Post a job and hire
Create a public company profile, post roles, and find candidates on Ardent Africa.
Hiring on Ardent is for organisation accounts: NGO/charity and corporate (company) accounts. Your company page is created for you from your organisation account, carrying your name and logo, so you can post a role straight away. Filling the rest of it in is worth a few minutes, because that page is what a candidate reads before deciding whether to apply.
Use your organisation account
- Sign in with your NGO/charity or corporate account (or register one).
- Open Hiring in your dashboard sidebar, then choose New posting.
- Set up your company profile (the Company profile tab under Hiring): a tagline, an about section, your industry, size, location, website and a banner. This is the page candidates read before deciding whether to apply, so a filled-in profile gets more applications than a blank one.
- Add colleagues under Hiring team if you want help. A recruiter seat covers postings, applicants, interviews and messages, and nothing else: it does not give access to your organisation settings, CSR commitments or verification documents.
Individual (personal) accounts can't post jobs. They're for job seekers. If you need to hire, switch to or create an organisation account.
Post a role
- From Hiring → New posting, create a job posting: title, description, responsibilities, requirements, skills, location, workplace type, and salary (you can keep salary private).
- Choose whether candidates apply on Ardent or on your own site.
- Publish.
When a role is filled, close it. That stops new applications and keeps the record, including everyone who applied. Deleting a post removes it and its applications for good, so close is almost always what you want.
Your first posting is reviewed
To keep the board trustworthy, your very first posting is checked by our team before it goes live. After that, your postings publish straight away.
Screen applicants
Add screening questions to a posting (for example a required certification, right to work, or availability). Candidates answer them as part of applying, so you can shortlist on fit before you read a single CV. Screening never charges the candidate: applying is always free.
Manage applicants
Every posting has a lightweight applicant pipeline: move candidates through stages, shortlist the strong ones, add private notes and ratings, and message applicants directly. Candidate contact details stay private; you reach people through in-app messaging.
Shortlisted people gather under Saved candidates, with whatever note you left, so you still have them next time you are hiring even after a role closes.
Interview and make an offer
- Interviews: invite a candidate to interview and propose times; they confirm a slot, and the details stay attached to their application.
- Offers: send a formal offer through Ardent Jobs. The candidate accepts or declines, and nothing is binding until they respond. Ardent never handles salary or any money between you and a candidate.
Hiring from your phone
The Ardent app runs the whole pipeline, not just a view of it. In Employer hub you can read an application in full (the cover letter and anything they attached), leave a private note and a rating, move somebody to the next stage, publish the times you are free to interview, make and send an offer, close a role once it is filled, message a candidate, save someone to your shortlist for the next time you are hiring, and write your screening questions. You can also edit a role after posting it, browse people who made their profile public, see suggested candidates for a role, answer public questions on a posting, and cancel an interview. Your job messages, on either side of a conversation, live under Job messages, and your company profile and team have a page of their own.
One thing stays on the website: the screening questions that carry legal wording (consent and waiver), file uploads, and questions that only appear based on an earlier answer. Any of those you already have are kept exactly as they are when you edit the rest of the form on your phone.
Featuring a job works in the app where it is switched on. You confirm the price and the length of the window first, Paystack opens in your browser, and the role is featured once the payment is confirmed. If you close the browser part way, nothing is charged and nothing changes.
Your company's name, logo and verified badge are not part of the hiring profile. They come from your organisation account, and you change them there.
You can be reviewed as an employer
Candidates and employees can review your organisation as a place to work. These reviews follow the same fairness and anti-manipulation rules as every other Ardent review, and you can reply. Responding well is one of the best ways to attract better applicants.
Posting is free
Posting a job, browsing candidates, and messaging applicants are free, and Ardent never handles money between employers and candidates. If Ardent is useful to you, you can leave an optional tip to help keep the service running for everyone.
The one optional paid upgrade is featuring a job: for GHS 100 you pin a posting to the top of search results with a Featured badge for a 30-day window. It is charged securely to Ardent Africa, is non-refundable, and is never required to post or to hire.
Last updated: 24 August 2026