This guide explains how the career center can blur jobs from non-members, what your members and the public see in each mode, and how to communicate it to the people who use your site.

Who this is for: Association admins who run a career center where some or all jobs are reserved for members.

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Quick answer

Members-only visibility has two modes:

1. Whole career center is members-only. Every job is blurred to anyone who is not signed in as a recognized member.
2. New jobs are members-only for the first few days. Brand-new postings are blurred to non-members for a configured number of days, then open up to everyone.

You can use either mode, both, or neither. Members always see the full job. Non-members see a blurred preview and a prompt to sign in.

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Mode 1: The whole career center is members-only

Use this when the career center is positioned as a benefit of association membership and no public visitors should be able to read full job listings.

• What members see: every job, full content, fully clickable.
• What everyone else sees: the job title, sometimes the company logo, and the rest of the content blurred. Clicking a blurred job sends them to your association's login page.
• How to turn it on: member visibility lives in your career center admin settings. If you do not see the option, contact your account manager. We can confirm whether it is enabled for your site and adjust it.

Mode 2: New jobs are members-only for the first few days

Use this when you want to give members an exclusive head start on new postings, then open jobs to the public after a window. Common windows are 7, 14, or 30 days from the posting date.

• What members see during the window: every job, full content, fully clickable.
• What non-members see during the window: newly posted jobs are blurred. After the window expires, the same job becomes fully visible to everyone.
• How to turn it on: the day count is a per-site setting. Contact your account manager to set, change, or remove the window. Pick a number of days that matches the head start you want to give members.

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You can run Mode 2 on its own, or layer it on top of Mode 1. If Mode 1 is on, Mode 2 has no additional effect because everything is already members-only.

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What "blurred" actually looks like

Non-members do not see a 404 or an error. They see the job card or job page with the company name, description, location, salary, and apply button visually blurred and not clickable. A short notice at the top tells them the content is reserved for members and prompts them to sign in.

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Search engines and aggregators are unaffected by the blur. The job is still indexed and discoverable. Visitors arriving from search land on the blurred preview.

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