Posting a job offer
How a studio posts a job offer — the requirements (a venue address and the Events & Job Board subscription), the short form, choosing how the role is paid (salary, revenue split, or chair rental), and what can and can't be changed afterwards.
This guide is for studios posting a job offer. Two things have to be in place first: your profile needs a venue address, and the Events & Job Board subscription has to be active. With those sorted, posting is a short form. For the bigger picture see How job offers work on InkMap, and for the subscription see Premium.
Step by step
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Start a new job offer
Open the News tab, go to the Job Offers section, and tap the add button. If the Events & Job Board subscription isn't active, this opens the upgrade screen instead of the form. If your profile has no venue address yet, you'll be told to set that up first.
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Describe the role
Pick the job type — tattoo artist, piercer, apprentice, and a long list of others, with an Other option if none fit. Write a description of the position. The job type is what people filter on when they browse, so pick the closest match.
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Set the start date
Add the date you'd like the person to start, if you have one. You can leave it open.
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Choose how the role is paid
First pick the pay type, then fill in the matching details:
- Salary — enter the amount and the period it covers (per hour, day, or month). The currency comes from your studio's Payment Settings — you don't pick a separate currency per offer.
- Revenue split — set the percentage the studio keeps from the artist's earnings (the artist keeps the rest).
- Chair rental — set the daily, weekly, and/or monthly rate the artist pays to rent a station (in your studio currency from Payment Settings). Fill in whichever rates you offer.
Any pay type can be used for any role. You can also leave the pay blank — the listing then says compensation will be discussed. You can optionally add the years of experience you're after and a list of requirements; those stay editable later.
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Post it
Submit the offer. It goes live straight away in the Job Offers section of the News tab for everyone to find, and on your own profile's News tab. The location is filled in from your venue address — it's what shows on the listing and where it pins on the Map.
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Edit or take down an offer later
Open the offer from the Job Offers section or your own profile and use the edit and delete buttons at the top.
Editing reopens the form, but the job type and the pay are locked once an offer is live — they show greyed out and can't be changed. To change those, delete the offer and post a new one. Everything else stays editable: the title, description, requirements, start date, experience, and styles.
Deleting takes the offer down for good and notifies everyone who'd applied — see the FAQ below.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I save a draft and finish later?
No. A job offer goes live as soon as you post it. You can always edit it (except job type and pay) or take it down afterwards.
- Why can't I change the job type or pay after posting?
Those define the position itself, so they're locked once people can apply — it wouldn't be fair to change the pay out from under applicants. If you need to change them, delete the offer and post a fresh one.
- What happens to applications when I delete an offer?
When you delete you can add an optional reason. Everyone who applied is notified, and their application turns into a dismissible Cancelled card in their News > Jobs section showing the job title and your reason — they aren't silently dropped. Any interview that was set up is cancelled (the time and its reminders are removed). The offer itself disappears from all listings.
- Why can't I post a job offer?
Posting is for studio accounts, and it needs both a venue address on your profile and an active Events & Job Board subscription. Individual practitioners can browse and apply, but can't post.
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