Tip #1 - Label the section ‘Careers’ and include it on your homepage.

The best thing to always remember about improving the traffic to your career section is to make everything blatantly obvious. The fewer clicks it takes to get to your jobs, the faster jobseekers and search engines will find it. And the most obvious spot to put it is on your home page! Jobseekers get frustrated when they have to guess its location, and search engines sometimes just give up. Some companies include it in their “About Us” section, others put the link in “Contact Us”, and for whatever reason some sites only list it in their sitemap. Granted, ideal candidates have the dedication to find the section, but there is no need to make them work for it. As one of the most crucial parts to any growing business, the career section deserves a link on your homepage.

WARNING: There is a repetitive theme approaching. Text is good; images are bad. Search engines and screen readers cannot understand words in a picture. Also when visitors use their browser’s search feature, the text in an image will not be found.

Marketing probably is not going to like this advice – in all honesty marketing practices commonly clash with search engine optimization. Online, people search for “online camping equipment store,” but marketing would prefer call it “digital wilderness outfitter.” In print, radio and TV campaigns, creativity sells – online you need to use common terms. This is exactly what you need to keep in mind for your career section. If you label the link “Careers,” people will find it.