LinkedIn Tests AI-Driven Hiring Assistant, Full Launch Expected In 2025

LinkedIn has launched its latest AI tool: the Hiring Assistant. This new feature, currently in testing with select enterprise clients, promises to streamline recruitment tasks by automating the process of drafting job descriptions, sourcing candidates, and managing outreach.

This news follows last month’s criticism of LinkedIn for using user data to train its AI models without explicitly informing users beforehand.

Expected to launch widely in late 2025, the Hiring Assistant represents a major push by LinkedIn into the AI-driven recruitment space. The Hiring Assistant is designed to assist recruiters at each stage of the hiring process.

By analyzing user-generated notes and company hiring goals, the AI builds a pipeline of candidates, identifying applicants, drafting initial outreach messages, and answering basic candidate questions about the role.

The tool can operate autonomously, continuously sourcing new candidates even while recruiters conduct interviews with others.

The assistant will also integrate with third-party application tracking systems, but is primarily trained on LinkedIn’s own network data, covering 1 billion users, 68 million companies, and a database of over 41,000 skills, as reported by TechCrunch.

Currently available only in English, the Hiring Assistant is expected to support more languages as development progresses. The platform will initially deploy the assistant to large enterprises, with companies like AMD, Canva, Siemens, and Zurich Insurance among the early testers, noted TechCrunch.

In addition to handling basic recruitment tasks, LinkedIn intends to equip the Hiring Assistant with features for managing candidate interactions, from scheduling interviews to coordinating follow-ups, noted TechCrunch.

While LinkedIn has used AI in its backend for years—often in ways that anticipate user connections—this is one of its most direct applications aimed squarely at LinkedIn’s B2B recruitment clients, said TechCrunch.

As LinkedIn increasingly relies on artificial intelligence to power new functionalities, the Hiring Assistant could reshape how recruiters find and engage top talent in a competitive market.