Professional social networking site LinkedIn Corp. is bundling all of its talent scouting products, which include its Recruiter, Jobs and Pipeline Builder services, into a single platform.

The Microsoft Corp.-owned company said the new Intelligent Hiring Experience is designed to save time by helping recruiters find “recommended candidates” for their open job positions. The service will do this by tapping into LinkedIn’s database to infer more information about job seekers and link them to any open positions they might be suitable for.

For example, it will scan job seeker’s profiles in order to ascertain if they have specific programming skills needed for an open position, even if those skills aren’t listed on the candidates’ profile. It does this by analyzing the profiles of other users with similar job histories to see if they may also possess those skills. If most of them do, it’s likely that a candidate who failed to list those skills may still possess them.

John Jersin, vice president of LinkedIn Talent Solutions and Careers, said in a blog post today that the new capability would help it to more effectively connect job seekers with recruiters in need of their talents.

“The more you interact with candidates within a project, the more our tools learn about what you like — and don’t like — and then we can surface better candidates for your open role,” Jersin said. “Based on the applicants, leads, and search results you interact with, the intelligent hiring experience automatically builds a list of recommended candidates for you to consider reaching out to.”

The inferred information will be added to LinkedIn’s existing data sets on job seekers, which include the qualities candidates list on their profiles, and also behavioral data such as which profiles users are clicking on and interacting with.

LinkedIn’s Intelligent Hiring Experience will have other features too, such as a communications platform for recruiters to interact with job candidates. The platform will also provide a way for recruiters to reject applications, or let people know they’ve been invited to an interview.

“Applicants may not embrace your decision, but they will appreciate knowing the outcome,” Jersin said. “This will make them much more likely to check in with you the next time they’re looking because they’ll remember they had a good candidate experience.”

Jersin said LinkedIn is planning to launch the Intelligent Hiring Experience by the summer.

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