Enabling reCAPTCHA on Call-To-Action forms

Recruitment Marketing Public

This article outlines how to enable CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turin test to tell Computers and Humans apart) on Call-To-Action (CTA) forms.

According to reports, around 49% of all internet traffic in 2023 was bot traffic, with 32% of the traffic being considered "bad bots". This presents an increasing challenge for our users, both in terms of the submission of fake profiles by bots completing CTA forms, and also the impact that the bot traffic has on the website performance metrics.

In order to try and prevent bots being able to repeatedly submit CTA forms, users have the option to enable a CAPTCHA functionality on said forms.

There are different versions of reCAPTCHA. Recruitment Marketing uses Google reCAPTCHA v2, which presents users with a checkbox for them to interact with and an optional image recognition challenge that is only triggered for suspicious activity.

In Recruitment Marketing reCAPTCHA is an opt-in functionality, so you will need to enable it should you wish to use it.

To enable, follow the below steps:

1. From the side menu under Company, click Settings
2. Navigate to Web and click on reCAPTCHA
3. Tick the box to enable reCAPTCHA on all CTA forms as per screenshot below and click Save

Once this setting is enabled, all CTA forms in your careers sites will include the reCAPTCHA widget as you can see in a sample CTA below:

With reCAPTCHA enabled, the form will only be submitted if the CAPTCHA verification passes. If it fails, the candidate will see an error message and will have the opportunity to interact with the widget and to attempt a submission again.