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Boost

April 16, 2026

Boost is a feature that automatically posts your job and application form to multiple job boards to help you find new applicants for your Opening. Boost takes away the effort and the manual work of finding job boards, posting jobs directly on the job boards, checking to see if you've received applicants, and manually importing them into Fountain.

How Boost Works

Fountain partners with Talroo, a leading programmatic job advertising platform with the second-largest unique candidate audience. Through this partnership, your job postings reach job seekers across Talroo's owned-and-operated sites (including Jobs2Careers, ReadySetHire, and EssentialWorkerJobs) and an extensive network of partner publishers such as job boards, blogs, news sites and apps, associations, and programmatic advertising platforms.

When you create a Boost with the Standard Package, you can set a budget with a fixed 30 day duration. During this timeframe, Fountain will:

Important Note: Boost uses a standard application form, which does not include the additional questions you may have added to the custom application form for your Opening. Reach out to support@fountain.com or the Customer Success team for more details.

The effectiveness of the Boost and the quality of the applicants is based on a variety of factors, including:

Important Note: Location Availability Boost is available for Openings in the US, Canada, UK, and EU that have a physical address. Openings with remote Locations are not currently supported.

Boost Your Job Opening

To Boost a job Opening, follow the steps below:

  1. Select the Sourcing tab located in the top navigation bar, then select Job Postings located in the left menu.

Important Note You can also access Boost when you login to your Fountain account. Select the Opening you'd like to Boost, and then select Post to Job Boards. Proceed to the next steps.

  1. Select Boost.

  2. Select the Opening you'd like to add your Boost to from your list of Openings and click Next.

Determine a budget for your Boost.

Important Note The Standard Package budget will be allocated to Talroo's programmatic advertising network, which reaches job seekers across Talroo's owned sites (Jobs2Careers, ReadySetHire, EssentialWorkerJobs) and partner publishers.

Talroo has a minimum spend of $150 for 30-day campaigns.

You can also allocate additional budget to other job board options:

  1. Once you determine and set the parameters for your budget, select Next.

  2. Input or confirm the existing job details in our system, and complete any missing job details.

  3. The Posting Title can be different from the Opening name in Fountain. This is what job seekers will see in search results on job boards.

  4. The salary can be a range or an exact number; it can also be left blank. (We recommend including the salary with your job details to attract more applicants.)

  5. If you'd like to change the address associated with the job, go back to the original Opening created to edit the location.

  6. Determine the Payment Method you want to use for the Boost. You can use a credit card or add the Boost as a line item to your monthly invoice.

  7. Click Pay & Boost Now or Schedule for Later. Your Boost campaign will be active.

Talroo Sponsored Postings

Talroo is the programmatic job advertising platform powering Boost's Standard Package. With the second-largest unique candidate audience, Talroo reaches job seekers that other platforms miss through its owned-and-operated sites and extensive publisher network.

Talroo's Distribution Network:

Key Features:

Your Talroo postings will automatically distribute through this network when you create a Boost campaign with the Standard Package.

Joveo Sponsored Postings

Joveo is a programmatic job advertising platform available as an additional job board option in Boost. Joveo distributes your job posting across a comprehensive network of major and niche job boards to maximize visibility and reach qualified candidates.

Joveo's Distribution Network:

Key Features:

Your Joveo postings can be selected as an additional job board option when you create a Boost campaign. Joveo can be used individually or in combination with the Standard Package, CareerBuilder, and Free Job Boards.

Adding a Coupon to Your Boost Demonstration

To add a coupon, follow the instructions in the video demonstration.

Managing a Boost

To manage a Boost, follow the steps below:

  1. Select the Sourcing tab located in the top navigation bar, then select Job Postings located in the left menu.

  2. On the Job Postings tab, select the Opening you'd like to add your Boost to from your list of Openings. Boosted jobs are identified with the blue lightning bolt icon in the Type column. On this tab, you can view the number of applicants you received from various job boards, as well as cancel your Boost.

Things to Remember:

Attributing Applicants

Applicants who apply via Boost can be identified by looking at the UTM source on the Applicant Table and in the details section of their applicant profile. This will display the individual job board on which the applicant applied for your Opening. In addition, on the Applicant Table, applicants who apply via Boost are designated with the blue lightning bolt icon.

Best Practice: Application Form Our sourcing feature does not use the application form you have created: to ensure that applicants via Boost answer your required questions, we suggest creating a data collection stage with the same questions that are on your application form. If you are using the same Opening for both sourced and non-sourced applicants, and don't want everyone to land in the new data collection stage, you can create a rule stage to filter applicants to different stages.

Try It Out!

Click the image below to try out Boost: