What is a Career Site
A career site is a webpage where candidates can apply for job openings posted by organizations. As a candidate, when you visit a career site, your primary goal is to search for current job opportunities or create a profile to receive notifications about future positions that match your preferences.
Oracle Recruiting Cloud offers a plethora of features to help you create and customize a modern career site that not only meets your organization’s needs but also enhances the overall candidate experience.
In this article, we will learn to create an external career site from scratch and explore all the key configuration and customization options available to consultants. Additionally, we will post a job on this newly created career site and observe the process of a candidate applying for that job.
Configure a Career Site
To configure a career site search for the task Career Sites Configuration or follow below navigation.
Navigation : Settings and Actions » Setup and Maintenance » Recruiting and Candidate Experience offerings » Candidate Experience (Functional Area) » Career Sites Configuration
On the Career Sites Configuration page you will see if there are any other career sites already configured for your pod. To create a new site, click on the giant + icon (add site), which will open a page in a new browser tab (please check pop-up blocks are disabled)
On this new tab (create site page) enter following details
- Site Name: iavinash
- Site Code: IAVINASH
- Site Display Name for URL: iavinash
- Default Language: American English
Keep the default template selected in the Select a Template section.
Oracle Recruiting Cloud allows you to configure multiple careers sites and they all can be active at the same time. Furthermore, these career sites can also be contextualized to target specific candidate base. You can contextualize a career site based on the following five heads (similar to candidate selection process )
- Location
- Organization
- Job category
- Job function
- Recruiting type
If you need to contextualize, you can enter values for these fields on the CREATE SITE page. For our exercise, we will go with default values for these fields as we are not contextualizing our career site.
Scroll down to the end of the page and you will notice a giant CREATE SITE button. Click on the same to create your career site. This will refresh the same page again with some additional options enabled.
Career site is created but its not published yet, however, you can still see how does it look like at present. There is a Go to Site link beside text Inactive, click on the same and it will open your career site in a new page.
Come back to original tab as there are lots of work to be done on our career site. While the first tab General is selected, scroll below to the page and you will see several link there.
Header Links
First link that you would notice is Header Link. If you expand it, it shows a text “The maximum number of main navigation menus and navigation submenus is 20 and 20 respectively.”
In previous releases You could configure up to 5 main navigation menus and 6 navigation submenus. To check if things have really changed let’s try to create 6 main menus.
Its important to remember this limits, if you are planning to appear for Oracle Recruiting Cloud exam 1z0-1069-23 as you will encounter couple of questions similar to this.
Click on the +Add Link menu and enter details as follows
- Navigation Link Text: Home
- Custom URL: https://iavinash.com
Click on the +Add Link menu again to have total 6 menus as follows
| Navigation Link Text | CUSTOM URL |
| Home | https://iavinash.com |
| Functional Articles | https://iavinash.com/category/oracle/ |
| Technical Articles | https://iavinash.com/category/technical/ |
| All Articles | https://iavinash.com/oracle-cloud-hcm/ |
| Ask Questions | https://hcmfolks.com/ |
| Have Fun | https://askpuzzle.com/ |
Click on the + Add Sub Link menu under second menu Functional Articles and enter details as follows
| Sub-Navigation Link Text | CUSTOM URL |
| Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) | https://iavinash.com/category/oracle/oracle-recruiting-cloud/ |
| Oracle Cloud Absence Management | https://iavinash.com/category/oracle/absence-management/ |
| Oracle Cloud Talent Management | https://iavinash.com/category/oracle/oracle-fusion-talent-management/ |
Once done, scroll up to Header Links section and you will notice a small Preview link (right hand side). Click on that to preview your website and links on a small preview window. You can also change the device to check how would it look on mobile, tablet or laptop. Once done, click on Close Review link to return back.
Before we move on to next link, you can click on collapse (half triangle) icon for header link.
Footer Links
Move next to footer link, and click on the expand button. You will read a text “The maximum number of main navigation menus and navigation submenus is 5 and 3 respectively. Choose 5 links for mobile and tablet.”
