The Josh Bersin Company Hari Srinivasan Explains The AI-Powered LinkedIn Hiring Assistant
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Nov 1, 2025 Hari Srinivasan, Vice President of Product at LinkedIn, shares his expertise in AI-powered hiring tools. He discusses the innovative LinkedIn Hiring Assistant, designed to improve the recruiting process by enhancing sourcing, messaging, and screening. Hari highlights measurable productivity gains, such as reduced time spent reviewing profiles and increased outreach response rates. He also explores the importance of skills-based hiring, internal mobility support, and the merging of various recruitment functions into one AI platform. His insights emphasize that recruiters' human touch remains irreplaceable.
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Recruiters Need Relief From Administrative Grind
- Recruiters love the impact of matching a person to a job, but day-to-day work is a grind of administrative tasks.
- Hari built Hiring Assistant to remove that grind so recruiters can focus on candidate experience and outcomes.
An AI Partner Spans The Entire Hiring Flow
- Hiring Assistant is an AI partner that supports intake, sourcing, messaging, and screening across the hiring flow.
- Early customers report large productivity gains: ~4 hours saved per role and fewer profiles reviewed with better InMail response rates.
Calibrate Requirements Before Sourcing
- Use AI to improve intake by calibrating role requirements and the talent market before sourcing.
- Translate calibrated needs into sourcing and messaging to find better-fit candidates faster.