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What to Comment on a Hiring Post: 18 Examples That Work
What to comment on a hiring post: 18 real examples for job seekers, referrers, and the awkward middle, plus the comments recruiters quietly scroll past.
By Atul Jha, Software engineer, Apna Project
The short version
- What to comment on a hiring post depends on your role: applicants should name the specific requirement they match and confirm they applied, while referrers should tag one person and say in a line why that person fits.
- Recruiters and hiring managers genuinely read the comment section under their own hiring posts, which makes those threads one of the highest-visibility places a job seeker can spend 30 seconds.
- The word 'Interested' on its own is the weakest possible comment: it gives the recruiter nothing to act on and marks you as one of dozens of identical replies.
- If you want the job but do not want to look desperate, ask one intelligent question about the role instead of announcing your availability.
- Never drop a CV link with no context, and never ask the poster to DM you; on a hiring post, the applicant does the work, not the recruiter.
What to comment when you are interested but do not want to look desperate
This is the case nobody writes about. You have a job. You are curious. You do not want your boss, or the recruiter, reading "please hire me" from you.
The move is to ask a question instead of making a declaration. A question puts you in the position of evaluating them, which is the register you want.
- "Not looking right now, but bookmarking this one. Your team's work on the pricing engine is why I follow this page. If it is still open in a quarter, I may be back."
- "Strong role. Curious what the split between individual contributor work and mentoring looks like at this level. Asking partly for a friend, partly for myself."
- "How many stages is the interview, and is there a take-home? Not a dealbreaker either way. I just plan badly when I do not know."
- "Read this twice. Happy where I am, but the scope here is more interesting than most postings at this level. Following along."
- "Whoever added the remote policy line to this post, thank you. It answered the exact question I would otherwise have sent you a message about."
Why these work: they signal availability without asking for anything. "Asking partly for a friend, partly for myself" in number 9 is the honest version of the awkward middle, and it usually gets a warm reply. Number 11 is the most understated here and often the most effective, because it reads as a senior person quietly noticing something rather than a candidate raising a hand.
One caution: your comment can surface in your network's feed, your boss included. That is usually fine. If it is not, react instead and apply privately.
What to comment when you want to help someone else
Referral comments are undervalued. They make the poster's job easier, they cost you nothing, and a recruiter remembers who sent a good candidate far longer than who applied.
- "[Name] this is exactly the analytics role you described wanting last month. Worth a look."
- "Sharing this with a few people. This is one of the rare teams that actually funds the tooling they ask you to build."
- "[Name] and [Name], this is squarely both of your backgrounds. No pressure, just flagging it before it fills up."
- "Reshared. For anyone reading: I worked with the hiring manager here for three years. She gives real feedback and defends her team in rooms you never see. Good person to work for."
- "Tagging [Name], who has done this exact job at two companies and does it better than this description asks for. Worth thirty minutes of your time."
- "Is this open to candidates outside the EU? I have two people in mind but wanted to check before sending them your way."
Why these work: each tag carries a reason. Number 16 is the strongest comment in the list, because a character reference for the hiring manager is something the company cannot buy and cannot write about itself. Number 18 does the recruiter a favor by filtering before referring.
One rule that is easy to miss: never announce in public that the person you tagged is job hunting. Their employer can read that thread. Tag them with a reason they would be good at the job, not with news about their situation, and if you are unsure they want to be tagged at all, send the link privately and let them decide. A referral is only a favor if the person wanted it.
What not to comment on a hiring post
Four patterns, ordered by how much damage they do.
- Bare "Interested". Dozens of people wrote it before you. It tells the recruiter nothing they can act on, and it makes your name look like noise in their notifications.
- "Please DM me the details." You are asking the busiest person in the thread to do the work of applying on your behalf. The details are in the post. Read them.
- A CV link with no sentence attached. A raw file link reads as a mass-drop. If you must share work, say in one line what the reader will find in it and why it fits this role.
- The tag wall. Ten names, no context. Everyone tagged mutes the thread, and the recruiter learns to skim your comments permanently.
There is a fifth, and it comes from a harder place: writing a paragraph about how long the search has been. Nobody thinks less of you for it, and anyone who has been through one reads it with sympathy. It just spends the comment on the wrong thing. The recruiter is scanning for evidence you can do the job, so give one line of context and then the evidence. Our broader library of LinkedIn comment examples applies the same calibration to launches, promotions, and hot takes.
