Social media RSS feeds

We provide RSS Feeds to connect the feed of jobs to your company or personal LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. Theoretically, these feeds can be posted anywhere online - within the Jobtrain system this is for LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook tick boxes.

In some cases, you may be able to directly connect this feed within your social media accounts, but in most cases, our experience is a piece of middleware needs to be used. The middleware acts as a conduit, receiving our feed and posting it onto your social media accounts as a status update. 

For the benefit of these instructions, we are referring to a middleware service called dlvr.it which, as part of its basic plan, offers 10 postings per day free of charge, with higher posting allowances available for a fee. 

Tip: Jobs posted to social media sites via this method are shared as status posts rather than listed jobs. If you wish to post to LinkedIn and for the jobs to appear as job listings (whether that be free job posts or premium job slots) we recommend utilising our job board multi posting feature. Please speak to your Client Success Consultant or our support team to find out more.

There are alternative providers to dlvr.it to manage social media postings so you may wish to shop around. 

In the case of dlvr.it, or any other provider you choose to use, these are third parties and are in no way connected to Jobtrain. Whilst your Client Success Consultant can advise you on best practice in utilising these tools to support your recruitment, they or Jobtrain cannot advise on, or be held responsible for, technical or commercial services provided by these third parties.

Is there a cost to post jobs using Dlvr.it?

No, there is no cost associated with using this provider if you sign up for the free Basic plan. The basic dlvr.it package allows you to set up posting to two social media platforms.

It’s worth noting that users on dlvr.it's free Basic plan are limited to 50 posts per social profile per month.

How long does it take for jobs to appear on social media when posted via dlvr.it?

Up to 3 hours for the Basic plan. If you have upgraded your dlvr.it account, it’s every 30 mins.

Setup

Before commencing the setup process, please ensure you have checked the box against the required social media option in the Post the Job tab against at least one live job.

To set up the feed:

Go to https://dlvr.it/ (you will need to create an account with dlvr.it to enable you to post). 

Once you have created your account, paste in the relevant link as follows under Find a feed:

Please note where it says client name in the feed you need to replace this with your client name how it appears on your Jobtrain URL.

• LinkedIn feed is: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/clientname/feed/LinkedIn
• Twitter feed is: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/clientname/feed/Twitter
• Facebook feed is: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/clientname/feed/Facebook

dlvr.it will search and check the feed.  

• Select + to connect the feed
• Select Next: Connect socials to choose which social media accounts to connect this feed to
• Select Connect New and the icon of which social media site you wish to publish to. Please note there are two types of LinkedIn accounts – Personal or Company accounts
• Add your login credentials for the chosen social media site
• Select Start Posting
• Select the Edit Output icon to adjust your settings, and choose what type of posting is required (Shared Link / Status Update) and choose if any prefix or suffix should be added to the post

LinkedIn posts require the user to manually refresh the feed every 60 days – see below for instructions how to do this.

Refreshing your LinkedIn feed:

On the homepage of dlvr.it, click the Socials button:

Select the LinkedIn feed. If this has expired, this will be displayed:

Click Reconnect Now. The system will ask you to log back into the LinkedIn account set up in the feed.

Once you have added the details, select Allow Access.

The feed will now be reconnected. The dlvr.it alert will now show that you have 2 months until you need to reconnect the feed again.