1. Implementing Career Section
  2. Career Section URL

Career Section URL

When a Career Section is created, a URL is automatically generated for the Career Section. When candidates access the Career Section of an organization, they are taken to the URL created for the Career Section.

System administrators can choose the page that is displayed when candidates access the Career Section; the default page is the Basic Search page.

Note: The URL cannot be identical to an existing URL, and it cannot contain the word "admin". Multi-byte characters in Oracle Taleo Enterprise Edition Career Section URLs are not supported.

System administrators can provide:

  • an alternate job list URL, i.e. when candidates are in a Career Section, the alternate job list URL provides a point of return to the Job List when candidates click Exit, Return to Job, email URL, or Forgot Password.

  • an alternate candidate profile URL i.e. when candidates click on one of the profile URLs, the alternate profile URL provides an alternate profile link. This redirects candidates to any other URL of the standard profiler flow.

The above two options are available in the Career Section properties.

System administrators can create additional Career Section URLs that can later be added to different areas of the Career Section or to email correspondence. For example, rather than have candidates start from the job search page, they could be directed to the portal and log in to the My Submissions page. A specific Career Section URL could be created for this purpose. When a URL is created for a Career Section, only part of the URL is displayed in the URL column of the Career Section URL list, this portion must be added to the domain name of the organization to obtain a complete URL.

System administrators can embed a source ID, a media ID, or an event ID to the URL; therefore when candidates apply for a job, the right source, or media or event is automatically selected.

URL and Source ID: Put the “src=” parameter plus a source ID in the URL. For example: https://abc.taleo.net/careersection/5/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=51380&src=JB-10088. By doing that, the right source is automatically selected when a candidate applies for a job. This feature is available for any valid sources. For a list of sources, consult the Sources feature in the Recruiting Administration module.

URL and Media ID: Put the “src=” parameter plus a media ID in the URL. This parameter can only be used for eQuest.

URL and Event ID: Put the “src=” parameter plus an event ID in the URL. For example: http://v750dev.qa.rsft.net/careersection/2/jobapply.ftl?job=7397&src=EV-001. By doing that, the right event is automatically selected when a candidate applies for a job. It provides you the ability to track which events, banners or online campaigns are attracting the most candidates to your organization career section. Note that event IDs must be valid and active and they must have been activated in the Sources feature of the Recruiting Administration module. Event IDs are case sensitive. For example, ev-001 and EV-001 are two distinct Event IDs.

Parameters can be manually added to a URL to direct candidates to a specific Career Section or to filter what is displayed on the page. For example:

  • to have candidates land on a French page, add &art_servlet_language=fr

  • to have the Career Section visible for internal candidates only, add &csNo=1

  • to display only urgent jobs in the job list page, add &u=1

Note: As mentioned earlier in this section, multi-byte characters in Oracle Taleo Enterprise Edition Career Section URLs are not supported.

URL considerations for standard career sections using only Advanced search and linked to a mobile career section

Career Section administrators create career section URLs for a variety of reasons (Configuration > Career Section Administration > Career Section URLs).

The special situation involves standard career sections for which:

  • the Advanced search page is enabled and

  • the Basic and Faceted search pages are disabled and

  • a mobile career section is linked to the standard career section.

In such a situation, it is important to configure any URL for the Advanced search in the standard career section such that the URL ends with "jobsearch.ftl". E.g. http://customerzone/careersection/careersectioncode/jobsearch.ftl. This might seem odd given that "jobsearch.ftl" points to the Basic search or Faceted search (both disabled on the standard career section) but this configuration works well in practice. Because the Basic search and Faceted search are disabled, visitors to the standard career section are redirected automatically to the URL ending with "moresearch.ftl" and the Advanced search page. Because of "jobsearch.ftl" (pointing to Basic search or Faceted search) in the standard career section URL and because the Faceted search page is enabled for mobile career sections, mobile device users are automatically redirected to the mobile career section and the Faceted search page.

When system administrators use the Preview functionality of the Career Section, the system automatically creates a candidate in the Career Section with the login information of the system administrator. The system administrator is then logged in to the Career Section directly using this candidate's account. All changes made in the preview page are also made in the actual Career Section. The data the system administrator creates in the Career Section is saved under this candidate's name. This data can later be accessed in the Recruiting Center and deleted.