A project is an organizational workspace within LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Recruiter Lite for tracking and managing candidates. You can also share projects with other recruiters or hiring managers on your dashboard. When you create a project, you can click Copy data from existing project to reuse project details.
Important to know
When creating a project, you must assign a name before you can add a description or choose if you wish to share the project with other members of your company's Recruiter contract.
To create a project from your Recruiter or Recruiter Lite homepage:
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Move your cursor over Projects at the top of the Recruiter or Recruiter Lite homepage.
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Click Create new.
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In the Project name field, enter a project name.
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Optional: In the Seniority level field, select an option from the dropdown. The seniority level refers to the position level you expect a candidate to hold at your company.
- Internship
- Entry level
- Associate
- Mid-Senior level
- Director
- Executive
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Under Project visibility, select Private or Public.
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Click the Create project button.
To create a project from the Projects page:
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Click Projects at the top of the Recruiter or Recruiter Lite homepage.
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Click
Create new in the upper right corner of the page. -
Optional: In the Seniority level field, select an option from the dropdown. The seniority level refers to the position level you expect a candidate to hold at your company.
- Internship
- Entry level
- Associate
- Mid-Senior level
- Director
- Executive
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In the Project name field, enter a project name.
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Under Project visibility, select Private or Public.
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Click the Create project button.
To create a project from a search, saved search, or your clipboard:
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Run a search.
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Click Save to project on the right of the candidate’s name.
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Click Create new project, and enter a name under Project name.
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Click Save.
After saving a profile to a project, Recruiter automatically redirects you to that project page. You can then start sourcing within the context of that project.
Here's a tip
You can set your project visibility to Public or Private in the upper right-hand corner of your project, where Public or Private appears next to a Lock icon. Click the Edit icon to modify the setting.