Capturing LinkedIn applications

Connect a LinkedIn job so its applicants flow into Kepler’s Inbound queue automatically.

Updated July 2026

If you advertise on LinkedIn, Kepler can capture those applicants automatically — no copy-paste from notification emails. LinkedIn sends "new application" emails to an inbox; Kepler reads the notification, creates an inbound application and processes it according to the job's intake policy. In review mode it waits in For Review in the job's Inbound queue; in automatic mode a clean applicant can join the pipeline immediately.

Before you start

  • You need a connected email account (Settings → Communications Accounts) — specifically, the inbox that receives your LinkedIn application notifications. If none is connected, the dialog will point you there.
  • You need a live job post on LinkedIn (Kepler doesn't create the LinkedIn post itself).

Connecting a LinkedIn job

  1. Open the job's Advertising tab and click + Connect to LinkedIn Job.
  2. Choose the receiving email account — the connected inbox where LinkedIn sends application notifications for this job.
  3. Pick the application stage accepted applicants should enter.
  4. Optionally paste the LinkedIn Project URL and LinkedIn Application URL for reference.
  5. Connect — the LinkedIn posting goes live in Kepler immediately (connecting means it's already live on LinkedIn).

How the capture works

  1. LinkedIn emails the receiving inbox about a new applicant.
  2. Kepler's email sync recognises the notification (sender + subject patterns) and matches it to your connected posting — when several LinkedIn postings share an inbox, the job title in the email disambiguates.
  3. The applicant's name, headline, location and profile URL are parsed out; a CV attached to the email comes along too.
  4. The applicant is scored against the job and appears in the Inbound tab marked with a LinkedIn source icon. Duplicate notifications are ignored.

Every LinkedIn applicant is parsed and scored. A confident junk submission moves to Screened out. In automatic intake mode, likely duplicates and processing failures stay in For Review for a recruiter, while clean applications are added to the configured pipeline stage.

If an application can't be matched

When a LinkedIn application email can't be matched to any connected posting (say, the job title changed on LinkedIn), Kepler sends you an Unmatched LinkedIn application notification instead of guessing — connect the right posting or handle the applicant manually.

LinkedIn occasionally changes its email format. Kepler's parser tolerates drift and degrades gracefully — if some fields can't be parsed, the applicant still arrives with whatever was readable, flagged for review.

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