This article explains how you can create a Personio Career page for a subcompany. This will allow you to publish positions on the career page of their respective subcompany, which will have its own domain, and adapts to your subcompany's brand identity.
Note Before you can create a Personio Career page for your subcompany, you need to configure your subcompany in your Personio account. Learn more about Configuring Subcompanies.
Create a Subcompany Career Page
To create a Personio Career page for a subcompany, follow these steps.
- Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page.
- In Select company, select the respective subcompany from the drop-down list.
- Select a unique domain for your subcompany career page, such as your-subcompany.jobs.personio.de, and choose between the domain name extension .de and .com.
Note The domain name will be publicly visible in the URL of your new Personio Career page. It cannot be changed once it is set, so ensure that you use the correct domain name and check for spelling errors.
- Once you have filled in your domain name, the system will automatically tell you if this domain name is available. If another company is already using the domain name, you need to select an alternative domain name. Then click Create domain.
Configure a Subcompany Career Page
To configure the Personio Career page of a subcompany, you need to Activate it, configure the Career page settings, and set up an Application form.
Activations
Here you can enable the Personio Career page, and activate Google Jobs search.
| Action | Notes |
| Enable Personio career page | Tick this checkbox to activate the Personio Career page for your subcompany. All published positions that are assigned to the subcompany will automatically be published on it. |
| Enable Google Jobs |
To allow the Google Search engine to scan all positions on a Personio Career page and make them eligible to appear in Google Search results and in Google Jobs search, select the Enable Google Jobs checkbox. You can use this type of search engine to increase the visibility of your job advertisements for potential candidates. Note The integration of the Google Job search only considers postings that are published directly on the Personio Career page. |
| Show positions on parent career page | To select if positions posted on the Personio Career page of the subcompany should also be visible on the Personio Career page of the parent company, activate the checkbox for Show positions on parent career page. |
Note There is no separate XML feed for subcompanies. This XML feed contains all published positions of the parent career page and the subcompany career page. If you go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > Parent company > Activations > Enable XML feed, you can pull all relevant data from all positions published on Personio Career pages into your company's custom career page. For more information on XML interfaces, read this Help Center article.
Subcompany Career Page Settings
Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > Career page settings. Here you can continue the setup of your Subcompany Career page.
| Field | Notes |
| Link to own career page |
If you are using your subcompany's custom Career page and not the Personio Career page of your subcompany, enter the URL of your custom career page into this field. This is for information purposes only. |
| Company name |
This title will show in the browser tab of your subcompany's Personio Career page. |
| Link to imprint | Can be used to enter the link to the legal notice of your subcompany's website. |
| Group positions by |
You can group positions on your Personio Career page by one of the options from the dropdown list. You can group by: Employment type, Department, Location, or Category. Note If a user filters the results on the Personio Career page using Position filters, the grouping of positions will no longer apply. |
| Position filters |
Click Add filter to create filtering options for positions on your Personio Career page. You can activate filters for Employment type, Department, Location, or Category. If you configure several filters, you will be able to filter positions on the career page on more than one value using dropdown lists. Tip When activating filters on the Personio Career page, the filtered view is reflected in the URL and can be shared with others. |
Application Form Settings
When candidates want to apply for a position via the Personio Career page of your subcompany, they will need to fill in an Application form. The Application form should request all the information you would like to receive from the candidate. This information will then be used to create a candidate profile in Personio. Follow these steps to create your Application form:
- Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > Application form settings.
- Under Application form fields, select the candidate attributes that you would like to include in your application form from the list of available options.
- To choose which attributes should be mandatory for a candidate to fill in, activate the checkbox next to Required.
Tip You can create additional candidate attributes via Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Attributes. Learn more about Custom Candidate Attributes.
Note If you want to use gender variables in offers and email templates, you can request the candidate's gender information in the application form. - Drag & drop the form fields, to decide the order in which they should appear on the form.
- In Document upload fields, select which type of documents you would like to request or offer to upload. The predefined default categories are CV and Other.
Customize the Subcompany Career Page
To ensure that the Personio Career page of your subcompany adapts to your subcompany's corporate design, you can add custom elements such as your logo, a header background image, and adjust the font and colors for the different parts of your Personio Career page.
Tip To see a preview of your current settings at any time while configuring the Personio Career page, click Preview in the bottom-right corner. To apply changes at any time when configuring the Personio Career page, click Apply changes.
Styling
Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > Styling. Here you can customize the design of your Personio Career page.
| Hide header image and headline |
Go to Layout and select Hide header image and headline to hide your background image. Note This function is especially useful if you want to seamlessly integrate the Personio Career page via iframe into your subcompany's custom career page. |
| Upload a logo |
Go to Logo and click Choose file to add your subcompany logo. Note By default, when you click on the logo, you will be taken to the homepage of your subcompany's Personio Career page. If you prefer to take users to a different website, you can enter a link in You can edit the link for the logo on your career page. |
| “See all positions” link | If you are using your subcompany's custom career page to display your open positions, you have the option to enter a custom link to the overview page of your positions into the “See all positions” link field. When a candidate clicks on See all positions on a position page, they will be taken to the positions overview page of your subcompany's custom career page instead of the positions overview page of your subcompany's Personio Career page. |
| Header background image |
To add a header background image, go to Header background image and click Choose file. Tip The recommended image resolution is 1920×1080 pixels. |
| Font |
To choose a font, go to Font and select one of the options from the dropdown list. |
| Colors |
To adjust the colors, select a color or insert a HEX color code for the following areas:
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Tip You can make additional design customizations to the Personio Career page using CSS. Learn more about Personio Career Page: Designing with CSS.
About Us
Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > About us. Here you can create a general section on your subcompany profile. This section will appear by default at the bottom of the position's description.
Note If you prefer not to include this section, leave it blank. The About us field will only be displayed and published if you have filled it with content.
You can enter a description of your subcompany in the text editor, and also add an image or video. Learn more about Personio Career Page: Integrating Images and Videos.
Tip If you create your Personio career page or job descriptions in different languages, make sure you also translate the text.
Descriptions and Translations
Go to Settings > RECRUITING > Recruiting > Career page > Descriptions and translations. Here, you can set up general content that will appear on your subcompany's Personio Career page.
Go to Translation and select from the dropdown list in which language you want to configure the content (German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or Portuguese).
| Field | Notes |
| Thank you message | Insert the text of the thank-you message which you would like to appear when a candidate successfully submitted an application form. |
| Data privacy statement |
As the operator of your career page, Personio automatically adds a Data Privacy Statement on the processing of (personal) data. For more information on how to include a Data Privacy Statement on Personio Career pages and how to incorporate it into your application process, read our article Personio Career Page: Template for the Data Privacy Statement. Note Every candidate must agree to it before they can submit their application. |
| Your application content | Enter text that will serve as additional information for your candidates to fill out the application form. |
| Your application header | Enter the title for the application form. |
| Required documents content | Enter text that explains which documents should be submitted with the application. |
| Headline | Enter a headline which will appear on your header image. If you prefer not to use a headline, leave this field empty. |
Now, you can select a different language from the drop-down menu and create the translated descriptions.
Tip Learn more about the behavior of translated career pages in Personio Career Page: Language Handling.