Important: Recruitment-based staffing companies or search firms can't post jobs for free on LinkedIn and will have to use LinkedIn’s paid promotion features. This FAQ page provides more information about this policy.
Connect your LinkedIn Company Page to Workable for greater candidate engagement. After performing this one-time setup, published Workable jobs will be automatically added to your LinkedIn Company Page 'Jobs’ tab.
If you don't have a company LinkedIn page, create one. Once you've done this, you'll need to collect your Company ID and then enter it in Workable.
Create a company LinkedIn page
(If you already have a company LinkedIn page you can skip this step and move on to the next section.)
To create a company LinkedIn page:
- Visit the LinkedIn setup page.
- Select Company from the page type options.
- Fill in all the needed company details and then click on 'Create page'.
Now, you are ready to connect this company page with Workable.
Locate your LinkedIn Company ID
LinkedIn admin users:
To find your LinkedIn company ID as a LinkedIn Page Admin, navigate to the Admin View of your LinkedIn Page. The LinkedIn company ID is the number after "/company/" in the URL.
For example, if the admin URL for the LinkedIn Page is https://www.linkedin.com/company/2666416/admin/, the company ID is 2666416.
All LinkedIn users:
- Sign in to LinkedIn and search for your company.
- On your LinkedIn company page, locate the "X employees" link (or "X alumni" for schools/universities) and click on it.
- The Company ID is the number that appears in quotation marks (in this example, 2666416) in the view of all employees.
Important: Copy the number only in quotes. You can do this by double-clicking the number in the URL or manually typing the number out.
Add the Company ID to Workable
There are two ways to do that:
1. Paste the Company ID into the field when prompted during job publication from the Find Candidates section:
OR
2. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Apps > LinkedIn and enter your Company ID under the relevant field. Once you are done, click Save.
To verify that the ID is correct, click 'Test Company ID'. You should be directed to your LinkedIn company profile page.
That's it! Jobs that are published through Workable will automatically be attached to your Company Page (under the 'Jobs' section).
For more information, you may also check the related LinkedIn support article.
Troubleshooting & FAQs
- What will happen if I don't add my LinkedIn ID in Workable?
- Without a connected LinkedIn ID, job posts are sent as "orphan" posts to LinkedIn and may be linked incorrectly.
- I am receiving the error "This LinkedIn Company Id has already been taken".
- If your LinkedIn ID is attached to another account (probably an old inactive one), the system will generate the error "This LinkedIn Company Id has already been taken". Contact us to release the ID number.
- Can I post jobs for my subsidiary companies under my parent LinkedIn company page?
- The same LinkedIn company page cannot be linked to more than one Workable account. As a workaround, you can send an affiliation request to LinkedIn (you don’t need a recruiter license to submit this request).
- An affiliated LinkedIn Page is linked to another LinkedIn Page by the LinkedIn Support team and represents a parent or subsidiary organization. Jobs associated with the affiliated pages can be visible on the parent page.