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Set Workflow / Posting Dates

PRIOR STEP: Implement Resumé Keywords

KEY TOPICS:

  • Workflow: Cap the Number of Job Seekers (Optional)
  • Determine Posting Dates

FINAL STEP: Review Summary and Save the Requisition

Automate Job Posting Settings

Representing the final new Requisition building blocks, steps for Workflow and Posting Dates provide options to, respectively:

  • Set a Job Seeker threshold that will trigger the Requisition to stop accepting applications

    • AND

  • Determine when or how long the Job Posting will be active on-line

Quick Reminder: For those using Requisition Templates, Workflow and Posting Dates (in relative form) can be auto-populated into the new Requisition. In the Template, these settings may be locked by your organization, or they may be editable.

Workflow: Cap the Number of Job Seekers (Optional)

While building the new Requisition, proceed to the Workflow task area, and complete the Job Seeker Limits menu:

  1. Check the box to turn the Job Seeker limit on, next to the tagline: Stop accepting new candidates when [XX] people have applied.
  2. Using the tagline's Up/Down arrows, enter a maximum number for Job Seekers allowed.

When the limit is reached, the header setting in the Requisition detail for Accepting New Job Seekers (along with Posted Externally / Posted Internally) will be turned off.

Click the [Next Step] button to move on to the Posting Dates menu.

Determine Job Posting Dates

Settings on the Job Posting Dates tab control the timing and length of the "live" on-line posting period for the Requisition.

Quick Reminder: Settings for Job Posting timing may be pre-determined and locked, based on your organization's software Implementation.process.

There are three basic options, selected via radio button:

  1. Enter Dates (External Posting) — Input the desired Start Date and End Date, using the provided calendars OR enter the dates as follows: two-digit month/two-digit day/four-digit year.
  2. Enter Dates (Internal and External Posting) — For this option, enter a Start Date and an End Date for each period, by direct entry or by selecting dates from the provided Calendars.

    3. OR

  3. Automated — To post the job opening when the Approval Process is complete OR alternatively, when the Requisition is Open — check the box next to:

    4. Date Range automatically set to Approval Date or Date Opened

Then, choose a numeric entry for the second tagline, representing the posting period: Post for a total of [XX] days. Scroll with the provided Up/Down arrows to choose a number (e.g., 14 days).

Click the [Next Step] button to move on to the Summary.