LinkedIn unveiled a slate of new AI tools on Tuesday, including a revamp of its recruiter platform for sourcing talent. The professional networking site will gradually roll out its first features, intended to streamline and simplify how recruiters find candidates on the site, between October 2023 and April 2024, and expects to announce more rollouts again in April. 

“Recruiters have a really tough job,” says Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s vice president of product. They have to be expert talent strategists, deeply understand the talent market, and be aware of the top skills needed for every vacant role. Srinivasan and his team focused on unburdening some of that lift by simplifying the sourcing experience and improving the precision of search to help recruiters find relevant candidates.

LinkedIn already sits on a wealth of data. According to the company, over 950 million professionals are on the site. In addition to user-supplied information like work history, the company captures data for recruiters, such as the 40,000-plus skills users can select to share on their profiles. With this abundance of information, LinkedIn’s 2024 recruiter platform release will use generative AI to assist in the candidate search process.

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Instead of conducting complex Boolean searches or filling out over a dozen filter fields, recruiters can simply type their candidate criteria into a search bar using natural language. (For example, “Find me a senior growth marketing leader near our offices who has worked at high-growth companies.”) The AI tool will then create a “project,” similar to a saved search, and provide a search result of candidates based on the specifications given.

Recruiters can then refine or expand the search as they progress through the candidate search process using an AI chat bar. For example, the recruiter can type: “Only include candidates open to work,” and the AI will remove any candidates who do not have “open to work” selected on their profile. The AI tool can also send personalized nudges to the hirer to help expand their search, such as recommending the recruiter add certain skills to the search criteria or if a role should be hybrid. 

The reimagined recruiter tool should help hiring teams cut down on time spent looking for candidates, says Srinivasan, and help them find talent that would have otherwise been in their blind spots. 

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LinkedIn also revealed a new AI chatbot for its e-learning platform, LinkedIn Learning. Srinivasan thinks the tool can help employees faster upskill or reskill.

“For the CHRO, if you are able to give [employees] this tool that is personalized and gives you quick answers…I think that has the capability to lift your entire organization's skills."

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