Standard Electronic Offer using Recruiting
Customers can use the Standard Electronic Offer feature to extend offers electronically to candidates. Candidates will then access the career section to respond to the offer on line.
To send offers electronically, the Electronic Offers setting must be set to the proper value, users must be granted the permission to extend offers electronically, and the candidate selection workflow must contain the RSOffer step.
The E-Offer process starts as soon as an offer is ready to be extended. Recruiters select the Extend Offer action in candidate submissions with the status Approved (if an approval cycle is needed) or Draft (if an approval cycle is not needed or is configured to be skipped). In the Extend Offer window, the Extend in writing option is selected by default. In the Send Offer Letter window, the E-Offer option is selected by default. When an offer is extended electronically, a tracking event is created in the candidate file History tab indicating that an electronic offer was extended.
Candidates receive an email notification inviting them to access a secure career section portal to view the offer on line. Candidates click the URL link in their email notification, they are directed to the career section portal where they need to log in, they are then directly brought to the Offers tab where they can view the offer details and offer letter attachments, if any. They can also print the offer and the offer letter attachments. Candidates then decide to accept or refuse the offer and they must e-sign the offer by providing their full name and unique identifier. The electronic signature is mandatory but it is not validated and therefore any data can be entered.
When candidates accept an offer, the time and date of their e-signature is displayed at the bottom of the accepted offer page, along with the full name of the candidate who signed it. The unique identifier or specific other data which candidates entered is not displayed on the page.
When candidates accept an offer, the offer remains visible in the career section for future reference. When candidates refuse an offer, the offer disappears from the career section. When candidates have multiple concurrent offers, for example a candidate could be hired for a summer job and a long-term permanent position, the career section Offers tab lists all the offers, that is offers that still need a response and offers that were accepted. If an offer has an expiration date and that date is reached and the candidate has not yet responded to the offer on line, the offer disappears from the career section. If the candidate has accepted the offer before the expiration date, then the accepted offer remains visible in the career section for future reference. If the candidate refuses the offer before the expiration date, then the offer disappears from the career section.
As soon as candidates respond to the offer, recruiters receive an email notification. This notification is a configurable message template which contains the candidate's response. This notification can be modified to provide any other information and can also be sent to additional recipients like the Hiring Manager. Depending on the candidate's response, the candidate status is automatically changed to Offer - Accepted or Offer - Refused, and recruiters can then move the candidate to the next step in the candidate selection workflow.
Recruiters can capture the offer response on behalf of candidates after they have extended the offer. For example, if a candidate contacts the recruiter to give a response before responding to the offer on line, then the recruiter can capture the response. This can give recruiters the opportunity to capture decline motives or to put the offer into the In Negotiation status. If the response entered by the recruiter is Accepted, then the offer will continue to be displayed in the career section for the candidate to view, just like any accepted electronic offers. The offer will show as being accepted but it will not show the full name of the candidate at the bottom of the offer letter page because the candidate did not enter an electronic signature. If the response entered by the recruiter is Refused, then the offer will disappear from the career section just like when candidates refuse an offer themselves.
It is also possible for recruiters to send an offer again once the offer has been extended. For example, an offer was extended in writing via email or printed letter and the recruiter wants to also send it by E-Offer to make it visible on line in the career section. Similarly, if an offer has already been extended and sent as an E-Offer, recruiters can still send it again via email or printed letter.