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LinkedIn Recruiter is a recruiting solution that enables businesses to source, hire and engage with candidates using keywords, search filters, customizable templates and more. It lets managers gain insights into the hiring funnel...

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Functionality
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Ease of Use
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Customer Support
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panashe
panashe
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 30/10/2023

#1 Recruiter

Pros

LinkedIn Recruiter empowers me with vast candidate access and robust search tools, simplifying my recruitment efforts and enhancing talent acquisition.

Cons

LinkedIn Recruiter can be costly for small businesses, and customer support may occasionally lag in response time, warranting budget considerations and patience.

Courtney
  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 13/11/2024

Easy to Use, Professional

My experience has been good with LinkedIn Recruiter. It is nice that unprofessional and unqualified candidates are weeded out.

Pros

I liked that LinkedIn Recruiter gave me professional candidates.

Cons

LinkedIn Recruiter is more pricey than competitors.

Mitch
  • Industry: Banking
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Functionality
1
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
1

1
Reviewed on 26/10/2024

Save tour money pointless tool

Six months of time and budget completely wasted, with zero results to show for it. I’ll never purchase anything from or trust LinkedIn’s sales team again.

Pros

Honestly, there's not much to like. While it offers more search features than a standard search, you can achieve the same results using a Boolean search on Google for free.

Cons

The cost is outrageous. They provide a search base that's only slightly different from the standard, yet their fees are exorbitant. Pricing and deals vary for each customer, entirely at their discretion. They were dishonest to secure the sale—don’t trust the benefits they promote, as they're often misleading at best. Moreover, over 70% of those marked as "open to work" were unaware that this status was even active on their profiles.

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Rod
  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 16/10/2024

Very good software for recruiters

Very good but a little expensive for small companies

Pros

Integrated with large amounts of data access

Cons

Restricted use for those who do not want to reveal emails.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 23/12/2024

Best partner in Recruitment

It has been the most useful tool I used in my whole recruitment career and most of my success came from Linkedin. I am very grateful for this platform for it has made all my connections possible to different profession and industry.

Pros

As a recruiter, it is very effective in finding the best candidate for the roles I am working on and very easy to use. 99% of the candidates respond back swiftly!

Cons

nothing much, it is quite straight forward so all the things you can see is pretty much it.

Jason
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 02/12/2024

A recruiter review of LinkedIn Recruiter

I have had a very positive experience, it's easy to find and message easily daily and the option to post job ads makes it the most important tool for recruitment.

Pros

I appreciate the customizable search options for finding candidates, and it's very convenient to see who is already in your ATS system.

Cons

The AI option is interesting however it feels that it slows it down currently, I do see this getting quicker in the coming months

Lila
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 11/12/2024

Essential for recruiters

I used LinkedIn Recruiter for my company when I was a recruiter. It’s the best tool out there to find majority of candidates and keep pipelines organized.

Pros

Easy to manage pipelines and categorize candidates. A nice variety of search features and filter options.

Cons

InMail limits and connection request limits

Peter
Peter
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 30/06/2024

Monopoly position.

Pros

Advanced Search Filters: The ability to refine searches using various criteria such as location, industry, experience level, and skills helps find the most suitable candidates quickly.
Large Talent Pool: Access to LinkedIn's extensive database of professionals worldwide makes it easier to find potential candidates.

Cons

High Cost: LinkedIn Recruiter is relatively expensive, particularly for small businesses or startups with limited budgets. The pricing can be a significant barrier to entry for some organizations.
Cost/Quality: unbalanced.

Kim
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 27/11/2024

Top of the line recruiting tool

I use this when trying to fill positions. It has a large audience that I can filter through many candidates to find the right match with ease.

Pros

It has a large audience that is easy to search and find top talent.

Cons

I have no cons about LinkedIn Recruiter this at this time.

Nathaniel
  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 22/11/2024

Hiring made simple!

Pros

Its easy to find candidates and schedule interveiws. Really it just simplifies the whole process.

Cons

Everything worked well in my opinion. No complaints

Maya
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 03/04/2023

Utilizing Connections

Overall LinkedIn Recruiter has been a vital part of my recruitment and account executive career. It's an easy way to find and connect with talent and prospects in North America and abroad. As much as the loading annoys me I wouldn't be able to do my job without it.

Pros

I like LinkedIn Recruiter because it utilizes a social business platform with a world of connections and allows more insight and ways to search. My favourite features are saving candidates to different projects, having templates for reaching out messages that you can tailor as you go, filtering for searches, and the ability to keep track of any overlap with colleagues reaching out.

Cons

LinkedIn Recruiter can be slow to update with messages and often the system is down. At least once a week LinkedIn Recruiter will stop loading and say there is some sort of error, and to try again later. This wouldn't bother me if it didn't happen so often, and sometimes I really need to see what my candidate sent me in a timely manner, but I can't if I have to wait out a system update on LinkedIn's side.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 18/04/2023

Helpful tool for Recruiters

Excellent

Pros

A very easy tool to use. You can search potential candidates using boolean search and using filtering options. You get the most accurate results for your search and it also has an option that shows that you have already viewed the candidate

Cons

Sometimes you find very old profiles that are updated for a long time and also the candidate information is not correct

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 27/03/2023

LinkedIn Recruiter

Overall LinkedIn Recruiter is good but I don't know if it's worth the full price.

Pros

Obviously, LinkedIn is the go-to site for finding talent and all the additional filters are awesome.

Cons

For the cost, I would really like to see more options. For example, you have to pay extra for job posts and additional InMail credits.Also, when searching for candidates, you have to manually exclude all of your current clients every time. There isn't an easy way to add current clients and filter them out for the entire team.

