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Questions and Competencies - Permissions and Settings

The following permissions and settings are used to configure questions, disqualification questions, and competencies.

User Type Permission Description Location
Access the question and competency libraries Gives Recruiting Center users access to the Questions, Disqualification Questions, and Competencies libraries. Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration > [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Associate questions and competencies with structure elements Gives Recruiting Center users the ability to associate questions and competencies to Locations and/or Job Fields. Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Manage disqualification questions Allows Recruiting Center users to use disqualification questions. Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Remove or delete questions and competencies Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Edit questions and competencies Gives Recruiting Center users the ability to modify questions and competencies in the Libraries. Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Add and remove competencies Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback
Create questions Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening and Electronic Feedback

Setting Description Default Value Location
Differentiate Internal and External Candidates in Prescreening Forms When creating requisitions, differentiate prescreening for internal and external candidates. Recruiting Center users will see drop-down menus on the requisition Prescreening tab. No Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Differentiate Internal and External Questions Allows the questions and skills visibility for candidates to be set. If you use profilers, this setting allows you to create different profiler questions for internal and external candidates. No Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Enable Disqualification Questions Enables candidate disqualification questions. No Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Explanation in Disqualification Questions Enables an explanation for disqualification question specific answers. Candidates are then required to provide explanations for specific answers. This feature provides candidates a greater opportunity to accurately explain their qualifications and it also reduces the need for users to make follow-up contact with candidates to obtain details regarding their responses. Yes Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Skill Assessment Format System administrators can define if competency proficiency levels can be selected by users when creating a requisition. Three configurations are available:

  • Detailed: When this option is selected, Recruiting Center users can select the minimum proficiency level of a competency as well as the minimum years of experience required when they create a requisition.

  • Simple: When this option is selected, Recruiting Center users cannot select the minimum proficiency level of a competency when they create a requisition.

  • Detailed or Simple: When this option is selected, Recruiting Center users must select the option "Modify the minimum requirements of proficiency and experience" before being able to select a minimum proficiency level of a competency and the minimum years of experience required.

Detailed Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Skill Experience Level Indicates the baseline for the years of experience. This setting is set globally for the entire organization. Possible values are:

  • Less than 1 year

  • 1-3 years

  • 3-5 years

  • 5 years or +

 1-3 years Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Skill Proficiency Level Expresses proficiency collected via simple skills format in terms of the selected minimum level. It indicates the baseline for proficiency level. This setting is set globally for the entire organization. Possible values are:

  • Novice

  • Intermediate

  • Expert

  • Guru

 Intermediate Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings
Competency Selector Default View in Requisition Activates this view by default in the competency selector. It determines from which library users will select competencies. Possible values are:

  • Organization Competencies ( competencies resulting from the mapping of your company job fields to the Taleo job fields so that the competencies list contains competencies that are considered relevant for your company).

  • Taleo Competencies (the complete Taleo competencies library, classified according to generic job fields).

  • Competency Library (competencies selected by your company among the Taleo competencies library. These competencies are classified according to the location and job fields of your company).

Organization Competencies Configuration > [Recruiting] Settings