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LinkedIn Easy Apply is a button on some LinkedIn job posts that lets you apply without leaving LinkedIn. Your profile, CV and a few answers are sent straight to the job poster. It is fast, but so is everyone else, so a tailored CV and applying on the employer’s own site often help you stand out.
What Is LinkedIn Easy Apply?
Easy Apply is LinkedIn’s built-in application form. When a job post shows the Easy Apply button, you can submit your application on LinkedIn itself instead of being sent to the company’s careers site. LinkedIn’s help centre describes it as a way to “submit your application without leaving LinkedIn.com”, with the application “securely sent to the job poster”.
Not every job has it. The employer or recruiter chooses whether a post uses Easy Apply or sends you to their own site, where the button reads Apply with an external link icon instead.
What gets sent usually includes:
- Your name, email address and phone number from your profile
- The CV you upload or pick from your saved CVs
- Answers to any screening questions the employer added, such as years of experience or right to work
- Relevant skills from your profile, which LinkedIn may include with the application
How Does LinkedIn Easy Apply Work?
Filter for Easy Apply jobs
In LinkedIn job search, turn on the Easy Apply filter to see only posts that accept applications on LinkedIn.
Click Easy Apply on a post
A short form opens with your contact details already filled in from your profile. Check the email and phone number are the ones you want employers to use.
Choose or upload a CV
Pick a CV you uploaded before or add a new one. This is the moment to use a version tailored to this job.
Answer the screening questions
Some posts add questions about experience, location, salary expectations or work authorisation. LinkedIn can save your answers to reuse on later applications, and you can review, update or delete them before you submit.
Review and submit
Check everything on the review screen, then submit. The application then appears in your applied jobs on LinkedIn, so you can see what you sent and when.
Ready to put this into practice?
Set up Auto Apply →Does LinkedIn Easy Apply Work?
Yes, people get interviews and jobs through Easy Apply every day. It is a real application that reaches the job poster. Whether it works for you depends on how you use it.
Why it works
- Speed. A complete application can take a couple of minutes, so you can apply early, while the post is fresh.
- Saved details. Your contact details and saved answers carry over, so you are not retyping the same information.
- Your profile travels with it. A strong LinkedIn profile adds context a CV alone cannot.
Why it sometimes doesn’t
- Many applicants. Because it is quick for everyone, popular Easy Apply posts can collect a large pile of applications, and yours has to stand out in it.
- Generic CVs. The speed tempts people to send one CV everywhere. A CV that doesn’t mention what the job asks for is easy to pass over.
- Screening questions. Knockout questions (for example a required certification) filter applications before anyone reads them. Answer them honestly and carefully.
Is Easy Apply effective?
It is effective when the job is a strong fit and your CV clearly shows it. It is weak as a volume tactic. Ten well-matched applications with tailored CVs usually beat fifty identical ones. For a sensible pace, see how many jobs to apply for a day.
LinkedIn Easy Apply Limits
LinkedIn says it has introduced daily and speed limits on Easy Apply submissions. According to its help centre:
- Daily limit: you can submit a set number of Easy Apply applications each day. LinkedIn does not publish the number, so treat any exact figure you see quoted elsewhere as unofficial.
- Speed limit: submitting many applications in a short time triggers a temporary pause on Easy Apply.
- Reset: the daily limit resets at the end of the day, in UTC time.
LinkedIn’s stated reasons are to help members stand out, keep the platform trustworthy and improve the quality of applications. If you reach the limit, you can still apply to jobs that link to the employer’s own site.
LinkedIn’s User Agreement also prohibits using bots or other unauthorised automated methods to access its services. Tools that click Easy Apply for you put your account at risk. Apply on LinkedIn yourself, by hand.
Ready to put this into practice?
Set up Auto Apply →Indeed’s Version: “Easily Apply”
Indeed has a similar feature. Job posts marked Easily apply let you apply on Indeed with your Indeed profile and CV, instead of being sent to the employer’s website. Employers choose whether to turn it on, and some still send you to their own site to finish an assessment or extra questions. The same advice applies: it is quick, so make the CV and answers count.
Easy Apply or the Company’s Own Site?
| Easy Apply on LinkedIn | Employer’s own application form | |
|---|---|---|
| Where you apply | Inside LinkedIn | The employer’s careers site |
| Time per application | A few minutes | Longer: more questions, sometimes an account |
| What the employer gets | Profile, CV and short screening answers | Everything they asked for, in their own format |
| Competition | Often many applicants, because it is quick | Often fewer, because it takes more effort |
| Best for | Strong-fit jobs you find on LinkedIn | Jobs you really want, and roles posted only on the company site |
Ready to put this into practice?
Set up Auto Apply →When to Apply on the Company’s Own Site Instead
The job is a top choice
The employer’s own form often asks more, which gives you more room to show fit. If the post is also on their careers page, consider applying there.
The role is not on LinkedIn at all
Plenty of employers post jobs on their own careers site first, or only there. Checking company sites directly finds roles other applicants never see.
You have hit the Easy Apply limit
Jobs that link to the employer’s site are not affected by Easy Apply limits.
You can tailor properly
Whichever route you choose, a CV that mirrors the job’s main requirements does more than any button.
How MockIF Auto Apply Fits In
MockIF Auto Apply works on the route many people skip because it takes time: employers’ own application forms. It finds new jobs on employers’ careers sites that fit your roles and CV, then fills in each form with the answers you gave during setup. On Plus and Pro, your CV is tailored to each job, using only what is already in it.
- Your answers, never guessed. When a form asks something new, the question comes to you, and your answer is saved for later forms.
- Every application on record. You can see each job, the answers used and the CV sent, plus a daily report email.
- Every reply in one inbox. Employer replies land in your MockIF Inbox, with good news flagged.
- Your accounts stay yours. MockIF does not use, log into or automate LinkedIn or Indeed. Keep using Easy Apply yourself for the LinkedIn jobs you like, and let Auto Apply cover employers’ own sites.
Auto Apply is free to start with 5 credits, then monthly or 3-monthly plans, or one-off credit packs. See Auto Apply to Jobs for how it works.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is LinkedIn Easy Apply?
Does LinkedIn Easy Apply actually work?
Is there a limit on LinkedIn Easy Apply applications?
Is it better to Easy Apply or apply on the company website?
Can recruiters see that I used Easy Apply?
Can I automate LinkedIn Easy Apply?
Apply on employers’ own sites, without the typing.
Auto Apply finds jobs that fit your CV and fills in each employer’s own application form with your answers. Free to start with 5 credits.
Set up Auto Apply →