Employer Accounts

Employer accounts let companies represent themselves on your board: sign up, claim their company, and then post jobs and manage applicants. They are the entry point for the whole employer side of your board.

Prerequisites

Enable employer accounts under Settings → Features. For automatic domain approval, make sure the company profile has the correct website and ask the employer to use and verify their work email.

Employers and companies are not the same thing

This trips people up, so it is worth being precise:

• A company is an organisation record that jobs attach to. Companies are created automatically whenever a job is posted against them (by you, by backfill, or by an employer). A company has a public profile in your company directory.
• An employer is a person who has signed up with a login to manage a company's hiring themselves.

The two are independent. When you post a job from your dashboard or the public "Post a job" page on a company's behalf, that creates the company and the listing but does not create an employer login. The company shows up under Companies as Unclaimed. It becomes Claimed when someone signs up and is approved, or accepts an invite you send from that row. A request to manage a company stays in Notifications until you approve or deny it. This is deliberate: letting jobs be posted without forcing a signup removes friction and captures more listings. Employer accounts are for the companies that do want to log in and self-manage.

Signing up and verifying

An employer signs up through the employer sign-up page, which is available when employer accounts are enabled. As with candidate accounts, the employer must verify their email before any authenticated employer surface (onboarding, the dashboard, posting, messaging) becomes accessible.

Claiming a company

After signing up, an employer claims the company they represent. There are three ways a membership becomes approved:

• Matching email domain: if the employer's verified email domain matches the company's website domain, the membership is approved automatically.
• Work-email verification: the employer verifies an email on the company's domain, which then approves the membership.
• Operator approval: for claims that cannot be verified automatically (for example a company with no website on record), the claim stays pending. Approve or deny it from the notification. You can also invite someone from an unclaimed or claimed company; the first person to accept on an empty company becomes admin.

Until a membership is approved, the employer cannot act on that company. When you approve a pending request by hand, check that the requester's email domain matches the company's. A mismatched domain can be a recruiter or unrelated party trying to take over a company profile, so approve those with care.

Approved members also use a Members page (roles admin or member, email invites that last 7 days). A company always has at least one admin. See Employer team access.

Signed-in employers manage password, email, and their own login from Account settings. Removing the company itself is employer company deletion, which you can turn off.

Turn it on

1. Go to Settings in your dashboard sidebar.
2. Open the Features tab.
3. Toggle Employer accounts on (or off).

With the toggle off, employer sign-up and the employer dashboard are hidden from your board. Companies also hides Invite and the members dialog, and access-request notifications no longer show Approve or Deny. The "Employers only" mode of the talent directory also depends on employer accounts being on.

Availability

• Plan: All paid plans. Employer accounts are available on every paid plan.
• Setting: Settings, then Features, then "Employer accounts."
• Setup required: None.

Limitations

• A company membership must be approved before an employer can post or manage applicants under that company. Claims that cannot be auto-verified by domain or work email wait for your approval.

Verify employer access

Open the board signed out and confirm employer sign-up is visible. Use a test employer to verify email and claim a company. Confirm an approved membership reaches the employer dashboard, while a pending claim cannot post or manage applicants. Turn the feature off only after testing that employer sign-up and dashboard links disappear as expected.

If a claim remains pending

The request stays in Notifications until you approve or deny it. Compare the verified email domain with the company's website domain. Do not change the company website merely to approve a requester. If the domains legitimately differ, verify the person's authority outside Cavuno and approve the pending membership manually only when you are satisfied.

Troubleshoot missing employer access

If the employer dashboard does not appear after approval, confirm the requester verified the same email and is signed into the employer account—not a candidate-only session. Recheck that Employer accounts remains enabled.

Next steps

Explain Employer team access to companies with multiple recruiters, then test Posting a job with an approved employer. For password, email, and login deletion, see Account settings. For removing a company from the board, see Employer company deletion.