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Cross-Posting Questions
Find answers to frequently asked
questions about connecting or cross-posting to job boards
You can access our cross-posting feature by signing in to RedBalloon and going to My Account>Connected Job Boards.
Our cross-posting feature allows you to post your RedBalloon job to other job board sites. This gives your job more visibility and can help you get more applicants from across different sites- while also directing all those applicants into your RedBalloon ATS system. This means your system can organize and track all your applicants, no matter where they came from, making your job easier.
To use this feature, you'll need to connect your company's accounts on these boards to your RedBalloon system. Each job board has slightly different requirements for connecting. If you don't know where to start, read through the following instructions for our supported job boards and decide which boards your company will want to crosspost to. This feature is free to use as part of your ATS package, but you may have to sponsor jobs on your job board accounts depending on which board you're posting to(I.E, you will have to sponsor postings on Indeed in your Indeed company account). For additional questions, or if you're having issues, please contact our team immediately for direct support.
Requirements
You will need a LinkedIn account with Admin privileges in order to connect your RedBalloon account.
Important New Update:
LinkedIn has a new policy for cross-posting jobs using LinkedIn Basic (free job ads). They are adding a 30-day probationary period for new accounts, starting January 2026. This means your cross-posted jobs will not be public on LinkedIn until 30 days after connecting. You can still set up cross-posting and post jobs with the LinkedIn checkbox checked under cross-posting settings. Those jobs will queue up in your LinkedIn system and immediately cross-post when those 30 days are over.
This will not affect setup- just be aware there will be an inital 30 day delay before your jobs are cross-posted. LinkedIn Premium is not affected by this.
Required Steps:
- Sign into your account on RedBalloon.work , click My Account in the top right corner and navigate to the "Connected Job Boards" page
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- Click on the LinkedIn dropdown, and click "Connect to LinkedIn"
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- Select "Basic" . You will then be asked to fill out your Company ID.
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- To fill out the Company ID, navigate to your company's LinkedIn page while logged into your account. Note: your account must be an admin account in order to see this page. Look in the url of the page, and find the numbers immediately following "/company/" in the URL. If the URL for the page is https://www.linkedin.com/company/74741215/admin/dashboard/, then your Company ID will be 74741215.
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- Click "Connect Account" to complete the process. Once you've done this, your account should be successfully connected! You should now see (ACTIVE) next to LinkedIn. Note: you must be a LinkedIn Page Admin to successfully log in.
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Requirements
You will need a LinkedIn Recruiter account with Admin privileges in order to connect your RedBalloon account.
Required Steps:
- Sign into your account on RedBalloon.work , click My Account in the top right corner and navigate to the "Connected Job Boards" page
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- Click on the LinkedIn dropdown, and click "Connect to LinkedIn".
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- Select "Premium" when asked to select options.
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- Click "Login to Linkedin" to connect your Linkedin account. Note: you must be a Linkedin Page Admin to successfully log in.
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- Search for your name in the "Default Job Poster" step.
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- When you have logged in successfully, you'll see a green checkmark and a success notification, with the Contract ID field automatically filled out.
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- To fill out the Company ID, navigate to your company's LinkedIn page while logged into your account. Note: your account must be an admin account in order to see this page.
- Look in the url of the page, and find the numbers immediately following "/company/" in the URL. If the URL for the page is https://www.linkedin.com/company/74741215/admin/dashboard/, then your Company ID will be 74741215.
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- Click "Connect Account" to complete the process. Once you've done this, your account should be successfully connected! You should now see (ACTIVE) next to LinkedIn.
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Requirements Before You Start:
- The account that you use to log in for your company's Facebook must have Admin or Editor permissions to post a job. If you do not have these permissions, your company's Facebook manager must do the following:
- Log into Facebook, then click your profile photo in the top right.
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- Click "See all Profiles", then select the Page you want to switch into.
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- Click your Page's profile picture in the top right to go to your Page.
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- Click Settings & privacy, then click Settings.
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- Click Page setup, then click Page access.
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- Go to the page settings, click “page roles”, click “Assign a new page role”, type in the email or name of the user who needs permissions, and set permissions to either "Admin" or "Editor".
- If you are unable to connect, then browse Facebook's documentation here.(https://www.facebook.com/help/510247025775149/?helpref=related_articles)
How to Connect your RedBalloon Account to Facebook:
- In the My Account Link in the top right corner, click "Connected Job Boards"
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- Expand the Facebook dropdown, and click "Connect to Facebook"
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- Click "Login to Facebook", and go through the Oauth2 process. Note: it will ask about connecting to Idibu, which is a third-party integrations service that RedBalloon uses for cross-posting jobs to other job boards. Please allow Idibu access to your account.
- If you correctly finish, then you should see a Success message
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- To find your Facebook Page ID, go to your company's Facebook page and click "About".
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- Click "Page transparency", and the Page ID should show.
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- Copy/paste the Page ID in and click "Connect Account". Your account should now be connected and say "Active" next to it.
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Requirements Before You Start
You must have an Employer account on Indeed that is able to post jobs.
How to Connect your RedBalloon Account to Indeed
- Log into your RedBalloon account and click "My Account" > "Connected Job Boards"
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- Click the Indeed dropdown and click "Connect to Indeed"
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- Type in your company name exactly as it appears in your Indeed account.
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- Note: if you're not sure what the company name is, then log into your Indeed account(as an Owner/Admin), click your email in the top right corner, then click "Employer settings". Indeed should display the exact company name.
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- Within your account settings, your company name will appear near the top right corner of your screen.
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- After typing your Indeed company name in RedBalloon, click "Connect". You should see (ACTIVE) next to Indeed.
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- IMPORTANT: once you complete the above steps, wait six hours for your job to post to Indeed. If your job does not appear in Indeed within that time, call RedBalloon at (208) 301-3272 with your exact company name, your Indeed admin's email, and the last four digits of the phone number connected to your Indeed account so we can verify your account connection and publish your posting.
🚩 IMPORTANT 🚩
Once you have gotten your job posting to post to Indeed, you MUST log into Indeed and sponsor your job in order for your job posting to show up in search results.
- Log into your ZipRecruiter account. It must be a paid account with a ZipRecruiter subscription.
- Go to the Connected Job Boards page in RedBalloon.
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- Connect ZipRecruiter job board by typing in your ZipRecruiter company name. You can find your ZipRecruiter company name in your account here:
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- Publish your RedBalloon job posting, ensuring the cross posting setting is checked for ZipRecruiter.
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- Contact your ZipRecruiter account manager by calling 877-252-1062. Specifically say “I would like to link the Idibu XML feed to my ZipRecruiter account.” RedBalloon uses Idibu
- Contact RedBalloon if posting doesn’t appear in your account in 24 hours.
To change your cross-posting settings for your company, you can go to My Account>Connected Job Boards. You'll see a list of all supported job boards and can see which of those job boards you're currently connected to. You can edit the connection by clicking "Manage Connection" to change the connected account. If you want to disconnect a board, open the dropdown and click "Disconnect Job Board". To connect, follow the instructions for each individual board to get your account set up with the RedBalloon system.
When you close a cross-posted job, your job will also be taken off all of the cross-posted job boards. That way, you won't keep getting new applicants for a closed job.
Can’t find the answers you’re looking for? Reach out to our customer success team!
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