Job of the month is an initiative to promote any job myjobscotland that may be struggling to gain attention and/or candidates. These jobs will be advertised through our social media platforms. Usually Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. Some examples of previously featured jobs can be seen below:
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How to get your jobs advertised as a job of the month
Ideally a job of the week shout meet these certain requirements to be posted as job of the week;
- must have low applicants
- must stay open for 1 - 2 weeks from the day its advertised
- the job may not have any difficult requirements to be accepted
If your job meets all these requirements your job is eligible to be advertised.
Advertising process
If your job is eligible to be advertised you can fill out our form for job of the week sign up to job of the week here
In the form it asks you to state:
- the job title
- the job reference number
- the number of applicants the job currently has
- your organisations social media @
- a preferred email to be contacted on
If you wish to email us with more information, you can also optionally state:
- a small description of the job that can be used in the caption when posted
- any requirements for the job
- if the job has been posted before
- a preferred date for the job to be advertised
When advertised
Once the job is published on our social media it will remain linked onto our link tree for a week and then removed once the next job of the week is published. However the job will still be accessible from posts on Facebook and LinkedIn as you are able to put direct links to the job in the caption of posts on these platforms.
Talentlink
Anyone advertising jobs with us that are connected to our back end ATS (Talentlink) will have applications automatically tracked and the application source will display as 'JotW' within Talentlink.
We have found that posts with organisations that use our ATS do have a higher number of applications. In some cases, if the job being advertised doesn't use our ATS it may continue struggle to fill applications even after the additional advertising. This may be down to the different application process or request for submission of a CV, which could deter some candidates. However it is still worth using the job of the week service as this is not the case for every post.
Social media links