Post a job in Recruiter

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You can post jobs in LinkedIn Recruiter to advertise open positions at your company. These job posts can be searched by job seekers throughout the LinkedIn network and will be recommended to potential candidates through the Job Recommendations feature.

In Recruiter, all jobs are associated with an open project. This allows you to review and manage your search results, recommended matches, and job applicants in one centralized place. It also improves collaboration with your hiring team. You can post a job when you create a project, or you can post one to an open project after it’s created.

Important to know

Jobs posted with your LinkedIn Recruiter license (seat) must be managed through Recruiter. However, job posts that you create through your personal LinkedIn account won't appear in your Recruiter account and must be managed through LinkedIn.com.

Important to know

Only Company Pages can be associated with a job post. This excludes showcase pages.

To post a job through LinkedIn Recruiter:

  1. Move your cursor over Jobs at the top of the Recruiter homepage and click Post a job.

  2. On the Step 1: What job do you want to post? page, enter the fields below. You can auto-populate your job attributes based on your project settings, using a saved draft, or a previously posted job. In order to do this, look to the AI recommendations module found on the right side of the screen. Each pre-populated field may still be edited.

    • Company: Type your company name and select the appropriate option from the dropdown. You must first have a LinkedIn Page created for the company that you are posting a job for.
    • Job title: Type in the job title and select the appropriate option from the list of standard title suggestions that appears.
    • Workplace type: Select the type of workplace from the dropdown.
    • Job location: You can add the exact street-level address for your job post, however, we’ll only display the city-level address. Jobs with a street address will show up in more searches and recommendations and will enable job seekers to view their commute time.

  3. In the Job function and Company industry fields, select up to three options.

    • To add a function or industry, type it in the text box and select the appropriate option from the dropdown that appears.
    • To remove an item, move your cursor over it and click the Remove icon.

  4. The Employment type and Seniority level fields are auto-populated based on the job title you provide. The seniority level refers to the position level you expect a candidate to hold at your company. Click on the dropdown if you want to select a different option.

    • Internship
    • Entry level
    • Associate
    • Mid-Senior level
    • Director
    • Executive

  5. Enter a Job description.

  6. Click Add skill to add the skills needed for the job. Begin typing the skill and select the relevant option from the dropdown. You can add up to 10 skills.

    • As you fill and edit your job attributes, you can view the AI recommendations module to see how changes impact your available applicant pool on LinkedIn. These real-time insights are directly powered by LinkedIn’s marketplace data.

  7. US only: Under Pay, add the compensation for the role. 

  8. Under How would you like to receive your applicants? select how you would like people to apply by clicking on one of the following options:

    • Recommended: Let applicants apply with their LinkedIn profile and notify me by email – This option is recommended and prompts you to confirm the email address to which you would like the notifications sent. Choosing to have LinkedIn collect applications and notify you won’t disclose your email address to applicants.
    • Direct applicants to an external site to apply – This option prompts you to provide the URL of the external site (i.e. your company’s applicant tracking system).

    Here's a tip

    If you're receiving an error message when adding your email address to Let candidates apply with their LinkedIn profile and attach their resume, make sure your email setting under Searching for a job > Job Application Updates is turned on.

    Important to know

    LinkedIn acknowledges your need to manage email settings and stay informed about possible email delivery issues. Please ensure the email address you are adding is verified and associated to a LinkedIn member profile. See Verify your email address on LinkedIn to learn more.

  9. Under Add to a project, choose the project you want to associate your job with or click Create new to create a new project.

    You can also post a job when you create a new project by clicking Add a job post.

  10. Click Continue.

  11. On the Step 2: Add screening questions page, select the screening questions you'd like to add to the application process. The system populates one relevant screening question based on the job description you’ve entered, and makes recommendations that you may accept from the right side AI recommendations module. You can edit the information, if necessary.

    Here's a tip

    If you’ve added more than three screening questions to your job post, the system automatically sorts applicants based on the answers to those questions. If you’ve added fewer than three, you can manually sort applicants by screening question answers.

  12. Click Continue.

  13. On the Step 3: Here are 7 ways to enhance your job page, you can enhance your job post in the following ways:

    • Click Show profile on the job post to add a profile to your job post if you want to make your profile visible while posting a job.
    • If applicable, under Add job tracking, enter a Tracking pixel and Employer job ID.
    • Under Select the closest title, select one of the suggested options to help make your job more discoverable.
    • Under Select provided benefits, click any of the suggested benefit options.
      • United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Ireland only: Under Add compensation information, add the compensation for the role.
  14. Click Preview if you’d like to preview what your job post will look like to potential applicants.

  15. Click Finish to post your job.

Once your job is posted, you can automatically archive and send rejection messages to out-of-country applicants applying to your job posts and to applicants who don’t meet the required screening qualifications.

Your job will remain open for 30 days, unless you renew the posting.

You can post multiple jobs to the same project, but only the most recent job will be visible to job seekers. All applicants from all jobs associated to the project will still be available in the Applicants section under the Talent pool tab and archived applicants will be available in the Archived section under the Pipeline tab.

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