This article explains how to set up a Personio career page, and customize it to your corporate design.

The Personio career page is a separate website with the jobs published in your Personio account. Candidates can apply for these jobs using an application form. This creates a candidate profile in your account.

You already have a corporate career page

• If you want to use your own corporate career page, see our options to connect it with Personio. To integrate your Personio page with your corporate one, you need to follow all the steps below.

• There is only one step to perform to use your own career page and transfer candidate data to Personio via API. You need to insert the URL of your corporate career page under Link to own career page (see Step two: Set up the career page). You can skip the rest of the setup of the Personio career page described in this article.

You do not have a corporate career page

• Easy setup: Create a career page that fits your corporate design without developer resources. 
• Legal entity career pages: If you have legal entities, you can configure a career page for each of them. They will have their own domain name and design. You can then publish jobs specifically on the respective legal entity career page. Learn how to create a legal entity career page.
• Increase visibility: Give visibility to your open jobs.

Step one: Activate the Personio career page

To use the Personio career page, you need to activate it. This means the following:

• Enable the Personio career page.
• Enable Google Jobs search if you want Google to be able to crawl your published jobs.
• Activate the XML feed if you want to integrate your jobs into your own corporate career page via XML.

Enable the Personio career page

To enable the Personio career page, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting > Career page.
2. Under Activations, select your preferred domain name extension (.de or .com). You can access your Personio career page at youraccount.jobs.personio.de or youraccount.jobs.personio.com.
3. Select Enable Personio career page to activate the Personio career page.
4. Then click Apply changes to save.

Enable Google Jobs

Google jobs is a search engine that scans all jobs on a Personio career page. It makes them eligible to appear in Google search results and in Google Jobs search. Your job postings are more visible to potential candidates.

Google Job search only considers postings published on the Personio career page. Enabling this option does not guarantee your job will appear in Google Jobs. Personio has no influence on this.

To activate it, select the Enable Google Jobs checkbox. 

Enable the XML feed (optional)

An XML feed pulls all relevant data from the jobs published on a Personio career page. You can then integrate them into your own corporate career page.

To activate this feed, select the Enable XML feed checkbox. You can access your feed via youraccount.jobs.personio.com/xml.

Learn more about connecting your jobs to your corporate career page via XML.

Step two: Set up the career page

Continue the setup of your Personio career page under Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting > Career page > Career page settings.

Step three:  Set up your application form

Default application form for all jobs

When candidates apply for a job via your Personio career page, they fill in an application form. This form should request all the information you need from the candidate. It is then used to create a candidate profile in Personio.

Follow these steps to create your application form:

1. Go to Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting > Career page.
2. Under Application form settings > Application form fields, select the candidate attributes that you want to include in your application form.
3. If an attribute is mandatory for a candidate to fill in, activate the checkbox Required.
4. Drag and drop the form fields, to decide the order in which they should appear on the form.
5. Under Document upload fields, select the types of documents candidates need to upload. The predefined default categories are CV and Other.
6. Activate the checkbox Required to make a document mandatory.

Application form for a specific job

You can also have a specific application form per job. You can customize an application form while creating a new job or while editing an existing job.

Follow these steps to create a unique application form:

1. Go to Recruiting > Jobs > Create job or Recruiting > Jobs > your job > Edit.
2. In the section Application form > Application form fields, add the fields you would like to display in your application form.
3. Click Add fields to select additional attributes. Click Add to form to confirm.
4. Under Document uploads, select the types of documents the candidates need to upload. Click Add uploads to select additional documents, then click Add to form.
5. You can use the drag and drop functionality to move a field and change the order of your form.

6. Tick the Required boxes next to your fields and documents to make them mandatory.

7. Click Next to continue to create or edit your job or Publish if you want to publish your job.

Best practices for your application form

Follow these best practices when creating your application form:

• You can create additional candidate attributes via Settings > Recruiting > Recruiting > Attributes. 
• You must request gender information to use gender variables in offers and email templates.
• If your job has multiple locations, the attribute Location must be in your application form. This way, candidates can specify which location they are applying to.

Frequently Asked Questions on Google Jobs