How to Source Candidates on LinkedIn with AI

Every job in Recruitly has a LinkedIn tab. Open it and Simi builds the search from the job, reads the people she finds against it, and shows you who is worth a call, so the search, the shortlist and the pipeline all stay with the job.

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Simi builds the search from the job

Simi writes an AI Search Profile from the job description, the client brief and the scorecard: the must-haves, the nice-to-haves and the deal-breakers that every person she finds is judged against. Press Edit Search Profile to add what your client told you that isn't written down, or Regenerate it after you've updated the job.

Press Proceed and Simi turns it into a LinkedIn search, widening or narrowing it herself, and you see what she changed each time and how many people it found. Open her search and it reads in plain words, with every title, skill and location as a chip you can remove or add to. Change anything, press Search again, and she gives you the new count. All filters opens every filter there is, and Ask Simi to finds more people, finds closer matches or starts again from the profile.

If a search rules everyone out, Simi says so and gives you three ways out: let her widen it, rebuild it from the profile, or edit it yourself.

You see the price before you spend

Before you load anything you see what the page of profiles costs, your credit balance and what is left of your monthly limit. You pay only for the profiles you load, twenty-five at a time. If you're short you can top up or raise the limit right there, and anyone without billing access is told to ask an admin. An email or phone is charged only when you ask for it, and profiles you already loaded never cost you a second time.

Who fits, and why

Simi reads each person against your must-haves and deal-breakers and rates them a strong, moderate or weak match. Anyone already in your CRM says so, with the jobs they're already on.

The first person opens beside the list as their LinkedIn profile. If you're connected you can message them on LinkedIn from right there, or open their profile on LinkedIn itself, and Team Relationship shows how warm your agency is with them, from cold to hot, and who on your team has been in touch. Find email gets their work and personal email, Find phone their number; click the email to write to them or the number to call.

AI Review is the same assessment you get on an application: the match and the skills and experience scores, what they miss and any deal-breaker they hit, what to ask on the call, the evidence for the client, and your job's own scorecard with Simi's pick on every line and her reason. Outreach has a call opener and an email Simi wrote for this person and this job, ready to copy.

Onto the job in one go

Add to Job saves them to your CRM and puts them on the job's pipeline at the stage you pick. For someone already in your CRM you can also put them in a drip campaign or add a task or a note without leaving the search. Tick several people to find all their emails or phones at once, with the price shown first, save them, or add them all to the job together. The search stays with the job, so next week it opens where you left it.

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