Profile Architecture
You create and manage profiles using the Manage Profiles business process in PeopleSoft Human Resources. To understand profile integration for job openings, you must be familiar with profile architecture, including these terms:
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Profile |
An organized collection of data that represents attributes of a person or of a business object such as a job. Typically, profiles summarize the competencies, qualifications, and skills of a job or a person. |
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Content Type |
A category of information in a profile. Delivered content types that support recruiting processes include competencies, languages, memberships, degrees, licenses & certificates, and so forth. |
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Content Item |
A specific attribute that is associated with a particular content type. For example, for the content type Competencies, content items are specific competencies such as analytical thinking or the ability to prioritize tasks. |
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Instance Qualifier |
A value that is used to organize and filter content items. For example, competency ratings are organized according to the evaluation type (self-evaluation, manager evaluation, and so forth). This is possible because the evaluation type is being used as an instance qualifier. |
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Profile Type |
Profile types define the structure of your profiles. A profile type includes content types, but not content items. That is, a particular profile type might include content types such as competencies and memberships, but it does not reference particular competencies or particular memberships. The profile type also defines whether the profile is linked to person IDs to create person profiles, or linked to business entities, such as job code or positions, to create non-person profiles. |
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Primary Person Profile Type |
A specific person profile type that you select on the Assign Profile Defaults page. The system uses this profile type to identify the content types that are available for use in Talent Acquisition Manager. Although all content types in the primary person profile type are available for use, you can configure the system to use a subset of the content types on specific pages:
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