LinkedIn Recruiter Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.4 out of 10

Score

8.4 out of 10

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Business Problems Solved

LinkedIn Recruiter is a powerful tool that allows users to access a global talent market and search for professionals with specific skills. According to users, the software is particularly useful for identifying qualified candidates for open positions and sourcing passive candidates who are more likely to be qualified and satisfied with the job. With LinkedIn Recruiter, users can effectively search for candidates based on specific requirements such as location, experience, education, job title, and skills. The software enables users to track candidate pipelines, perform outreach activities, and sync with their company's recruiting database to keep track of candidates.

In addition to its use in the recruitment process, LinkedIn Recruiter is also widely used by sales teams for prospecting and business development purposes. Users appreciate the ease of use and intuitive interface of the software, along with its powerful search features that allow for fine-tuning candidate searches within a week. One of the standout features of LinkedIn Recruiter is InMail, which has a higher response rate compared to other outreach methods. This makes it a primary form of outreach and sourcing for many users.

Overall, LinkedIn Recruiter is considered a vital asset for identifying skilled professionals across various industries and positions. It helps address the challenge of finding qualified candidates, especially for hard-to-fill roles or when there is a lack of qualified inbound applicants. Whether it's recruiting professional positions like accounting, sales, and management or sourcing and networking in the IT field, LinkedIn Recruiter provides valuable solutions for both recruiters and salespeople looking to find, engage, and connect with potential candidates and prospects.

Reviews

25 Reviews

Currently the best tool out there for sourcing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use it as a recruiter to source candidates for various open roles and post sponsored jobs on LinkedIn for more visibility. For the posted jobs, I use the talent pool and recommended matches to find candidates, and utilize the AI tool for writing outreach messages. LinkedIn Recruiter helps us to fill more challenging positions faster than if we solely posted them through our ATS.

Pros

matching candidates to open jobs based on skills, interaction with our company
organizing our data and providing detailed analytics
creating an easier way to reach out to candidates and store pipeline info in projects

Cons

AI outreach tool needs improvement for drafting messages
candidate matches are not always relevant

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for niche jobs, urgent roles, or more senior level positions where LinkedIn is most useful. It is the best sourcing platform that exists at the moment and provides us with a plethora of candidates. Not well suited for entry level positions and positions that don't require higher education.

Verified User

Contributor in Human Resources (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

One of best Job Board

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 29, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LinkedIn Recruiter for sourcing candidates for the role we have. LinkedIn Recruiter offers wide pool of candidates available in job market with a wide range of filters we can apply while searching for candidates with specific skills and experience. LinkedIn Recruiter also provides In mails which help reaching out to candidates, the reminder feature works fantastic if any candidate does not respond in specific time frame. Additionally features like Open to work helps a lot as this provides pool of candidate who are specifically looking for jobs.

Pros

Boolean search string works well, helps in finding candidates with specific skills.
Open to Work filter and highly interested filters works fantastic, helps in finding people who are available and looking.
Field of study feature helps in targeting candidates with specific education background, more helpful finding recent grad candidates

Cons

Should have a feature to target specific certifications
Should have a feature to target candidates with recommendations
Skills shows only candidates who has endorsed those skills, can be improved, many of tools are not updated here

Likelihood to Recommend

Over all LinkedIn Recruiter is one of the best tools out there for sourcing candidates with a very large pool of candidates. InMail's feature is good. Few features can be improved where most of skills which are in recent experience can be marked as current while searching.

Indraneel Deshmukh

Senior Technical Recruiter in Human Resources at Global Infotech (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Great Tool But Expensive

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 25, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have LinkedIn Recruiter seats for most of our Recruiting team and use it to source candidates. On the plus side, finding candidates via LinkedIn Recruiter is usually a positive experience. But getting candidates to respond via the LinkedIn Recruiter proprietary messaging system continues to be a challenge.

Pros

Sourcing candidates
Broadcasting our openings
Outreach beyond a Recruiters connected network

Cons

The LinkedIn Recruiter proprietary messaging system remains a challenge
Transitioning from LinkedIn to LinkedIn Recruiter is clunky.

Likelihood to Recommend

We get results from LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter but the cost is prohibitively high. The manual process of updating job slots is also painful and reduces value.

Verified User

Manager in Corporate (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

18 years of experience

One stop Hiring solution, Highly recommend LinkedIn Recruiter.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 13, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LinkedIn Recruiter to source and hire candidates for multiple client openings. LinkedIn Recruiter helps connect various candidates across numerous skills. We face problems while searching on other job boards, specifically targeting years of experience or targeting specific Industries or companies. LinkedIn recruiter helps with these specific filters, which are not available on other job boards.

Pros

With a large pool of candidates, we can look at both active and passive candidates in the Job market.
Diverse filters help in targeting specific areas.
AI Search.
AI Messages drafting.

Cons

There is no feature that allows you to find a specific keyword based on recent experience for a particular candidate.
There is no feature if I want to target profiles with recommendations specifically.
Job Titles should have (AND, OR features like Boolean search).

