The Way to Get the Most From Your Really Job Posting

Indeed.com is the world’s largest job board, with over 200 million unique visitors every month and growing. Really is an excellent job board for smaller companies to use not just due to their dimensions, but also because they have free and paid options, as well as a high quality resume database which you can search for free.

We utilize Indeed’s sponsored job posting options and consistently find excellent talent much quicker compared to any other free or paid options. Our sponsored project postings appear on top of the candidates’ search results and we only pay when they want to learn more about our rankings. If this is the first time posting on Indeed, you can get a complimentary $50 sponsored job credit here.

How Can Indeed Work? — 3 Methods to Post Jobs on Indeed

There are three chief ways your job listing can show up on Truly .

1. Free Job Posting

To post a project at no cost on Indeed, all you want to do is produce a free company account using your company email, fill in your pertinent job information, and then post it. We’ll provide simple step-by-step directions about how to do this below.

2. Sponsored Job Posting

While there is no limitation to the number of free job postings, sponsoring your job ad will be able to help you to find better applicants faster. If you do a sponsored posting on Indeed, you will pay-per-click, generally between $0.25 — $1.50. Sponsored job posts appear at the very top of Indeed search results. You can sponsor either a posting which is on your own website or one that you have submitted straight on Indeed.com.

BONUS: Subscribe to Truly now and receive a free $50 sponsored advertisement credit here.

3. Jobs Posted on Your Business Site

If you’ve got a Careers section on your website, we will provide you tips on how to format your project postings so that those tasks get picked up by Truly.

Let us concentrate on how to make the most of your job ads on Really using all those 3 Indeed job posting options.

How to Post a Job on Truly for Free

Really allows employers to post job listings at no cost, which is a great alternative if you’re making your initial hires or can’t afford paid advertising.

To post a project on Indeed for free, complete these steps:

1. Visit Indeed.com and click on”Post a Job”.
2. Create your free employer accounts.
3. Provide job information, such as company name, job title, and project description.
   Really requires that you put something in the business name field when you post an advertisement. Consider using a company unit name like’marketing department’, rather than the company name, if you want to post a blind ad. This comes in handy if, for example, you are submitting a job for an administrative assistant and you don’t need your existing admin to know.
   

   Indeed Screenshot displaying job title

4. When requested to add a sponsorship, click”Post your project without even sponsoring”.
   

   Really Post a Job Free, without Sponsoring option

How to Make the Most of Your Own Free Indeed Job Posting

You will find over 50 Million tasks on Truly, and over 60K monthly people. There is a lot of eyes on your job posting, but getting the most qualified candidates to click on your free job posting and are applicable to your job takes some effort on your part. Listed below are a couple ways to maximize your free Indeed job posting:

1. Select a Job Title that Will Get the Most Clicks

Some job titles have more action than others. You’ll need a descriptive but compelling title.

If you are recruiting for a marketing representative by way of example, your payroll system may list the job as”Mkt Rep II”, but don’t use that as a the job title. You are going to receive better and more job applicants when the job seeker sees a project they feel matches their abilities. If you want suggestions, read our article about how best to choose a work title or attempt Really’s Job Title Generator. This tool is super easy because it tells you 3 items:

1. How many job postings are currently out there containing the job title(s) you are thinking about.
2. How many people are searching for that job title when looking for postings.
3. Compares postings per job name for different job titles.

For instance, below is a screenshot of those project titles”Front Office Manager” vs”Office Manager”. This graph shows you how the orange line, that is Office Manager, gets way more traffic than Office Manager shown by the blue line. So even though the tasks are similar, the job ads tagged Office Manager get more traffic.

All of this information can help you create the best job name feasible for the role so that it has picked up by Really’s organic search.

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2. Write an Interesting & Clear Job Guide

Really’s Job Description field provides suggestions to incorporate a description of the duties, work experience, skills, and instruction. Having a fantastic job description ensures that you’ll not only attract the right candidates, but can help non-qualified applicants opt out when they see they are not qualified or they don’t match your culture.

Here are 3 tips to Make Sure your job description attracts the top applicants:

Tip 1: Make it effortless to read.

To achieve more job seekers, create your work description simple to see, and be particular enough on the work description which job seekers may know whether their abilities match.

Break your job description into sections with clearly defined headers such as”Required Skills” or”Work Environment” then utilize brief summary statements below each section, like”must be proficient in MS Office/Word/PPT/Excel”. This helps job seekers scan your work description quickly and determine if its a project they’re able to perform and would like to apply for. It is important because job seekers are probably looking at several tasks per day, and you want yours to stand out.

Tip 2: Distinguish between what’s required and what’s great to have.

Be sure to indicate if or not a skill or instruction is needed. By way of instance, you may need a high school diploma or GED, and prefer (but not require) the ability to speak Spanish. This assists candidates know whether they should apply or not.

While you want to make the requirements and also the nice-to-haves apparent, you also don’t wish too long a list of requirements, which might discourage good candidates from using. Professor Ronda Smith advises:

Contemplate each requirement or wanted qualification very carefully. When creating your internet job posting you will need to believe as much about who you need in your swimming pool as your posting might be discouraging good candidates from applying in the first location. Every thing on the job posting could be a source of encouragement or discouragement for the candidate to self-select into or out of your potential pool.
— Ronda M. Smith, PhD, Assistant Professor of Management, Ball State University

Hint 3: Make it Personal.

Add just a little details about your organization and job culture, such as when it was set up, or your mission statement, to assist project applicants choose your business and your job over others. You would be surprised how incorporating background information such as how the company was started, that it is a start up, or what kind of perks are offered, can entice job seekers to apply.

Sponsoring Your Really Job Posting for Better Candidates

In case a free job post is not getting you the results you want, you can get more exposure using a sponsored project posting on Truly. Sponsored job listings show up at the top 2-3 along with the bottom 2-3 listings on every Indeed.com job search page.

Here is a good illustration of sponsored project postings showing up on peak of a job seeker’s list. Watch the tasks together with red circled text.

If you would like to host a post, click here to get $50 in free advertisement. Do not worry — this credit is saved on your accounts, so if you are not ready to use it now, that is fine.

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Indeed Job Posting Prices

Indeed.com’s sponsored ads work on a pay-per-click cost model. You pay a specific fee for each and every job seeker that’clicks’ in an advertisement for the job posting, normally between $0.25 and $1.50. The true cost per click for your job posting varies based on competition for similar jobs in your town.

How to Sponsor a Job Posting Ad on Indeed

If you want to do sponsored advertising for a job posting on Indeed.com, it’s as straightforward as shown in the screenshot below. At this point in the job posting procedure, you would click”continue” to set up your effort and cover.

You can set a monthly invoice, a daily budget, and a targeted number of applicants, and Indeed.com will try to meet your goals by bidding automatically for you, no longer displaying your job ad when your monthly budget or your project posting end date is reached.

Why Sponsoring a Job Ad Can Mean Better Results

Indeed.com’s search results are based on relevancy and recency. As free listings age, they generally fall farther down in search results. Sponsored postings don’t — they always stay visible, which results in more applicants.

Oftentimes, sponsored listings will outperform free job listings from 3-5 times. That’s because free job advertisements proceed further and further down on time, while sponsored project ads remain in view. You can see this by our case posting in the image below, which estimates 105 applicants with sponsorship versus 9 applicants using a complimentary posting.

Additionally, as soon as you get to a particular threshold of sponsored ads, Really provides you the free option of becoming a Featured Employer, which means much more exposure by providing your company, your logo and your job ads more prominent placement on the employee’s job hunt page. Have a look at their FAQs to find out more about being a featured company.

Reposting a Job Rather than Sponsoring

You could be asking yourself in the event that you can just repost free job advertisements to get to the peak of the search Indeed results, rather than sponsoring your job posts. We advise that you sponsor the work post because Really flags repeat postings. Should you want to repost a job, be certain that you delete any previous postings that are similar. (When you delete old postings, then you will also delete the applications connected to it). You are very likely to get your account locked if found posting duplicate ads, or be required to cover all ads going forward.

Get Jobs From Your Website Posted on Indeed

Indeed.com is always looking for job postings, utilizing search engines and prowlers to find new ones to grow their own website. If your organization site is search engine friendly, and you’ve got a livelihood page with tasks listed, Indeed is likely to discover and post those jobs for job seekers to find on Indeed without you having to do or pay for anything.

Below are 6 tips to raise the odds that Indeed.com will find and connect job openings directly from your company website posting/feed to their job search website.

Hint 1: Bold the Job Title & Put It in the Top.

Put the job title at or near the peak of your list, and be certain that it is in daring therefore that it stands out in some manner. If it is jumbled in with everything else, Really won’t link to it. Also, be as specific with your job title as you can, or think about changing it into a more popular job name that you can study on Indeed’s Job Title Generator.

Hint 2: Include Your Company Name on Each Job Posting.

This seems like a no-brainer, but sometimes employers list only a contact email or application entry button rather than actually include their business name since they figure it’s obvious. But Indeed is searching for listings with company names included, so take the extra minute to make sure you’ve added it all in. If you’ve got a business social networking profile, then add that too!

Tip 3: List a Physical Location with a City and State.

Indeed.com is looking for a physical site. Even if your company does not technically have one, place your company’s founding address, P.O. Box, or the address where you receive your business mail. Make sure you include just 1 location, as Indeed does not like numerous locations. Be sure that you incorporate a town, country and zip code.

In the event the task is distant, or allows telework, that’s a massive plus. You will really want to add words like’remote”work from home’ or”offsite’ early in your job description, because Really won’t permit you to place this info in the place field.

Tip 4: Give Every Person Job Its Own Web Page and One of a Kind URL.

Indeed.com won’t link to pages or job postings that have more than one job on the page. They would like to find a custom url for each job that’s linked to specific job posting. So, in case you’ve got multiple job postings on your site, create separate web pages for each.

Tip 5: Include Keywords in Your Work Description.

Include a lot of keywords regarding the function and industry on your job description. It’s also a fantastic idea to repeat words out of your job title whenever you can. The more key words that are repeated, the more likely it is the search engines and Indeed will locate your job posting.

Tip 6: Have a Submit Button or Application Entry Email Address.

Include clear directions for how an applicant must finish the procedure, while it’s a submit application , or even a phrase like”Send resumes and applications to [email protected].”

Really Company and Careers Pages

Really, such as Glassdoor, posts business testimonials. The page where testimonials are shown, pictured below, is called your Indeed Company Page. The page also links to active job postings you have on Indeed.

If you don’t have a profession or tasks page on your own website, you are able to leverage a tool known as Really Careers Page. It is a page you may link to in your social media networks or embed on your site which shows your active Really job postings. It updates in real time, so in the event that you pause or remove a job from Really, it’s also removed from your Careers page.

We supply an great explanation of how to see, claim and set up your Company and Careers pages on Really.

Best 3 Perks of Pairing Your Work on Truly

If you still aren’t convinced about submitting your job on Indeed, here are some more reasons you might want to consider it.

Perk 1: Really allows you to message job seekers.

Perhaps you aren’t getting enough applicants to your job posting or want to have more control over finding good candidates. Really permits you to source your own candidates that match your project description, and may be more affordable than contacting them using social media tools like LinkedIn InMail or LinkedIn Recruiter. To learn more, read how to hunt resumes on Indeed.

Perk 2: You may get applicants.

This may seem easy, but, for the most complex roles, Really always delivers at least a few applicants. Considering that the procedure to post takes approximately 3-5 minutes total, if you already have a job description prepared, it is absolutely worth your time. According to our own experience at Fit Small Business, in comparison to other job boards, the applicant caliber on Indeed, in general is better.

Perk 3: You may see the resumes of applicants on your own terms.

Indeed gives you some great flexibility when selecting. For example, even when you’re not logged in, you are able to see applicant resumes via their email alerts while you’re commuting home. Really joins the full restart of an applicant to the email alert you get. Oryou can log in to Indeed and proceed through and arrange candidates systematically. It is like having your own candidate monitoring system. The option is yours.

Bottom Line 

Indeed.com can be a great tool for finding quality workers, especially if you put some effort into making sure that your job posting is as accurate and compelling as it can be. With the hints above, you should be well on your way for a fantastic set of quality applicants and making the most of your Indeed job posting, whether you post for free, or host your job posting to get more candidates. Click here to get $50 in free sponsorship charge on Indeed.

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