If you’re trying to execute an effective recruitment marketing plan, chances are you’ve already considered LinkedIn.
Why wouldn’t you? LinkedIn is one of the biggest social selling platforms specifically built for professionals. It has nearly 800 million users in more than 200 countries. A survey also revealed that 80 percent of B2B social media leads come from LinkedIn, highlighting its power for professional networking.¹
Using this influential social media platform is a must for recruitment marketing. But to use it successfully? That will take more than just setting up a LinkedIn profile.
How can you elevate your client’s LinkedIn recruitment marketing campaign to unlock full access to its talent pool? Read more to learn how to navigate the waters of LinkedIn to amp up your employer branding and broaden your network.
What is Recruitment Marketing?
Recruitment marketing is promoting your brand, culture, and job openings to attract candidates. It involves using a combination of relevant content marketing tactics, tools, and methodologies to engage and nurture potential candidates.
Talent acquisition can be a daunting task, given today’s competitive hiring landscape. That’s where LinkedIn marketing comes in—it offers lead generation tools that will make recruitment marketing easier.
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5 Powerful Ways to Use LinkedIn for Recruitment Marketing
Here are five tips on how to run a successful LinkedIn recruitment marketing campaign:
1. Set a Content-Sharing Schedule for your Client’s LinkedIn Company Page
Start by keeping your client’s LinkedIn company page followers well-fed. This audience won’t be hard to engage with since they’re already interested in your company. Identify the best time to post and build a schedule around that. Make sure to include relevant keywords and incorporate employer branding in your content. The idea is to gain momentum and keep your audience posted on what you do.
Pro Tip: Use LinkedIn’s “Notify Employees” button when publishing important posts from your company page. This subtle feature appears after posting and sends a notification to your team, making it much easier for them to find and share content without having to scroll through their feeds.
2. Let your Client’s Employees be Brand Ambassadors
Encourage your client’s teammates to share your LinkedIn posts. This practice, called employee advocacy, will enable you to reach a broader network of people, including passive candidates. Also, employee referrals are a source of high-quality hires. If the people connected to your employees on a professional or personal level see them promoting your brand, they’re more likely to trust the post and apply.
To ease the work, you can set up the platform’s settings to automatically send notifications to your client’s employees whenever you post LinkedIn content. It would also be good to award referral incentives and other employee perks whenever they share content or tag the page.
3. Invest in Sponsored Content and Recruitment Ads
If the budget allows, invest in reaching your desired audience through LinkedIn ads and sponsored content. This will not only increase your reach but also focus on ideal candidates. Here are two types of useful paid advertising methods:
Recruitment Ads
To reach an unfamiliar candidate pool, you need to invest in recruitment ads. Usually, when you publish company updates, it’s automatically visible to the people who follow you, just like on Facebook and other social platforms. With LinkedIn recruitment marketing ads, you can reach the people who don’t follow you and drive engagement to your LinkedIn newsfeed.
Sponsored Content
You can share more than just job postings—use various content formats to boost brand awareness and increase engagement. Here are some examples that you can add to your content strategy:
- Client Company Spotlights: Highlight your client companies (with their permission) to showcase the diverse opportunities you offer.
- Candidate Success Stories: Feature candidates who have found great positions through your firm, focusing on their career growth.
- Recruitment Tips: Offer advice for job seekers, positioning your firm as a valuable resource for candidates.
- Client Testimonials: Share feedback from satisfied companies to build trust with potential clients and candidates.
4. Set Up your Client’s Career Pages
Your client’s career page on LinkedIn caters to candidates who want to know more about job opportunities and employment-related content in your organization.
These pages should effectively showcase your company culture apart from your usual marketing content. It also lets you display your company story, diversity, and employee testimonials. By creating a holistic career page, you can increase visibility and encourage candidates to apply.
LinkedIn has made setting up your career page easy. You can customize views to targeted industries, such as sales, engineering, healthcare, and others. Moreover, it automatically shows recommended jobs and insights to candidates through the Jobs tab.