Likelihood to Recommend

LinkedIn Recruiter is better suited in terms of the filters it provides to search for a pool of candidates. Features like past and current companies, past universities, or years of experience, AI Search, and AI message drafting do wonders in terms of recruitment. But some more filters can be added, which will help further in recruitment. For example, Boolean search in job titles, targeting specific keywords in recent experience, etc.

Verified User

Employee in Human Resources (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Getting linked with candidate through LinkedIn for a professional touch

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 18, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use LinkedIn to source professional candidate for various job role. we use search option for searching candidate. X ray search has been used to source the resume using specific searching

Pros

Sourcing for professional candidate
contact of the candidate is only through message
some of the profile were resume is missing

Cons

could not find resume of the candidate
could not connect with candidate without follow

Likelihood to Recommend

we use it major for sourcing candidate by searching the job role and skills, but communication with candidate is difficult only message is the option. some of the profile were we couldn't see resume in it . in which filter like current company, location, past company and education details are the search option.

Verified User

Paraprofessional in Human Resources (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Global Tool for the recruiters

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 2, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used LinkedIn Recruiter for job positing and sourcing the resume using the Boolean search. I helps to save my time where I just need to post the required information what we need for the job. I helps to get the resume from all the locations even the resume not the portals.

Pros

Job positing
Direct messaging
Premium views

Cons

Need to increase inmail numbers

Likelihood to Recommend

When I get the requirements from the client or from my manager, the first thing I will post the open requirements in the LinkedIn Recruiter Portal then I'll source the profiles in other Job boards. While sourcing the profiles, I'll get the resume from the LinkedIn Recruiter which helps to save my time and portal views.

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A must have recruitment tool.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

July 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LinkedIn Recruiter as a sourcing tool for our business. We are a small, scrappy, startup recruitment agency. We are in the business of Direct-Hire positions so easy tools like ZipRecruiter don't usually produce the same quality candidates as you would using LinkedIn Recruiter. With LinkedIn Recruiter, we are able to find awesome passive candidates who tend to be more qualified and end with both the candidate and client being happier.

Pros

Detailed candidate searching
Automated sourcing
Project organization

Cons

Groups are a little difficult to manage in my opinion.

Likelihood to Recommend

We use LinkedIn Recruiter every day. It is our main source for gathering information, building quality talent pipelines, tracking engagement (Personal & Team), and most of the tools we use are integrated well with it. It's safe to say LinkedIn Recruiter is the pulse of the system we have in play here at Rogue Recruitment.

Tyler Hellman

Recruiter in Human Resources at Rogue Recruitment (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

View profile

LinkedIn and I

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

June 27, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use LinkedIn Recruiter to find candidates to screen for my client business. The tool helps me accurately narrow down candidates based on location, years of experience, level of education, job title, skills, relevant industries and other keywords that enable me to find great candidates. It also syncs with my company's recruiting database to keep track of candidates.

Pros

It allows me to look for relevant industries
It groups similar titles together on certain job titles
It lets you set a minimum and maximum for years of experience
It connects with my company's database

Cons

When I send connection requests and notes, I can't see the outgoing message I sent before they accept.
There aren't diversity filters
The industries are not all-inclusive

Likelihood to Recommend

I can manage candidates from the search to moving them to projects to messaging in one place, which makes it a more streamlined and efficient process. If a candidate does not respond to an outreach message from my LinkedIn Recruiter mailbox, I can then send a connection request and a message directing them, to the recruiter message.

Verified User

Professional in Professional Services (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

If you're not using LinkedIn Recruiter, are you even recruiting?

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used LinkedIn Recruiter to access a global talent market of engaged professionals. I can search for, communicate with, and share the experiences of these professionals in order to fill critical open jobs at my company. The filters and search capabilities allow me to narrow down my search results to hone in on the specific skills I need in future candidates.

Pros

Access to a global talent marketplace.
Targeted searching.
Ability to share candidates with hiring teams.

Cons

Better "diversity" filters.
More granular industry categories - product/consulting/services, etc.
More contact info - or the ability to search for it in the LIR interface.

Likelihood to Recommend

LinkedIn Recruiter is the biggest player in the game. If you are not using it, you will be at a competitive disadvantage. Unfortunately, the cost is very prohibitive for small companies. The ability to create projects, share with hiring teams, and collect feedback in one central place is a differentiator.

Tasha Schlake Festel

Lead Sourcer in Human Resources at Delphix (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

8 years of experience

LinkedIn Recruiter: Vital to Staffing Services

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 15, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LinkedIn Recruiter as our primary form of outreach and sourcing. We've run the numbers and InMail has a much higher response rate than cold calling, emails, etc. It addresses the issue of finding qualified candidates. We are a sourcing/recruiting services firm and it is vital to what we do as a company.

Pros

LinkedIn Projects
Years of experience
Colleges

Cons

Diversity tags
Finding more profiles like "X" person

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for the initial search of candidates. Finding specific job titles, areas, YOE, etc. It could do better at separating internships from years of experience though.

Verified User

Employee in Professional Services (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience