Career page — Configuration
The Configuration tab controls the foundational switches and constraints that govern your entire career site — how you use it, how it is embedded, how your openings open from an embed, which countries can apply, and what language loads by default.
Active
The “Active” toggle records whether the Nextal-hosted career site is the one you present to candidates as your organization’s careers page.
- Active — you are using the Nextal-hosted site as it is.
- Inactive — you present your openings from your own website instead. One additional option appears: Redirection URL.
IFrame in your website stays visible either way: you can embed the career site in your pages whether it is active or not.
Switching “Active” off does not take the career site off the internet. Your Nextal-hosted address stays reachable: anyone who has the link, or who finds it through a search engine, still arrives there.
If your goal is that nobody lands on that address, the redirection is what does it: enter a Redirection URL and enable IFrame in your website. Visitors who open the Nextal address are then sent to your own site instead.
IFrame in your website
Visible at all times, whether the career site is active or inactive. This toggle does two things:
- it allows the career site to be embedded as an iframe inside the pages of your own website;
- it governs the redirection: while it is off, the Redirection URL you entered does not apply.
Enable it in either case — whether you embed the career site in your pages, redirect visitors to your site, or both. If you have never touched this toggle, treat it as off: switch it on, then save.
Redirection URL
This field appears only when the career site is inactive. Enter the address you want visitors sent to — for example, your own website’s careers section.
The redirection applies when all three of the following are true, with no exceptions:
- the career site is inactive;
- IFrame in your website is enabled;
- the field holds a full address starting with
http://orhttps://(https://www.example.com/careers, notwww.example.com).
If any one of them is missing, nothing happens: the Nextal-hosted career site keeps showing as usual. The screen reminds you of this — when a URL is entered while the IFrame option is off, the note “The redirection is inactive while the IFrame option is disabled.” appears under the field.
What gets redirected. Only the career site home page, meaning the Nextal-hosted address opened on its own, with or without the language segment. Everything else keeps working exactly as before:
- links to an individual posting, including those published on job boards and those shared in your emails;
- the application form embedded in your own pages;
- the personal links sent to candidates (profile, interview, survey).
A career site embedded as an iframe in your pages is never redirected either — the embed keeps displaying normally.
Previewing without being redirected. Once the redirection is in place, opening the Nextal address sends you to your site as well. To look at the career site itself, use the Preview the career portal without redirection link shown under the Redirection URL field: it opens the home page in a new tab, without redirecting. Adding ?noRedirect=1 to the end of the address does the same thing.
Search engines. With the redirection in place, search engines are told that the reference home page is the one on your own site: that is the page they show in results, instead of the Nextal-hosted home page. Your individual job postings stay indexed at their Nextal address.
Apply button in an iframe
This setting decides what happens when a visitor clicks an opening in your list of postings. It applies only when the career site is embedded in your own pages through an iframe. Opened directly at its Nextal-hosted address, the career site ignores it entirely.
It governs both ways a visitor reaches a posting from the list — the Apply button and the job title. The two always behave the same way.
- Same tab — the posting opens inside the embed, as it does today. Suits a tall, full-width embed where the application form has room to display.
- New tab — full career portal — the posting opens in a new browser tab showing the complete career site, with its header, footer and your branding. Suits a short embed, where the application form would otherwise be trapped in a small scrolling frame.
- New tab — embedded look — the posting also opens in a new tab, but keeps the stripped-down appearance of the embed, with no header or footer. Choose this when you want the new tab to look like a continuation of your own site rather than like the Nextal-hosted career site.
If you never touch this setting, nothing changes for your visitors: the behaviour stays Same tab.
The setting applies only to the first click, the one that takes the visitor out of the embed. With New tab — full career portal, the new tab shows the ordinary career site, and browsing continues there in that same tab. This is not a fault — each posting opened from the embed gives one new tab, not one tab per click.
Allowed countries to apply
A multi-select list of countries. When at least one country is selected, only candidates from those countries can submit applications. Leave this empty to allow applications from any country.
Default Language
The language in which the career site first loads for new visitors. Candidates can switch language themselves if your site supports multiple.
Tips
- To keep visitors away while you work on the site, use the redirection, not the “Active” toggle. Switching “Active” off leaves the Nextal-hosted address reachable; a redirection to your own site sends visitors elsewhere while you reshape your sections.
- Test the redirect from a private browser window after entering a redirection URL. Check first that IFrame in your website is enabled, otherwise nothing will happen. Use the preview link when you need to look at the career site itself afterwards.
- Test the “Apply button in an iframe” setting from your own site, on the page where the embed lives — not from the Nextal-hosted address. Opened directly, the career page ignores the setting: there you will always see the “Same tab” behaviour, whichever value you picked.
- Set a default language that matches your primary candidate audience. Visitors with no prior language preference will see this one first.