Rikus Rossouw

Stop paying for expensive hiring software. Rixden Career Manager gives you everything you need to post job listings and manage applications right inside WordPress — beautifully designed, lightweight, and ready in minutes.
Drop a single shortcode on any page and your visitors see a modern, fully filterable careers page with search, department and location filters, favorites, and professional apply modals. No coding, no complex setup, no monthly fees.
<h4>Why Rixden Career Manager?</h4>
Most small businesses don’t need BambooHR, Workable, or Greenhouse. They need a simple way to post open positions, collect resumes, and keep track of candidates. That’s exactly what this plugin does.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful admin dashboard with stat cards and recent activity overview</li>
<li>Unlimited departments with alphabetical ordering and duplicate prevention</li>
<li>Unlimited locations — create named locations from a dedicated admin tab, used as a dropdown filter and sidebar filter on the frontend</li>
<li>Unlimited job listings with all fields (title, location, salary, type, model, experience, department, expiry, description, logo)</li>
<li>Unlimited applications with resume uploads (PDF or Word, up to 5MB)</li>
<li>Modern frontend careers page via shortcode with search bar</li>
<li>Locations dropdown in the topbar for quick location filtering</li>
<li>Multi-select sidebar filters for departments, job types, work models, and locations with live counts</li>
<li>Active filter pills above job cards with individual remove and “Clear All”</li>
<li>Session favorites — visitors can heart jobs and filter to favorites without logging in</li>
<li>Clickable job cards that open a detail/apply modal with full job information</li>
<li>Apply modal with resume upload form — no account required</li>
<li>Email notification to admin when a new application is received, with resume attached</li>
<li>Job preview modals in admin dashboard</li>
<li>Applicant count per job listing</li>
<li>Customisable card styling — title/body sizes, colors, button styles with hover effects</li>
<li>Automatic job expiry with optional expiry dates</li>
<li>Mobile responsive frontend with collapsible filter sidebar</li>
<li>Lightweight — no external dependencies, no custom database tables, system fonts</li>
<li>Works with any theme — scoped CSS that won’t conflict</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade Path</h4>
Locations created in the free version are fully compatible with Rixden Career Manager Pro. When you upgrade, all your locations, jobs, and applications carry over seamlessly.
<h4>Rixden Career Manager Pro</h4>
Want to take your hiring to the next level? <a href="https://rixden.com/career-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro</a> for:
<ul>
<li>Application status pipeline with 6 color-coded stages and styled confirmation modals</li>
<li>Automated applicant emails — styled HTML emails for applications, status changes, registrations, and password resets</li>
<li>Custom email templates with variable support ({name}, {job_title}, {app_id}, etc.)</li>
<li>Application notes — chat-style internal notes with timestamps and usernames</li>
<li>CSV export of all application data</li>
<li>Job view tracking to see which listings get the most attention</li>
<li>Frontend sort — candidates can sort listings by date or salary</li>
<li>Multi-company recruiter system — frontend dashboard for recruiters to post and manage jobs, with approval workflows, decline/resubmit with notes, and per-company application management</li>
<li>Candidate dashboard — logged-in candidates can track their applications, view status history, manage saved jobs, and withdraw applications from a dedicated frontend dashboard</li>
<li>Login, register & password modals — AJAX-powered authentication modals for recruiters with password creation during registration</li>
<li>Login required to apply — optionally require candidates to be logged in before submitting applications, with automatic duplicate prevention</li>
<li>New application badges — badge counts for unseen applications, pending approvals, and pending recruiter registrations</li>
<li>CC emails & date/time — add CC recipients to application notifications, timestamps in site timezone</li>
<li>Account management — recruiters can change password and delete their account from the frontend dashboard</li>
<li>Social share buttons — LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Email, and copy-link buttons on individual job pages using inline SVGs with zero external dependencies</li>
<li>Priority support from the Rixden team</li>
</ul>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Career Manager in your WordPress admin</li>
<li>Create your Departments</li>
<li>Create your Locations</li>
<li>Create your first Job listing</li>
<li>Add the <code>[rixden-careers]</code> shortcode to any page</li>
<li>Start receiving applications!</li>
</ol>
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin does not connect to or rely on any third-party or external services. All data is stored locally in your WordPress database.

Rixden Career Manager


Exactly what a small-business careers page should be. Installed it, added a few jobs, dropped the shortcode - done in 15 minutes. Clean frontend, proper filters, working apply modal with resume upload. No theme conflicts, no bloat. Nothing to complain about.


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