Recruiters will typically use Google locations in combination with organizational locations. For example, they can use organizational locations to post a job for actual store or office location, and Google locations to post for a general area where a job is available (for example, a city, town, or region).
Recruiters need to be able to choose a location where the organization doesn't have a physical office so that they can be specific that they are building a team in that area. For example, if the client's office is in Austin, Texas, but you want to want to hire consultants in Dallas, Texas, you wouldn't typically want to use the "Virtual" location, or a physical location in Austin. Instead, you would want the city name as the location because candidates typically search specifically on location when conducting a job hunt.
Because Google search can return full addresses, it is also possible to post the location of your organization via Google Maps, rather than to an organizational location configured in Dayforce. The benefit of using Google locations in this case is that there is no configuration required by administrators; you select the street address as part of the posting process. Conversely, organizational locations in Dayforce require separate configuration by administrators.
However, a major benefit of posting to organizational locations from Dayforce is that the system allows administrators to define a public name for each location. This value allows users to define the custom name for each organizational location, and something other than the street address. For example, they can use a name that is more easily recognizable to candidates, or more generic (for example, the "Cambridge Mall" or "Company XYZ Offices"). The city and state/province also appear in the location. The following example of a job posting shows how the public name of the company is shown under the job title instead of the address:
Conversely, Google locations only display the address from Google Maps, and it isn’t possible to show the company name. The following example of a job posting shows how the address is shown instead of the public name: