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Noticeboard cluster · Job Vacancy · Last reviewed May 2026
Turn your SharePoint intranet into an internal job board.
Quick answer: Athena's Noticeboard webpart includes a built-in Job Vacancy category. Post internal vacancies where your employees already look, on the intranet, with pinning, urgency sorting, audience targeting, and self-provisioning lists. No separate platform. £290/month per tenant, unlimited users. Bundled with org chart, knowledge base, policy management, events, and 15 other webparts.
Most SMB and mid-market organisations have no formal internal job board today. Vacancies circulate by email, Teams, or word of mouth, and the best internal candidates often miss them. Enterprise platforms like Workday Talent and Gloat solve this beautifully but cost more than most non-enterprise teams can justify. Athena bridges that gap: a proper internal-publication channel, inside the SharePoint intranet your team already uses, at a single per-tenant price.
The internal mobility problem most SMBs don't solve.
Companies talk about internal mobility. Few build the infrastructure for it. The barrier isn't strategy. It's the absence of a visible internal channel where employees see open roles before the role goes to LinkedIn.
70%+
of SMBs have no formal internal job board. Vacancies go to external recruitment by default.
3-5×
typical cost of an external hire versus an internal one, when recruiter fees, time-to-fill, and onboarding are factored in.
30%
of hires industry research suggests could have been internal, but the publishing channel didn't exist or wasn't visible enough.
£290/mo
Athena Essentials, per-tenant, unlimited users, includes Job Vacancy + 5 other Noticeboard categories.
Post a Job Vacancy in under 60 seconds.
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Athena Job Vacancy: posting flow
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What Athena's Noticeboard adds.
The Athena Noticeboard webpart includes six first-class categories: Notice · Job Vacancy · Kudos · Safety Alert · Opportunity · Classified. The Job Vacancy category specifically:
Pinning
Pin urgent or high-priority openings to the top of the noticeboard automatically.
Urgency sorting
Mark vacancies as urgent and they sort to the top with visual emphasis.
Audience targeting per posting
Vacancies can be visible only to specific departments, regions, or Entra groups. A graduate scheme post can be visible only to junior staff; a senior leadership post only to specific business units.
Rich-text descriptions
Full job description, hiring manager contact, application instructions, internal benefits framing: all in one entry.
Grid and list views
Present openings as a card grid (intranet home page) or list (dedicated Careers page).
Fullscreen admin CRUD
HR can create, edit, and remove postings without leaving the webpart.
25 design palettes
Match the noticeboard styling to your existing intranet brand.
How it compares to dedicated internal mobility platforms.
Athena and platforms like Workday Talent, Gloat, and Eightfold serve materially different segments. The right comparison is honest about what each does well.
| Capability | Athena Noticeboard (Job Vacancy) | Workday Talent / Gloat / Eightfold |
|---|---|---|
| Post and surface internal vacancies on the intranet | Built in: Job Vacancy category | Yes, via integrated job-posting modules |
| Pinning, urgency sorting, audience targeting | Built in | Available in most enterprise tiers |
| AI-driven internal candidate matching | Not included | Core capability, strong in Gloat and Eightfold |
| Skill mapping and competency frameworks | Not included | Core capability in dedicated platforms |
| Structured application workflow + ATS integration | Application flow runs in existing HR/ATS system; Athena handles publishing only | Native |
| Career pathing and development recommendations | Not included | Native |
| Self-service for HR (no admin/IT involvement) | Yes: HR posts directly inside the webpart | Yes |
| Lives inside Microsoft 365 with no separate login | Yes: runs in SharePoint tenant | Separate platform; SSO available |
| Pricing model | Bundled in Athena Essentials at £290/mo per tenant (flat) | Enterprise-tier bespoke contracts; typically not economical below 500-1,000 users |
Verify current pricing and feature scope directly with each vendor before purchase. Athena's positioning is the publishing layer of internal mobility, the visible channel where staff see openings. For AI-driven candidate matching, structured competency assessment, and full applicant tracking, dedicated enterprise platforms remain stronger.
Where Athena fits, and where it doesn't.
Scenario A: SMB with no internal mobility infrastructure today
Athena fits wellYou hire 5-15 people a year. There's no formal internal job board. Vacancies get circulated by email or in standup. You'd love to favour internal candidates but you have no way to advertise the roles internally before they hit LinkedIn. Athena fits well: it gives you a proper internal publication channel without a separate platform purchase or a dedicated rollout project.
Scenario B: Mid-market with an ATS but no internal-mobility surface
Athena complements your ATSYou use Workable, Greenhouse, or BambooHR for external hiring. Internal mobility happens informally. The ATS has technical features for internal posting, but employees rarely log into the ATS, so internal vacancies aren't really visible. Athena complements your ATS: publish a short summary of each internal opening on the Athena Noticeboard with a link back to the ATS to apply. Internal candidates see the opportunity where they already are; the ATS retains the application workflow.
Scenario C: Enterprise with Workday Talent or Gloat
Dedicated platform fits betterYou already have AI-driven internal mobility infrastructure. Your platform does sophisticated candidate matching and skill mapping. Athena is probably not the right fit for the internal mobility use case here. Your dedicated platform is doing the heavy lifting. (Athena may still be valuable for the rest of its webpart surface, org chart, knowledge base, policy management, but the Job Vacancy use case is already solved better elsewhere.)
Where a dedicated platform is the better choice.
Setting up an internal job board with Athena.
Total time: under an hour. No separate platform to procure.
Install Athena
Upload the Athena .sppkg to your Microsoft 365 tenant app catalog and approve. Single package; no Azure functions, no external SaaS.
Add the Noticeboard webpart
On your intranet home page (or a dedicated “Careers” or “Internal Opportunities” page), add the Athena Noticeboard webpart via the Athena Launcher tile. The webpart self-provisions its backing SharePoint list on first load.
Configure the Job Vacancy category
In the Noticeboard's property pane, set the visible categories. Enable Job Vacancy. Set audience targeting defaults so each vacancy can be scoped to relevant departments or Entra groups.
Brief HR or the talent team
HR creates new vacancy entries directly inside the webpart. No admin/IT involvement required after initial setup. Each entry supports a full rich-text description, a hiring-manager contact, an application link, audience targeting, pinning, and urgency.
Promote the page internally
Link the Noticeboard page from your existing intranet navigation. Mention it in your next all-staff communication. Within a couple of months, employees treat it as the canonical internal job source.
Frequently asked questions.
Internal job board software lets an organisation post and manage open roles visibly to its existing employees, rather than only to external candidates. The aim is to surface internal opportunities so current staff can apply or refer colleagues before the role goes to external recruitment. Most large enterprises use either a dedicated internal mobility platform (Workday Talent, Gloat, Eightfold) or the internal-posting features of their applicant tracking system. Most small and mid-market organisations have no formal internal job board: vacancies are circulated via email, Teams, or word of mouth.
Your intranet just became an internal job board.
Athena Essentials includes the Noticeboard webpart with built-in Job Vacancy, Kudos, Safety Alert, Classified, Opportunity, and Notice categories, plus 18 other webparts for org chart, knowledge base, policy management, and more. £290/month per tenant. Unlimited users.
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