Multi-Language Support
How to enable multiple languages on your career portal so candidates can browse in their preferred language.
Why It Matters
If you’re hiring internationally — or even locally in a multilingual market — candidates should be able to read your career portal in their own language. Kit translates all portal UI elements (navigation, buttons, status labels, form fields) into five languages, so candidates get a native experience regardless of where they are.
Supported Languages
| Language | Code | Status |
|---|---|---|
| English | en |
Always enabled (default) |
| German | de |
Optional |
| French | fr |
Optional |
| Spanish | es |
Optional |
| Polish | pl |
Optional |
English is always available as the fallback language and cannot be disabled.
Enabling Languages
- Navigate to Hiring > Settings > Career Portal
- Scroll to the Languages section
- Check the languages you want to enable
- Select a default language — this is what candidates see when they first visit your portal
- Click Save
Only enabled languages appear in the candidate-facing language switcher. You can enable or disable languages at any time.
How Candidates Switch Languages
When you enable more than one language, a language switcher appears in the career portal footer. Candidates click their preferred language, and the entire portal UI updates instantly.
The selected language is stored in a cookie, so returning candidates see the portal in their last-chosen language automatically.
What Gets Translated
Kit translates portal UI chrome — the elements that are the same across every job posting:
- Navigation and page headers
- Button labels (Apply, Submit, Back)
- Form field labels and placeholders
- Status badges (Active, Closed)
- Stage names and instructions for standard stages
- Footer text and legal links
Candidate emails (stage notifications, interview invites, rejections) are sent in the job posting’s communication language. Each job posting inherits your account’s default language, but you can override it per posting if you’re hiring for a role in a different market.
Job posting content stays in the original language. Titles, descriptions, requirements, and any custom text you write are displayed exactly as entered. If you need a job posting in multiple languages, create separate postings for each language.
Quick Checklist
- Enable additional languages in Hiring > Settings > Career Portal
- Choose a default language that matches your primary candidate audience
- Visit your career portal to verify the language switcher appears in the footer
- Test switching between languages to confirm UI translations render correctly
- Create separate job postings for roles that need to be listed in multiple languages