Audience: Employer Users
Applies to: Employers having an Automatic Import Subscription.
Automatic Import is a type of system integration where MNSchoolJobs.org (MSJ) retrieves job postings for an employer such that the information and state of postings in the employer’s online applicant tracking system (ATS) appears on MSJ without human intervention.
Imported job postings are loaded into MNSchoolJobs.com twice each day. Changes typically become visible by 2:15 p.m. and 11:15 p.m.
Employers wishing to have the most accurate and up-to-date posting information should consider daily deadlines of 11:00 am and 8:00 pm as times at which all postings to be open, closed, or updated should be settled in their ATS.
How it Works #
The Automatic Import process is a scheduled operation that works in three stages. (1) Collect, (2) Aggregate, (3) Load.
Collect extracts information from the employer ATS including what postings are open and closed, and the contents of the posting. In this process, MSJ maintains a version history of your postings so that we can track changes to fields such as “Title” and “Category”. The process also tracks the windows of time postings were open and available to external job seekers. Employer postings are loaded in a round-robin schedule with each collect operation. For employer users’ understanding, this means that your information may be collected at any point during the collect operation for all employers, usually about an hour but in rare cases it may take longer.
The aggregate operation combines all collected postings into a single feed, removing duplicates, internal-only, and certain hourly and casual postings. Aggregate also determines the common category, position type, and other attributes for the postings. The aggregate operation takes place at 1:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. each day.
The final stage is to load the aggregated postings into the MNSchoolJobs.org system. Creating, updating, pausing (closing) and unpausing (opening) jobs. The load operation takes place at 2:00 p.m. and 15:00 p.m. each day and typically completes within 15 minutes.