Hilary
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 25/03/2023

LinkedIn Recruiter

LinkedIn helps to find well qualified candidates all over the world

Pros

Easy to integratePrecise selection of the needed candidateAbility to reach a wild audience in one job advert - global reach

Cons

LinkedIn comes with a price and it is not cheap.

Samantha
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 14/02/2023

Definitely a must for HR and BD people

linkedin recruiter allows me to do any kind of search no matter the role, location or even the grade of connection. I'm able to contact people who is not in my network and consider them for any of the vacancies that I'm managing.

Pros

LinkedIn recruiter is easy to use, very intuitive and let you do different things in terms of candidate management. You can source people, save their profiles in different projects, make templates and contact them and also set up appointments thanks to the integration you can do with your calendar!

Cons

It's really expensive (it worth it) if you don't belong to a company that could pay for it.

Mathumitha
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 15/02/2023

LinkedIn

very excellent.

Pros

Its is very useful to reach the candidate through connection, Open to work option is helpful to reach the right candidate at the right time.

Cons

needed more contact tools for this application.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Defense & Space
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 24/02/2023

Facilitates and is more efficient for candidate management

Recruitment processes are challenging, but with this LinkedIn feature it becomes something simpler and more effective, as the platform is growing and is a hub that attracts many candidates.

Pros

I like the efficiency to attract candidates for the most diverse vacancies and the filter possibilities. Being a great option for candidate management.

Cons

I don't like the price. For start-up companies it is not very ideal. For anyone who features, it's worth the investment.

Andy
Andy
  • Industry: Human Resources
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 05/11/2021

why so expensive?

The time that I had it, I found improvements in my performance when it came to finding suitable candidates for my job opportunities, it also allowed me to grow my network faster than in the standard way. It brings many advantages Vs a free account

Pros

It is a very useful tool for those of us who are dedicated to contacting talent with job opportunities, allowing us to squeeze much more a wide network such as LinkedIn. It allows us to search with advanced and improved filters (and prevents us from having to know how to use Booleans), it also allows us to track candidates and published notices, with an organization similar to a simple ATS, together with InMail messages (limited) and with much less hassle to find and add new contacts. This makes the job of recruiters much easier by taking much more advantage of what the network has to offer and reaching more and better candidates in less time.

Cons

I think the title says a lot: these advanced functions included in the package called "Recruiter" is very expensive for a freelancer or a self-employed worker, even for SMEs, and in return offers improvements, but they are not congruent with its high price. For example we have a limited amount of InMail messages (30 in Recruiter Lite). An active recruiter can spend these credits in 2 or 3 working days very easily. The other features that it offers helps, but if you already have a large network and you know how to use LinkedIn in an advanced way, it is not so much the difference is little and the money is a lot.
For a large company the cost is accurate

Geneva
  • Industry: Tobacco
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 16/01/2023

LinkedIn Recruiter

It was great and it boosts my confidence and competence on my work.

Pros

This helps me a lot to source, reach, contact, and filter applicants suitable for the position I am looking for. This helps me reach conenctions beyond my network which makes me an efficient recruiter.

Cons

If I may say, the only cons I can give is that its not free. Though, all the penny are worth it if your start and get the gist of to make use of it!

Neeraj
Neeraj
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 29/10/2022

Excellent Platform To Find Genuine Profiles

Similar to a job fair, it enables us to hire from a large linked pool. Its job posting is really helpful and helps to find active candidates.

Pros

It allows me to find and connect with passive candidates that help me close open positions. Its search algorithm and project are excellent. We can integrate it with other tools and publish free or paid requisitions.

Cons

The price is a bit high, and we cannot even view out-of-network profiles. Except this, there is nothing to dislike. It works well.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 08/07/2022

LinkedIn Recruiter is the best sourcing tool

Pros

The amount of candidates you can reach out is tremendous vs the standard job boards. There are a huge pool of quality candidates that can you can't even find elsewhere.

Cons

Navigating LinkedIn Recruiter, searching for candidates and creating projects may find it a bit difficult for first time users.

Also, there's no way for you to filter candidates based on work permits.

Victor
Victor
  • Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 20/09/2022

Good Tool

This has become the go-to tool for finding and making initial contact with potential clients.

Pros

Generally easy to use. Lots of flexibility in choosing / restricting parameters helps focus the search.

Cons

Can be glitchy - will occasionally freeze / delay execution, which can be confusing and frustrating.

Damaris
  • Industry: Writing & Editing
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 19/02/2022

Resource Pool

I have been able to fill positions in the shortest time possible, unlike the older methods of advertising in news paper which is costly LinkedIn recruiter is cost-effective

Pros

This software is easy to use, I view qualified candidates from the comfort of my desk and recruit the best. LinkedIn recruiter has cut down the recruitment cost for me and my team.👍

Cons

Unfortunately, this software is awesome for me, no problems with it.

Blair
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
0

5
Reviewed on 07/07/2022

Worth the price tag

Pros

My team and I use LI Recruiter every day- and some days it feels like we'd be lost without it. It makes it easy to do both broad and highly detailed candidate searches, and stay organized with different job orders and messaging.

Cons

There honestly is much I can say in terms of negatives.

Shubham
  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 12/04/2022

LinkedIn Recruiter - Review

Overall experience with LinkedIn Recruiter is really good. I enjoy working on LinkedIn. It really help me in getting best pool of candidate from market for various skill set.

Pros

LinkedIn recruiter is one of the best sourcing tool to find the candidate pool in different Geographical region and also find out the candidate for various skill set

Cons

Nothing as such, If I find anything where there is need of improvement, I will surely update the LinkedIn team

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