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Candidate Data Mapping / Educations🔗

This section allows the administrator to map education items available in Salesforce as related records. The education history from Salesforce is merged with the education items extracted from the resume file (if provided) and deduplicated where possible, in order for Textkernel to calculate the candidate's highest level of education.

Section "Education details"🔗

Field Data type Multivalued Salesforce field types
Degree name text No STRING, TEXTAREA, PICKLIST
Institute text No STRING, TEXTAREA
Institute place text No STRING, TEXTAREA
Education description text No STRING, TEXTAREA
Start date date No STRING, DATETIME, DATE
End date date No STRING, DATETIME, DATE

Degree name🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, TEXTAREA, PICKLIST
  • Description: The degree name (type and/or major) obtained by the candidate.
  • Example: Bachelor in Computer Science, BSc Computer Science, Bachelor

Institute🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, TEXTAREA
  • Description: The name of the institute that issued the degree.
  • Example: University of Amsterdam

Institute place🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, TEXTAREA
  • Description: The location of the institute that issued the degree. It can be a full address or just a part of it.
  • Example: Amsterdam, Amsterdam NL, The Netherlands, NL, Asterweg 15D 1031 HL Amsterdam

Education description🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, TEXTAREA
  • Description: The description of the degree. This field is a free text field describing the degree and it's used to calculate the highest education level. If a degree description is not available, it should be set to the degree name in order for Textkernel to calculate the corresponding education level according to the Textkernel Education Level codes.
  • Example: Bachelor in Computer Science including studies of...

Start date🔗

  • Textkernel field type: date
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DATETIME, DATE
  • Description: The start date of the degree, in one of these formats yyyy, yyyy-mm, yyyy-mm-dd, dd-mm-yyyy, mm-yyyy. If the provided date does not contain the month and/or day, these will be completed to September 1st.
  • Example: 08-1995, 15-08-1995

End date🔗

  • Textkernel field type: date
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DATETIME, DATE
  • Description: The end date of the degree, in one of these formats yyyy, yyyy-mm, yyyy-mm-dd, dd-mm-yyyy, mm-yyyy. If the provided date does not contain the month and/or day, these will be completed to June 30th. In order to indicate an ongoing degree, do not provide an end date.
  • Example: 08-1995, 15-08-1995

Section "Custom fields"🔗

Field Data type Multivalued Salesforce field types
Custom Text 1-5 text No BOOLEAN, COMBOBOX, CURRENCY, DATE, DATETIME, DOUBLE, EMAIL, ID, INTEGER, LONG, MULTIPICKLIST, PERCENT, PHONE, PICKLIST, REFERENCE, STRING, TEXTAREA, TIME, URL
Custom Date 1-3 date No STRING, DATETIME, DATE
Custom Numeric 1-3 numeric (2 decimals) No STRING, DOUBLE, INTEGER, LONG, CURRENCY, PERCENT

Custom Text🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: BOOLEAN, COMBOBOX, CURRENCY, DATE, DATETIME, DOUBLE, EMAIL, ID, INTEGER, LONG, MULTIPICKLIST, PERCENT, PHONE, PICKLIST, REFERENCE, STRING, TEXTAREA, TIME, URL
  • Description: This field can be used to map any additional ATS field that needs to be synchronized to Textkernel products. Additional Textkernel effort is required to make this field available in Search.

Custom Date🔗

  • Textkernel field type: date
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DATETIME, DATE
  • Description: This field can be used to map any additional ATS date field that needs to be synchronized to Textkernel products. Supported date formats are ISO-dates YYYY-MM-DD or full date-timestamps with ISO offset time zone information YYYY-MM-DD'T'HH:MM:SS[.sss]X. Additional Textkernel effort is required to make this field available in Search.

Custom Numeric🔗

  • Textkernel field type: numeric (2 decimals)
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DOUBLE, INTEGER, LONG, CURRENCY, PERCENT
  • Description: This field can be used to map any additional ATS numeric field that needs to be synchronized to Textkernel products. The mapped value should contain only digits, the last two digits will be interpreted as decimals (e.g. 123456 will be interpreted as 1234,56). Additional Textkernel effort is required to make this field available in Search.