LinkedIn Job Feed

Prepare Your Jobs for LinkedIn

Kit gives your employer an authenticated XML feed of current, eligible jobs. LinkedIn must approve and connect this source before it can ingest them. Saving settings or seeing a role in the feed does not mean it is published on LinkedIn.

For employer Job Wrapping, ask LinkedIn for a Job Slots contract that includes XML wrapping. Confirm the total price and entitlement before buying. LinkedIn Premium, Recruiter Lite and LinkedIn sign-in do not provide this integration. Kit’s platform partner evaluation is a separate approval process. LinkedIn’s Job Slots information

Find Your Company ID

Open Hiring → Settings → Career portal → LinkedIn job feed as an account administrator. The feed is off by default.

Enter your numeric Employer LinkedIn Company ID or URL. You can paste a numeric Company Page URL or its admin URL:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/12345678/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/12345678/admin/

Kit extracts 12345678 when you save. To find the number, open Find your Company ID in settings, then open your employer’s LinkedIn Page in admin view and copy the digits after /company/ from the address bar. If you are not a Page administrator, ask one for the ID or admin URL. LinkedIn’s official instructions

A named URL such as /company/employer-name/ does not contain the numeric ID. Use the number or an HTTPS numeric Page/admin URL on linkedin.com or www.linkedin.com. Kit does not look up company names or verify Page ownership. After saving, use Open employer Page beside the saved ID to confirm the intended employer. Rejected input leaves your existing settings intact.

Configure the Connection

1. Enter the designated Corporate job-owner email. Use the employer’s corporate address for the person responsible for these jobs.
2. Save. Kit generates a unique machine password and displays the exact feed URL. Use Copy feed URL and Copy feed password; the password remains masked. The connection’s HTTP Basic username is linkedin.
3. Review Job readiness and correct missing information in each source job.
4. Confirm that the employer authorizes sharing these jobs, then select Include jobs in the feed and save.
5. Give LinkedIn the feed URL, employer Company Page and expected ready-job count through its automated job-source setup, selecting LinkedIn Jobs XML. Confirm authentication and share the machine password through the secure activation channel agreed with LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s source setup instructions

This password is for the feed connection. It is not your LinkedIn account password. Saving settings preserves it. The current settings page has no password rotation action. The feed includes public job information and the designated poster email; it does not export candidates or applications.

Copy the URL from settings. These are examples of the two supported portal types:

https://startupkit.app/careers/your-company/jobs/linkedin
https://careers.your-company.com/jobs/linkedin

The custom-domain URL belongs to your Kit career portal. A separately hosted careers frontend does not automatically serve this endpoint.

Make a Job Ready

A job must be published, accepting applications and enabled for external job-board distribution. Sample jobs never appear. A ready job also needs:

• A title and at least 100 visible description characters.
• A recognized country and an onsite city, or one unambiguous country for remote availability. Use the actual structured Job board location fields.
• A valid direct HTTPS application URL, which Kit generates for your portal.

Kit currently sends Remote or On-site workplace types. Hybrid roles are unsupported; turn off Publish this job to external job boards for those jobs. This shared switch also excludes the role from other Kit job-board feeds. Do not reduce an EU or multi-country remote role to an arbitrary country just to pass readiness. Use the job’s actual workplace and employment details.

Confirm Publication and Removal

LinkedIn controls approval, crawl timing and publication. Confirm a live listing and its application link with LinkedIn after it connects the source. Kit’s job readiness screen checks source information and inclusion settings. It does not verify LinkedIn’s employer eligibility requirements or publication status.

Each authenticated fetch returns the complete current snapshot. Closing, pausing, unpublishing or discarding a job, or turning off its external distribution, removes it from the next snapshot. Turning off Include jobs in the feed returns an authenticated empty snapshot with the same credentials. Agree with LinkedIn how omitted jobs are withdrawn, then verify removal of a previously live listing.

Troubleshoot the Feed

Symptom	What to check
Authentication fails	Save valid Company ID and email settings, then use the username linkedin and the generated machine password. Opening the URL without credentials returns 401.
The feed contains no jobs	Check that inclusion is enabled and review each job’s readiness and external distribution setting. A configured disabled feed deliberately returns an empty list.
A job is missing	Correct the reasons shown under Job readiness. Check country, onsite city, description, publication state and distribution consent.
A job is in the XML but missing on LinkedIn	Ask your LinkedIn source contact about approval, the latest fetch and publication.
Saving a Company Page URL fails	Use the numeric ID or an HTTPS numeric Company Page/admin URL. Vanity URLs, profiles, search URLs and other hosts are rejected.

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