Promoted jobs

On our Business plan and higher, you can promote specific jobs to elevate their prominence wherever your jobs are displayed. This feature is useful to boost an important job that you're trying to fill, or for earning additional revenue with your clients by giving their jobs higher visibility.

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Under the "Jobs" menu, click on the "…" button next to any job and choose "Promote Job."

From here, you'll be able to choose a start date and a duration when this job should be promoted:

Enabling promoted jobs on your Dropboards

To have promoted jobs take effect, you need to edit your Dropboard embed settings. Click on "Dropboards" and then "Edit" next to any of your embeds, and then look to the "Features" section. Click "Enable promoted jobs" and then drag the slider to choose how many jobs to show at any one time.

You can change the text of the banner to say "Ad" or "Sponsored" or whatever fits your brand best. You can also look back up to the "Colors" section and decide how the highlighting of a promoted job looks:

How promoted jobs are shown

When Dropboard loads your jobs, an algorithm will choose which promoted jobs to show when your jobs first load. Promoted jobs will only show on page one of the results and not if the user performs a search or filter on the jobs.

The impressions a promoted job receives will be evenly distributed between all of the jobs that are being promoted at that given time. For instance, if you have 15 jobs being promoted from August 1st through 31st, those 15 jobs will receive approximately the same number of placements to visitors during that period.

Reporting tools to monitor promoted jobs performance is a feature on our development roadmap.

Canceling a promotion

When a job has an active or upcoming promotion, you'll see it's status in blue on the jobs table. Click on any job to open the job editor and see an option to cancel the promotion.

Promoting jobs on the Recruiter plan

Learn how to give your clients the ability to promote jobs themselves by granting promoted job slots.