Checking a submittal against the rules of the client
Fieldglass refuses a job seeker outright once a supplier has used the submission slots allowed on that posting, and the error names the limit rather than the fix. Before any of that sits a quieter question: whether the client already holds this person, because an ownership window running from an earlier introduction voids the fee even when the hire is yours. The checkable items are dull. A signed right to represent, a contact block stripped from the document, a rate inside the band and every screening question answered.
The parser reads the resume, then somebody corrects the employment dates it merged, which is most of the time it was supposed to save.
Resumes arrive in every format that has ever existed, including scans with no text layer and designed templates in two columns that get read in the wrong order. Parsing is nearly always a third-party component, and its characteristic failure is employment history: dates written as ranges with words in them produce merged employers and wrong tenure.
- SAP Fieldglass
- Bullhorn
- Greenhouse
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if you submit into one client with a short form and a generous submittal limit. This earns its keep where several clients each impose different anonymisation rules and different ownership windows, and where a rejected submittal cannot simply be sent again.
The constraint that shapes it
This is the sector where the boundary is sharpest, and it is worth stating plainly: rejection is the regulated act, not enrichment. More on how this sector works.
Run the rules of the other side first, so the submission does not come back. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Counting the clock that public marketing starts on a listing
- Checking for a signed buyer agreement before a tour is confirmed
- Catching a filing rejection before the clerk does
- Catching the invoice lines an e-billing gate will reject
- Checking that a technician may legally take the call
- Filing a backflow test report the purveyor will accept
- Why did Fieldglass block my candidate submission for exceeding the limit?
- How long does a client own a candidate we introduced?
- Do I have to remove contact details before submitting a resume?
- What proves which agency submitted a candidate to the client first?
- Can I check a candidate against the client system before submitting?
Back to recruiting and staffing, or see how this is priced and scoped.