Purpose

This article provides an overview of Personalized Career Site (PCS), its benefits, and default features.

Audience

This article is for current and prospective PCS customers and Eightfold staff.

Benefits

PCS provides a quick, user-friendly, search and apply process for candidates that can be completed in less than five minutes. The career site is mobile and SEO optimized and designed to reduce drop-offs by consolidating all company and position information into one place.

When a candidate uploads their resume to PCS, they're instantly matched with relevant job postings. Through resume insights and stats of previous hires, candidates are encouraged to apply to positions when they're a good fit. Tailored content is also provided to candidates through blog articles and videos.

Figure: PCS Logged Out Jobs page.

Default PCS view

PCS provides a default view that can be used "as-is", or configured to suit the customer’s needs and branding objectives.

The default PCS view provides the following features:

• A list of jobs sorted by priority
• The ability to upload a resume
• Search options and filters
• Candidate match feature and job insights

Logged-In and Logged-Out PCS

Candidates can apply to jobs on PCS as Logged-In or Logged-Out candidates. A Logged-In candidate has signed up and created a PCS account. Logged-In candidates can customize their profile page and manage their settings, among other features. Logged-Out PCS candidates have similar site options as Logged-In candidates, such as uploading a resume, being matched to jobs, and adding jobs to their job cart.

Search options

Candidates can search for jobs using any keyword (i.e., skill, location, job ID) in the search box or by location in the location box with the map pin icon. Figure: PCS search options.

Candidates can filter search results by selecting the Advanced Options drop-down menu. The following applies to the default filter options, Your Relevant Skills, Department, and Seniority:

• Departments are mapped from the customer's ATS based on how positions are configured within the ATS
• Skills and seniority options are smartly identified based on jobs that are considered to be "the most relevant" to the candidate
• Filter options are applied to all open roles within a company

For more information, read PCS search FAQs.

Uploading a resume

Candidates have a few options for uploading a resume in default PCS. By selecting any of these options on PCS a candidate can upload their resume:

• Find Jobs
• Get Matched
• Upload Your Resume
• Select File

As soon as a resume is uploaded, matching jobs appear in the job list to the left of the job description. If a resume is not uploaded, no matching insights are provided. A consent to data privacy dialog appears before resume submission.

Jobs are listed by best match for the given location. If the location is not specified, it can be inferred from the candidate's resume. For candidates interested in using LinkedIn, there is no option to apply using a Linkedin URL. Candidates can download their LinkedIn profile (PDF) and upload it to get matched to jobs.

Figure: Drag and drop resume option on PCS.

Personalization

Jobs presented to candidates on PCS are personalized based on the candidate's activity, location, and resume. Candidates may also be added to personalized recruiting pipelines. If a customer has enabled the Data Privacy option, candidates can manage their profile visibility to Talent Acquisition recruiters (i.e., turn profile visiiblity on or off). Customers can also customize the way in which candidates' geographic locations are inferred.

Job insights

Job insights help create transparency in the application process by providing relatable information to candidates and reducing leakage/page drop offs. On competitive career sites, candidates often explore previous company hires when considering whether or not to apply to a position.

Job insights appear just below the match feature and provide the following details for previous hires:

• Skills
• Years of experience
• Job titles

The insights are based on hires for similar roles and identified through calibration, using a combination of job title, job description, and skills. If no insights are available for a position, the section does not appear on the career site.

Figure: Job Insights column on the Jobs page

Candidate match

When a candidate uploads a resume, Eightfold presents insights as to why the applicant is a good fit for the role. The candidate's match status (i.e., strong match or good match) and associated job insights appear in a vertical table to the right of the job description. A blue circle appears in this area when a strong match is identified and a yellow circle appears when a good match is identified.

