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Kit and LinkedIn Recruiter

Your team finds them. Kit speaks to them.

Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire: hiring people who deliver impact in their first 12 months. Keep finding people on LinkedIn. When they apply, Kit speaks to every one.

Every sourceOne top-performer rubric
  • LinkedIn
  • Job boards
  • Careers site
  • Referrals
  • Agencies
  • Your CRM

Where Kit sits.

LinkedIn helps your team find people. Kit speaks to them once they apply.

  1. Find (LinkedIn)

    Your team finds people on LinkedIn and sends them the job's link.

  2. Apply (Kit)

    Wherever they come from, Kit speaks to them when they apply.

  3. Recommend (Kit)

    Kit tells your team who to meet first, and why.

  4. Interview (Your team)

    Your talent team and managers meet the people Kit recommends first.

  5. The goal

    What a top performer delivers in their first 12 months.

Find

“Reach candidates directly on LinkedIn with Recruiter's built-in messaging”
LinkedIn, in its own words

LinkedIn's words from its own public Recruiter page, read 29 October 2026.

Every source, assessed the same way.

Every applicant, from any source (LinkedIn, the company site, internal referral, online sourcing, agencies), is scored against the same top-performer rubric.

They sit alongside each other, not in place of each other.

“12 minutes of work = my quickest hire this year.”
Sean Kennedy, Rocket YardUser turned advocate, now a paid Speak to Kit partner
Kit and LinkedIn RecruiterLinkedIn Recruiter finds people. Kit speaks to every one of them.

Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire. The hiring manager says what a top performer delivers in their first 12 months, Kit speaks to every applicant about the way they work, and the hiring team sees who to meet, and why. How Kit works, step by step.

What LinkedIn Recruiter is for

LinkedIn describes Recruiter as a way to "Reach candidates directly on LinkedIn with Recruiter's built-in messaging". A recruiter searches profiles, saves people to projects and writes to them.

It is bought per recruiter. The UK government's Digital Marketplace lists LinkedIn Recruiter at $12,000 a licence a year. Speak to Kit is bought per agent: £250 + VAT a month per agent month to month, or £200 + VAT a month on an annual plan. One agent speaks to everyone who applies to, or is sent to, the roles it works on.

What it does

LinkedIn Recruiter

Search profiles and message people, in LinkedIn's words "Reach candidates directly".

Speak to Kit

Speaks to every applicant and every person your team sends, then recommends who to meet, and why.

How it is bought

LinkedIn Recruiter

$12,000 a licence a year on the UK government's Digital Marketplace.

Speak to Kit

£250 + VAT a month per agent month to month, or £200 + VAT a month on an annual plan.

Finding someone is only half of it

LinkedIn's own figure, reported in 2025, was about 11,000 applications a minute in June 2025, up more than 45% on a year earlier. More people can be found and more people apply. Knowing which of them will do the job well has not got easier.

A profile shows titles, employers and years. The research says years tell you little. Van Iddekinge and colleagues reviewed 81 samples in 2019: years of experience barely relate to how well someone performs, at .06, and not at all to whether they stay. University grades do only a little better, at .21.

“I've probably trained somewhere between 700 and 1,000 recruiters in my career and managed them all during that process... I don't recall ever seeing that the person who came top of my Boolean search or AI search or LinkedIn search got the job. In my life, ever.”
Dan Halstead, founder, Speak to Kit

When the people you found speak to Kit

Your recruiter does the outreach on LinkedIn as today, and adds Kit's link to the message. The person speaks to Kit when it suits them, by phone or in writing. 276 in every 1,000 Kit calls start between 7pm and 7am, and 361 in every 1,000 fall outside working hours (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm), weekends included.

Kit holds a headhunted person to the same standard as someone who applied: what the hiring manager said a top performer delivers in the first 12 months. Every source is assessed the same way, so the recruiter can see which searches bring the strongest people.

Why the conversation matters for senior moves

Groysberg, Lee and Nanda followed 1,052 top-ranked US equity analysts who moved firm. Their performance dropped straight away and stayed lower for at least five years, unless they moved with their team. Who someone was somewhere else does not carry over by itself.

Kit's conversation asks how the person got their results and what the new team needs, so the hiring manager sees both before an interview is booked.

“Inbound chaos became inbound calm! A couple of hours later, a 90% match candidate was in my inbox.”
Sean Kennedy, Rocket Yard, on LinkedIn, August 2026. User turned advocate, now a paid Speak to Kit partner.

