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.

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 — so the company shows up under Companies, and nothing appears under Employers. A row only appears under Employers when someone actually signs up and claims that company. 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 and you, the operator, approve it.

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.

Turn it on

1. Go to Board 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. 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: Board 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.