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Job Switcher Stage
Job Switcher Stage
Updated over 2 months ago

It is vital your applicants are satisfied with the positions they apply for. Fountain’s Job Switcher stage will help your applicants find the right position for them and help you decrease your advertising spend by aggregating your spending costs on fewer listings.

Overview

The Job Switcher stage will help route your applicants from one job Opening to another without the usage of Rule stages and questions.

Openings are consistently being filled and applicants may still be in the process of applying to a job that is no longer available. Instead of losing out on those eager applicants, offer them a chance to switch to another Opening using the Job Switcher stage! When the current Opening becomes inactive, the Job Switcher stage will automatically activate to steer in-progress applicants to other active Openings utilizing the same workflow. This ensures applicants can continue their application without losing their progress from stages they have already completed.

Job Switcher Functionality

The Job Switcher stage can be added to any hiring Opening. Fountain suggests placing the stage at a point in the application process where the applicant has completed a significant amount of stages but is not far enough in the application process where a hiring decision has been made.

You can set the Job Switcher stage to show base conditions on workflow, location, location group, and position. The Openings you connect to the Job Switcher stage will only be visible to the applicant if they are currently Active and if the Hiring Goal for the Openings is not yet met while the applicant is currently applying. When they are routed to the new Opening of their choosing, all their previous application work will be saved and carried over to the new Opening.

To add the Job Switcher stage, follow the steps below:

  1. Access the Workflow Editor for the hiring Opening you want to add the stage to.

  2. Click Add Stage in the top left corner.

  3. Type a name for the stage, then select Job Switcher as the stage type in the dropdown. Place this stage at a point in the hiring process where the applicant has made significant progress but a hiring decision has not yet been made.

  4. In the Select openings to show section, in the Value box, review the Openings. These Openings have the same workflow as the Opening you are adding the Job Switcher stage to. Please note that Openings that have the same workflow will be automatically selected in the Value box. Your applicants will be routed to these additional Openings based on the criteria that you set.

  5. Click + Add Conditions to add additional conditions for things like position, location, or location group.

  6. 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 Switcher stage.

  7. If you need to delete a condition, click the trashcan icon to the right of the condition. You cannot delete the workflow Condition and Value for a Switcher stage.

  8. When done, click Save Changes in the top right corner of the Workflow Editor.

  9. The Job Switcher stage will activate when the Opening becomes inactive by a user manually making the Opening inactive or the Opening automatically becoming inactive when a Hiring Goal is met. Learn more about Hiring Goals by reviewing this article.

Best Practice:

Fountain recommends previewing your hiring Opening from the applicant’s perspective to ensure the Job Switcher stage is working correctly. Be sure the Opening is inactive before previewing to make sure the Job Switcher stage activates.

Important Note:

If the Opening is active and applicants are still not seeing the Opening, go to the Job Details screen, click Advanced Settings to expand, and then confirm the box to the left of Hiring opening is checked.

Best Practices

  1. Use this stage to ensure qualified candidates flow to the Openings that need more applicants.

  2. Be aware of which of your Openings are active vs. inactive, as this is directly connected to activating the Job Switcher stage. If you do not have any active Openings, your applicant may become stuck in a Job Switcher stage.

  3. Leverage Hiring Goals to help manage when Openings become active vs. inactive. See Hiring Goals in the Help Center for more information.

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