Linking Standard Career Sections to Mobile Career Sections

Customers can specify if a career section can be accessed from mobile devices.

When candidates receive a message on their mobile device regarding a new job opening and decide to take a look at the job using their mobile device, the candidates are automatically redirected to the mobile career section where they can view and apply for the job.

How does this occur exactly? First, the job is posted manually on a regular career section and the system automatically posts the requisition on the mobile career section to which the standard career section is linked. When candidates using a mobile device receive a message regarding the job and choose to learn more about the job, they are directed to a standard career section (this is transparent to candidates). A mobile detection tool ("sniffer") detects the mobile device and redirects the candidates to the mobile career section.

Note: The detection tool provides only the language, default page, location and keyword fields to the mobile career section. Other criteria that might be part of the regular career section are not provided.

Career section administrators configure two properties on the Career Section Editor page to create a link between a standard career section and a mobile career section. Administrators specify whether a career section is a standard or mobile one by configuring the Mobile Career Section field. If they specify that a career section is a standard one, they can then link it to a mobile career section by configuring the Linked Mobile Career Section field.

When Recruiting Center users are posting a requisition, the mobile career section is not displayed in the Career Sections list. This is to prevent users from posting requisitions directly to a mobile career section.

When Recruiting Center users are posting a requisition, the system calculates the posting start date and end date for the mobile career section. The posting start date and end date on the mobile career section are based on the corresponding dates of the linked standard career section(s).

• If a single standard career section is linked to the mobile career section, the posting start date and end date of the standard career section are used.

• If multiple standard career sections are linked to the mobile career section: the earliest start date among the standard career sections is used and the latest end date among the standard career sections is used.

When a requisition is posted to a standard career section, the system automatically posts the requisition to the mobile career section to which the standard career section is linked.

A standard career section can be linked to only one mobile career section. Multiple standard career sections can be linked to the same mobile career section however. In the latter case, the open jobs of all the linked standard career sections will be posted on the mobile career section.

Existing themes and branding files can be used for mobile career sections. However, distinct themes and branding better suited to the needs of mobile device users are recommended.

Note: When a standard career section is linked for the first time to a mobile career section, all requisitions currently posted on the standard career section are posted to the mobile career section. This posting process starts a few minutes after the two career sections are linked and the time required to post those requisition depends on the volume of postings on the standard career section.

Note: The standard career section and the mobile career section must have similar configurations. Otherwise, job postings on the mobile career section might not be possible. For example, if the OLF structure of a standard career section does not match the OLF structure of the mobile career section, the requisition cannot not be posted on the mobile career section.

If a single standard career section is linked to the mobile career section, a "Display standard career section" link is displayed on most pages of the mobile career section. Mobile device users can click the link to proceed to the standard career section that typically contains more complete information and features than the mobile career section. The link is displayed on the My Submissions, My Job Cart, My Saved Searches, My Referrals and Basic Search pages. It is not displayed on the pages of application flows.

The standard career section does not include a link back to the mobile career section.

Note: If two or more standard career sections are associated with the same mobile career section, the link is not displayed in the mobile career section. This is because a link cannot point to multiple destinations. Customers can create a distinct mobile career section for each standard career section, however, and the "Display standard career section" link will be displayed in each mobile career section.