LinkedIn remains one of the most powerful platforms for talent acquisition, offering access to millions of professionals worldwide. With Pinpoint's LinkedIn integration, you can streamline your recruitment process by automatically posting jobs to your company's LinkedIn page and seamlessly importing qualified candidates directly into your ATS.
This comprehensive guide covers three key integration capabilities:
Free Job Posting (Organic) - Automatically publish your Pinpoint vacancies to LinkedIn at no additional cost, ensuring maximum visibility across the platform's extensive professional network.
Premium Job Posting (Sponsored) - Leverage LinkedIn's paid promotional features to boost your job postings with enhanced targeting and increased reach to qualified candidates.
Recruiter System Connect - Import candidate profiles, communication history, and application data directly from LinkedIn Recruiter into Pinpoint, eliminating manual data entry and maintaining a complete recruitment record.
Whether you're looking to expand your candidate reach through free postings or maximize your recruitment ROI with premium features, this guide will walk you through each setup process step by step.
How do we get set up to make organic (free) job postings on LinkedIn from Pinpoint?
Integrations
Navigate to the Integrations menu under the Settings heading in Pinpoint's left-hand navigation bar.
Add App
You'll be taken to the Integrations page. At the top of that page, select the Apps button to view all the integrations currently available to you in Pinpoint. Search for, or scroll down to, the LinkedIn integration, and press the Add button.
Add Company
Click on the Add Company button.
Company ID
A form will appear asking you for a Name and Company ID. Enter the company name exactly as it appears in LinkedIn into the Name field. Follow this guide from LinkedIn to get your LinkedIn Company ID number and enter it into the Company ID field.
Save
Once you have entered both the Name and Company ID, click 'Save'.
Enable
Click on the toggle that says 'Disabled' once, and this will change to 'Enabled'.
Post a Job
You're now all set with the basic setup needed to make free job postings from Pinpoint on LinkedIn. Follow these steps to learn how to publish your first free (organic) posting on LinkedIn from Pinpoint.
The feed can take up to 24 hours to start working correctly, but after this, your jobs will display on your company page on LinkedIn. Jobs posted to LinkedIn from Pinpoint will appear under the "Jobs" section of your company page - see the screenshot below for an example.
How can I set up a Premium (paid/sponsored) LinkedIn job slot?
The steps here are dependent on you having premium postings included in your LinkedIn contract. Please stop here if you do not have premium postings included in your LinkedIn contract.
Edit Integration
If you haven't already done so, follow the steps from the previous section to set up a LinkedIn integration. Then go to Integrations > My Apps > LinkedIn to edit your existing LinkedIn integration.
Connect Contract
Your LinkedIn integration screen will be shown. Click on 'Connect Contract'. If you do not see a "Connect Contract" button, please reach out to our Support Team and request that the LinkedIn API Job Posting Integration be enabled.
Sign In
Click on Sign in.
Authenticate
Sign in to your LinkedIn Recruiter account.
Select Contract
Select the appropriate LinkedIn Recruiter contract for your organisation by clicking Continue.
Default Job Poster
Select a default job poster by typing in their name into the Job Poster field, selecting them from the drop-down list, and clicking 'Save'. This is a LinkedIn user who will be displayed as the job poster for your organisation on LinkedIn by default.
Note that only an active LinkedIn contract user with either a "Dashboard Manager Admin" or a "Recruiter Admin" role in LinkedIn can be selected here.
Review
If successful, you'll see a screen that looks like this, where you can review your Premium Job Posting settings.
Fianlize
You can now click on Back to integration, and you'll see that Premium job postings are now enabled. You have successfully set up the Premium job posting!
Once you have premium job postings enabled, you can pick which jobs are premium.
When editing the job, navigate to the Organic section, select LinkedIn, and toggle the premium posting toggle on. This article has more detailed step-by-step instructions.
How can I get LinkedIn Recruiter connected to Pinpoint?
Enable Organic Integration
Follow the steps from "How do we get set up to make organic (free) job postings on LinkedIn from Pinpoint?" to enable your LinkedIn integration.
RSC
Enable the "Recruiter System Connect" by clicking on the "Edit RSC" button.
Sign In
Follow the prompt to sign in to LinkedIn and approve the integration.
Add Candidates
Use the section "How do I add LinkedIn candidates to Pinpoint?" to start adding candidates into Pinpoint.
Please note that Recruiter Lite customers are not eligible to use Recruiter System Connect - you can read more about this on LinkedIn here.
How do I add LinkedIn candidates to Pinpoint?
Enable Integration
Once you've set up your LinkedIn Recruiter integration, you are ready to start adding candidates from LinkedIn to Pinpoint. Begin by navigating to a candidate in LinkedIn Recruiter.
Find Candidate
Click on the candidate to open up their summary page.
Export
Use the three dots and select "Export to ATS"
Add Jobs
Select which jobs you would like to add the candidate to.
Please note that we do not support exporting candidates from LinkedIn Recruiter to Private jobs in Pinpoint. We do support exporting candidates to jobs with Public, Confidential and Internal visibilities. Learn more about job visibility in our guide What are my different visibility options when creating a job?
Sync
Please wait while the candidate information, inMail messages, and any stub data are added to Pinpoint. You can check on the status of the import by going to the ATS tab on the candidate's page on LinkedIn.
