# Publishing jobs to your portal

> Create a posting from the job’s Advertising tab, publish it, and manage its lifecycle.

_Collection: Job Advertising & Portal (job-portal) — Kepler Help Center. Canonical: https://keplercrm.com/support/articles/publishing-jobs/_

Jobs are advertised per-channel from the job page's **Advertising** tab. The portal channel hosts the vacancy on your [job portal](/support/articles/set-up-your-job-portal/); the LinkedIn channel captures applicants from a LinkedIn job — see [LinkedIn applications](/support/articles/linkedin-applications/).

## Creating a portal posting

  - Open the job and select the **Advertising** tab.

  - In the **Job portal** section, click **Create posting**. The posting starts as a **draft** (*Not published yet*), with the job's internal description copied into **Public advert** as a starting point.

  - Edit the advertised copy in **Public advert** — or click **Generate** to let AI write it from the job's details (see [AI job descriptions](/support/articles/ai-job-descriptions/)).

  - Set **Applicants enter pipeline at** — the pipeline stage applicants enter when a recruiter adds them. New postings start at your workspace's **Inbound default** stage (set in **Settings → Jobs & pipeline**); choose another [stage](/support/articles/customising-pipeline-stages/) if required.

  - Review the job's shared **match criteria**. Portal applicants are scored against the same criteria as sourced candidates; there is no posting-specific criteria set. See [AI candidate matching](/support/articles/ai-candidate-matching/).

  - Optionally add **Screening questions** on the same tab: pick from your workspace's list or click **Write a question**. They're asked on the job's apply form.

  - Click **Publish**.

## The posting lifecycle

| Status | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| Draft | Visible only to your team. Edit freely. |
| Published | Live on your portal and accepting applications. |
| Closed | Removed from the portal; the application form stops accepting submissions. Closed postings can be re-published. |

Click **Close posting** to take it down, or **Remove** to delete the posting and its public address. A posting that has received applications can't be removed; close it instead, so the applicants and their CVs stay linked to it. Only active jobs can be published. Closing the job — or otherwise making it inactive — makes its posting unavailable; reopening the job does not republish the posting automatically.

## Preview and share

Once published, the **Job portal** section shows the posting's address: click **View** to open the live posting in a new tab, or the copy button to **copy a shareable link** — paste it into outreach messages, social posts or your email signature. Every application through that link waits on the [Applicants page](/support/articles/review-inbound-applicants/).

## Advertised copy vs the internal brief

The posting's description is independent of the job's internal description — sanitise commercially sensitive details, rewrite for tone, or translate, without touching the internal brief. A line under the editor says whether the advert is still the same as the internal description, and **Reset to internal description** copies the internal one back in.

> **NOTE:** Editing a published posting updates the live portal page immediately — no re-publish step needed.