Languages and translations

Under Career site › Languages, an admin picks the Main language and ticks the Other languages you also offer, such as German and Norwegian. Untick a language to stop offering it: its translations are kept, so ticking it again brings them back.

Your jobs, forms, emails and career site texts can be written in any of these languages. The buttons, labels and messages Careers Orbit adds around them on career pages and in emails come in English and German so far; in other languages they show in English.

Your main language comes first

You write everything in your main language: job ads, application form questions, the stage names candidates see, email templates, the introduction and privacy notice on your career pages, and the names of departments and locations.

Another language stores only what you translate. Anything you leave empty shows in your main language, field by field. If the German ad has its own title but no description yet, German candidates see the German title above the main description. Pages are never half empty, and you can translate the parts that matter most first.

Settings such as the salary, dates, locations, the kind of job and which questions are required are the same in every language.

Translating

Editors that hold text have a language picker at the top, next to their other actions: a job (on the Job ad, Application form and Publishing & SEO tabs), Application form, Pipeline, Email templates, Departments, Locations, Look and content for the career page introduction and Privacy for the privacy notice. It shows how much is translated into each language, such as Deutsch 60%.

Choose a language, and the page shows that language's text:

• Each field starts empty, with the main text as a placeholder and underneath it.
• Use the original copies the main text into the field, for names that stay the same.
• Translate from English asks for a machine translation of that field. Check it, change it if you like and choose Use it.
• Settings that are the same in every language are shown but locked, with a note.
• Save changes saves the translation only. The main text stays as it is.

Departments and locations are translated in their own dialog: each language has an optional name, and an empty one shows the main name.

A privacy notice translation is saved as a draft. It reaches candidates when you publish a new version of the notice in your main language. See Privacy notice and consent.

Translating everything at once

Machine translation fills in what's missing in a language and leaves text you wrote alone.

• In a language picker, Translate everything missing fills the empty fields of what is on the page, such as a job and its form.
• Under Career site › Languages, in Translation, choose a language next to Translate everything to fill in every job, form, stage name, email and career page text. A bar shows how far it has got, and any document that couldn't be translated is listed.

An admin sets this up under Career site › Languages, in Translation:

• Machine translation: switch it on or off for the organisation.
• Translate with: DeepL, when the Orbit team has set it up, or AI, the provider set up under AI writing.
• Never translate: names that stay as they are, such as Northwilds or Lofoten.

Choose Save translation settings to keep them. Placeholders such as {firstName} always stay as they are.

Always read machine translations before you publish.

What candidates see

Career pages follow the language candidates choose. The job ad, its form, department and location names, the introduction and the privacy notice come in that language, falling back to the main language where something isn't translated. The apply form's own words, error messages and emails follow it too: a template sends its translated subject and message, and either of them falls back on its own.

A job appears as German in your sitemap and the language switcher on your website once it has a German title.