Three things that shape how a role travels: keeping it off your careers page while it still takes applications, the preview card that appears wherever you share its link, and the links candidates give you to their own work.
Private roles
A confidential backfill or a quiet search does not belong on your public careers page. You can keep a role live and reachable by its link without ever listing it.
- Open the job from Jobs and find the Apply link card, on the job's page or under Channels.
- Switch off Listed on your careers page.
A message confirms that the role is hidden from your careers page and that the direct link still works. From then on:
- The role is not on your careers page, nor on the careers page embedded in your website. See Build your careers page.
- Search engines are asked not to index its apply page. It leaves the sitemap and carries no job data for Google for Jobs.
- Everything else keeps working: the apply link, the tracked board links, the job's email address and screening.
Switch it back on whenever you like and the role is listed again straight away. Every new job starts out listed when you publish it.
Share cards
When you paste a job's apply link into LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Slack or most other apps, it unfolds into a preview card made for that job. You do not have to design anything: the card is generated from the job and your branding.
The card shows:
- your company logo, or your company name if you have no logo,
- the job title, the location and the employment type,
- up to four must-have skills, in your accent colour,
- "Apply in minutes at" your company name, and "Now hiring".
Beside the image, apps show the job title with your company name, and a line saying you are hiring. The card and its text appear in the job's posting language. Tracked board links share the same card, and your careers page link has its own card with your company name and the number of open roles.
Your logo and colour come from your branding. See Branding.
Candidate links
The apply form has four optional fields for links: LinkedIn, GitHub, Portfolio and Website. Whatever a candidate fills in appears under their name when you open them, so checking someone's public work is one click instead of a hunt through their CV.
Step 1: Links
Each link opens in a new tab. Hover over one to see the full address and where it came from: "submitted by candidate" or "from CV".
- Picked up from the CV. If a candidate leaves a field empty, screening looks for that link in the CV and adds it if it finds one.
- The candidate's own entry wins. When the form and the CV disagree, the link the candidate typed is used.
- Only usable links. Addresses that are not real web links are left out, and a link given twice is shown once.
During screening, the public pages behind the GitHub, portfolio and website links are read as extra evidence. LinkedIn and other social networks are never read; the apply form says so to candidates. See How AI screening works.