Your Job Portal is a customized careers site where applicants apply directly to your published Jobs. You can also publish Jobs to your own website and to third-party job boards. The Job Portal has a refreshed design, loads faster, and includes accessibility improvements.

This article covers enabling your Job Portal, what the refreshed Job Portal includes, enabling job board publishing, advanced portal setup, and publishing a Job.

Note: The original Job Portal (V1) was retired on December 31, 2025. Everything in this article applies to the current Job Portal.

How do I enable my Job Portal?

You enable your Job Portal in Job Portal Settings.

Select Settings, then Portals, then Job Portal, and then Job Portal Settings.
Next to Enable Portal, select Yes.

How do I customize how my Job Portal looks?

Use the Look and Feel section after your portal is enabled. Choose a Header Type (Title, Banner, Logo, or Custom), and select a file if your header type needs an image.

💡 Pro Tip: To preview what your portal will look like, hover over the Portal Colors section and view the preview pane to the right.

What does the refreshed Job Portal include?

The Job Portal and the apply flow have a modernized design, load much faster, and are more accessible.

Refreshed design: Forms, buttons, spacing, and mobile layouts have a modern look with rounded corners, in line with the rest of Crelate. Any custom styling on your portal is untouched.
Faster pages: Portal pages are about 97 percent lighter and the embeddable Jobs widget is about 90 percent lighter, so candidates on phones and slower connections reach your Jobs faster.
Accessibility: The apply flow has a full accessibility pass, including keyboard navigation, clear validation messages, and corrected contrast. This helps organizations that are required to offer accessible application flows, such as universities, government agencies, and government contractors.
Job SEO settings: You control how each Job is indexed by search engines. Application and consent pages stay out of search results. See the section on search engines below.

💡 Pro Tip: Take a quick look at your portal, including your custom styling, to confirm everything appears as you expect.

What do candidates see for compliance and privacy questions in the apply flow?

The apply flow decides whether to show compliance questions based on the Job’s country record instead of a text match on the location. Disability, veteran, and consent questions do not arrive with an answer preselected, and the EEO and disability wording is updated.

If you are a federal contractor, review your compliance settings. For details, see EEOC and OFCCP Compliance Tracking.

How do I enable job board publishing?

You enable job board publishing in Job Board Publishing settings.

Select Settings, then Portals, and then Job Board Publishing.
Set Job Board Publishing to Enabled.
Select the option for Select Individual Job Boards, and choose the boards you want to use.

If job boards have not been enabled for your organization yet, see Enabling Job Boards for Your Organization. For more detail, see Job Board Syndication and Enabling Sponsored Job Posting.

How do I set up the advanced portal settings?

You can configure application requirements, portal layout, and email notifications. For a walk-through of each setting, see Job Portal Advanced Configuration Settings.

💡 Pro Tip: For full context on any setting, hover over it and view the breakdown on the right.

How do I publish a Job?

You publish a Job from the Job Record by selecting the Publish icon.

Open the Job Record and select the Publish icon in the top right. The Publish Job window opens.
In Step 1: Job Details, complete the details:
- Title (required)
- Employer Name (required)
- Remote Type: Used by Indeed to determine how Jobs show up in remote searches.
- Location (required)
- Compensation and Salary Range: For compensation details.
- Description (required): Enter the description, or select Copy Description to copy it from the Job Record.
Select Next.
In Step 2: Options, complete any of the Additional Publishing Options that you need:
- Industry: Used by some job boards to categorize Jobs.
- Tags: Categorize Jobs on your portal. See Portal Tags for Published Jobs.
- Portal Visibility: Choose Shown, Featured, or Hidden. Selecting Hidden means the Job is not shared to the portal or to job boards.
- Post To: Choose where the Job is published. Public publishes the Job to your Job Portal and is the default. Internal and Both publish to the Employee Portal, which is available only to organizations with certain Crelate Hire subscriptions.
- EEOC Job Category and EEOC Job Classification: For reporting. See EEOC and OFCCP Compliance Tracking.
- Advanced SEO Options: See the section on search engines below.
Select Publish. Step 3: Finished confirms that your Job is published to your portal.

You cannot publish a Job without a Title, Employer Name, Location, and Description. If you post Jobs on behalf of other Companies, the Employer Name drop-down lists the Companies you have vetted. See Job Board Company Vetting.

How do I control how a Job appears in search engines?

Use Advanced SEO Options in Step 2 - Options of the Publish Job window. Each Job has its own settings.

Portal Url: Setting a slug after jobs.crelate.com/portal/[orgname]/[jobcode]/ gives the Job a readable address, which can help boost the visibility of your listing with search engines. See What is a Portal URL?.
Custom Title: Changes the title of the Job on the browser tab and in search engine results.
Description: The text that appears under the title in the search engine result for the Job. This is the field that shapes your search result.
Keywords: A comma-separated list of words or phrases. Search engines give this field limited support, so it is unlikely to affect how the Job ranks. Use Description instead.
Noindex: Choose Off or On. Off is the default. Setting it to On helps prevent search engines from indexing the Job, so it does not appear in search results.

For more detail, see Google SEO and Google for Jobs.

💡 Pro Tip: Write a Custom Title and a Description that match how candidates search, such as the role and the city, so the Job stands out in search engine results.

💡 Pro Tip: Hover over the information icon next to any field in Advanced SEO Options to see a short description of it.

What can I do after I publish a Job?

After you publish, you can:

Review the Job as it appears on your portal.
Submit the Job to the free job boards. See Why are my jobs not showing on some of the job boards?
Sponsor the Job to improve its chances of syndication. See Enabling Sponsored Job Posting.
Share the Job on social media.

How do I view my portal?

Go to https://jobs.crelate.com/portal/YOURORGNAME, replacing YOURORGNAME with your organization’s name.

How do I add my Jobs to my website?

Build a widget and paste the code into your site. See Job Portal Widget.

Troubleshooting

Why can I not publish a Job?
A Job cannot be published without a Title, Employer Name, Location, and Description. Complete all four fields and select Publish again.

Why does my Job not appear on my portal or on job boards?
Check Portal Visibility in Step 2 - Options. Hidden means the Job is not shared to the portal or to job boards. Also check Post To. Internal publishes the Job to the Employee Portal only, so it does not appear on your Job Portal. Select Public or Both to show the Job on your Job Portal.

Why does my Job not appear in search engine results?
Noindex may be set to On in Advanced SEO Options, which helps prevent search engines from listing the Job. Set it to Off, and then select Publish again. Search engines can also take time to find a newly published Job.

Why does my Job title or description look different in search engine results?
A Custom Title or Description may be set in Advanced SEO Options. They change the title and the text that appear in search engine results. Clear the fields to remove them.

Why does my portal look different than it used to?
The Job Portal has a refreshed design that updates forms, buttons, spacing, and mobile layouts. Custom styling on your portal is untouched.

What to share if it still does not work: the Job name, a screenshot of the Publish Job window or the portal page, your portal address, the browser and device you used, and any message you saw.

Key takeaway

Turn on your Job Portal under Settings, Portals, Job Portal, Job Portal Settings, and turn on job board publishing under Job Board Publishing. The Job Portal has a refreshed design, loads faster, and is more accessible, and your custom styling is untouched. To publish a Job, open it, select Publish, fill in the required fields, and complete the steps. Use Advanced SEO Options to control the Job’s address, title, and description in search engines. Then review it on your portal, send it to job boards, sponsor it, or add it to your website with the widget.