The following details pertain to the match feature:

• There is no limit to the number of matched jobs presented to a candidate, but customers can limit the number of jobs a candidate can apply to.
• All positions provide information on why the candidate is a good match.
• The candidate match feature uses a matching / calibration algorithm whereas all matching jobs are populated in the match score order. This cannot be configured differently.
• A strong match is any candidate that receives a rating of 4.5+ stars.
• A good match is a strong match -1 (i.e., 3.5 stars)
• Customers can configure for roles that are a strong match [recommended_star_threshold], good match, and minimum match [star_threshold].
• For minimum matching roles, companies can also choose to configure [star_threshold].

Branding

Eightfold offers a range of branding customization options to customers, including the ability to set the header banner image and title, select videos and articles for the bottom of job posts to showcase corporate culture, and choose employee perks and benefits to display.

To learn more, read Branding with PCS.

PCS Branded Landing Page

Eightfold’s PCS allows a global recruiting team to deliver an attractive and branded first-touch experience to potential candidates via their career site.

Available Solutions

Out of the box, customers can leverage our PCS Product Setup which offers several customization options for branding purposes. Customers can link to the Eightfold PCS site from their own corporate careers landing page. This should be the default and out of the box approach for customers.

However, in the event that customers need a more robust solution to create highly customized landing pages, we have the following options available.

Branded Landing Pages + Eightfold hosting

Building static HTML, CSS, JS content pages (zipped) and hosting on Eightfold. This does not provide a drag and drop editor.

Sample: here

1. Customers can design their own custom landing pages (with their own web development team or an Eightfold partner that has web development skills). These landing pages should then be exported by the customer and they can then work with the Eightfold or Eightfold Partner Implementation team to finalize template/designs which will be converted into a zip file and uploaded on admin console. Read Landing Pages on Career Site to know more. Note: Eightfold or Eightfold Partner Implementation & support team will not be responsible for edits / fixes to these custom html pages since customer is expected to self serve via their own web developer per point 1 above.
   
2. Any future edits require change in html files and then need to be uploaded again on the admin console by the customer’s admin users who would work with their web developer to generate the updated html content for the zip file to be re-uploaded.
   
3. Since pages are hosted on Eightfold, this solution brings down hosting costs, defragment infrastructure and enhance security.
   
4. Analytics and Source Tracking will be more granular and accurate since Eightfold will host landing pages and career sites on the same platform.

Benefits:

• Seamless integration with Eightfold Career Site (PCS) via embeddable AI widgets (Recommended Jobs, Maps, Recent search activity)
  
• SEO optimization so that the pages show up in Google. Each page supports meta title, meta description, and vanity URLs.
  
• Source tracking (full funnel from visitor to applicant) using the customer’s Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager pixels.
  
• Limited need for engineering support
  
• No additional hosting cost

Wordpress + WP Engine Hosting

Building content pages on Wordpress using drag and drop editor (Elementor), hosting on WP Engine.

1. With this option, customers would get a fully customizable drag and drop editor
   (not part of our standard offering).
   
2. The wordpress site can "embed" multiple Eightfold PCS Widgets. These would need to be embedded by the wordpress developer hired by the customer.
3. Eightfold can connect customers to a 3rd party vendor that can offer pages built using the Elementor (or other such wordpress plugins) drag and drop editor for a highly customized website experience.
   Note: this will entail additional service fees for the customer incurred directly via the chosen 3rd party and the customer. Or customer can leverage their own web developer since there is no specific Eightfold domain knowledge required here*
   

Benefits:

• Web page creation is supported by Wordpress and its drag and drop editor, Elementor (or several other such plug-ins).
  
• Any future changes are self-serve using the editor.
  
• WPEngine comes integrated with Cloudflare CDN to speed up the page load times
  
• Hosting & Support on and by WPEngine directly, which offers 99.95% uptime guarantee. It also provides 24/7 support at an additional cost.
  (Eightfold Support will only extend to Eightfold hosted TIP / PCS / Static HTML hosted on Eightfold and not for Wordpress)