We are introducing Cloudflare CAPTCHA to your Career Pages, GovernmentJobs.com, and SchoolJobs.com as part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen security and protect the application experience for both employers and job seekers.
Production Release Window
May 12, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM PST
What is changing?
Cloudflare CAPTCHA will be added during job seeker sign-up and login as an additional security layer to help protect against bots, automated abuse, and suspicious activity.
For most job seekers, the CAPTCHA experience will be invisible and run in the background, with no interaction required. Only in cases where activity appears suspicious will a job seeker be asked to complete a simple checkbox to confirm they are human.
Why are we making this change?
This update helps us:
- Improve security across Career Pages, GovernmentJobs.com, and SchoolJobs.com
- Reduce bot traffic and suspicious login or application activity
- Preserve a smooth, low-friction experience for legitimate job seekers
Our goal is to provide stronger protection without disrupting the normal application flow for real users.
Who needs to take action?
Most customers do not need to do anything.
You may only need to take action if your organization provides a physical applicant kiosk or an on-site device in a restricted office network where job seekers apply for jobs.
In those cases, you may want to whitelist Cloudflare IP ranges to ensure the CAPTCHA service can load properly when needed.
If you do not use a physical kiosk or a restricted on-premise applicant network, there should be no impact, and no whitelisting is needed.
Cloudflare IP whitelisting
If whitelisting is needed for your kiosk environment, please refer to Cloudflare’s official IP list here:
Cloudflare IPs:
https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
If your team manages a physical applicant kiosk in a restricted network environment, please review your network settings before the release window on May 12 between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM PST.
