A new report from LinkedIn reveals that generative AI is reshaping hiring from the ground up, transforming the role of recruiters along the way.
More specifically, the LinkedIn 2025 Future of Recruiting Report found that by automating time-consuming recruiting tasks, gen AI is speeding up the hiring process. According to LinkedIn, recruiters are using time saved from AI to focus on critical tasks like candidate screening (35%) and skills assessment (26%).
Hari Srinivasan, LinkedIn’s vice president of product, says leveraging AI for recruiting enables recruiters to spend more time leaning into strategy, particularly around building relationships, improving candidate experience and advising hiring managers.
“Organizations are getting the message,” Srinivasan says about tapping AI for recruiting.
AI for recruiting: streamlining and improving
LinkedIn found that recruiters are increasingly building AI into their workflows: The report found that 37% of organizations are actively integrating or experimenting with gen AI tools in the hiring process, up 10% year over year. On average, using gen AI saved these recruiting teams about 20% of their workweek, equivalent to a full workday saved each week.
Srinivasan says LinkedIn introduced its Hiring Assistant last year to help recruiting professionals take advantage of the benefits of AI-powered recruiting. The tool was built using agentic technology and draws on LinkedIn data, including its database of more than 41,000 skills.
“It’s an exciting moment of change, where these new AI technologies create an incredible opportunity to use the tools to work for recruiters, so they can get more done and feel more fulfilled in their daily tasks,” he explains.
Srinivasan notes that recruiters often express the joy they get connecting with job seekers, helping them open the door to new opportunities. Yet often, their day-to-day is filled with more time-consuming tasks, such as synthesizing job descriptions, searching for candidates and doing basic screening calls.
Integrating AI, he says, enables recruiters to reconnect with that joy “by streamlining and improving every step of the hiring process.”
Using AI for recruiting isn’t just impacting the workload of recruiters. LinkedIn found that organizations that use AI-assisted messaging with candidates see a 44% higher acceptance rate, and offers are accepted more than 11% faster by job seekers, compared with those who do not use AI-assisted messages.
‘Spending time in the right places’
According to Derrick Elefante, senior strategic sourcing lead at Equinix, using tools like LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant gave his team the flexibility to actively source candidates, while also identifying great matches passively.
“Building relationships and understanding candidates’ needs is where I thrive, and this addition allows me to dedicate more energy to that while being able to increase the number of jobs that I can support,” he says.
Victoria Östryd Söderlind, senior recruitment specialist at Toyota Material Handling Europe, says doing a normal search prior to AI took upward of 15 minutes. Now, using AI, it takes about 30 seconds to get results.
“It is so much more convenient and easier doing it this way,” she says. “The time saved is tremendous.”
Olivia Brown, head of talent acquisition at Octopus Energy, says using AI for recruiting has allowed the company’s recruiters to “do more, to be better and to grow faster” in all of their activities.
“It’s about spending time in the right places where our time is more valuable,” she says.
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