Job types and categories are the two main ways visitors browse your board, and both feed your SEO: each one gets its own landing URL, and job types additionally tell Google Jobs what kind of employment a posting is.
Job types describe the employment arrangement: Full-time, Part-time, Contract, and so on.
Categories group jobs by field or department: Kitchen & Culinary, Front of House, Engineering, whatever fits your niche.
A new board ships with sample types and categories matched to the demo data, all wearing a Sample badge. Rename or edit them and they become yours (the badge disappears); delete what you do not need.
Manage job types
In the sidebar, open Content and click Job types.
You see the list of types with drag handles. Drag rows to set the order they appear in on your board and in the job form.
Click Add job type to create one, or the pencil icon to edit.
The job type form has three fields plus a switch:
Title (required): the visible name, for example "Full-time".
Alias (required): the URL slug, used in board URLs like /jobs/full-time. It auto-fills from the title as you type; edit it only if you want a different URL for SEO. Lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens only.
Google Jobs employment type: maps this type to Google's vocabulary so your postings carry valid structured data. Options: Full-time, Part-time, Contractor, Temporary, Intern, Volunteer, Per diem, Other. Leave it as None to omit the attribute. Getting this right helps your jobs qualify for Google's job search experience; see also Google indexing.
Active: switch it off to hide the type from the board and the job form without deleting it. Jobs keep their assignment.
Click Add job type (or Save changes when editing). You get a "Job type saved" toast, and a new type opens in edit mode so further saves update it.
Manage categories
In the sidebar, open Content and click Job categories.
Drag the rows to set their display order on your board.
Click Add category to create one, or the pencil icon to edit.
The category form:
Name (required): for example "Front of House".
Alias (required): the URL slug (auto-filled from the name), used in URLs like /jobs/front-of-house.
Parent category: pick a top-level category to make this one a subcategory. Subcategories show indented under their parent in the job form's Category picker.
Icon: an optional JPG or PNG shown next to the category on your board. Sample categories come with flat icons you can replace.
Active: off hides the category from your board but keeps it here.
Featured: highlights the category on your board's home page (the featured-categories section, when your theme shows one).
Assign them to jobs
On the job form (Post and manage jobs), Job Type and Category are two dropdowns side by side. Each job takes at most one of each; jobs without them show as "Not specified" and "No category" and simply stay out of those filters. Imported jobs can be classified automatically with auto-tagger rules or given per-source defaults in Import jobs automatically.
Deleting vs deactivating
The trash icon on a row deletes the type or category after a confirmation. Jobs assigned to it are not deleted; they simply become unclassified ("Not specified" or "No category") and drop out of that filter, and the landing URL stops resolving. If the type or category might come back, or you just want it off the board for a while, flip Active off instead: assignments survive deactivation, and switching it back on restores everything.
Tips
Keep the list short and distinct. Ten well-named categories beat forty overlapping ones, both for browsing and for the strength of each category landing page.
Drag-and-drop order is saved as you drop; there is no separate save step on the list pages.
Need more dimensions than type and category (say, Industry or Seniority)? Add a custom taxonomy instead of overloading categories: Custom fields and taxonomies. For freeform labels, use tags.