1 Setting up Recruitment Ads on Facebook like A Pro
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Facebook marketing is a key part of a recruitment marketing strategy because it assists get your business in front of a wide pool of prospects. Especially quality candidates who aren't actively using the standard job boards.

Social advertising is an effective tool for recruitment. However, since many advertising systems are customized to eCommerce, designing a great recruitment campaign can be tough. This post strolls through considerations and recommendations when using Facebook advertisements for recruitment marketing.

Establish Facebook Business Manager and advertisement account

You'll require a Facebook Business Page and Facebook Business Manager account to run any advertisements on Facebook or Instagram. This excellent guide from Hootsuite strolls through how to set up Facebook Business Manager.

Business Manager enables you to include several people to the account to assist run campaigns, but understand that individuals will require an individual Facebook account to be able to be added.

To buy marketing campaign, you'll likewise need a Facebook Ad Account, which you will be triggered to develop when establishing Facebook Business Manager.

You'll likewise require to confirm your website domain with Facebook, which is needed to measure and track campaigns.

Choosing a project type

To develop an ad campaign, head to the "Ads Manager" area by means of the top left navigation of your Business Manager Dashboard.

When you click the green button to create a campaign, you'll be provided a list of 11 types of campaign objectives. We've discovered that 3 of these objectives are most useful for job recruitment marketing: Brand Awareness, Traffic, and Conversion.

Brand Awareness

Just as individuals are most likely to purchase items from a brand they know, individuals are more likely to use for a job at a business they have actually heard of. Brand Awareness projects are optimized to be seen by a large swimming pool of individuals that are likely to be thinking about your company.

These advertisements will not directly drive traffic to your website, but they get candidates knowledgeable about your company and prepared to click when the best position occurs.

Awareness projects can be about almost anything that shines a light on your company. Announcements about growth and awards, short articles about business initiatives and culture, and videos about the company's accomplishments and mission can all be turned into attractive projects.

Traffic

In the Wonderkind platform, this is referred to as a "Clicks" project. These advertisements are targeted to reach an audience that is most likely to click on the link in your ad.

This audience is narrower than in a Brand Awareness project, however still consists of individuals interested but not all set to look for a task.

These ads can focus on employment opportunities to get individuals to explore more about the jobs and the business (fantastic for high-volume recruiting). Or feature content that will drive individuals to your site, like market hot topics or suggestions.

Conversion

Conversion projects are what individuals tend to think of when they believe about advertising. These projects track and enhance towards somebody carrying out an action on your website, such as sending an application.

For a Conversion campaign to be successful, you initially require to develop a strong audience of prospective candidates that recognize with your business. Without that, it's sort of like running through a crowd and asking complete strangers to marry you.

Let your audience get to understand you with Awareness and Clicks projects initially, and move more spending plan to Conversion campaigns in time.

Great ads and brand awareness makes individuals click, but conversion happens on a landing page. So you need to make certain that your task pages load quickly, are simple to read on mobile phones, and plainly specify the information task candidates appreciate the majority of.

Be mindful that Facebook conversion advertisements are going through some modifications in reaction to Apple's iOS 14 personal privacy updates - [upgrade October 2023: please read the following for more on Apple's iOS 17 personal privacy updates] Companies will require to focus on 8 conversion actions per web domain.

If task listings are on the main company website, you'll likely need to align with the marketing group on the top priority list.

Facebook motivates businesses to use the Facebook Conversion API to link your ads with conversion data from other sources, such as your server, content management system (CMS), or client relationship management (CRM).

Campaign budget optimization

There are a couple of various options when it pertains to spending for advertisements. First, you can choose to pay based on clicks or impressions of your ads. Next, you decide how you want Facebook to put your ads:

Daily Budget: Ads will be paced so, your spending lasts the complete day.
Lifetime Budget: You set the length of a project and ads will be put so your spending lasts the full campaign. This choice likewise permits you to set time windows such as running ads only in the evening or on weekends.
For the 3 main kinds of recruitment campaigns talked about above, a general suggestion is:

Brand Awareness: Run as ongoing campaigns, payment on impressions, and either daily or life time budgeting.
Traffic (Clicks): Short run times, payment on clicks, lifetime budget.
Conversion: Short run time, payment on clicks, lifetime budget. These will likely be your most costly projects.
Select an audience

Targeting job titles and industry is usually where you begin with recruitment marketing, but you can reach a lot of with unconventional audience characteristics. For some motivation, we just recently discussed 5 creative methods to utilize targeting in recruitment advertisements.

Facebook likewise provides the option to target "lookalike audiences." This is great once you have actually had good campaign outcomes and good hires to confirm your existing audience is what a future one should "appear like."

Ad positioning

After evaluating a number of the ad placement options available, we have actually found the most successful ones for recruitment marketing are: Facebook News Feed, Facebook Stories, Instagram Feed, Instagram Stories.

Here at Wonderkind, we have actually found that Facebook stories are seldom used. Therefore, we wouldn't advise utilizing them. We've found that the news feed for both Instagram and Facebook have actually provided our partners with more clicks and discussions.

If you are aiming to produce more awareness, we would advise Instagram. Not a great deal of marketers invest time on creating a good Instagram Story. So, if you make a strong recruitment advertisement on Instagram story, you will stand apart.

Create the advertisement

Assembling a terrific ad can be difficult. If you're uncertain where to begin, take a look at our guide on how to turn task descriptions into terrific social advertisements in 15 minutes.

It can be surprising what mix of copy and images work best for your audience. We suggest A/B screening numerous advertisement versions in each campaign.

For example, in a campaign about an employment opportunity, one ad variation might focus on the income and perks, another on the business culture, and a 3rd on the job functionality.

Put recruitment marketing on autopilot with Wonderkind

If you require to ramp up recruitment quickly, manually creating the assets, audience, and spending plans for each campaign will slow you down. Wonderkind assists you speed up recruitment marketing by automating your social technique throughout Facebook, Instagram, Google, and LinkedIn.

Our Talent Attraction Technology utilizes data from years of recruitment campaigns to build an audience that's perfect for your market, place, and open positions.

Our user friendly platform makes it basic to spin up imaginative advertisements in minutes with project templates, a library of stock pictures, and instantaneous image cropping. Once advertisements are running, keep track of performance and invest throughout all social channels in one overarching control panel.

Ready to turbo-charge your talent sourcing? Check out how Wonderkind works or see it in action.