Creating the External Career Portal

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to create the external career portal.

Career Portal Details

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To customize the career portal, you need to specify some details.

Career Portal Details

  • Enter the name of the site and description.

  • Select the language for the site.

  • Select the Default checkbox if this will be the default career site.

Customize the career portal, by entering the required details on Edit New page.

Note

All jobs posted externally are posted to the default site.

Career Portal Creation

So far, you have visited the Careers tab to see where internal candidates apply for open positions with the company. As the hiring manager or recruiter, you are ready to look past your current group of employees for your new positions and hire some new people. To do so, you need to create a career portal.

Creating and Editing Career Sites

  • Before a job can be posted externally, a career portal must be created. 

  • To create a career portal, go to Admin CenterManaging RecruitingManage Recruiting Sites.

Manage Recruiting Sites page is displayed.

Note

At the very beginning of configuration discussions, suggest filters your client might want to use on their career portals.  For example, if your client would like a portal for college recruiting, a field needs to be dedicated to that filter and configured as filter1, filter2, and so on. We can create a microsite for the College Recruiting field created earlier.

Career Portal Creation Process

  1. Click the Create New Site button in the bottom-right corner of your screen.

  2. A career site named New appears at the bottom of your screen.

  3. Mouse over the Take Action link and select Edit.

Manage Recruiting Sites page is displayed. Select the Create New Site button, then mouse over the Take Action link and select Edit after a new career site named New appears at the bottom of your screen.

Enable V12 External Career Site

  • An external career site wrapper can be branded and applied to your external career site by checking the Enable V12 External Career Site checkbox. Once enabled, you can see a Manage Recruiting Site Themes link.

  • This link allows you to customize the theme of the external career site wrapper much like the Theme Manager administration tool.

Select the checkbox of the Enable V12 External Career Site on the Manage Recruiting Sites page.

Career Portal Link

Once you have made the required or desired customizations, click Save.

Select the Save button, once the required customizations have been made.

The link for this page is displayed at the top of the edit screen. This is the link for the candidate portal you just created.

This link needs to be provided to whomever is in charge of managing the external website of the client.

Landing Page Customization

The next step is to customize the landing page. This is the first thing candidates see when arriving to the career site.

Editing Tools on the Site Landing Page

  • Change text colors, fonts, sizes

  • Hyperlink to other pages (including micro-sites)

  • Source or HTML view

    Editing tools are highlighted.

Page Description Updates

You have the option to update any page description.

Page Description Updates

  • Update the overall message on the home page

  • Update the Job Search description

  • Update the Manage Jobs description

  • Update the Profile description

  • Manage Career Site Footer

    Select the Update button to update the particular page description.

Customization of Thanks for Applying Text

You can customize the message that appears once the candidate applies for the position. To configure a custom message confirming that an application was submitted, select Admin CenterManage Recruiting SettingsApplication Submit PageExternal Career Site section.

Select Custom Message and enter the text you want to appear after a candidate submits an application.

Custom Message is highlighted. Select Custom Message and enter your text.

Microsites

Your client may want to target specific audiences of candidates. Examples of this include college recruiting, those with specific licenses or certifications, job fairs, interns, and so on.

Microsite Details

  • Each microsite only shows jobs meeting the specified filters: for example, jobs for interns only.

    Select Intern from the drop-down list for the Job Type.

Microsite Filters

Steps for creating a microsite begin at the job requisition level.

Internal and External Applicant Search Settings in Provisioning

For example, if creating a microsite for college recruiting, create a picklist-type field on the job requisition (JRDM) template.

The field-id must be a filter value: for example, filter1, filter2, and so on.

In Provisioning, set up the custom filter by navigating to Manage RecruitingInternal and External Applicant Search Settings.

Select Internal and External Applicant Search Settings to set up the custom filter.

Custom Filters for Microsites

To set up a custom filter for a microsite, complete the following steps:

  1. Scroll to the Custom Filters section.

  2. Add the field label and picklist ID.

    Set up a Custom Filter for a microsite by adding the field label and picklist ID.

    Please note that the same settings can be enabled via Admin CenterInternal and External Career Search Settings.

This filter is now available for job searches and for creating microsites.

  • To create the microsite, repeat the same steps as for the creation of your default career portal and use the filter(s) to dictate what is visible on the microsite.

  • Using the example of creating an Intern microsite in the figure below, set the filter to Intern.

  • Only jobs with this field marked Intern on the job requisition will then appear in the search results.

    Select the Intern from the drop-down list.

Microsite Links

The interns-only microsite has its own unique link.

Microsite Link Available in Career Settings

You can link out to this microsite from your default career website and in other types of marketing.

Site URL is highlighted. The interns-only microsite has its own unique link.

Summary

  • Create and configure the external career portal, including setting up site details and branding.
  • You can customize the landing page content and messages to enhance candidate engagement.
  • Create microsites targeted to specific audiences, using job requisition filters.