After you turn on your Job Portal, you can configure how it looks and works. This article walks through each section of the Job Portal Settings page, in the order the sections appear.
Open Job Portal Settings
Select Settings, then Portals, then Job Portal, and then Job Portal Settings.
💡 Pro Tip: For full context on any setting, hover over it and view the breakdown to the right.
Enable Portal
Next to Enable Portal, select Yes to turn on your Job Portal, or No to turn it off.
Look and Feel
Header Type: Choose what appears at the top of your portal home page:
Title: Shows your company or organization name.
Banner: Shows a large, full-width graphic or hero image.
Logo: Shows a small company logo or graphic.
Custom: Uses your own custom HTML header.
Header image: If your Header Type uses an image, select Select file... to upload it, or Remove file to remove it. The field is named for your Header Type, such as Logo Image when Logo is selected. The image appears at the top of each portal page. For best results with a logo, use an image 700 pixels wide and 64 pixels tall.
Portal Colors: Set the Background, Link, Accent, and Tile colors for your portal. The Tile color applies only when Jobs are shown in List or Tiles mode.
Description: Enter text to show in your portal’s header, below your title or logo.
Footer: Enter text to show at the bottom of your portal.
Link to Your Company Homepage: Enter your company’s website address. When applicants select the link in your portal’s header, they go to your website.
Recruiter Profiles: Select Show to display information about the recruiter who owns each Job, including their profile picture, phone number, and email address.
Social Sharing Bar: Select Show to let applicants share a Job on social media sites with a single click.
Content Width: Select Normal for a standard page width, or Full to use the full width of the browser window.
💡 Pro Tip: To preview your portal colors, hover over the Portal Colors section and view the Portal Color Preview to the right.
Job Listings
Show Jobs As: Choose how Jobs are displayed on your portal:
List: A single column showing each Job’s title, description, location, and posted date.
Tiles: A grid of tiles showing each Job’s title, description, and location.
Table: A single table with columns for title, location, and posted date.
Show Job Description: Choose whether each listing includes the Job description.
Show Posting Date: Choose whether each listing shows the date the Job was posted.
Show Job Number: Choose whether each listing shows the Job number.
Group Jobs By: Choose how Jobs are grouped on your portal:
None: Jobs appear in a standard list.
Location: Jobs are grouped by location, sorted by state and then by city.
Tag: Jobs are grouped by their Portal Tags. Jobs without tags appear in a group labeled Other. See Portal Tags for Published Jobs.
Job Sorting: Choose the order of Jobs on your portal:
Standard: Jobs appear in their default order.
Alphabetical: Jobs are sorted A to Z by title.
With either option, featured Jobs always appear first. To feature a Job, set Portal Visibility to Featured when you publish it.
Search & Filters
Show Search: Select Show to add a search bar applicants can use to search the Jobs on your portal.
Show Location Filters: Select Show to list Job locations in a filter sidebar, so applicants can view only the Jobs in a location they select.
Location Filter Group By: Choose how locations are listed in the location filter sidebar:
Nothing: Each unique Job location is listed on its own, such as Seattle, WA, United States.
Country / State: Locations are grouped by state and country, such as WA, United States, with duplicates removed. Selecting a state or country shows all Jobs in that region, regardless of city.
Country / State / City: Locations are shown as an expandable list. Select a country to see its states, and select a state to see its cities. Selecting any level shows all Jobs in that region.
Show Tag Filters: Select Show to display Portal Tags on your portal, so applicants can filter Jobs by tag. You add Portal Tags when you select Publish on a Job. See Portal Tags for Published Jobs.
💡 Pro Tip: Portal Tags are separate from the Tags you use on Jobs in Crelate. Adding a Tag to a Job Record does not add it to your portal.
Applications
Require Job Submission: Select Yes to require applicants to apply to a specific Job. This removes the option to submit a General Application on your portal. Select No to allow General Applications.
Required Fields: Choose what applicants must enter to apply. First & Last Name requires a name only, + Email Address requires an email address; and + Email & Phone requires an email address and phone number.
Require Resume Attachment: Choose whether applicants must attach a resume to apply.
Require Salary / Range When Publishing: Select Yes to require a salary or salary range before a Job can be published.
Send Email When Someone Applies: Select On to send an email each time someone applies.
Send Email To: Select the search icon to find and add the people who receive the application email. You can add more than one recipient.
Also Email Job Owners: Select Yes to also send the email to the owner of the Job. This setting appears only when Send Email When Someone Applies is set to On.
Include Applicant’s Resume: Select Yes to attach the applicant’s resume to the email.
💡 Pro Tip: To make sure you can follow up with every applicant, set Required Fields to + Email & Phone.
Publishing
Paid Job Boards Posting: Select Enabled to sponsor Jobs on paid job boards from within Crelate. This setting appears once job board publishing is enabled for your organization. See Enabling Sponsored Job Posting.
Analytics, Tracking Pixels, Custom CSS/JS: Select Change settings... to open Advanced Portal Settings. See the next section.
Advanced Portal Settings
Select Change settings... in the Publishing section to open this window. Use it to add your Google Analytics ID, custom CSS, and custom content for your portal’s header and footer.
Google Analytics: Enter your Google Analytics ID to track visits to your portal. The field accepts GA4 measurement IDs (G-), Google tag IDs (GT-), and Google Ads IDs (AW-). Google Tag Manager container IDs (GTM-) are not supported.
Portal HTML: Select Edit Head Tag Content to add content to your portal’s head tag, or Edit Footer HTML to add HTML to your portal’s footer. Scripts are not supported.
Applicant Confirmation HTML: Select Edit Header HTML or Edit Footer HTML to customize the page applicants see after they apply.
Custom CSS: Enter CSS to change your portal’s styling beyond the Look and Feel settings.
When you are finished, select Save.
💡 Pro Tip: Custom code can change how your portal displays. Test your portal after saving any HTML or CSS changes.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) makes your posted Jobs more likely to appear higher in search results. Select Enabled next to each search engine you want your Jobs optimized for: Google, Google for Jobs, or Bing. Disabling SEO makes your Jobs less likely to appear in search results.
These settings are unavailable until job board publishing is enabled for your organization. Once it is enabled, they are turned on by default. To enable job board publishing, start a chat with Crelate Support, or email support@crelate.com. See also Enabling Job Boards for Your Organization.
For details on what each setting does, see Google SEO and Google for Jobs.
Compliance Settings
Show Privacy Page Link: Select Show to add a link to the bottom of every portal page, where applicants can submit privacy requests, such as GDPR requests. You can view these requests under Settings, Data Quality, Compliance. Your privacy page is always available at jobs.crelate.com/portal/YOURORGNAME/privacy, even when the link is hidden.
Show Consent Checkbox: Select Show to require applicants to agree to your consent terms before they can apply.
Consent Terms: Enter the text applicants agree to when they check the consent box. This field appears only when Show Consent Checkbox is set to Show. The default text asks applicants to consent to text message communication.
For more compliance options, see Compliance Settings.
Key takeaway
Open Settings, Portals, Job Portal, Job Portal Settings to control how your portal looks, how Jobs are listed and filtered, what applicants must provide, who is emailed when someone applies, and which search engines can find your Jobs.
What's Next?
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