Top 10 Free Ways to Advertise Your Job Openings

posted by Julia Friemering on Oct. 20, 2009

Save quite a bit of cash by taking advantage of these free ways to advertise your job openings:

10. Blog Writing a blog is free (we recommend using WordPress.com), and allows you to put your message on the web without involving your IT department.

9. Twitter With TwitterFeed, you can easily setup your jobs to auto-post on your Twitter site - just follow these easy instructions.

8. SimplyHired.com Simply Hired is a free job posting site that also powers the career sites of popular sites such as MySpace and US News.

7. Indeed.com Indeed
accepts free job postings, and also optimizes your postings for search
engines. Quite a few of our clients get the majority of their online
candidates from Indeed.com, because the jobs rank highly on Google.
myStaffingPro has a free add-on that will post all your jobs to both Simply Hired and Indeed automatically.

6. Linked In Linked In
is a powerful way to source new candidates. Even though many of the
recruitment features built into Linked In require cash, recruiter Erin
Campbell wrote an informative blog on how to leverage the power of Linked In, without spending a dime.

5. Business Cards For a very small investment, you
can print business cards that advertise your career site. Hand these
out to your employees to encourage employee referrals, and keep a stack
at the front desk to pass on to walk-ins.

4. SEO SEO, or search engine optimization, is the
art of creating a career site and job descriptions that are ranked
highly on popular search engines like Google and Yahoo. If your jobs
show up on search engines directly from your career site, you may never
have to pay for a job board again! (At myStaffingPro we build SEO right
into our customer's career sites. For more information, download the myStaffingPro SEO checklist).

3. Your Organization's Career Site You'll want the
careers section of your organization's career site to be easy to find.
The candidates most interested in working for your company will get
there first. So lean on the web site designers to put Careers somewhere
on the home page - better yet, include careers in your main menu.

2. Your employees Employee referrals are still the
most popular source for new hires. Encourage more referrals by creating
an employee referral portal, communicating new job openings with your
employees, and designing incentives for employees when a referral is
hired.

1. The reputation of your organization The number
one free way to attract applicants is the reputation of your
organization. If your employees enjoy their job, they will recommend
more applicants. As the word gets around, you'll have too many
candidates to handle for some of your jobs!