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Candidate Data Mapping / IT Skills🔗

This section allows the administrator to map IT skills available in Salesforce as related records, which are then merged with any IT skills extracted from the candidate's resume (if provided), and deduplicated where possible.

Section "IT skill details"🔗

Field Data type Multivalued Salesforce field types
Skill text No STRING
Normalized Skill ID text No STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
Skill Level text No STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
Normalized Skill Level ID text No STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
Duration in years numeric No STRING, INTEGER
Duration in months numeric No STRING, INTEGER
First used date date No STRING, DATETIME, DATE
Last used date date No STRING, DATETIME, DATE

Skill🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING
  • Description: An IT skill held by the candidate, in free format.
  • Example: Excel, MS Excel, Microsoft Excel, spreadsheet

Normalized Skill ID🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
  • Description: If normalized/coded IT skills are available in Salesforce, this field can contain the normalized skill code. In multi-lingual environments, this can be used to display translations of the skill in different languages (additional Textkernel effort is required to set up the translations).
  • Example: IT-123, 9d1f8d5e-6d9f-4f58-9e14-ee9518f7e5f3

Skill Level🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
  • Description: The level of knowledge of the skill, in free format.
  • Example: Advanced

Normalized Skill Level ID🔗

  • Textkernel field type: text
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, INTEGER, PICKLIST
  • Description: If normalized/coded skill levels are available in Salesforce, this field can contain the normalized skill level code. In multi-lingual environments, this can be used to display translations of the level in different languages (additional Textkernel effort is required to set up the translations).
  • Example: LEVEL-1, ADVANCED

Duration in years🔗

  • Textkernel field type: numeric
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, INTEGER
  • Description: The number of years of experience for the skill, rounded up to an integer value.
  • Example: 2

Duration in months🔗

  • Textkernel field type: numeric
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, INTEGER
  • Description: The number of months of experience for the skill, rounded up to an integer value.
  • Example: 24

First used date🔗

  • Textkernel field type: date
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DATETIME, DATE
  • Description: The date when the skill was first used, in YYYY-MM-DD format, or an empty string if this information is not available (for displaying purposed only).
  • Example: 2004-01-01

Last used date🔗

  • Textkernel field type: date
  • Supported Salesforce field types: STRING, DATETIME, DATE
  • Description: The date when the skill last used, in YYYY-MM-DD format, or an empty string if this information is not available (for displaying purposed only).
  • Example: 2004-01-01

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.