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Google Job Search Integration

It includes the proper schema for making your job listings compatible with the Google Job Search requirements, but it doesn’t automatically submit your jobs to Google. Google will eventually crawl your site and find the jobs without any action on your part, similar to what it does with sitemaps. If you like, you can try using a SEO plugin to help you with automatic submission of your jobs to Google to speed up the process. Any questions about this would need to be directed to the support for that plugin.

You can use the Google Search Console to check that there aren’t any issues with your site’s structured data.

Documentation on fixing structured data issues is here, if anything shows up when you check.

Jobs Shortcode References

You can use Elementor to handle this without using shortcodes but if you’re WordPress purist 🙂 you can use several shortcodes to display jobs and forms. These are listed below.

An important note for all shortcodes: Ensure they are not wrapped with any tags when adding them to your posts/pages. To check this, view the page content in ‘html’ mode and remove any formatting surrounding the shortcodes. This will prevent styling issues.

The [jobs] shortcode outputs a list of your jobs

An example of the jobs shortcode

This shortcode takes the following arguments:

  • per_page – Defaults to the ‘per page’ option in settings. This controls how many jobs get listed per page.
  • orderby – Defaults to ‘featured’. Supports title, ID, name, date, modified, rand, featured, and rand_featured (random but keeps featured at top).
  • order – Defaults to ‘desc’. Can be set to ‘asc’ or ‘desc’ to choose the sorting direction.
  • show_filters – shows native WP Job Manager filters above the job list but it’s recommended to disable them using show_filters="false"
  • show_pagination – Defaults to false. Enable this to show numbered pagination instead of the ‘load more jobs’ link.
  • show_categories – Defaults to true when categories are enabled. If enabled, the filters will also show a dropdown letting the user choose a job category to filter by.
  • categories – Comma separate slugs to limit the jobs to certain categories. This option overrides ‘show_categories’ if both are set.
  • job_types – Comma separate slugs to limit the jobs to certain job types.
  • selected_job_types – Comma separate slugs to select by default.
  • location – Enter a location keyword to search by default.
  • keywords – Enter a keyword to search by default.
  • featured – Set to true to show only featured jobs, false to show no featured jobs, or leave out entirely to show both (featured first).
  • filled – Set to true to show only filled jobs, false to show no filled jobs, or leave out entirely to respect the default settings.
  • post_status – Set to ‘publish’ to display active jobs, set to ‘expired’ to show expired jobs.

If the URL of the page contains a query string and location or keywords is set, the values in the query string will populate the location and keywords fields instead of the above options.

Examples

Show 12 of the most recent jobs without filters and pagination:
[jobs per_page="12" show_filters="false"]

Show 20 jobs at a time, ordered by title, with categories disabled:
[jobs per_page="20" orderby="title" show_categories=false]

Theme Visual Options

Visual theme options are available customizer. Click “Customize” button in WordPress top bar to access settings.

Browse through options on the left and adjust them to your needs:

How to import job listings from other websites using Go Fetch jobs?

With Workscout and Go Fetch jobs plugin you can easily import jobs from the most popular job sites and/or job aggregators. This handy plugin fetches jobs from RSS feeds and imports them to your jobs database. Pick your favorite job site/job directory, look for the jobs RSS feed, paste it directly to Go Fetch Jobs and instantly get fresh jobs in your database!

To help you quickly getting fresh jobs from external sites, Go Fetch Jobs comes bundled with ready to use RSS feeds and detailed instructions on how to setup RSS feeds for job sites that provide them.

Go Fetch Jobs (for WP Job Manager)

The UI is simple and provides tips and descriptions about each option and how it works.

Go Fetch Jobs

To help you quickly getting jobs from external sites, Go Fetch Jobs comes bundled with ready to use RSS feeds and detailed instructions on how to setup RSS feeds for job sites that provide them, including big sites like jobs.theguardian.com. An RSS builder is also provided for providers that allow customizing the RSS feed.

Providers

You can also use custom RSS URL, here’s an example for indeed: https://www.indeed.nl/rss?q=keyword1%2Ckeyword2&l=location1%2Clocation2&limit=50

Mobile Menu Customization

Listeo offers customizable mobile menu. You can create separated menu list that will be displayed only on mobile devices and add custom widgets in menu panel.

Custom menu list for mobile devices

Go to Appearance → Menus then create new menu list and click “Mobile Menu” checkbox

Widgets in menu panel

Go to Appearance → Widgets and add new widget for

Applicants & Editing Job Application form

With the Applications plugin, candidates can apply to jobs using a form and employers can view the applications on their job dashboard.

