Job Import - Getting Employer Feeds

Ask for a Feed -  Once you have established a contact for an employer,  ask them to provide you with a feed of their open jobs.

Help Your Employer - Your employer contact may or may not know how to create a feed of their jobs and might need to contact their system administrator, IT support or vendor support to get a feed.  Most mid to large sized employers use an ATS system (applicant tracking system) to manage their job postings, applicants, onboarding processes, etc.  Most ATS systems have built in features to create a feed of job postings.  If your employer is unsure where to begin, ask them to contact the vendor that provides their ATS system and ask the ATS vendor "how can I get a feed of my open job postings?".  The desired format and contents of the feed are described below.

Feed Format - A typical question from the employer/ATS vendor will be "in what format should we provide the feed"?   Feeds from ATS systems are often provided in one of the following formats:

The feed should represent all current open job postings the employer wishes to send to your website (your site will automatically detect new jobs in the feed and jobs no longer in the feed and update your site accordingly).

Feed Contents - The feed an employer/ATS vendor provides should represent all current open job postings for the employer (your site will automatically detect new jobs in the feed and jobs no longer in the feed and update your site accordingly).  The feed an employer sends to you should have the following content for each job:

Optional Content

Accessing the Feed - ask the employer to provide the URL/Website address of their feed (this may come from IT support, vendor support or a system administrator for the employer).  You will enter the feed URL into your website.  Your website can then access this URL on a daily basis to automatically retrieve and update the employers current job postings.