A recruiter's day with both

Kit does not send LinkedIn messages and does not log in to LinkedIn. The recruiter keeps the relationship with every person they found. Someone who would rather not speak to an AI can still apply in the normal way.

Referrals bring a similar benefit. Burks, Cowgill, Hoffman and Housman studied nine large firms in 2015 and found people referred by staff quit less. A referral or a headhunted person gets the same conversation as anyone else, so the team can compare them fairly.

  • Morning: the recruiter runs searches in LinkedIn Recruiter and writes to the people who look right.
  • Each message includes Kit's link, with a line on what the call covers and how long it takes.
  • Evening and weekend: the people who are interested speak to Kit when they are free.
  • Next morning: the recruiter sees who matched the hiring manager's standard, and why, and calls them first.

What it is worth

A Recruiter search finds people with the right skills and experience. In a Leadership IQ study of more than 20,000 hires, only 11 in 100 of the hires that failed were down to skills. 89 in 100 were down to attitude: being coachable, motivated, and suited to the way the team works. A profile can't show that. A conversation can, and each failed hire avoided saves about £51,000 on an £80,000 salary. For example, an accountancy training provider hiring about 130 people a year has about 21 first-year leavers, costing about £575,000 a year. Halving that would be worth about £288,000 a year (estimate).

How one failed hire costs about £51,000

Kit and LinkedIn, questions.

How do I judge the quality of candidates my team finds on LinkedIn Recruiter?

LinkedIn Recruiter is built to help a team find and message people. In LinkedIn's words, "Reach candidates directly on LinkedIn with Recruiter's built-in messaging" (business.linkedin.com, read 29 October 2026). Speak to Kit is an AI hiring system built for quality of hire: hiring people who deliver impact in their first 12 months. People a team finds on LinkedIn apply, speak to Kit, and are scored against the same top-performer rubric as people from job boards, referrals, agencies and the careers site. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, Speak to Kit checks in at 30 days, 90 days and a year to ask how each hire is doing: who is doing well, who stayed, who grew. It's part of a top performance hiring model built with each company, with bespoke professional services, and what it costs is agreed with each company. It isn't part of the Try Kit plan. A team can see which sources bring people who succeed.

How do I measure quality of hire from LinkedIn Recruiter?

Early on, Speak to Kit shows how often a company's hiring managers agree with its recommendations, and interviews per hire. On the Talent and Enterprise plans, Speak to Kit also checks in at 30 days, 90 days and a year to show who is doing well, who stayed and who grew. Quality of hire can be reported across the whole company, every team and every site.

What does using LinkedIn Recruiter and Speak to Kit look like day to day?

The team finds people on LinkedIn and sends them the job's link. Each person applies and speaks to Kit when it suits them, including evenings and weekends. Kit tells the team who to meet first, and why, in the company's ATS. The team interviews and decides.

Does Kit work with LinkedIn?

Yes, alongside it. Kit does not connect to your LinkedIn account. Your team keeps finding people there, and Kit speaks to them once they apply. Kit's recommendations and reasons reach your team in your ATS: Speak to Kit links to Greenhouse, Workday, SAP, Pinpoint, and any other ATS with an API.

How do people we found on LinkedIn reach Kit?

Your team sends them the job's link, as you would for any role. They apply and speak to Kit for 15 to 20 minutes, by phone or in writing, at a time that suits them.

Will people we headhunted mind speaking to Kit?

Every applicant gets a shot, so they feel heard and championed. They get a real conversation where they can share what a CV leaves out. One applicant said afterwards: "It's actually reinforced my interest in the company."

LinkedIn has AI of its own. Why add Kit?

Kit speaks to everyone at the point of application to discuss the way they work. It spots top performers the way a recruiter would if a recruiter could call 200 people for each job.

Does Kit message people on LinkedIn for us?

No. Your team does the outreach on LinkedIn. Kit speaks to people once they apply, then tells your team who to meet first, and why. Kit recommends. Your people decide.

What do LinkedIn Recruiter and Speak to Kit cost?

LinkedIn Recruiter is listed at $12,000 a licence a year on the UK government's Digital Marketplace. Speak to Kit costs £250 + VAT a month per agent month to month, or £200 + VAT a month on an annual plan.

LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. Speak to Kit is not affiliated with LinkedIn. Details from LinkedIn's public pages, October 2026. Tell us if anything has changed.

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