Choose a careers page integration option

Greenhouse Recruiting allows you to integrate the job boards and posts you create in your account with the career page you already have on your organization’s website.

This process saves time, streamlines the management of your job boards and posts, and simplifies applicant tracking by tracking data from a single place.

Part of setting up your Greenhouse Recruiting account involves choosing how you want to integrate your account with your organization’s careers page. You’ll decide how you want your careers page to look and function. Depending on which option you choose, you may need to allocate additional time and resources to set up the integration.

Choose an integration option

Greenhouse Recruiting offers five integration options to choose from. Each option varies in setup time, complexity, and customizability.

Before choosing an integration option, work with your team to evaluate what technical resources you already have or how much technical training you're willing to undertake. Questions you might discuss with your team include:

• How soon do we want to launch our careers page integration?
• What do we want our integration to look and feel like? 
• Who in our organization has skills in website development, and will they be able to help with this project?
• If we can't get help from another department, is there someone else who's willing to learn the skills needed to build a more complex integration?
• If we can't or don't want to dedicate resources to building a complex integration, will a simpler integration still meet our needs?

For more information, check out our overview article.

Option 1: Host your job board with Greenhouse Recruiting

Make a quick and simple change to the code on your website that redirects to your job board on Greenhouse Recruiting (boards.greenhouse.io/[yourcompany]).

Control basic information on the job board and applications pages. “Powered by Greenhouse” appears at the bottom of each page.

Difficulty	Easiest
Time commitment	Less than 1 hour
Customizations	Add a logo Format job posts with rich-text formatting Add custom questions to job applications
Where your job boards are hosted	Greenhouse (boards.greenhouse.io)
Where your job posts are hosted	Greenhouse (boards.greenhouse.io)

Option 2: Embed your job board on your website

Allow candidates to apply for jobs right from your website by embedding an iFrame with a few short lines of code. 

Difficulty	Easy
Time commitment	1 hour-1 day
Customizations	All customizations from option 1
Where your job boards are hosted	Your careers page
Where your job posts are hosted	Your careers page

Option 3: Host applications with Greenhouse Recruiting and embed an API-driven job board in your website

Control the look and feel of your job board using our API. Customize your job board to fit your website's style, and access raw JSON data to personalize it even more.

Candidates will access your job board on your website but will be redirected to boards.greenhouse.io/[yourcompany] to apply for jobs.

Difficulty	Moderate
Time commitment	2-4 days
Customizations	All customizations from option 1 Access to JSON data for jobs, offices, and departments
Where your job boards are hosted	Your careers page
Where your job posts are hosted	Greenhouse (boards.greenhouse.io)

Option 4: Embed an API-driven job board and application form on your website

Allow candidates to browse and apply for jobs right from your website. Take advantage of optional configurations to show a job post and its application on the same page.

Difficulty	Somewhat difficult
Time commitment	3-5 days
Customizations	All customizations from option 1 and option 3 Greater flexibility in rendering your job descriptions via our API
Where your job boards are hosted	Your careers page
Where your job posts are hosted	Your careers page

Option 5: Create a fully API-driven job board

Take complete control of your job board to configure a fully customized experience. This includes ownership of error handling, spam prevention, and source tracking.

This is the most advanced integration option offered by Greenhouse Recruiting and is only recommended to customers who want to create and maintain a custom job board.

This is also the only integration option that allows you to implement a tracking pixel, like those used with Google Analytics, and meet ADA compliance level AA or higher.

Difficulty	Most difficult
Time commitment	5-8 days
Customizations	Full customizability
Where your job boards are hosted	Your careers page
Where your job posts are hosted	Your careers page

Additional resources

Visit our FAQs for more information.

For help with integration option 1, reach out to the Greenhouse Recruiting Technical Support team.

For integration options 2 through 5, refer to your web development, engineering or marketing team.