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Create Your Career Site from the Template
Use the Applicant Site for Recruitment template and quickly set up your career site in Experience Cloud. Configure guest user access, and customize and publish the site.
Required Editions
| View supported product editions. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
|---|---|
| To create, customize, and publish an Experience Cloud site: | Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration |
| To customize an Experience Cloud site: | Be a member of the site AND Create and Set Up Experiences |
| To publish an Experience Cloud site: | Be a member of the site AND Create and Set Up Experiences |
| To edit app and system permissions in profiles: | Manage Profiles and Permission Sets |
| To edit object and field permissions in profiles: | Manage Profiles and Permission Sets AND Customize Application |
- From Setup, in the Quick Find box, enter Digital Experiences, and then select All Sites.
- Click New.
- Select Applicant Site for Recruitment, and then click Get Started.
- Enter a site name.
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Complete the URL.
The string that you enter is appended to the Experience Cloud site domain that you created when you enabled Digital Experiences.For example, if your site domain is cosvilleGov.my.site.com, and for URL you enter careers, then your site URL is cosvilleGov.my.site.com/careers.
- Click Create.
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Add members to the site.
- In the Administration workspace, click Members.
- Under Select Profiles, in Search, select Customer.
- Move Applicant User to the Selected Profiles list.
- Save your changes.
- In the Builder workspace, preview and publish your site.
Set Up Self-Registration for Your Career Site
Configure your Experience Cloud site to create person accounts for job seekers who register as users.
- In the Administration workspace, click Login & Registration.
- Under Registration Page Configuration, select Allow customers and partners to self-register.
- In the Assign users to a profile and account section, in Profile, select Applicant User.
- To make sure that Salesforce creates a person account for each self-registering visitor, under Assign users to a profile and account, leave the Account field blank.
- Save your changes.
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On your site, show a user’s full name instead of the nickname generated when they
register.
- Click Preferences.
- Deselect Show nicknames.
- Save your changes.
- To activate the site, click Settings, and then click Activate.
Assign Permissions to Your Site’s Guest User Profile
Give job seekers to access your career site without registering as users.
Salesforce offers two ways to work with profiles: the enhanced profile user interface and the original profile user interface. You can switch between the two in Setup. Search for and select User Management Settings, and then turn Enhanced Profile User Interface on or off as needed. These instructions assume you're working with the enhanced profile user interface.
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In the Builder workspace, click
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- On the General tab, select Guest users can see and interact with the site without logging in.
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To configure the guest user profile, under Guest User Profile, click
site-name Profile.
For example, if the site name is careers, click careers Profile.
- Select System Permissions, and then click Edit.
- Select Enables consumers and partners to execute Omniscripts, DRs, Cards through a Community or off platform and Search and Apply for Jobs.
- Save your changes.
- Select Object Settings.
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Assign the person account record type to the profile.
- Click Accounts, and then click Edit.
- In the Account: Record Types and Page Layout Assignments section, set Person Account as an assigned record type.
- Under Object Permissions, turn on the Read and Create permissions.
- Save your changes.
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Set object permissions based on your needs, using the table as a guide.
Object Permissions Contacts Read, Create Job Posting Searchable Fields Read Occupations Read Occupation Groups Read Omni Data Transformations Read Omni Data Transformation Items Read Omni Processes Read Omni Process Compilations Read Omni Process Elements Read Omni UI Cards Read - Click an object’s name to view its settings page, and then click Edit.
- In the Object Permissions section, turn on the required permissions.
- Save your changes.
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Assign the Criteria-Based Search and Filter for Experience Cloud permission set to guest
users.
- Under Profile Overview, click Assigned Users.
- In the Full Name column, click the guest user’s name.
- Click Permission Set Assignments, and then click Edit.
- Under Available Permission Sets, select Criteria-Based Search and Filter for Experience Cloud, and click Add.
- Save your changes.
Add Salesforce Knowledge Articles to Your Site
Create Salesforce knowledge articles to engage and assist job seekers. Make these articles available on your career site by using Knowledge components.
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Set up your knowledge base.
See Salesforce Knowledge.
- Add articles to your site.

