term length. Small businesses that hire occasionally are pointed to a separate product, LinkedIn Hiring Pro, instead.
Who it's for
Best for
- Enterprise TA teams already on LinkedIn Recruiter
- Staffing firms on RPS+ contracts
- Recruiters juggling 3 or more well-defined roles
Not ideal for
- Small businesses without a Recruiter contract
- Teams sourcing talent outside LinkedIn
- Buyers who want self-serve pricing or a trial
Key features
Conversational intake. Hiring Assistant asks questions about the role and builds qualifications from your prompt, a job description or a live LinkedIn job post, using your past Recruiter activity on similar roles.
Agentic LinkedIn sourcing. It runs dozens of searches across LinkedIn's 1B+ member network in the background, shows first candidates within about 20 minutes, and learns from your feedback on each profile.
Applicant evaluation. It ranks applicants from LinkedIn job posts and, through Recruiter System Connect Plus, from your ATS, surfacing those who meet must-have criteria.
Outreach and prescreening. It drafts personalized InMails for up to 25 candidates at once and sends customizable prescreening questions when candidates reply.
AI features
| What the AI does | Plan |
|---|---|
| Builds role qualifications from a prompt, job description or job post and learns from past Recruiter activity | LinkedIn Recruiter Add-on |
| Runs repeated LinkedIn searches in the background and refines matches from recruiter feedback | LinkedIn Recruiter Add-on |
| Evaluates applicants from LinkedIn and connected ATSs against must-have criteria | LinkedIn Recruiter Add-on |
| Drafts personalized InMails for up to 25 candidates at once and sends automated prescreening questions | LinkedIn Recruiter Add-on |
Only features named in the vendor's own documentation. Anything sold separately is marked as an add-on.
Pricing
LinkedIn does not publish a price for Hiring Assistant. It is sold as an add-on to a LinkedIn Recruiter contract, or bundled in Recruiter Professional Services Plus (RPS+) for staffing firms, through LinkedIn's sales team. LinkedIn says Recruiter pricing depends on hiring volume, number of seats, company size, region and contract terms, and is sold on one-year to multi-year agreements. There is no self-serve checkout and no published free trial. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.
Checked 28 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
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Is LinkedIn Hiring Assistant expensive?
LinkedIn Hiring Assistant does not publish a price. It is one of 11 quote-based tools among the 25 AI sourcing tools in our directory. 4 have a free tier, and those with a public price typically start around $99 a month.
- 11 quote-based
- 4 free tier
- 13 public price
Worked out automatically from every AI sourcing listing, so it updates as the directory changes.
Pros and cons
Pros
- Direct access to LinkedIn's 1B+ member data
- Evaluates ATS and LinkedIn applicants together via RSC+
- Works in 7 languages
Cons
- Requires a LinkedIn Recruiter or RPS+ contract
- No published price or trial
- Sources LinkedIn members only
Integrations
Recruiter System Connect (RSC) Recruiter System Connect Plus (RSC+) Job Wrapping Apply Connect Microsoft Teams
How LinkedIn Hiring Assistant compares
See all LinkedIn Hiring Assistant alternatives, with what each one does differently and a head to head for every pairing.
| Tool | Free tier | From | MCP | API | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LinkedIn Hiring Assistant (this tool) | – | Quote-based | – | – | |
| | ✓ | $99/mo | ✓ | – | Compare |
| | – | $149/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
| | – | $130/mo | ✓ | ✓ | Compare |
$99/mo Free tier MCP
Self-serve AI sourcing across multiple data sources with no LinkedIn Recruiter contract needed.
$149/mo MCP API
Enterprise AI talent search that pulls from sources beyond LinkedIn, such as GitHub, and is not tied to a Recruiter seat.
$130/mo MCP API
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