How Locations and Work Locations Work Together

When you create a job requisition, you can use the work location of a job requisition as the location of a job posted on career sites. This is done by selecting both the location and work location of the requisition.

To facilitate the process and to help properly align the location and work location, here's what happens:

When a job requisition is created, the primary location of the requisition is defaulted to the geography (if there is one) associated to the work location, if the work location is defaulted from the current user's assignment or from a position.
If this geography isn't part of the geography hierarchy used by Oracle Fusion Cloud Recruiting, the application will look at the parent geographies until a geography that's part of the geography hierarchy is found.
The primary location is defaulted only if there's not already a primary location selected on the requisition (selected by the user or defaulted from another source).
The Primary Location drop-down shows the first 25 configured locations in alphabetical order, from the geography hierarchy. If a location isn't available in the drop-down, you can do a search using keyword in the Primary Location field.
For a geography to be successfully associated to a work location, the tax validation configuration for the No Styles Format address style of the work location's address country (which is configured using the Manage Geographies task under Setup and Maintenance) must:
- Include only contiguous geography types (there can't be unselected geography types between selected geography types).
- Include only geography types which can be provided as part of the address when managing locations (which is configured using the Manage Locations task under Setup and Maintenance).

The table presents different scenarios of when the locations and work locations are used.

Scenario	Result
You create a job requisition from a blank requisition.	The hiring manager is defaulted as the current user. The primary work location is defaulted to the current user's assignment. The primary location is defaulted to the geography associated to the primary work location only if it hasn't already been provided by the user or defaulted from another source.
You create a job requisition from an existing requisition.	The values from the source requisition are used.
You create a job requisition from a requisition template.	The primary location is selected in the How section. If there's no hiring manager on the template, the hiring manager is defaulted from the current user. If no work location is defaulted from the template, the primary work location is defaulted to the current user's assignment. The work location is defaulted only if it's geographically aligned with the primary location. If there's a hiring manager on the template, the hiring manager is defaulted from the template.
You create a job requisition from a job.	If no template is associated to the job or if there's no hiring manager on the template, the hiring manager is defaulted from the current user. If no work location is defaulted from the template, the primary work location is defaulted to the current user's assignment. If a primary location is defaulted from the template, the work location is defaulted only if it's geographically aligned with the primary location or one of the other locations. If no primary location is defaulted from the template, the primary location is defaulted to the geography associated to the work location. If there is a hiring manager on the template, the hiring manager is defaulted from the template.
You create a job requisition from a position.	If a work location is defaulted from the position and no primary location is defaulted from the template associated to the position, the primary location is defaulted to the geography associated to the work location. If no template is associated to the position and its job or if there is no hiring manager on the template, the hiring manager is defaulted from the current user. If no work location is defaulted from the position, the primary work location is defaulted to the current user's assignment. If a primary location is defaulted from the template, the work location is defaulted only if it's geographically aligned with the primary location or one of the other locations. If no primary location is defaulted from the template, the primary location is defaulted to the geography associated to the work location.