What Makes Up a Job—Required Items

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All of the following fields are required for a job record. They must be present and filled with valid information, or the job record will not pass our validation rules. See "Table of Field Specifications - Jobs" for a listing of the fields and the correct order.

Please note some fields are used by different types of search options. Incorrect information in any of these fields will lead to incorrect classification for your jobs and incorrect search results for job seekers. To ensure best results, we encourage attention to detail when you post your jobs.

Origination Job ID
Sometimes referred to as “Requisition number” or Job ID - Unique identifier for this job. Each job must have a unique identifier and this will remain for the life of the job. Please use the ID or requisition number from your own job tracking records for this field. For example, you might use the primary key from your job database for this field.

Once you have assigned a Job ID to a job, please do not change it for the life of that particular job. If you change a job's ID, it is recognized as a new job. This makes it impossible for applicants who have book marked the original job to ever return to it. Also, please avoid reusing Job ID's for different jobs.
Office Contact ID
ID of the Office Contact Record associated with this job. Use this field to link this job with the office the applicant should contact to apply for the job. More than one job can share the same Office Contact Record. See "Office Contact File" for more details.
Note: The Office Contact ID in each job record must match the Office Contact ID in one of the Office records exactly for the jobs to process.
Job Code
SSONET Occupation code also known as AOC, that classifies the job. Use this code to classify this job correctly for our “Job Title Search.” If you do not use the correct code, your job will not show up in the right category in search by occupation. Therefore, we encourage you to choose these codes carefully so that your jobs get the exposure you'd like on our site. You can choose job codes from the "SSONET Job Code List for Public Interface" or from the "SSONET Job Code List by Occupational Family for Public Interface" .
Job Title
Job Title for the position this job record advertises. This field is searchable using the “Keyword Search,” and is among the first things a job seeker notices about the job after finding it in a search.
Country
Country where the job is located. This field is searchable using the “Location Search” options of our regular job searches. This field is a two character abbreviation. See "Country Codes" for a list of codes.
Position Count
Number of open positions for this job. For example, if you're hiring three night watchmen in the same location, you may list it as one job with three positions available by putting a value of 3 in the position field.
Duration
Duration of the job. This field is searchable in a job search using the “Additional Search Options.” This field accepts a number between 1 and 8, and that number is converted to the job classification and position type shown in the following table:

Duration Value Conversion Table

Code	Description	Job Classification	Position Type
1	Full Time Short (More that 30 hrs/wk, less than 3 days)	Full Time	Temporary
2	Full Time Temporary (More than 30 hrs/wk, less than 6 months)	Full Time	Temporary
3	Full Time Regular (More than 30 hrs/wk, more than 6 months)	Full Time	Permanent
4	Part Time Short (Less that 30 hrs/wk, less than 3 days)	Part Time	Temporary
5	Part Time Temporary (Less than 30 hrs/wk, less than 6 months)	Part Time	Temporary
6	Part Time Regular (Less than 30 hrs/wk, more than 6 months)	Part Time	Permanent
7	Full Time Seasonal (More than 30 hrs/wk)	Full Time	Temporary
8	Part Time Seasonal (Less than 30 hrs/wk)	Part Time	Temporary

Description
Must describe the specific responsibilities of the job. Please note that the job description is searchable. This field can contain any information about the salary, benefits, license, training, or education requirements for the job. You should also put this information in the appropriate fields, described in "What Makes Up a Job—Required Items" so that it can be found in a search. The description should not contain contact information. Contact information should be recorded in the corresponding Office Contact record.

The description can be up to 4000 characters, and can include spaces, new lines, and most printable characters. We suggest that you do not use double quotes; however, if you do, the escape character, a back slash: \ , must precede the quote character. See "Sample File - Jobs" for an example. Do not include any HTML tags or formatting in this (or any) field. On the Job Bank site, they will be treated as regular text with the HTML tags showing like regular words in the job description. It will not show up as you intend. We have provided an example of just how a job with HTML tags would look to a prospective job applicant.