Before You Begin: The functionality described in this section is only available if integration with Indeed is configured. See Configure Integration with Indeed.
When you enable integration with Indeed, job requisitions that you post to your client career sites are also automatically sent to Indeed via an XML feed, every four hours. This allows candidates to find and apply to your jobs more easily using Indeed's streamlined Indeed Apply process, so that more applications come in from Indeed.
Candidates can access your job postings on the Indeed website and apply for jobs by submitting their resume or creating a profile with Indeed. If an applicant has a profile with Indeed, they can apply to your postings by submitting their Indeed resume:
The applicant's contact information displays on the candidate’s application when they apply to a job posting:
After submitting their resume, candidates can be asked additional questions about their job application. These questions are configured for a job application template in Recruiting Setup > Job Application Configuration > Question Configuration.
Virtual Job Postings
When you select Virtual in the Location drop-down list of the Create Client Site Posting wizard, Dayforce automatically identifies the job as "Fully Remote" in the job feed XML. The "Remote" label is then added to these job postings on the Indeed website so that candidates searching for remote work can find them.
When you select Virtual in the Location drop-down list, it is recommended that you also select a physical location to ensure that the posting is associated with the correct country. If you don’t select a physical location, the country associated with your base org unit will be used as the country for the virtual posting.
Validation Provided by Indeed Apply
When Indeed Apply is enabled, candidates can apply to your job postings directly from Indeed's website using their existing profile, without having to go to your client career site. The candidate's job application is populated by the information they entered when they either uploaded their resume to Indeed, or created a profile on Indeed, and they have the option to add or update information during Dayforce process.
Indeed provides validation to ensure that the Name, Email, and Phone Number fields, as well as any required fields in custom questionnaires, are completed in the submitted job applications. The site also ensures that candidates have submitted a resume along with their application (if they haven’t already created one with Indeed).
However, because the job postings are handled on Indeed's website rather than your client career site, there is no validation to ensure that fields that were set as required in the Section Configuration tab of Recruiting Setup > Job Application Configuration are completed.
For example, if the References section is set as required, candidates applying on your client career site are required to complete that section, but those using Indeed Apply aren't (because Indeed doesn't validate for that requirement). Required fields that aren't completed in job applications submitted with Indeed Apply appear blank when you review the applications in Recruiting.
Important: If it is mandatory to capture all required information on your job application, set the Indeed Apply Enabled client property to “False”. This turns off the Indeed Apply option and redirects candidates to the job posting on your client career site where the required field settings are enforced.
Indeed Quality Guidelines
Indeed reviews all job postings to ensure that their quality standards are met prior to posting. To increase the likelihood that your job postings will be accepted, you should adhere to the following guidelines:
- Each posting should represent a real and currently available job (that is, no advertisements, training courses, or business opportunities).
- Each posting should include a detailed job description, preferably with information such as a company overview, day-to-day responsibilities of the role, and qualifications needed.
- Each posting should be unique. Duplicate listings will not be approved.
- Each posting should include specific location information, including the city, state, and zip or postal code, if applicable.
- Important: If you add more than one location to the same posting, Indeed creates a separate posting for each location in their job feed.
- The location for the posting shouldn’t be included in the job title.
- You shouldn’t post general-recruitment or location-blasted jobs. These jobs typically include some of the following characteristics: identical descriptions in multiple locations, mentions of hiring for multiple roles in one job posting, mentions of no experience necessary or flexible hours, and references to self-employment and commission only salaries.
- You shouldn’t repost unfilled jobs. Re-posting frequently to have your posting appear higher in the search results isn’t allowed.
Important: Don’t use screening questions that gather Personal Identifiable Information (PII), such as date of birth or national ID number. You should only collect PII after a candidate has accepted their job offer. For their users' security, third-party sites such as Indeed might prevent collection of PII, and further might block all of your job postings if your screening questions ask for this information. After candidates accept their job offers, you can gather the required PII using pre-hire questionnaires or through your background screening provider.