Searching Jobs on a Career Site
Candidates visiting an external career site can search for jobs using keywords or locations.
Keyword Search
With the keyword search, candidates enter a term in the Find Jobs field. As they enter letters, words matching the characters they typed are displayed. The list continues to narrow as they enter more characters. Candidates need to enter at least one character for the autosuggest to be triggered.
Autosuggestions are derived from these job requisition's fields:
- Requisition Title
- Job Family
- Job Function
- Skill
Candidates can select a term from the list, or they can provide their own keyword to initiate the search. Candidates can use quotation marks to search for an exact match phrase. If a phrase is entered without quotation marks, the search engine will look for jobs matching any of the keywords, giving a higher relevancy score to the ones that match the exact phrase.
The search engine is looking for keywords in the following requisition fields:
- Requisition Title (highest weight)
- Requisition Number (medium weight)
- Job Family (medium weight)
- Job Function (medium weight)
- Skill (medium weight)
- Responsibilities (medium weight)
- Qualifications (medium weight)
- Short Description (lowest weight)
- Long Description (lowest weight)
Requisition fields are distinctively weighted. For example, a job with the keyword found in the job title will appear higher in the search results list.
The hot job tag and posting date also have an impact on relevancy score. Jobs posted more recently and jobs with the hot job tag will get additional boost and will appear higher on the search results list.
Location Search
Candidates can search for jobs by location using these search modes:
- Location or Job Location
- My Location
- Postal Code
- Location or Job Location: Depending on the location search
you enabled, candidates can search for jobs using the Location search mode or the Job
Location search mode. When candidates use the Location search mode, they can search
for jobs by any location. When they use the Job Location search mode, they can search
for jobs by recruiting locations. For details, see Configure Career Site Location Search.Note: Enabling Job Location search does not impact My Location and Postal Code search modes. Even though candidates can only select Job Locations from the autosuggest list, if they switch to postal code search, they can search for any postal code.
When a career site uses the Minimal template, candidates can select the search mode from a menu in the Location search box.
When candidates use the Location search mode, they can search for jobs in any geography. Locations are configured in the Manage Geographies task, in the Setup and Maintenance work area. Locations are in line with the geography hierarchy structure defined in the Geography Hierarchy Structure task. When candidates search for a location, locations matching the characters they typed are displayed as they enter letters. The list continues to narrow as they enter more characters. Candidates need to enter at least one character for the autosuggest to be triggered. The United States is always boosted to the top of the respective countries list.
Locations matching the input are sorted in the autosuggest list in the following order:- Country, alpha order (recruiting locations)
- State, alpha order (recruiting locations)
- City, alpha order (recruiting locations)
- Country, alpha order (other locations)
- State, alpha order (other locations)
- City, alpha order (other locations)
When candidates use the Job Location search mode, they can search for jobs in the locations that are defined in the Geography Hierarchies task. This is a set of locations where jobs can potentially be posted. When candidates move focus to the location search box, a drop-down list with all of the locations opens. Candidates can either select a value from the list, or begin typing to narrow the list down to locations matching their input.
In both location search modes, candidates can select a location at any of the three geography hierarchy levels. If the location they select is at a city level, they can add a radius to their search. The default radius value is 25 miles (or kilometers, depending on the browser locale setting). This means that search results will display jobs posted within 25 miles from the selected location's center and those with matching posting location. If the radius is set to 0, search results will display all jobs with a matching posting location.
When candidates perform a location search using a higher level location, jobs within the location hierarchy are displayed. For example, when a candidate searches for jobs in Canada, results will include jobs posted in Canada, in QC, Canada, and in Quebec, QC, Canada.
When candidates perform a location search using a lower level location, jobs within that particular location are displayed. Search results don't include jobs posted higher in the geography hierarchy tree. For example, when a candidate searches for jobs in Quebec, QC, Canada, results will only include jobs posted in Quebec, QC, Canada and not in QC, Canada or Canada.
- My Location: With the My Location search mode, the location from the candidate's browser is used. Candidates can search for jobs in their precise location, or within a selected distance from that location. The default radius value is 25 miles (or kilometers, depending on the browser locale setting).
- Postal Code: The Postal Code search mode is available only if Oracle Search is enabled. If candidates want to search for jobs using a postal code, they need to enter the postal code and select a country from a list. The default radius value from the center of that postal code area is 25 miles (or kilometers, depending on the browser locale setting). If no keyword or location is provided, a blind search can be initiated, showing all jobs in the search results.
Job Search Results Sorting
- For blind searches (those in which no search criteria is provided), the job search results are sorted by posting date by default. Candidates can then change the sorting criteria.
- For keyword searches, the job search results are sorted by relevancy by default. Candidates can then change the sorting criteria.
- For location only searches when the distance calculation feature is disabled, results are sorted by date by default, with the newest posting listed first. Candidates can then change the sorting criteria.
- For location only searches when the distance calculation feature is enabled, by
default the results are sorted by:
- Distance (nearest displays first) - if a candidate searches using any type of location (location, recruiting location, My Location or postal code), and they select a location at a level allowing distance calculation (level 2 location [city level], or My Location, or postal code).
- Date (newest displays first) - if a candidate selects any type of location (location, recruiting location, My Location, or postal code), and they select a location at a level not allowing distance calculation (level 1 location [state], or country level location).
- Posting date (sorted by newest first) * Relevance
- Distance (nearest first, available only if distance calculation is enabled for the site)
Search Result Filtering
External candidates searching on sites using the Minimal template can filter search filters using the filtering panel. The filters display sequence for default filter categories is configurable. For details, see Configure Career Site Search Filters.
When they click a filter category to open a drop-down list of filters and select them, they'll notice a count displays at the top showing know how many selectors they're using. For example, if a user selects United States and Canada for Locations, the count is 2.