When a hiring team sends you an offer through Katara, you get an email with a link to it. You read the terms, then either sign to accept or decline. Your answer goes straight back to the team.
Finding your offer
- From the email. Open the link in the offer email from Katara.
- From your dashboard. Offers you haven't accepted appear under Offers on your dashboard, with their status. Click one to open it.
- From your application page. The page for that application shows Your offer with a View offer button. See Tracking your applications.
If you set an Email for offers in the Socials section of your profile settings, offer emails go to that address instead of your account email. Recruiters never see it.
Reading the offer
The top of the offer shows the job title, the company and a status badge. Below that you may see:
- Salary, with the currency and period, such as per year or per month
- Employment type
- Start date
- Expires, the last moment you can respond
- Terms, the full text of the offer letter
Read the terms carefully before you respond. Signing accepts everything in them.
Accepting by signing
- Under Your full legal name, type your name.
- Under Signature, choose Draw to sign with your mouse, finger or stylus, or Type to turn your typed name into a signature. Use Clear to start again.
- Tick the box to agree to sign electronically. Your electronic signature is as legally binding as one written by hand.
- Click Sign and accept.
If you are signed in, you can tick Save this signature for future offers. Next time, Katara offers Your saved signature, and you can switch with Use a different signature or Use my saved signature.
Once you accept, the page shows "You accepted this offer." with a summary: your signature, Signed by and Signed on. Use Download signed PDF to keep a copy. If the PDF isn't ready yet, Katara emails it to you when it is.
A signed offer can't be changed afterwards. The team is notified that you accepted.
Declining
Click Decline at the bottom of the offer. There is no confirmation step, so be sure before you click. The page then shows "You declined this offer." The team is notified, and your application for that job moves to Not selected.
Expiry
If an offer has an expiry date, the date shows in red once it has passed. You can no longer accept or decline an expired offer, and the page says "This offer expired before you responded." If you still want the job, contact the team directly.
Offer statuses
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Awaiting your response | The offer is open. You can accept or decline. |
| Accepted | You signed and accepted the offer. |
| Declined | You declined the offer. |
| Expired | The expiry date passed before you responded. |
| Withdrawn | The team withdrew the offer. |