Job Board: Configuring Your Setup

your ashby theme is used to customize and style your ashby job board and other landing pages have your company's brand assets ready, and check out the https //jobs ashbyhq com/ashby for an example configured job board check out docid 24osjsaqlgxf1p8kq8pqz for more customizable job board options a high quality careers page is one of your team's best avenues for sourcing candidates ashby provides a beautiful, responsive job board you can customize with your company's brand assets you can host and link to all of your jobs here, or you can use to host jobs on your existing website in this step, you will customize your ashby job board by adding company logos, colors, and custom messaging please note that only those with organization admin access will be able to amend job board theme settings setup your job board theme to get started, navigate to https //app ashbyhq com/admin/organizational settings/theme this theme page applies styling and logos to any public facing pages ashby generates include your job board and direct booking landing pages sections identity in the identity section, you can update your job board slug, organization name, and link to your public website if you change your job board slug ensure there are no spaces we recommend using hyphens to separate words if necessary please note amending your job board slug when jobs are already posted to external job boards (e g linkedin) will cause issues with redirecting candidates until the job boards have updated the postings to match the new job board link this can take around 24 hours to update job board embedding 🗣 you have the option to embed your ashby job board in your existing careers page to enable, follow the instructions outlined in the docid 24osjsaqlgxf1p8kq8pqz example embedded job boards https //www ashbyhq com/careers https //www ycombinator com/careers the ashby job board is embedded in our careers page logos your logos will be used on all external pages review the recommended sizes for the best experience square the square logo is used on mobile ashby pages we recommend using a square png, jpg, or svg file of at least 48 x 48 pixels wordmark the wordmark logo is used on desktop screens if your wordmark appears small on ashby, please reduce the border/margin we recommend using a horizontal rectangular png, jpg, or svg file at least 160 pixels high social media the social media logo is used when you post jobs on social media sites like twitter and linkedin if you don't include a social media image, your square logo will be used instead we recommend using a png or jpg file at least 1000 pixels wide and a ratio of width to height of about 1 7 to 1 (1000 pixels wide by 588 pixels high) job board options use these options to control visual elements on the job board specifically including filters and grouping jobs brand colors your brand colors will be used on buttons and links these will be used on all external ashby pages including job boards direct booking and candidate availability pages surveys and quizzes data privacy and compliance consent requests custom css you have the option to upload a css file to customize your job board further we have an example of a css file that can be downloaded https //www ashbyhq com/job board embed examples/full job board#css you can also implement https //developer mozilla org/en us/docs/web/css/at rule for further customization show job filters? choose to hide or display department, location, and employment type filters on your job board the filters will also show a count of job postings per department, location or employment type when the drop down menu is opened by a candidate viewing your job board group by teams? choose to group jobs by the department or the sub team on your job board show autofill field on application forms? check the show autofill field on application forms? checkbox to allow fields to be auto filled from the candidate’s resume details if enabled, an autofill from resume option will show above the your details section for the candidate in the application section of your job posting the candidate can click upload file here to upload their resume and then have application fields automatically populated with details from the file uploaded override job postings' back url if you opt to set a url here, this is where the back button on your job postings will direct to (instead of your ashbyhq com job page) if you’re using the lightweight api option to post listings directly, this will ensure that users are taken back to your custom careers page more on this at docid\ jg1yi4wefy9ghzo 3flgp disable ashby hosted jobs page? if this option is enabled, you organization’s job postings will not be accessible via your http //ashbyhq com job board this option is for users with a custom build job board you can read more on this option at messaging 🗣 customize messaging on the confirmation message, email display name, and more after the candidate submits application customize the confirmation message the candidate sees after they submit an application no reply address display name in this field, you can amend the display name that will be used as the sender name candidates will see on their application confirmation email, along with other emails sent from the ashby no reply address the display name cannot be empty and has a maximum length of 30 characters note if you want to set up a custom company address, see the guide for more information top & bottom description rich text editors that support adding formatted text, code, links, and images to the top and bottom of your job board example bottom description job post description opening & closing rich text editors that support adding formatted text, code, links, and images as before and after the job descriptions on all job postings the about ashby section is included on all job postings application spam protection ashby verifies submitted job application forms and attempts to detect whether a real candidate is submitting the form or if it might be a bot this setting allows you to adjust the threshold when applications are rejected if you receive many spam applications, you can try a more strict setting beware that a strict setting might cause applications from actual candidates to be rejected strict only use this level as a last resort some candidates will experience problems submitting their applications permissive (recommended) this is the recommended level you might get spam applications once in a while less permissive the chance of getting spam applications is very low candidates might experience problems submitting their applications from time to time no protection protection is turned off all application submissions will be accepted faq in what order are job postings listed on my ashby job board? jobs are displayed by department and in alphabetical order for example, roles in the customer success department will be displayed in alphabetical order before the roles assigned to the engineering department you can opt to enable the docid\ f2otyumvmejaat1dyrjyw option if you have a lot of roles and would like candidates to filter postings by department, location or employment type my thumbnail hasn’t been updated on linkedin after i’ve uploaded a new file can i manually update it? you can, yes you can use linkedin’s post inspector https //www linkedin com/post inspector/ to view when linkedin last updated your data and request a re scrape can i add a tracking pixel to my job board? yes! please send your tracking pixel url to mailto\ support\@ashbyhq com as a heads up, the tracking pixel will fire only when candidates submit an application on your job board