With conditional hiring, you can hire employees before their background screening is complete. If the screening results aren't successful, you're notified and can decide whether to terminate the employee.
If alternate headcount is configured, you can continue to screen candidates while waiting for background checks to complete for conditionally hired employees. The number of additional employees you can hire is shown in the Alternate Headcount column in Recruiting > Job Requisitions.
Note: If your organization has Position Management enabled, you can't use conditional hiring.
How to Use Conditional Hiring
If conditional hiring is configured, you can use it for new job requisitions as follows:
- In the Job Requisition form, from the Conditional Hiring checkbox in the Job Requisition Details section.
- In the Add New Requisition wizard, from the Conditional Hiring checkbox in the General screen.
You can also use conditional hiring for existing job requisitions by selecting the Conditional Hiring checkbox in the Job Requisition Details section in the Details tab.
You can find out if conditional hiring is used for a job requisition as follows:
- In the Improved Recruiter Experience, go to the Conditional Hiring column of Recruiting > Job Requisitions.
- In the Classic Recruiter Experience, look for the conditional hiring icon (
) in the Indicators column of Recruiting > Job Requisitions. - If applicable, the Job Requisitions tab includes additional columns that show the number of conditionally hired candidates and the alternative headcount.
- The following statuses are shown in the Status column in the Candidates tab of the job requisition: "Conditionally Hired" and "Declined - <reason>."