Intended Usage

This plugin can be used in two ways:

  1. If you offer job listing submissions on the frontend, you can use this plugin to have applications come in and be visible on the employers job dashboard.
  2. If you list your own jobs, you can have applications come in and be visible in the admin dashboard.

Settings

The plugin can be configured from Job Applications > Settings.

The following settings are found on the Application Forms tab:

  • Email Application method – Use application form – When enabled, this setting will display the job application form for jobs setup with an email address for applications.
  • Website URL Application method – Use application form – When enabled, this setting will display the job application form for jobs setup with a URL for applications.
  • User Restriction – Only allow registered users to apply – The form will not show to guests until they login.
  • Multiple Applications – Prevent users from applying to the same job multiple times – If enabled, once a logged in user has applied they will no longer be able to see the application form for the same job.
  • ReCAPTCHA – This will help prevent bots from applying for jobs. You must have entered a valid site key and secret key in WP Job Manager’s settings.

The following settings are found on the Management tab:

  • Delete with Jobs – Delete applications when a job is deleted – If enabled, job applications will be deleted when the parent job listing is deleted. Otherwise, they will be kept on file and visible in the backend.
  • Purge Applications – Enter a number to purge all applications after that many days.
  • Personal Data Erasure – If enabled, applications with a matching email address will be sent to the trash during personal data erasure requests (Tools > Erase Personal Data). They will then be permanently deleted after 30 days.

The Job Application Form

If enabled, the job application form will be displayed instead of the usual email/website links. The default form looks like this:

The job application form

When the application form is submitted, an application will be saved to your database. If the job application method is ’email’, the employer will also receive an email notification.

Once an Application’s status has been set to “Hired”, the message “This position has been filled” will appear on the job listing.

Note: You can also add the shortcode [job_apply id=”X”] to a page to display only the application form for a particular job listing. Substitute the X with the ID of the job for which you wish to have the application form.

Customising the Job Application Form

Version 2.0 of the plugin comes with a form editor where you can customise the form. Simply go to Job Applications > Application Form to see the form editor.

The Form Editor

The Form Editor

From here you can add, remove, edit, and re-order form fields. Available field types are:

  • Text
  • Textarea
  • File
  • Select
  • Multiselect
  • Checkbox
  • Resume
  • Output content
  • Date

Validation Rules

You can add the following validation rules to your application form fields:

  • Validation
    • Required – Makes the field required, so the form cannot be submitted if the field is empty.
    • Email – Force the field to only accept a valid email address.
    • Numeric – Force the field to only accept a numeric input.
  • Data Handling
    • From Name – Use this field as the ‘From name’ in the application email (can only be used once).
    • From Email – Use this field as the ‘From email’ in the application email (can only be used once).
    • Message – Use this field as the main content of the application email (can only be used once).
    • Attachment – (For file uploads) Include these file(s) as an attachment on the application email.

The plugin does not have support for conditional fields. If you need that, you can use an alternative form provider that does offer this feature.

Customising the Employer & Candidate Notifications

From the form editor page, you will also notice 2 tabs at the top to customise the notifications. By default, only an employer notification is sent, but if you add content to the candidate notification, candidates will be notified too.

Email Notification Editor

Email Notification Editor

The top field will be the subject line of the email, whist the bottom textarea field will be the email contents. The right side of the page shows which dynamic tags you can insert into your message + subject. These will be substituted for real data at the time of sending.

Viewing applications via the job_dashboard shortcode

When the applications extension is installed, a new column will be shown when viewing the job dashboard on the frontend:

This will show the number of applications per job listing. Clicking the number (when there are applications) will reveal the application list:

 

Above the applications you can choose to filter by status. Statuses include:

  • New
  • Interviewed
  • Offer extended
  • Hired
  • Archived

You can also choose to sort the applications by date, name or rating.

Downloading Application Data

When viewing all applications for a job listing in the Job Dashboard, you can click on “Download CSV” at the top of the page, to download a CSV file containing all the application data for that job listing.

If you need to download data for all applications on the site, you can export an XML file of all Job Applications via Tools > Export.

Viewing applications via the admin dashboard

In the WordPress admin dashboard you’ll see a new section called Job Applications. Going here, as an admin user, you’ll see all applications:

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These can be filtered by job and filtered/sorted like the frontend view. If you click to view an application you’ll be able to edit:

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And you’ll be able to add notes:

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Past Applications

You can also allow candidates to view their past applications by adding the [past_applications] shortcode to a page. If you use the Resume Manager add-on, you’ll most likely want to add the shortcode to the Candidate Dashboard page that is created during that plugin’s setup, but it can be added to any page.