How to post jobs on LinkedIn

HireHive can automatically post your jobs to LinkedIn as basic (free) listings on your Company Page. This article walks through the setup on both the HireHive and LinkedIn sides, plus what to do if jobs aren't appearing.

Step 1: Enable LinkedIn as a job board in HireHive

In your HireHive account, go to Settings > Job boards and make sure LinkedIn is selected in the list.

Step 2: Connect your LinkedIn Company ID

Click Manage LinkedIn account next to the LinkedIn entry. You'll need to enter:

• Your LinkedIn Company ID - this is a numeric ID, not your Company Page name. To find it, see LinkedIn's support article on locating your Company ID.
• The email address associated with your LinkedIn Company Page admin account.

Note that it can take up to 48 hours for your job to appear on job boards at first. So don’t panic if you don’t receive applications right after publishing your job as it may just take a few hours! Once your first LinkedIn job has been published, the jobs should appear on LinkedIn within 1 to 2 hours.

Step 3: Enable Basic Job Posting on your LinkedIn Company Page

LinkedIn has a setting called Basic Job Posting that controls whether jobs from third-party systems (like HireHive) appear on your Company Page. For many Company Pages this setting defaults to off, so it's worth checking before you publish.

You'll need to be an admin of your LinkedIn Company Page to change this.

1. Go to your LinkedIn Company Page
2. Click Settings in the bottom left of the admin menu
3. Select Job posting
4. Switch Enable basic job posting to On

This setting only affects free, non-promoted listings. Any promoted (paid) jobs you run separately on LinkedIn are unaffected.

How long jobs take to appear

• Your first ever LinkedIn job: up to 48 hours, as LinkedIn validates the integration.
• All jobs after that: 1 to 2 hours.
• After enabling the Basic Job Posting toggle: up to 24 hours for jobs to start appearing.

If you've just published your first job, don't worry if applications don't come in straight away.

Troubleshooting: jobs aren't appearing on LinkedIn

If your jobs aren't showing up on your LinkedIn Company Page after the expected timeframe, check the following in order:

1. LinkedIn is selected in your HireHive Settings > Job boards tab.
2. Your LinkedIn Company ID is correctly entered under Manage LinkedIn account (it should be a numeric ID).
3. Basic Job Posting is enabled on your LinkedIn Company Page (Step 3 above).
4. The job is published, not saved as a draft, in HireHive.
5. At least 24 hours have passed since enabling the LinkedIn toggle, or 48 hours since your first job.

If you've worked through all of these and your jobs still aren't appearing, contact our support team and we'll investigate.