Career Section Overview

Career Sections are the candidate-facing portion of Taleo Enterprise. It is potential employees' first glimpse into an organization.

Candidates interact with the Career Section of an organization's corporate Web site when they apply for a job, create a profile, refer others to the organization, or manage their accounts. An organization can have multiple Career Sections with distinct branding, for example, to distinguish the organization's different divisions, to separate external applicants from internal applicants, or to support the organization's international presence. Each Career Section is accessed by a different URL. Once candidates complete a job application or submit a profile, they have access to the Candidate Career Portal Pages within the Career Section. Career Portal Pages display information that pertains to the candidate, such as the candidate's own job submissions and profile.

Here is a typical workflow of how candidates access a Career Section. Candidates access the Careers area of an organization's Web site and then begin reviewing the job list or conduct a search to find job openings. Once candidates have run a search for an opening, the Job List appears. Candidates can click the Job Title link to learn more about the position.Once candidates have found a desired position, they can apply for the job. Candidates complete information presented in different pages, such as personal information, experience, references. These pages are called the application flow. Once candidates complete a page in an application flow, the progress bar can be used to return to a previous page in the flow. Once candidates have created a general profile or submitted a job-specific application, they have access to the Career Portal Page which provides access to the candidate general profile, completed job submissions, saved job searches, etc.

Career Section system administrators are responsible of building career sections and controlling the experience of candidates while they apply for a job or submit a general profile. Career Sections are assembled using the following elements:

• Career sections are made up of application flows.

• Application flows are made up of pages.

• Pages contain blocks. Pages are the individual Web pages that candidates complete.

• Blocks are added to a page of an application flow. Examples of blocks are statements, Diversity forms.

• Fields are added to blocks.

Other elements such as branding, theme, settings, must also be configured by Career Section system administrators.