FAQ

A vacancies landing page is a pre-filtered vacancies overview, targeted to a specific audience, for example “Vacancies Accountancy”, a page with a title & introduction targeted to accountants.

• Step 1: Creating a new page

  • Go to the page section of your CMS, and click: “Add new page“, or maybe even make it a ‘sub’ page of your regular vacancies overview, by clicking the plus icon on that
    

  • Fill in the page title, for example: “Vacancies accountancy“
    

  • Click “Add page” and move on to step 2
    Read more on creating new pages here

• Step 2: Adding a new Section

  • First we will need a section to place the vacancies listing in, click “Add your first section”
    

  • Now pick a layout for this section, I prefer the 4 / 8 layout
    

• Step 3: Adding filters

  • In the smallest column (4) I will first add a Filters widget, by clicking “Add widget” in it
    

  • And after that I will select the “Vacancies filters” widget
    

  • For this one I will keep filtering ‘easy’ by only enabling the “Region” filter
    

• Step 4: Add the vacancies listing

  • In the larger column (8) I will now add a Vacancies list widget, by clicking “Add widget” in it
    

  • And after that I will select the “Vacancies list” widget
    

• Step 5: Configuring the list to show only accountancy vacancies

  • Go to the “Configuration tab” and find the filter you want to pre-filter the list on, in my case Accountancy
    

  • If set, the list will be configured to only show jobs that match the pre-filter.

• Step 6: Publish the page

  • Now you have a pre-filtered job list, the last thing you need to do, is Publish the page by clicking “Save and publish" in the top right corner
    

The CMS is only available for certain users in your environment, this can be decided upon activation of the CMS. Make sure to check with your key-user before submitting a support ticket.

So if the CMS is enabled for your environment and you are allowed to use it, this button will show up in your navigation bar:

The Guided tour will start automatically when you haven’t declined or completed it yet. You can also manually trigger it by clicking the “Question mark” icon on your CMS dashboard

If your have a multi-website environment (also called Multibrand) you will be able to switch to another website by clicking the “globe icon” in the top right of the CMS.

When you are ready to go live with your website, you should be able to go live yourself, if there are issues you can ofcourse always contact us.
If you want to use your own (custom) domain for the website, follow from Step 1, if not you can skip to Step 2

Step 1: Making sure your URL is setup in the website’s configuration

Go to the configuration part of the CMS, and navigate to the “URLS” tab. Here you will find 2 different settings: “Brand prefix” & “Custom domain”.
As you might have noticed already your website is always available on the “otys” domain, so [brandprefix].otys.website. Now we are going to setup the “Custom domain”.
Fill in the domain you own in the “Custom domain” part, and click save.

Note that when you have saved, some warning appear next to the “Custom domain” input.

These warnings will tell you primarily 2 things:

• Ownership unverified: We have to verify that you own the domain you have just filled in. We will do this via DNS verification

• Not pointing to our servers: You will have to point your domain to our servers, by adding the correct A-Records in your DNS settings.

Click on the “Resolve verification issues” button to open a popup that will tell you what to do:

Go to the DNS settings of your domain in the admin panel of your domain registrar (hosting provider), like: Transip, Strato, Hostnet, Yourhosting, Combell, Mijndomein etc..
And configure these settings like displayed. After that click on “Verify domain”, sometimes it can take a while before these changes are visible to our servers.
When all is setup correctly the settings will look something like this:

Step 2: Enable the “Index (robots)” setting
A live website needs to be found by Search engines like Google. Therefore you will need to enable this setting, otherwise your website will have a so called: Robots meta tag telling search engines to not index your website. Go to the configuration tab: “SEO“ and enable the setting:

Step 3: Mark your website as “live”
This is an important step in telling our system that your website is live, we will then know which urls to communicate with job boards and we will register this technical thing called: “webhooks“ so your cache is partially updated when changes in OTYS Go! happened

Step 4: Share your sitemap with Google Search console

A sitemap is a structured way of defining which URL’s are on your website.
Retrieving your websites sitemap is simple: go to your domain, and add /sitemap.xml behind your URL. This will look something like this:

To share this sitemap with google, open the Google Search console via: https://search.google.com/search-console
If you don’t have your website already here as a property it’s best to search for a guide on how to do this in Google.
And if you have a verified property, go to “Indexing” > “Sitemaps” to supply google with your sitemap.

There are 2 types of urls for your website:

1. The default OTYS domain, [brandprefix].otys.website, your website will always be available on this url, and this will always have an valid SSL

2. Your custom domain, if you have just set this up, and go to your website for the first time (when it’s pointing to our servers) it will most probably load without an SSL certificate.

   But our servers are already automaticly working on an SSL certificate, and will install it as soon as possible. Some browsers will however "remember” that a certain website doesn’t have a valid SSL certificate, in that case it might look like your website doesnt have an SSL but in reality other users will have one. In that case try an incognito tab or restarting your browser

So SSL certificates are generated automaticly, and you just have to wait for (at most) 30 minutes (once the website is live).