Using locations, districts, regions, and departments

CareerPlug gives you many ways to group your jobs and allows you to grant or restrict your users' access to those jobs and the job seekers who apply to them.

These are four methods you can use to restrict user access to jobs:

Locations

Locations determine the zip code listed for your job on job boards. Each of your job postings should be associated with a location.

Each user on your account should be associated with at least one location. Otherwise, they will not see any jobs and/or applicants when they log in.

When a location is deleted, all job postings that were associated with that location will be closed. Users who only had access to that location will not see any jobs and/or applicants when they log in.

Districts

Districts are groups of locations. Some clients create districts and then add users to specific districts as a shortcut to adding users to many locations. Adding a user to a district will add the user to all locations in that district. Districts are not set on jobs (locations are set on jobs). Learn more about districts.

When a district is deleted, you'll need to add users who were added to that district to each individual location that was in that district.

Regions

A region is an additional level of organization above districts. If your organization has three tiers of organization (individual locations, groups of locations, a group of groups of locations), you can use regions to make it easier to filter job postings and give user access to large blocks of locations quickly.

Departments

Departments control which users can access jobs and applicants within locations/districts, restricting access by the type of work involved rather than location. Even if a user has access to jobs and/or applicants in a location, they won't be able to see a job posted there unless they have access to the department.

Each job may be associated with a department; a department is not required for each job. If a job is posted without a department, anyone with access to the location in which the job is posted will see the job. If you’re concerned about accidentally giving everyone in a location access to jobs, let us know, and we’ll edit your account to make adding a department to every job posting a requirement. Learn more about departments.

When a department is deleted, the jobs posted in that department will no longer have a department. Users who were associated with that department won't have access to jobs/applicants in that department.