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Job categories

Manage the Sector, Organization Hierarchy and Product categories, and find any category by name.

Last updated: 1 October 2026

Job categories describe what a vacancy, a position or a candidate is about. They come in three groups, each with two levels:

GroupTop levelSecond level
SectorIndustriesSub-Industries
Organization HierarchyDepartmentsSub-Departments
ProductProductsSub-Products

They appear in filters as Category Tags, grouped the same way.

Find a category

Select Job Categories in the sidebar. Each of the six levels has its own column, listed in alphabetical order.

  • The count at the top of a column is how many categories that level has. While you search, it shows matches out of the total, such as 10/250.
  • Search with the box above the columns. It searches every category by name, not only the ones on screen.
  • Load more at the bottom of a column shows the next 100.

Add, rename or delete a category

  • Add — use Add at the bottom of a column. A second-level category (a Sub-Industry, Sub-Department or Sub-Product) must belong to at least one parent: pick it in the Parent field, which searches every category of the parent level by name.
  • Rename — hover over a category and select the pencil.
  • Delete — hover over a category and select the bin. The dialog lists what the delete takes with it before you confirm: its sub-categories, and the vacancies, candidates, positions, questions and report templates tagged with it.

Link a category to a parent

Select a second-level category to open its panel. Parent nodes lists the parents it belongs to; select the cross beside one to unlink it. Under Link a parent, search for a parent by name and select Link parent. The list updates as soon as the link is saved.

A second-level category can belong to more than one parent. In the Category Tags filters it then appears under each of them.