Project settings & bias free sourcing.

Part 3 of the LinkedIn Recruiter Simplified series.

This is for the project setting.

Most settings are just the ones we already filled in during the project's setup.

The Project Details.

You can alter the information you have entered in the project setting.

Workflow settings

There are two settings in your workflow settings.

Toggle hiring pipeline stages.

This one should be always on. Why? This ensures that the candidate stage will be automatically uncontacted if you put a candidate in the pipeline. If you send an InMail, the candidate stage will be switched to contacted, and if you receive a candidate responds the stage will be automatically switched to replied. This saves time in managing your pipeline.

PS: If you find this workflow setting always off. Please ask your admin to switch this on for your organization. Product settings > Custom Pipeline & automation.

The second workflow setting is: hide candidate photos and names.

What is it? I've experienced it before, though, when a candidate was rejected. The hiring manager thought they needed a professional LinkedIn profile picture. Or an unconscious bias about a specific first and last name. Not only is the hiring manager biased, but everybody. We are all humans.

LinkedIn Recruiter has an option for that. And 99% of all the recruiters I have trained never knew this. So here is a shout-out for our Big Blue friends:

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Hide candidate photos and names.

Turn this Toggle on. What will happen? Your talent pool only exists out of abbreviations and no profile pictures.

Eureka. Bias-free sourcing is getting closer, especially if you search with a hiring manager. Whether or not this person has a professional photo or their name is Marcel, Abdullah, or Vladimir, they are gone.

Below is a screenshot of my profile. I have become S.T.W.B. without a profile picture.

Names will be shown in LinkedIn messaging and the pipeline.

I understand that it shows up in the message function and the pipeline. You must at least know the first name because Dear S.T.W.B. looks so sloppy.

Can you also set bias-free sourcing for the entire organization?

As an admin, you can enforce this feature for the entire organization. You can do this in your product settings > preferences > hide photos and names of candidates. Recruiters and/or sourcers can deactivate this temporarily, however.

In the talent pool, they can temporarily display and show candidates' names at the top right.

Review feature of LinkedIn Recruiter.

Would LinkedIn's review feature also work like this? Unfortunately, no. With your hiring manager or your client, just the first and last names and the profile picture are fully visible. This is a shortcoming.

Even if it's just an option for that one hiring manager who finds the profile picture a little less professional.

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