LinkedIn’s Prashanthi Padmanabhan says recruiters stay in control as Hiring Assistant takes on more of the workflow

LinkedIn Talent Solutions Engineering vice president Prashanthi Padmanabhan says the company’s agentic recruiting product, LinkedIn Hiring Assistant, is meant to expand what recruiters can do in the same amount of time rather than hand hiring decisions to software. Speaking after a Bengaluru media briefing, she argued that enterprises are struggling with the scale and complexity of hiring, and that recruitment is moving from a set of assistive features into the workflow itself.