If you wish to create links (menu) similar to header link, you can refer to the table below or can skip this section. Footer links appear at the bottom of the page. When you create footer link, you also see a small checkbox to enable that link for mobile and table or not as the footer links are limited to 5 for mobile and tablet.
| Navigation Link Text | CUSTOM URL | Show for mobile and tablet |
| Contact Us | https://iavinash.com/contact-me/ | Yes |
| Guest Post | https://iavinash.com/contribute/ | Yes |
| Privacy Policy | https://iavinash.com/privacy-policy/ | No |
You can also reorder the display of menus using drag and drop feature, or click on the delete icon to remove any link. Once done, click on the preview to preview it then collapse the footer link.
Search Filter
Expand the Search Filter section. You will notice that following 7 options are available for candidates to filter available jobs on the career site. You can decide which of these search filters are visible to candidates on career sites.
- Locations – Enable it.
- Work Locations (this filter requires Oracle Search) – Disable it
- Workplace – Disable it
- Job Functions – Enable it
- Categories – Enable it
- Organizations (the Organizations filter requires Oracle Search) – Disable it
- Posting Dates – Enable it
When candidates search for the job, application displays maximum 10 results at a first glance, although candidates can click on view more or show more buttons see all result, but if you need to change this behavior you can use profile ORA_IRC_CE_SEARCH_FILTER_VALUES_LIMIT to display up to 100 results.
Collapse Search Filters link.
Work Location Display
You can decide to display complete work location or portion of it or hide it completely in the job description. Following four options are available
- Full Work Location Address: Complete location captured in the application gets displayed such as building number, street, city, state/province, postal code, and country.
- Postal Code: Only the postal code of the work location is displayed.
- Work Location Name: Only the work location name is displayed.
- No Work Location: If work locations are added to a job requisition, no info is displayed. The recruiting location is displayed instead.
If ever in doubt, change the value one by one and click on the Preview button, which will open a dummy job description page, scroll down to Job Info section and you will find Location filed, that will give you an idea how information will be displayed on career site.
We will go with option – Work Location Name
Once done collapse the Work Location Display section.
Talent Community Sign Up
Expand talent community sign up link. This is the place where you can give candidates opportunity to sign up for Talent Community if they do not find any suitable jobs of their interest. Using talent community, candidates can create their profile and indicate their preferred location, job family, or job function.
For this to work, you also need to create a Job Application Flow of type Talent Community as explained in this article » Learn to Configure Job Application Flows
Enter details as follows in this section
- Show in job list: Yes
- Show when no jobs are found: Yes
- Talent Community Title: Join Our Talent Community and Stay Ahead of Job Opportunities!
- Talent Community Description : Be the first to know about job openings that match your interests. Join our Talent Community today to share your job preferences and receive personalized notifications for future opportunities. Expand your network, gain insider insights, and take control of your career journey. Sign up now on!
- Talent Community Button Label: Join Talent Community
Click on the preview and it will display the talent community between other job postings (maybe after 5th job post). Don’t worry much about the design at this moment, we will change the theme of our career site later in this article when we will cover pages.
Cookie Consent Message
Expand Cookie Consent Message link. This section allows to configure cookies consent that will be displayed to candidate visiting career site for the first time. For this exercise we are not enabling it. But if you need to enter details as follows
- Enable cookie consent message : Yes
- Cookies Consent Message: We use cookies to improve your experience on our career site and personalize content. By continuing to browse, you consent to the use of cookies. For more information, please read our Cookies Policy.
- Cookies Policy: Our career site uses cookies to analyze website traffic, enhance user experience, and optimize job recommendations. By using our site, you agree to the use of cookies as described in our Cookies Policy
- Accept Button Label: Accept Cookies
- Enter text for button to decline cookies policy: Yes
- Decline Button Label: Decline Cookies
Click on Preview, close preview, collapse section.
In real life project you would get these text from your customer, so dont worry much about the texts.
Recommended Jobs
Enable it and move on to next link.
Digital Assistant
Enable or disable as per customer need. We are not enabling it for this exercise.
Email Notification Template
Here you can select the template if you have configured any to send email to candidate. We are not selecting any for our article.
Distance Calculation
Using this features candidates can search jobs based on the distance from the location they enter in the search box. This feature requires oracle search functionality to be configure in your pod. For this article we are not enabling it.
