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.
  6. Select Enable two-way SMS communications.
  7. Select Enable the candidate text assistant.

    You’ll see two tabs displayed, where you can define the details for the two SMS channels – hiring team and text assistant/automated messages.

  8. Based on the provider you selected, enter info in the Request Details, Authentication, Headers, and Body sections.

    For more information, see the document Examples of Adding an SMS Provider on My Oracle Support (ID 2657006.1).

    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.

    • For Twilio, the body tokens must be different for hiring team messages and text assistant messages. For Syniverse, the channel IDs must be different.

  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.