It is vital your applicants are satisfied with the positions they apply for. Fountain’s Job Selector stage will help your applicants find the right position for them and will help you decrease your advertising spend by aggregating your spending costs on fewer listings.
Overview
The Job Selector stage will help route your applicants from one job Opening to another without the usage of Rule stages and questions.
With thousands of roles to choose from, it can be intimidating for applicants to find the right one for them. This is where the Job Selector stage comes in! Whether there are multiple shifts for a role or multiple roles in close proximity to each other, the Job Selector stage presents a narrowed-down view of several Fountain Openings for applicants to apply to. Once they choose the Opening they are interested in, they will be presented with the option to choose a more specific Opening such as day shift vs. night shift. The applicant is then routed to that specific Opening to complete the application.
Applicants Are Not Routed Automatically
The Job Selector does not route applicants on its own. An applicant stays in the Job Selector stage until they choose an Opening from the list. If an applicant does not see an Opening they want, or does not come back to choose one, they remain in the stage.
How Location Filtering Works
The Job Selector automatically includes the applicant's current location as a priority location when displaying available openings. The current location is determined by the opening where the applicant initially applied.
When using location-based filtering with the radius feature, the Job Selector prioritizes openings near the applicant's starting location to show the most relevant opportunities.
Include or Exclude Openings in the Job Selector
The Job Selector stage only displays Openings that are active and have "is hiring opening" enabled. An inactive Opening, or one where this box is unchecked, is excluded. If you set a radius, only Openings within that distance of the applicant's zip code are shown. To update these settings for an Opening, follow the steps below:
On the Fountain Hire Job Openings screen, find the Opening you want to update.
Click the 3 dots button to the left of the Opening's name and then Edit Job Details.
Scroll down to the Advanced Settings section. Click the link to expand.
To include the Opening in the Job Selector, check the "Designate as Hiring Opening" checkbox.
To exclude the Opening in the Job Selector, ensure the "Designate as Hiring Opening" checkbox is unchecked.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.
The "is sourcing opening" can be on or off for the Opening. This does not impact whether the stage is included in the Job Selector.
Adding Stages to Job Selector
When adding a Job Selector stage, add it to an Opening where applicants will enter your hiring workflow. This can be either:
A sourcing-only Opening (recommended): Used exclusively to route applicants to hiring openings via the Job Selector
A hiring Opening: Used for both applicant routing and hiring
The Job Selector stage routes applicants to other hiring Openings based on their selection.
Fountain recommends that this is the last stage in the sourcing Opening to ensure the stage works as intended.
To add the Job Selector stage, follow the steps below:
Access the Workflow Editor for the sourcing Opening you want to add the stage to.
Click Add Stage in the top left corner.
Type a name for the stage, then select Job Selector as the stage type in the dropdown. Place this stage at the end of the workflow before the Approved stage.
In the Select openings to show section, click Add Condition.
Choose a Condition Type and Value from each dropdown. These will route your applicants to additional Openings based on the criteria that you set.
Click + Add Conditions to add additional conditions.
To show applicants Openings within a specific radius of the applicant’s zip code, click the toggle under Advanced Options to on. Then choose either 25, 50, or 100 miles in the dropdown. Please note, in order to use the radius functionality, you must ask for the applicant’s zip code by adding the zip code Standard Question on the Application form or a Data Collection Stage before the Job Selector stage
If you need to delete a condition, click the trashcan icon to the right of the condition.
When done, click Save Changes in the top right corner of the Workflow Editor.
Follow Up With Applicants Who Don't Choose
An applicant who leaves without choosing an Opening stays in the Job Selector stage. To bring them back, add Follow-Up Messages to the stage that remind them to choose an Opening, for example after 1, 3 and 5 idle days. Then add an Idle Move Rule that moves applicants who still have not chosen to another stage, such as On Hold or Rejected. Set its number of days after your last Follow-Up Message, so applicants get every reminder first. For the steps, see Follow-Up Messages and Idle Move Rule.
Best Practice:
Fountain recommends previewing your hiring Opening from the applicant’s perspective to ensure the Job Selector stage is working correctly.