AI visibility : careers site

Careers site visibility in AI search.

Your careers site can be beautifully designed and completely invisible to the assistants candidates now ask. A model cannot cite what it cannot reach, and cannot understand what it cannot parse. The plumbing has to work first.

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Can AI crawlers reach you?

GPTBotAllowed

ClaudeBotBlocked

PerplexityBotBlocked

Google-ExtendedAllowed

Illustrative example, not a live reading.

First, can they reach you

If the crawlers cannot reach it, the content does not exist.

AI assistants gather information through named crawlers. If your robots file blocks them, your content only appears after JavaScript they do not run, or your jobs sit in an embedded widget they treat as a black box, then as far as the model is concerned the content is not there. The fix is often a few lines of configuration, but you have to know to look. The wider picture, and why budget cannot buy your way into an answer, is covered in generative engine optimisation for recruitment.

AI crawler

Allowed

Content reachable

Schema valid

GPTBot

✓ Yes

✗ No

ClaudeBot

✗ No

PerplexityBot

✗ No

Google-Extended

✓ Yes

✗ No

Illustrative. A real audit runs these checks against your live site and reports the render mode used.

Then, can they understand it

Reaching the page is not understanding it.

Structured data tells a machine that this is a job posting, this is your organisation, this is the role. Without it, the model guesses from raw text. With it, your content becomes citable correctly rather than approximated.

SCHEMA 01

JobPosting

Marks up individual roles so the assistants can surface and describe them accurately. Present and valid on every live job page.

SCHEMA 02

Organisation

Tells the model who you are as an employer. The anchor that connects your roles, your brand and your knowledge graph entity.

What to check

A fix you have not verified on the live site is a fix you do not have.

The AI crawlers are allowed, not blocked in robots.

Careers content is in the served HTML, not injected by a script crawlers skip.

JobPosting and Organisation schema is present and valid, passing the Rich Results Test.

Your entity is claimed and consistent with what your site says.

If you would rather have someone run those four checks against your live site, the free careers site audit covers them and comes back inside three working days.

The SetpointHQ Index

Most UK employer brands are rarely named in AI answers.

The SetpointHQ Index scores 100 UK employer brands across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini against a published rubric. The median composite is 52.8, but citation is the weakest of the five dimensions at 26.9, and a quarter of the cohort publish no schema an assistant can read at all.

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Median composite, UK all‑sector

52.8

100 brands
13 July 2026

Citation26.9Schema30.0KG88.5Crawl75.0Social74.0

Median score by dimension across the 100‑brand cohort, rubric 2026.06.5, 13 July 2026. Source: The SetpointHQ Index.

Questions

Common questions

How do I know if AI crawlers are blocked on our careers site?

Check your robots file for the named AI crawlers and confirm your careers content appears in the served HTML rather than loading through a script. The audit checks both against the live site.

Does my careers site need JavaScript to work for AI search?

It is safer if the key content does not depend on it. Many crawlers do not execute JavaScript, so content injected that way can be invisible. Server rendered or static content is more reliable.

What schema does a careers site need?

JobPosting markup on individual roles and Organisation markup for the employer, both valid and passing the Rich Results Test. Together they help the assistants understand both your roles and your brand.

Is an ATS embedded careers page a problem for AI visibility?

It can be. If roles sit inside an embedded widget the crawlers treat as opaque, the content may not be readable. It is worth testing rather than assuming.

Next step

Make your careers site legible to AI.

The Recruitment Marketing Audit runs the access and schema checks against your live site and gives you a prioritised list of what to fix first. Before that, two shorter routes: run the five minute self check to see what the assistants say about you today, or read what the AI Visibility Audit measures and how it is scored.

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