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Settings guide

Optimize your Teamtailor experience with a clear overview of key settings, configuration areas, and product updates

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Written by Filippa
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The Settings guide is a great starting point in Teamtailor, helping you set up everything essential to launch your recruitment processes and get the most out of the platform.


On this page, you'll find several sections we recommend exploring to ensure the best setup for your company. Let’s walk through them one by one!

Getting started

First up, you will find a checklist with five important parts to go through.

Set up department & roles

This is recommended to set up to make sure that you can easily organize your Teamtailor account for both your recruiters and candidates. Learn more about how to set up departments & roles here.

Set up locations

Adding the company's locations helps you with organizing the jobs both internally and externally. This ensures that the recruiters have a clear overview and also helps the candidates to easily find relevant jobs. Learn more about how to set up locations here.

Create message templates

Here’s to efficiency! Message templates help you save time while also making it easier for your users to follow internal communication guidelines. Learn more about how to create and use message templates here.

Data & privacy

Our service is designed to enable your compliance with applicable data protection laws. Teamtailor believes that all candidates should also have control of their data. With our data and privacy settings, we empower your candidates to handle their data as they see fit. Learn more about how to set up Data & privacy here.

Content & career site

Setting up the career site and content makes sure that you deliver a great candidate experience, strengthen your employer brand, and attract the right talent by building a career site that stands out and aligns with your company’s values. You can learn more about how to set this up here.

In addition to the five areas in the checklist, we also recommend that you explore these helpful features.

Manage your employees

Our feature Groups helps you organize users and manage access to candidates and jobs. This helps make sure that your users have access to the candidates that are relevant to them. You can read more about Groups here.

Streamline your recruitment

The feature Job Templates helps you in saving time when creating jobs and gives your recruiters a starting point for new job postings. These are especially helpful for roles posted regularly, saving recruiters time while ensuring consistency across all similar job listings. Read more on how to work with Job Templates here.

Make Teamtailor yours

The feature Custom Fields allows you to add additional fields in your job postings and candidate cards that you can fill with information that might be specific and extra important for your company. Learn more about Custom Fields here

Stay safe with Teamtailor

With the features Single Sign On and Two-Factor Authentication, you can add an extra layer of protection to the logins of your users. You can read more about login methods here.

Add-ons

In the guide, you will be able to see Add-on features that you have activated, but also different add-ons that will help you level up your Teamtailor game. You can also choose to view all add-ons that we offer by clicking View all add-ons.


You can learn more about what add-ons we offer here.

Product updates

There is also a list of our latest updates in the guide. This is a great way to make sure that you are up to speed and don't miss out on any amazing features!

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