1. Implementing Recruiting
  2. Contingent Requisition Ownership Rules

Contingent Requisition Ownership Rules

For contingent requisitions, the ownership between a submitted candidate and the submitting agent differs from employee or agent referral rules on all other requisition types.

First, there is a contingent specific ownership period used only for contingent submissions. 

Second, there is a set of rules that differ from how ownership behaves on all other requisition types:

  • Contrary to all other requisition types, ownership can change over time from agent to agent once expired. 

  • The original ownership is kept at the submission level even after it is expired at candidate level or replaced at candidate level by another agent, to maintain the relationship with the same agent for a specific job. This means users can see a different ownership from requisition to requisition.

  • Ownership at the submission level can be modified by the end user. For all other staffing types, ownership is modifiable centrally and impacts all submissions, since there is only one ownership by candidate.

Attention: Ownership can exist at the candidate submission level for contingent workers. Once the general ownership is expired, another agent can submit the same candidate again on a new requisition. But while manually changing the agent in the candidate or submission file in the Recruiting Center, the referring agent is changed everywhere, impacting existing requisitions where another agent submitted the same candidate originally. Customer should not change the agent for candidates being active on at least one requisition with another agent.
Since the same agent can be used on both contingent and other staffing types agency referral scenarios, it is not the agent that will determine the ownership but rather the type of candidate submission in play. If the candidate submission that initiates the ownership is a contingent requisition, the contingent setting applies; if the candidate submission initiating the ownership is not contingent, then the standard setting applies. Contingent ownership periods are typically smaller.