Where automation fits, and where it does not
We build Commenti, a tool that writes LinkedIn comments in your voice, so read this with that in mind. Also read it plainly: LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits third-party automation, ours included, and the risk of using any tool in this category is real. Daily caps, human-like pacing, skip filters, and approve mode are how we reduce that risk, not eliminate it.
On hiring posts specifically, our advice is narrow. Never automate a comment claiming you applied, because that is a factual statement a machine cannot make for you. Do not automate referral tags either, since tagging a real person in a job thread is a small favor with your name on it. Where an automated comment stream earns its place is the layer underneath: staying present in the feeds of recruiters and founders in your industry in the months before you need anything, so a hiring post does not find you a stranger in the thread. That is a consistency problem, and consistency is what tools are for. The manual version of the habit is in our LinkedIn commenting strategy.
Strip all of it away and what to comment on a hiring post comes down to 30 seconds of your own typing. Name the thing you match, say you applied, and let the specifics carry it.
Frequently asked questions
What should you comment on a hiring post on LinkedIn?
Say something only someone who read the job description could say. Name the specific requirement you match, confirm you have applied through the proper channel, and stop. If you are helping rather than applying, tag one person and write one line explaining why they fit. Both versions give the recruiter something usable instead of another vote of vague interest.
Is commenting 'Interested' on a hiring post a bad idea?
Yes. It is the most common comment on any hiring post and the least useful one. It does not tell the recruiter what you do, whether you meet the bar, or whether you have applied. Recruiters cannot act on it, so they skim past it. Replace it with one concrete sentence about your relevant experience and an actual application.
Do recruiters actually read the comments on hiring posts?
Often, yes. They wrote the post, they get notified on every comment, and a busy comment section is what makes the post reach more people. That combination means your name appears in front of the exact person doing the hiring, repeatedly, at no cost. It is not a substitute for applying, but it is rarely wasted effort.
How do you show interest in a job without sounding desperate?
Ask a real question about the role rather than announcing your availability. Something about scope, team structure, or the interview process signals you are evaluating them too. It reads as a peer weighing an option, not a candidate asking to be picked, and it usually gets an answer that other lurkers benefit from.
Should you tag friends in the comments of a hiring post?
Tag one or two people, not ten, and add a line saying why each one fits. A bare wall of tags is treated as spam by everyone involved, including the people you tagged. One thoughtful tag with a reason is genuinely useful to the recruiter and flattering to your friend.
Written by the team building Commenti on real LinkedIn growth data. Found an error? Tell us and we’ll fix it. Accuracy beats winning.
Software engineer, Apna Project
Builds software at Apna Project and is a 3x certified Salesforce developer. Writes here on the measurement side of LinkedIn: what moves reach, what does not, and how to tell the difference. Commenti is the LinkedIn comment automation tool by Ampliflow.
What to comment on a hiring post depends on which of you is talking: the person who wants the job, or the person who wants to help someone else get it. If you want it, name the requirement you match and confirm you applied. If you are referring someone, tag one person and say why they fit.
Below are 18 examples, grouped by situation, including the awkward middle case where you are interested but do not want to broadcast it. Hiring posts are one of the few places on LinkedIn where 30 seconds of commenting has a direct payoff, so it is worth getting right.
Why hiring posts are the best comment section for a job seeker
Most LinkedIn advice tells job seekers to post more. Posting is slow, and it does not put you in front of anyone specific. Commenting on a hiring post does.
Three things stack up in your favor under a "we are hiring" post:
None of that replaces actually applying. Comment sections do not accept applications. But if you are going to be visible somewhere, be visible here. It is the single clearest case for growing on LinkedIn without posting.
What to comment when you want the job
The job of this comment is to make the recruiter mentally file you before they open the applicant tracking system. Name the thing you match. Confirm you applied. Keep it under about 45 words.
Why these work: every one contains a detail that proves the person read the posting. Number 5 is under twenty words and still lands, because "three of the four" is a claim a recruiter can check against your profile in ten seconds. Number 7 is memorable for being honest about not qualifying, in a thread of people overstating themselves. Note too that only two of the seven open with "Applied". When every comment starts the same way, the thread flattens and yours goes with it.