Add an SMS Messaging Provider for the Text Assistant

You need to create and activate a messaging provider that will be used for communicating with candidates using the text assistant.

If you already have an active SMS provider with SMS communication enabled, and you edit the provider to enable agent communication, the SMS communication will be disabled. You’ll then need to enter the text assistant threshold limits and re-enable SMS communication.

Please ensure that SMS configurations are different for each pod—production and other test pods.

  1. In the Setup and Maintenance work area, go to:
    • Offering: Recruiting and Candidate Experience

    • Functional Area: Recruiting and Candidate Experience Management

    • Task: Recruiting Messaging Configuration

  2. On the Recruiting Messaging Configuration page, in the SMS Messaging Providers section, select Add.
  3. Enter a name and description.
  4. Select a provider.
  5. Enter the maximum limit for a message length, in number of characters.

    The Body parameter includes the full text of the message you want to send. For Twilio, it's limited to 1600 characters. Based on your business needs, you can set the message length limit to 1600 characters or less.

  6. Select Enable two-way SMS communications to allow candidates to reply to SMS messages.
  7. Select Enable the candidate text assistant if you want the text assistant to automatically respond to candidate SMS messages.

    When you do this, you’ll see two tabs displayed, where you can define the details for two SMS channels: The Hiring Team Messages tab is for the first channel that's used for SMS messages sent by the recruiting team. The Automated and Text Assistant Messages tab is for the second channel that's used for automated messages and text assistant responses.

  8. Enter info in the Request Details, Authentication, Headers, and Body sections for the selected service provider in both tabs.

    For more information on entering info for the Twilio and Syniverse service providers, see the document Examples of Adding SMS Providers for the Text Assistant on My Oracle Support (KB38155).

    Note:
    • For processing outbound messages, the SMS messaging provider's API is expected to return the response in JSON format. To ensure smooth processing of these messages, we recommend that you include the Accept header in the Headers section and specify its value as application/json.

  9. Select Test Outbound Message to send a test message and make sure that the configuration is properly done.
  10. You need to test the outbound message for each channel type, hiring team and agent messages.

    In the SMS Message Info section, enter the phone number for each channel and select the channel type.

  11. Save and close the page once the test is successful.