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Departments

Requires Pro

Departments divide a company into teams, such as Sales or Engineering. Employers create them under their company, and a job can then be assigned to a department. You manage all departments, for every company, in wp-admin.

Departments need Pro. Without it, the Department menu entry is greyed out.

Go to WP Job Portal → Companies → Departments. The list shows each department’s name, company, created date and status.

To see one company’s departments, go to Companies and select Departments on that company’s row.

Departments waiting for approval are not in this list. They are in Approvals → Departments.

To narrow the list, type in Department or Company, or pick a status, then select Search.

Departments list with three departments, each with its company, number of jobs and status

  1. Go to WP Job Portal → Companies → Departments → Add New Department.
  2. Choose the Company.
  3. Enter the Department Name and, if you like, a Description.
  4. Choose a Status: Pending, Approve or Reject. With Marketplace Suite there is also Pending Payment.
  5. Select Save Department.
  • To edit, select the department name or the edit icon on its row, make your changes and select Save Department.
  • To delete, select the delete icon on its row. To delete several, tick them and select Delete at the top.

A department can’t be deleted while any job is assigned to it. Move those jobs to another department, or delete them, first.

  1. Go to WP Job Portal → Approvals → Departments. The page is titled Departments waiting for approval.
  2. Point at a department’s row and select Approve or Reject.

To find a department, type in Search by name or who sent it and select Search. To delete several, tick them and select Delete in the bar that appears.

  1. Go to WP Job Portal → Settings and open the Applications tab.
  2. Under Auto-Approve Rules, set Department Auto Approve.
  3. Select Save Changes.

With it on, departments that employers create are approved straight away.

With Pro, the job form has a Department field. Pick the department when you add or edit the job. If the field is missing, check that it is published in Settings → Forms & fields → Job. See Field manager.