Recruiter System Connect (RSC) Overview

As a LinkedIn Talent Solutions partner, you can use RSC to synchronize candidate information between your Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and LinkedIn Recruiter, ensuring data flow across both platforms. RSC is available as RSC 1.0 and RSC+.

RSC 1.0 and RSC+

RSC+ is a superset of RSC 1.0. To enable RSC+, RSC 1.0 must be active. The following features are available in both:

  • Rediscovered Candidates
  • In-ATS Indicator
  • One-Click Export
  • Enhanced Profile Widget
  • Retrieve InMail History
  • Retrieve Stub Profiles after an InMail Response

RSC+ extends RSC 1.0 with the following additional features:

Feature Description RSC 1.0 RSC+
Sync job requisition stages Sync ATS job requisition stages to LinkedIn to reflect your hiring pipeline status. No Yes
Retrieve application evaluations Use the ATS as the source of truth to evaluate all applicants—members and non-members from any source in one place, using LinkedIn Hiring Assistant. No Yes
Upload and sync attachments Sync candidate resumes and attachments from your ATS to LinkedIn for applicant evaluation. No Yes
Connected Projects Link a LinkedIn Recruiter hiring project to an ATS job requisition to create a single source of truth for all applicants across LinkedIn and your ATS. No Yes

Note

For existing RSC partner developers, the additional APIs relating to RSC+ (and Connected Projects features) do require approval from LinkedIn. Please reach out to your LinkedIn Relationship Manager or Business Development contact as you will need an amended API agreement with reference to RSC+ in order to offer these additional features.

Connected Projects

RSC+ includes Connected Projects, which link a LinkedIn Recruiter hiring project directly to its corresponding job requisition in your ATS, creating a single source of truth for recruiting teams to manage every applicant—from onsite LinkedIn Easy Apply to offsite ATS applicants—all in one place. If LinkedIn Hiring Assistant is enabled, Connected Projects provide the context Hiring Assistant needs to evaluate candidates automatically.

RSC+ must be enabled before Connected Projects can be used. Key benefits of Connected Projects include:

  • Unified applicant management — View all applicants (LinkedIn and ATS) in a single combined pipeline, filtered by source and ATS stage
  • Smarter AI evaluation — LinkedIn Hiring Assistant (LiHA) evaluates applicants using both ATS resume data and LinkedIn profile signals, with results synced back to your ATS
  • Faster sourcing — ATS job requisitions auto-populate hiring intent and qualifications for LiHA, skipping manual project setup
  • Duplicate job detection — Automatically detects when an RSC job matches an existing Enterprise Job Posting and suggests converting it to a Connected Project
  • Trust and fraud prevention — LinkedIn verifications identify verified applicants, which is not possible in ATS-only workflows

To see RSC in action and find out which ATS partners are already supported, visit the Recruiter System Connect Business Site.

Note

New Talent Solutions integrations like Recruiter System Connect are built on the Middleware Platform , which means you should manage job applications exclusively via the Middleware endpoints.

If you’ve previously integrated with LinkedIn Referrals, you’ll need to switch to using the Middleware Platform for submitting job applications.

1. Development Prerequisites

Request Access

Note

  • The use of these APIs is restricted to those developers approved by LinkedIn. Please reach out to your LinkedIn Relationship Manager or Business Development contact as you will need to meet certain criteria and sign an API agreement with data restrictions in order to use this integration.

  • If you are not yet a LinkedIn Talent Solutions Partner, please complete the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Partner Request Form.

Before beginning development, you will need to be provisioned access to test resources, and your API applications will have to be enabled to access the Recruiter System Connect endpoints. You can request access by completing the following steps:

  1. Create API applications for the integration. You may create 2 API applications per integration - 1 for production, and 1 for development and testing.
  2. Please contact the member from LinkedIn Business Development who you have been working with and request to fill out the Partner Onboarding Form.

After the above steps, you'll be provided with various Test Credentials in the mail which you will consume for your development & testing. Next, ensure that:

  • You can log into LinkedIn Recruiter
  • You can access the One-Click Export and In-ATS indicator within LinkedIn Recruiter

2. Begin Development

Get Started

Once your application is configured, you may begin making API requests and testing the integration.

Note

  • Terms like "Partner ATS" & "Customer" are referenced throughout this documentation. "Partner ATS" is an ATS with multiple customers. "Customer" stands for proprietary ATS or Career Page Solution.
  • New Talent Solutions integrations like Recruiter System Connect are built on the Middleware Platform, which means you should manage your job applications exclusively via the Middleware endpoints.
  • All API requests require OAuth's 2 Legged Authorization.
  • API requests return paged results; details on paging through results can be found here.

In order to implement Recruiter System Connect, LinkedIn has broken down the scope of integration into 5 Development Modules that can be found under API & Plugin Guide documentation. As a customer or partner, you will need to utilize the components described within below modules:

Customer Onboarding for Partners

Partner ATS has to create and maintain configurations for every customer with LinkedIn Middleware. In the process, the partner gets a unique API key(Client ID) & Client Secret, Organization URN and Contract URN corresponding to each customer that needs to be persisted.

Note

  • All component APIs described in the above modules need to be invoked on behalf of the customer by the partner using the OAuth Client ID & Client Secret of Customer Application.

Refer to Module 1 - Configure Customer Applications and ATS Integrations for details.

3. Development Tools

We provide a snapshot of your integration journey in Project Planner Template. It provides a very helpful summary if you are just beginning development. We also provide few development tools like API Postman Collection, Sample Applications for testing Recruiter System Connect Plugins to assist in efficient, organized & speedy development. Refer to Development Tools documentation for same.

4. Required Fields

We have put together required fields for all Recruiter System Connect APIs together at one place. Refer to Required Fields documentation to understand what all fields your ATS must provide.

5. Certification

Be sure to review the test cases per module required for your certification. These test cases should be demoed in your certification meetings. These are described in detail here.

6. Developer FAQs

If you have any product or technical questions, please make sure to refer to FAQ section before reaching out to your LinkedIn Business Development point of contact.

7. Customer Support & FAQ Guide

In order to make sure that partners have a smooth journey onboarding their customers with LinkedIn RSC Integration, we have curated support documents & common FAQs here.

8. Announcements & Release Notes

All the changes that are continuously being made to LinkedIn's RSC documentation can be tracked in Release Notes.

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