What could a £500 recruitment campaign deliver on Facebook?

At £500, a Facebook recruitment campaign enters a range where genuine competitive hiring power becomes available. Based on JobsHype's campaign benchmarks from 500 real campaigns, a £500 budget can reach approximately 84,000 people, generate over 6,000 link clicks, and deliver sustained visibility over 2–4 weeks. For mid-level, specialist, or multi-page campaigns, £500 is a highly effective budget.

Key Statistics

What £500 buys you on Facebook

Based on JobsHype's campaign performance benchmarks, a £500 recruitment budget can deliver:

| Metric | Estimated Outcome | |--------|------------------| | People reached | ~84,000 | | Total impressions | ~141,500 | | Link clicks (to application) | ~6,050 | | Total engagements | ~7,100 | | Average frequency | ~1.65× | | Cost per link click | £0.097 |

What kind of campaigns work at £500

Mid-level and specialist roles

A £500 budget is well-suited to:

• HGV and LGV drivers — specialist roles in tight talent markets
• Skilled tradespeople — electricians, plumbers, site managers
• Nurses and healthcare professionals — high-demand clinical roles
• Sales executives and business development managers — competitive commercial roles
• Multi-location volume hiring — 2–3 pages covering a wider geographic area

Campaign structure at £500

• Duration: 14–21 days
• Pages selected: 2–4 local jobs pages with AQS above 78
• Budget allocation: Split roughly equally across selected pages, or weight toward the highest-AQS pages
• Creative: Video-first, with A/B testing between two creative variants if possible

Sector benchmarks at £500

| Sector Cluster | Est. Reach | Est. Link Clicks | Est. Engagement Rate | |---------------|-----------|-----------------|---------------------| | Office Based Roles | ~84,000 | ~7,840 | 10.91% | | Blue Collar Operations | ~84,000 | ~5,707 | 8.37% | | Customer Facing Roles | ~84,000 | ~5,088 | 7.88% | | Professional Services | ~84,000 | ~6,969 | 9.61% |

Recommended JobsHype communities at £500

At £500, a multi-page campaign is recommended. A strong northern England cluster might include:

• Manchester (20,632 followers, AQS 82.5) — broad demographic coverage
• Leeds (13,506 followers, AQS 80.5) — strong working-age population
• Sheffield (8,650 followers, AQS 85.0) — particularly strong for manufacturing and logistics
• Liverpool (12,050 followers, AQS 80.2) — strong for customer-facing and care
• Bolton — solid blue collar community

For a midlands or southern campaign: Leicester (9,995, AQS 83.3), Bristol, Coventry, and Norwich offer strong audience quality.

Maximising a £500 budget

1. Split across 2–3 pages — multiple community pages outperform a single page for the same budget
2. Use video content — invest a portion of the budget in a short, professional-looking video ad
3. Set a 14–21 day duration — this allows the algorithm to learn and optimise over time
4. Monitor mid-campaign — check performance at the 7-day mark and reallocate budget to the best-performing page if needed
5. Add a call to action — always link directly to an application page, not a general careers site homepage

Data confidence

Projections based on average performance from 500 classified Recruitment campaigns in the JobsHype network (average reach per £1: 168; link clicks per £1: 12.1; CPM: £3.51). Results will vary by role type, location, and creative quality.

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