Tracking Pixel
You can use pixel tracking to track candidates when they click the Apply button or they start applying for a job, and when they submit their job applications. This feature requires third party service. For our article we are not enabling this feature.
Search Jobs on Map
Using this feature you can allow candidates to explore jobs using a map view. Posted jobs are pinned on the map. Candidate can access job details and calculate commute time. This feature is available with selected templates only. We are not able for this article.
Workplace Tag Display
You can display a small tag to appear alongside the job description if this job requires employees to work in on-site, remote, or hybrid mode. Enable all three options.
Event
Similar to talent community you can choose to display events on your career site. A job application flow of type Events to be created to register employees interest. Enable this option and proceed further.
Social Sharing
When someone shares jobs or event details on the social media site from external career site, an image is also posted alongside the job/even details, you can upload the image of that url, which should be displayed in the share link. For this article we are not enabling it.
Location Search
Enter details as follows
- Select the default location search mode: All Locations
- Enable postal code search: Enable
- Enable my location search: Enable
We have gone through each links shown in the General tab. Good Job!! Lets move on to next tab that is Theme.
Configure a Career Site Theme
This tab allows to visually enhance the look and feel of the career site. On this page enter details as follows. If you want to build a career site with your own logo and images you can make use of postimages services, which allows you to host image without creating any account. (this is only recommended for learning purpose, in reality your customer will share links of images you would like to use, hosted on their server)
- Insert URL for desktop logo: https://i.postimg.cc/YSsBkS4L/T-Logo.png
- Insert URL for mobile logo: https://i.postimg.cc/YSsBkS4L/T-Logo.png
- Insert URL for background image: https://i.postimg.cc/zvy7nJpW/Pngtree-violet-background-origami-724312.jpg
- Enable Parallax Scrolling: No
- Enter branding text: Unleash Your Potential
- Primary Theme Font: Open Sans
- Secondary Theme Font: Arial
You cam move down to Theme Colors section and select color of your choice to match the background, we have following settings for this article
- Theme Color 1: #cd0e91
- Theme Color 1: #222
- Theme Color 1: #01101a
- Theme Color 1: #f2f2f0
- Theme Color 1: #ddbc00
Under Global Headers we have following settings
- Header Options: Horizontal Navigation
- Hide Logo: No
- Hide I’m an employee button icon: Yes
- I’m an Employee Text: I am an employee
- Hide profile button icon: No
No other changes are done on this tab – Theme
Publish Career Site
Once you enter all these details, click on the Publish Site link to publish your career site. Then click on the Go-to-Site icon to check your career site, which would look like this.
Hope you are proud on your site. You can further customize your career site to enhance the look and feel. If you are still interested to make the site better, keep on reading the article.
Create Pages for Career Site
Click on the Pages tab. Here you can give your career site a modern outlook. This tab allows you to create Following page types
- Splash Page
- Search Results Page
- Job Detail Page
- Custom Page
We will learn to create these pages one by one, stay focused..
Configure Splash Page on Career Site
A splash page in a career site refers to the introductory or landing page that provides a visually appealing and engaging overview of the organization’s employment brand, highlighting key information, such as company culture, values, benefits, and opportunities, to attract and captivate potential candidates.
For our exercise, lets assume that you want to make use of splash page to advertise online training that your organization provides.
To create a splash page click on the big + icon (Add Page). It bring a pop-up screen. On the pop-up screen enter page Title as – AP Splash Page and select the page type Splash Page, which will enable CREATE PAGE button.
Scroll down to the page and you will see + ADD SECTION button. Click on that and it will create an empty space.
Mover your cursor to the left side of that empty space and it will bring some menus (gear icon). Click on that gear icon, click on column layout and the select layout that divides row in to two halves.
This will divide the row in two parts. Move your cursor over first part and take it towards right, you will see a new gear icon. Click on the + icon which will bring other elements you can use to design your career site.
Click on image option from the element list, and then enter details as follows on that pop-up window
- Image URL : https://i.postimg.cc/63tQKvhW/Training.png
- Maximum width : 775
- Alt text : HCM Training
- Align: Center
- Link: https://hcmfolks.com/group/training/
- Open in New Browser Window: Yes
Once you enter all these details click on Done button.
