Need to provide your candidate with additional information related to their new position with your organisation, all in one place? Look no further than an Onboarding Site built using Talos.
Talos equips you with all the tools to build an engaging, informative site that delivers essential information to new hires, streamlining their onboarding experience from day one.
Note: you will need access to the 'Careers Page Management' administration permission to be able to create and amend your Onboarding site.
Creating your Site
Creating your Site
To create a new careers site you will need to access the 'Site Configuration' administration screen.
Select the onboarding site type from the available options shown on screen. A breakdown of each option can be viewed here.
On the next page, give you site a name and then click on 'Create Site':
Once the site has been created, this will take you to the 'My Sites' page, where you can view all careers sites that have been created on your system, and gives you the ability to amend your site as needed:
The new site will be created as an 'Unpublished' site and will be created with 4 default pages:
Home
Privacy Policy
These pages are created with default branding images and colour schemes, however, these can be updated to suit your brand images.
Amending your Site Settings
Amending your Site Settings
To edit your site, click on the 'Edit' button on the 'My Sites' page:
This will load your onboarding page, including showing what pages have been created for your site as well as various options in the left-hand column. Each option will be covered separately below.
After any changes that have been made on your onboarding page, the button in the top right-hand corner of the page will change to 'Save Changes'. Click on this button to save your changes:
Site Navigation
Site Navigation
The Site Navigation option allows you to setup navigation items which allows users to move around your onboarding page. The items can be added to the header on your onboarding page as either individual items or as part of a dropdown list.
The layout of the menu can also be updated, including removing the menu altogether.
To amend the layout of the menu, click the 'Layout' dropdown and select the relevant option from the list:
Under the 'Navigation' dropdown this will list all of the navigation items that have been created on your site. By default, this will show a 'Vacancies' item:
You can amend an item by clicking on the edit icon and then changing the details on the 'Edit Item' pop-out screen:
You have the ability to amend the title, and where the item will 'link to' or redirect the user to once clicked on the page.
You can link the item to a specific page that has been created on your site, a web address or an email address. For the web address and email address options, the 'Page Location' dropdown will change to a free text box with additional options to complete:
Page Link:
Web Address Link:
Email Address Link:
Create a new Navigation Item
To create a new navigation item click on the 'Add Item' or, to create a new dropdown to add items to click on 'Add Dropdown' in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen:
Adding a new item, you will just need the navigation title, where the item links to and the additional detail for the link such as page location etc.
Adding a new dropdown item, you will need the dropdown title as well as the pages you would like to add to the dropdown.
Footer
Footer
The footer contains options to add in the URL of your corporate website, as well as your company social account pages, as well as updating your company name as displayed on your sites site:
When making a change on this section, the 'Footer Preview' will update at the bottom of the page to show you how the footer will look before saving your changes:
Brand Styles
Brand Styles
Brand Styles allows you to update certain branding options on you site, including header and favicon logos, how buttons are displayed on your site, the typography, the distance between sections on a page and adding images against your vacancies.
General Branding
This is where you can update the header and favicon logos for you onboarding site. The header logo can also be increased in size under General Branding, ranging from 32 pixels up to 80 pixels square.
You can also update the 'Master background colour of your site too. A short description for each setting is shown within the left-hand panel:
Buttons
Settings shown under the 'Buttons' section are all related to updated the look and feel of the buttons shown across your onboarding site. Options include colour of the background and text as well as the how the corners are shown for the buttons (square or circular).
The button examples will update as you change the settings, showing you how the buttons will look before saving your changes.
Typography
Update the settings related to the typography on your onboarding site. You can update the header text and colours, as well as the text shown across your onboarding site, choosing from a range of available fonts within Careers Page Builder:
The text within the left-hand sidebar and the onboarding page viewer on the right-hand side of the page will update as changes are made, to show you how the page will look before you changes are saved.
Layout
The layout setting will allow you to control the distance between sections on a page using the slider in the left-hand sidebar:
SEO
SEO
The SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) section includes all settings to update the SEO of your onboarding site, including the SEO title, add a description as well as the social image that is shown on social networks:
You can update the SEO of your Home and Vacancies pages.
Site Settings
Site Settings
Site settings enables you to:
Delete or Unpublish your site
Update the URL of your onboarding site
Amend the cookie banner and the consent type
Enable Google Analytics on your onboarding site
Warning: deleting a site is irreversible.
If you wish to use a custom domain for your onboarding site, such as onboarding.yourcompany.co.uk, please see our Onboarding Page URL Update guide for further detail on how to update this.
The cookie banner can be toggled on or off on your onboarding site. If the banner is on, there are various options you can select for how the consent works when people visit your onboarding site. Select the relevant option for your site and how you would like this to work:
To enable Google Analytics on your onboarding site, please enter your Google Tracking and Tag Manager ID's under the 'Google Analytics' fields:
This will allow you to collect tracking information in Google from your onboarding site.
Amending your Page Settings
Amending your Page Settings
When viewing the 'Pages' setting on your onboarding site, hover your cursor over the page you would like to amend and then click on 'Edit Page':
Down the left-hand side are the sections that have been added to the page. You can amend each section by clicking on the edit icon:
This will then give you the available options to amend on that section. Depending on the section type that is being edited, different options will be available.
Click on the setting you would like to update which will give you the options which you can change.
To add an additional section to a page, click on the '+' button at the bottom of the left-hand panel which will display additional '+' icons in between your sections that have already been added to the page.
Click on the '+' icon where you would like to add a new section and then select the type of section you would like to add and the layout of that section:
Note: depending on the page you are editing, only certain page sections may be available.
Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy on your Talos system is automatically mapped to your onboarding site when the site was first created.
If your privacy policy has been updated since your site was created, you can update the policy on your onboarding site to reflect the changes.
Edit the 'Privacy Policy' page on your onboarding site and edit the 'Privacy Policy' section:
Click on the 'Update Privacy Policy' button to update the privacy policy on your onboarding site to the one that is on your main system:
