ZohoRecruit: Create Linking Table for Candidates and Associated Job Openings
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This article is just in case it comes up again (has twice now) where a client wants a report on candidates and associated job openings in Zoho Recruit.
Why?
We're creating a custom module where our client wants to query Zoho Recruit via the API but couldn't find a database table to determine who has been associated to what job. In Zoho Recruit reports (Analytics), you can include the "Associate" module which then allows you to link the Candidates to the Job Openings; but my client needed to be able to query this via API and the "Associate" table or whatever it is, was not visible in API...
How?
So we created a custom module called "Candidates x JobOpenings" (with alternative API name as "CustomModule6"). Just to add to the complexity of the task, the client has their own reference for Candidates which they called "Candidate Ref" and their own reference for the JobOpening called "Vacancy Ref". The below outlines the custom module we created and how we populated with associated candidates:
Zoho Recruit: Rollup Number of Recruit Candidates to CRM Account
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This is a quick article to note down some code used in Zoho Recruit. This particular bit of code will run on a workflow when a Candidate is modified, and it tallies all the candidates belonging to the same school and updates some number fields on the matched CRM account.
Why?
For reporting purposes. Although Zoho Analytics can use data imported from both ZohoCRM and ZohoRecruit, it was helpful on the CRM record to see how many candidates had been placed at this particular CRM Account. We added several fields which get populated when a candidate was modified in ZohoRecruit.
How?
As mentioned, we're going to update several fields called:
