A recruiting tools organizer for people who run ten reqs at once

4 min read · Business & teams

Every open req spawns its own tab pile: the ATS pipeline view, three job boards, a sourcing tool, a saved boolean search, the hiring manager's intake notes and a dozen candidate profiles. A recruiting tools organizer like Linksley keeps a board per role or pipeline, saves each req's working tab set as a session that reopens as one window, and shares the team's sourcing links on boards instead of chat messages that scroll away. Making the boards your new tab puts the whole req list one keystroke from wherever you already are.

The boolean string you spent an hour on is 4,000 messages up

Somebody on the team wrote a genuinely good LinkedIn Recruiter search for backend engineers with payments experience. They pasted the URL into the sourcing channel. That was six weeks and two hiring sprints ago, and now three people are writing that string again from memory, slightly worse each time.

Meanwhile each open req has its own tab pile: the ATS pipeline view filtered to this role, the job posting on three boards to check it's live, the sourcing tool, the hiring manager's intake doc, the scorecard template, and eleven candidate profiles you're mid-review on. You run ten reqs. The math on that is a browser with a hundred favicon-width tabs and no titles.

Chat is where recruiting links go to decay: the message stays, but nobody scrolls back six weeks to find it.

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The same board, seen three ways. The contractor is not trusted to ignore the other links — they are not there.

A board per req, and a session that reopens it

Give each open role a board. Categories: Posting (every board it's live on), Pipeline (the ATS views you actually use), Sourcing (saved searches, boolean strings, talent pools), Intake & scorecard, Comp & leveling references. When the req closes, the board is the record of how you sourced it — and the next time the same role opens, you clone the approach instead of inventing it.

Then save the working tab set for that req as a session. It reopens as one browser window, so switching from the platform req to the sales req is one action instead of a tab-hunting exercise. Opt-in auto-saved browser snapshots mean a crash mid-review doesn't cost you the twelve profiles you had open.

  • Board per req: posting, pipeline, sourcing, intake, comp references
  • A session per req so the whole working set reopens as one window
  • A shared team board for sourcing tools, boolean templates and the job boards you post to
  • Text blocks for the intake summary and must-haves, right next to the links you screen against

Shared team boards for the things everyone rewrites

Most recruiting teams have a standing set that never changes: the job boards you post to, the sourcing tools you pay for, the diversity sourcing communities, the comp benchmarking sites, the interview question bank, the offer letter template. Put it on one board and mark it required so every recruiter and coordinator has it automatically. A new recruiter's first week stops being a scavenger hunt.

Set most people to view-only on that master board so it stays curated, and give the team lead "Can share" so they can bring a contract recruiter onto exactly two boards for a three-month burst. When the contract ends, revoke access in one action — every link, including the boolean strings they built, stays with the team.

The new tab is the req list

Recruiters open a lot of tabs. That makes the new tab page the highest-leverage surface you have: through the extension, it renders your boards instantly from a local cache and is searchable. Type part of a company name or a role and you're in the right pipeline view without going through the ATS home page first.

Saving is fast enough to actually do mid-source: a keyboard shortcut, a right-click, or the extension popup. Optional star capture means pressing the browser's bookmark star files the page onto a private Unsorted board, so a promising profile at 4:50pm lands somewhere and gets sorted later rather than becoming another orphan tab.

The honest limit: this is not an ATS and not a CRM. It doesn't track candidates, log activity, or hold notes on a person — no analytics, no integrations with your ATS. If your problem is pipeline data, that's your ATS's job. Linksley solves the layer above it, which is finding the right view, tool or search in the first place. Also: extensions are Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Opera, with no Safari and no mobile app.

See it in practiceRecruiter's Sourcing KitWhere candidates actually are, plus the tools to track and schedule them.A real, public Linksley board · 6 sections

Common questions

How should recruiters organize links for multiple open roles?

One board per req, with categories for the job postings, ATS pipeline views, sourcing searches and intake notes. Save each req's working tab set as a session so the whole window reopens in one action.

Where should the team keep boolean searches and sourcing links?

On a shared team board rather than a chat channel, where they scroll out of reach within weeks. Mark it required so every recruiter has it automatically and set most people to view-only to keep it curated.

What happens to a contract recruiter's links when they leave?

Revoke access in one action. Every link and saved search they added stays with the team, and their boards can be reassigned to whoever picks up the reqs.

Does this replace an ATS?

No. Linksley does not track candidates, log activity or store notes on people. It organizes the links, views and searches you use to work a req, alongside whatever ATS you already run.

Give every req a board

Start free on one board — put your standing sourcing set somewhere it stops decaying.

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