# Adding people from LinkedIn

> Use the OpenATS Extension’s side panel on a LinkedIn profile to check someone, add them with their work history, and attach their resume.

Open a LinkedIn profile with the side panel open, and it reads them by itself: their name, headline and location, and whether they’re already in OpenATS. Pick a **Role** and a **Stage** and choose **Add to OpenATS**. They’re added with their photo and their LinkedIn experience, and you can drop in their resume.

*The OpenATS Extension · Last updated 2026-11-11*

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## Add someone

1. Open a LinkedIn profile (`linkedin.com/in/…`) with the side panel open.
   The panel shows them and whether they’re already in OpenATS. Moving to another profile or tab updates it; **Read LinkedIn again**, in the ··· menu, reads the page again.
2. Pick a **Role** and a **Stage**.
   The role starts on your default and searches as you type. The stage is **New lead** unless you pick another.
3. Choose **Add to OpenATS**.
   They’re added with their photo, their LinkedIn experience, and your default project and sequence.

After adding, the panel says **Checking email history…** while every connected inbox in your workspace looks back for earlier mail with them, then updates by itself, usually within a minute.

> **Note:** LinkedIn only draws someone’s Experience once it’s scrolled to, so when it isn’t there yet the panel scrolls the page down to it and puts it back. It can also open LinkedIn’s full Experience view in a background tab for a moment.

## Their resume

Drag a resume onto **Drop their resume here**. The usual one is LinkedIn’s own: **More → Save to PDF** on their profile, then drag it in from your downloads. Any PDF or Word resume works.

The panel checks their name is in the file first. If it isn’t (the wrong download, say), it asks before attaching: **Attach anyway** if you’re sure. It becomes their resume if they have none; otherwise it’s saved to their files, so the one they had stays.

## Someone already in OpenATS

The panel shows a chip for each role they’re on that you can see: choose one for their stage, its owner and when it last moved. The green **In OpenATS** pill opens them in OpenATS. You can add a note, or move the application to another stage, from the panel. **Add to another role**, beside their **Applications**, puts them on another role without changing your defaults.

When LinkedIn has a newer headline, location, photo or work history than OpenATS, **Update from LinkedIn** brings it across. It’s recorded on their history like any edit.

## Fixing what LinkedIn got wrong

**Edit captured details**, in the ··· menu, corrects anything before it’s sent, and adds an email or phone you have. **Remove photo** (in the ··· menu) takes down a saved photo that’s wrong, or that they asked to have removed.

> **Tip:** Their photo is only taken when LinkedIn labels it with their name, so someone with LinkedIn’s blank avatar gets none, never a mutual connection’s.

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Source: https://openats.ai/docs/openats-extension/add-from-linkedin
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