New LinkedIn Product Innovations To Help You Attract and Develop Talent

It’s a tough time in the talent world right now. Budgets at many companies are not what they used to be and yet talent pros are being asked to do more than ever. Is it little wonder that teams aren’t sure how they’ll fill every req, make quality hires, and offer employees opportunities to grow? 

That’s why we’re excited to announce our 2025 Linkedin Hiring Release, designed to help you hire more efficiently without compromising quality, and our 2025 LinkedIn Learning Release, designed to make personalized learning at scale a reality.

Over the coming year, as part of our 2025 releases, we’re rolling out a number of AI-powered innovations and tools to help you increase your impact without increasing your workload. 

Here’s what to expect for Hiring:

1. Effortlessly attract in-demand talent 

One of the toughest challenges recruiters face is keeping high-quality talent interested in the company until the right role becomes available. 

Interested Candidate Alerts can help you with this by notifying candidates of open roles and relevant content from the companies they have expressed interest in — with no action on your part. These in-app notifications help keep your company top of mind with interested candidates, nurturing them effortlessly and automatically.

We know that it also makes recruiters’ lives easier when qualified candidates can quickly find roles that match their experience. That’s why we’ve introduced AI-powered job insights so that job seekers can better understand if their qualifications are a good match for a role. Once they’ve determined they’re a good match, candidates can then use LinkedIn’s AI-powered resume tips and cover letter support (a feature offered to Premium subscribers only) to personalize each application to highlight relevant skills and experience, so candidates can apply to roles with confidence.

Our new job collection feature also makes it easier for candidates to discover new roles that match their qualifications through curated lists that showcase roles by industry, specialty, and interests. 

The upshot: When job seekers can efficiently discover new jobs and confidently understand whether they’re qualified, recruiters’ jobs become easier. 

2. Create searches and find candidates faster using everyday language 

Want to find candidates faster, without having to figure out exactly which words and filters you need to make the perfect match? 

AI-Assisted Search is getting even smarter. We’re expanding search capabilities that go beyond simply matching based on filters to matching based on the qualifications that candidates don’t typically list on their profiles and resumes — but that are often listed in job descriptions — such as “experience solving ambiguous problems.” This allows recruiters to get better search results and more thorough skill representation for candidates.

With this feature, you can simply paste a job description or hiring manager’s notes into Recruiter to create a search. No more racking your brain, trying to find the exact filters that will yield the perfect candidate.

You can also now ask AI-Assisted Search to help you, creating a Boolean string to start your search so you don’t have to create a Boolean search on your own.

If you need further proof of how much this could help: LinkedIn has found that AI-Assisted Search sessions result in an 18% higher InMail acceptance rate, compared with search sessions created with manual filters. 

3. Connect with top talent more quickly

When LinkedIn rolled out AI-Assisted Messages last year, it gave recruiters a big boost. AI-Assisted Messages see an overall 44% higher acceptance rate and are accepted 11% faster by job seekers than those drafted without AI. 

But now recruiters will get even more of a lift with two new features, AI-Assisted Bulk Messaging and AI-Assisted Messaging Touch-Ups. AI-Assisted Bulk Messaging allows talent acquisition professionals to quickly draft messages in bulk, sending unique, personalized messages to as many as 25 candidates at once, making it possible to connect with the right candidates at scale. 

AI-Assisted Messages Touch-Ups, on the other hand, lets recruiters go into their existing templates and leverage AI assistance to personalize the template to the candidate you’re messaging. You can also adjust the tone and length of each message. If you wanted a message to be briefer and more conversational, for example, the template can be adjusted to reflect your wishes. 

Here’s what to expect for Learning:

4. Create deeply personalized learning at scale 

How important is career development to employees and businesses? LinkedIn has found that organizations that cultivate employee growth are 7.2x more likely to engage and retain employees, 2.6x more likely to exceed financial targets, and 4x more likely to innovate effectively. 

That’s why we’re releasing new learning tools, starting with AI-powered Learning Plans, to help you efficiently scale career development across your organization. Our personalized development plans will now deliver more relevant content by taking into account each learner’s industry, experience, and more specific career goals. The plans can also be adapted to a learner’s unique timeline and their company’s talent architecture. 

5. Use AI-powered coaching to help employees practice human skills and get instant feedback 

Human skills are taking center stage in the age of AI. According to a LinkedIn survey, 92% of U.S. executives agree that soft skills are more important than ever. And LinkedIn research shows that professionals with key soft skills get promoted 8% faster than those with only technical skills.

But learning skills such as communication, listening, and compassion takes practice, which is why LinkedIn is rolling out a new AI-powered coaching feature in LinkedIn Learning with which learners can interact using voice or text. Employees can practice delivering performance reviews, giving constructive feedback to their colleagues, and promoting work-life balance. At the end of each session, learners receive results with actionable feedback and LinkedIn Learning content recommendations.

6. Efficiently curate content and create talent architecture

For years, L&D teams have wanted to make learning both deeply personalized and scalable. Now with our AI-assisted features, learning professionals can do both. They can sort through the tedium of content curation more quickly and can translate talent architectures to role guides more efficiently. 

With the new AI-assisted content curation feature, administrators can use conversational prompts to easily search and quickly discover suggested courses and videos based on the topics, learning objectives, and audience they are targeting

They can also customize learning at scale using Talent Architecture Customization in the LinkedIn Learning admin portal. Simply upload your own job-to-skill architecture via .CSV template to make learning more relevant across tools like Next Role Explorer, Role Guides, and Learning Plans. Plus, with recommended skill suggestions powered by LinkedIn insights and AI, you don’t have to worry about maintaining your talent architecture. LinkedIn Learning is now a source for the creation and maintenance of your entire organization’s talent architecture.

As if this weren’t enough, LinkedIn Learning plans to add 800 more courses by the end of the fiscal year, covering everything from agentic AI to cybersecurity to AI for managers. And to help talent teams lead the AI talent revolution, LinkedIn Learning is launching three AI professional certificates for recruiters and talent development professionals. 

This is just the beginning of what AI can do for recruiters and talent development professionals. LinkedIn is actively building upon these products to support recruiters and talent development professionals with innovative, valuable tools. Our goals are simple: We want you to be able to work efficiently, stay focused on quality, and keep your organizations moving forward. For more information, check out our 2025 LinkedIn Hiring Release and 2025 LinkedIn Learning Release pages.