Move your cursor to the second part of the row. Click on the + icon to add elements and select option Headline. On the pop-up window enter details as follows.
- In the empty text area type: Need HCM Training?
- Heading : Heading 2
- Font family : Arial
- Align : Center
- Font Color : #ad1c3e
Click on Done.
Click on the + icon to add another element. This time select Paragraph and enter details as follows.
- In the empty text area type: Upgrade your HR skills with personalized training from certified Oracle HCM consultants, tailored to your convenience. Excel in your career and secure your dream job.
- Align : Center
- Font Size : 20
- Line height: 2
Click on Done.
Click on the + icon to add another element. This time select Button and enter details as follows.
- Destination : External Link
- Label : Explore Training Now
- Button Type : Aa Primary
- External Link : https://hcmfolks.com/group/training/
- Align: Center
- Background: #CF1884
- Click on More Options and enter details as follows
- Margin Settings: Top : 20
Once done, scroll up to the top of the page and click on the Gear icon, click on that and it will give option to publish website, click on the Publish button.
Click on the General Tab again, and then click on the Go to Site button. You will see your splash page.
To create more pages, go to Pages tab again.
Configure Search Results Page
Using search results page you enhance the candidate experience by customizing the search results page on your external career site, creating a more engaging and informative platform. Tailor the page to showcase relevant job listings, provide detailed descriptions, and enable seamless navigation, ensuring candidates have a richer and more satisfying experience.
Click on + icon and enter details as follows
- Page Title: AP Search Results Page
- Page type: Search Results Page
Click on CREATE PAGE button.
On this page you can scroll down and click on the + ADD SECTIONS link and select the element Job List. You can further customize how your jobs will be listed.
You can also move your cursor and click on the each delivered layout section to customize them as per business needs.
Once you are done, click on the click on the Publish button.
Configure Job Details Page
The Job Details page empowers you to personalize the appearance of an individual job posting on your career site. This feature allows you to tailor the look and feel of each job to perfectly align with your corporate theme and style. Customize and refine the presentation of your job listings to attract and engage top talent, while maintaining a consistent and professional image throughout your career site.
Click on + icon and enter details as follows
- Page Title: AP Job Details Page
- Page type: Job Details Page
Click on CREATE PAGE button.
This will open a page where a single job description is displayed. You can take your cursor to each section and click on it to customize that particular section. For example, you can add an image in the background of the job title section, you can highlight job tags (Hot Job, Trending, Be the first to Apply).
If you click no the + icon, you will see completely new set of elements you can use to customize the display of jobs on the career sit. You can also create a new custom section.
Once done, click on the publish site button
Configure Custom Page
Custom page lets you configure a page from scratch for a specific purpose that you can display on the external career site. It could be to display testimonial of recently hired candidates expressing their feeling about the onboarding process. It could be a page that displays company’s, Mission, Visions and Goals. Earlier in the article we said that dont worry much about the current display of talent community, we can enhance the look later. You can create an appealing dedicated page just for talent community to invite maximum candidates to join your community.
Similarly, you can also invite candidates to become a trainer for iavinash.com, using this custom page. To create a custom page Click on + icon and enter details as follows
- Page Title: AP Become a trainer
- Page type: Custom Page
Click on CREATE PAGE button.
This will display a blank canvas, its time to showcase your creativity. Once the page is ready you can copy the url of this page and add this as one of the menu item or use this link elsewhere in the splash page to direct users here.
Career sites questions and clarifications
In this article we have configured an external career sites and explored all configuration options available. We also touched up the advance customization options such as splash pages and custom pages. As mentioned earlier, if you are preparing for oracle cloud certification, specially oracle recruiting cloud (1z0-1048-23) then do prepare well as lots of question will come related to career site configurations.
If you have any further questions or need clarification regarding external career sites, we encourage you to post them on HCMFolks.com, a thriving community of Oracle HCM professionals. Engaging with this community will provide you with valuable insights and assistance from experienced individuals in the field.
We will shortly come up with an article that will post a job to this external career site and then a candidate will apply for the same. Stay tuned…
