The purpose of the Career Site Permalinks page in Recruitment Marketing (RM) is to configure your company's permalink generation for career site search pages based on facet navigation. This feature allows you to configure the structure and strings used by the locale for each permalink.
This new permalink generation structure ensures that all permlinks generated for searching jobs on a career site are unique and locale-aware, ensuring they are relevant and appropriate.
NOTE: Once permalinks have been configured at the company level, the feature must be enabled for individual career sites.
Audience
Company Administrator
Prerequisites
Connect must be enabled
Use permalink SEO mapping is enabled
View Permalinks
Navigate to your user menu, then click Applications.
Select Career Sites, then click Permalinks.
The Edit Permalinks Settings page displays a list of all job custom field mappings (CFMs) defined by the Employ implementation team for your company. The list of the CFMs is in order of numeric (CFM1 – CFM25) and displays the following information:
Mapped CFM - The identifier for the custom field mapping.
Default Permalink - This is the string used when generating a permalink that involves the custom field mapping. This is used on non-language career sites or for any locale that does not have a specific permalink configured.
Language Permalink - Shows how many locales are available to configure in your company (based on all of the locales configured on all of your company’s brands and how many have a specific locale-based permalink string configured. By default, no locale-based permalinks will be configured.
Edit Permalinks
From the Edit Permalinks Settings page, locate the permalink you want to modify and click Edit.
Default Permalink (required) - You must have a value. By default, it is cfmx, where x is the configured cfm number.
Locale permalink (optional) - You can configure a different permalink string per any specific locale. See validation rules below. When a visitor is on your career site and in a specific locale, the configured permalink string will be used. If one is not configured, the default permalink string is used.
When you are finished editing the permalink, click Save.
Validation Rules
Permalink configuration rules are very restrictive to ensure an optimal user experience and prevent conflicts or issues. The following are the key rules that must be followed:
A permalink string must be 20 characters or fewer.
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A permalink string must only contain letters, numbers, and dashes.
“*” will get replaced with “star”
“@” will get replaced with “at”
“+” will get replaced with “plus”
“$” will get replaced with “dollars”
“%” will get replaced with “percent”
“&” will get replaced with “and”
“#” will get replaced with “number”
Spaces will get replaced with “-”
Other characters are removed
A permalink string must be lowercase (will be forced before save and validation).
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A permalink string must not be in the “exclude” list of values, such as:
jobs
job
search
country
within
of
in
career
careers
facet
facet-multi
cfm1..cfm25
A permalink that is the default must be unique across all other company permalinks.
A permalink that is locale-specific must be unique across all default permalinks as well as all permalinks in that custom field mapping, and all permalinks across that same locale.
Permalink Generation Format
When the Permalink is generated on a career site, the format is:
[locale]/search(/[permalink_label]/[facet_value])*/jobsExamples:
In English on a multilingual site, for facet “category” with a value of “sales” and facet “sub-cat” with a value of “sales and marketing”:
en/search/category/sales/sub-cat/sales-and-marketing/jobsOn an English-only site, for facet “Job Category” with value of “Software Engineering”, facet “division” with value of “Space, and facet “Security Clearance” with value of “Top Secret
search/jobcategory/software-engineering/division/space/security/top-secret/jobs