5. Use LinkedIn’s Pipeline Builder
LinkedIn lets you build a targeted talent pipeline already interested in working in your organization. It helps you search less and hire faster. The pipeline builder features a one-click “I’m interested” button, which flows into LinkedIn’s built-in candidate management platform called Recruiter.
Pipeline Builder helps you spark the interest of your potential candidates with personalized landing pages. Then, when you have a pipeline of warm candidates, you can get them to fill out an application even before you have a vacancy. This move makes you one step ahead in your recruitment strategy.
Pro Tip: When searching for candidates, use LinkedIn’s Boolean search operators to refine results. Combine terms with AND, OR, and NOT, and use quotation marks for exact phrases. For example: “project manager” AND (healthcare OR medical) NOT entry-level. This dramatically improves the quality of your search results.
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Content Ideas for LinkedIn Recruitment
You might already know about LinkedIn’s marketing features but are lost on what exactly to post. Here are some engaging content ideas for inspiration:
a. Event Promotion
Your client doesn’t have to be an event-based organization to promote its corporate events on LinkedIn. If they’re asked to speak at a conference, present at a showcase, or attend a networking event, share them on LinkedIn. This increases candidate engagement because it lets your audience know you’re actively out and about in the real world.
b. Company News
Regularly posting your client’s corporate updates to LinkedIn keeps your network in the loop. It creates transparency with your audience and, in turn, builds a stronger connection with them. Letting your target audience know about company changes moves your corporate narrative forward. And it brings your followers along for the journey.
c. Thought Leadership
Thought leadership content is a great way to educate your target audience. Let them know more about what your client does and provide valuable insights. The goal is to establish your LinkedIn business profile as a great resource for information. It represents an insight-driven and quality-focused approach to content, showing how engaged your brand is with your mission.
Thought leadership content also establishes your client’s brand as the best in your industry. This is particularly attractive to top talent who aspire to companies with meaningful and impactful messaging.
In addition, 48 percent of thought leadership content generates actual leads and sales, especially for decision-makers who spend time on thought leadership content and articles.² So, to connect with business leaders and drive more business growth, it’s important to produce high-quality thought leadership content.
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d. Employee Updates
Content featuring individual stories of your client’s workers showcases how much they care about employees and employee interests. Prospective applicants can have an idea of how they cultivate employee relations within their organization. Success stories can inspire them and make them want to join your team even before reading a job vacancy post.
e. LinkedIn Live
LinkedIn Live can be a goldmine for you by creating a space for real-time engagement with both clients and candidates. Here, you can showcase your client’s expertise and company profile through live industry discussions or hiring manager Q&As. This transparency attracts top talent who are genuinely interested in their field.
For candidates:
- Host live Q&A sessions with hiring managers
- Conduct virtual office tours
- Discuss industry trends and career advice
For clients:
- Share success stories and case studies
- Offer insights on staffing trends and solutions
- Demonstrate your agency’s expertise through panel discussions
Scheduling speakers and promoting the event can often be challenging. You can partner with industry influencers and leverage LinkedIn groups to reach the right audience. Interactive polls and Q&A sessions can also keep attendees hooked. This builds trust, positions your agency as an industry expert, attracts top talent, and strengthens client relationships.
Pro Tip: Promote your LinkedIn Live events in relevant social media groups and through your network to maximize attendance!
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Last updated on March 10, 2025.
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References
- Dencheva, V. “Leading Social Media Platforms Used for Business-to-Business (B2B) Marketing.” Statista, 24 Jan. 2024, www.statista.com/statistics/1445198/leading-social-media-platforms-used-for-b2b-marketing/.
- “How to Build High-Quality Thought Leadership Content to Engage Your Audience.” The New York Times Licensing, Jan. 2024, nytlicensing.com/latest/trends/thought-leadership-stats/. Accessed 11 July 2024.
