The Four Types of Recruitment Sources

PeopleSoft delivers four types of recruitment sources. All source types can include descriptions and contact information, but each type also has its own type-specific setup. The following table describes the four source types:

Source Type	Usage	Description	Type-Specific Setup
Company	Posting destination	Your organization's own Candidate Gateway job sites, as defined on the Site Definition page.	Specify one or more Candidate Gateway sites where the job opening is posted when the source is used as a posting destination. See PeopleSoft Candidate Gateway: Setting Up Sites.
Vendor	Posting destination	Third-party vendors with whom you integrate using the open integration framework. Examples might include job boards, recruiting agencies, and service procurement providers.	Specify various integration options, including the vendor definition, autoscreening options, resume extraction settings, and notifications. See Setting Up Recruiting Vendors.
Marketing	Posting destination Referral source	Places where you advertise job openings. Examples might include internet or email advertisements, print advertisements, and job fairs. The system enables you to track the use of marketing sources either as posting destinations or as referral sources. This data is informational only. There is no integration with other systems, and there are no delivered reports for this data.	Identify which Candidate Gateway sites permit applicants to select the marketing source in the referrals section of the online job application. Optionally define subsources. For example, if you have a source for magazines, you could list specific publications as subsources.
Employee	Referral source	Employee referrals. On the pages where recruiters and applicants identify referral sources, selecting an employee referral source causes the system to display fields for identifying the employee who made the referral. The system uses this data for processing awards under employee referral programs that you administer within the recruiting system.	Identify which Candidate Gateway sites permit applicants to select the employee source in the referrals section of the online job application.

This diagram illustrates the uses of the four recruitment source types. In the diagram, three source types (Company, Vendor, and Marketing) can be used as posting destinations, while two source types (Marketing and Employee) can be used as referral sources: