Templates
A template is a layout. Your job adverts, your content pages and your job board each render through one, which is why a hundred jobs can share one design and a change to that design reaches all of them.
Most teams have their templates built once — by us, or by an agency working to your brand — and then rarely touch them. This page is about living with them rather than building them.
The three kinds
| Kind | What it renders |
|---|---|
| Job advert | A single role's page. |
| Content page | A landing page — about, culture, a location. |
| Job board | The list candidates browse. There is one board. |
Each template has a language, and each kind can have a Default: the one used when nothing else is chosen. The list shows how many jobs or pages use each template, or Not in use where nothing does — the quickest way to spot a template you can retire.
Which template a job gets
Three things decide it, in order of effort:
- The default for its kind, if nothing else applies.
- Template mappings — rules that pick a template from a job's own fields. Under Template mappings you build a rule from a Job field, a comparison and a Value to match, and the page states How the rules combine so you can see what wins. This is how "every kitchen role uses the kitchen template" happens without anyone setting it per job.
- Setting it on the job itself, which overrides both.
Mappings are worth the ten minutes if you import roles regularly: without them, every new role arrives on the default template until someone changes it.
Components
Components are the reusable blocks templates are built from — a header, a footer, a benefits strip. Editing one here updates every template using it, which is the point and also the risk: change the global footer and every page changes with it.
Components can be archived, and one that was written inline in a single template can be promoted into the library so other templates can use it too.
Before you change anything
Templates and components are code as much as design, and a change reaches your live site. If you have a preview or a staging address, look there first. If a template came from an agency, tell them what you changed — the next handover will otherwise overwrite it.