Symplicity Recruit Frequently Asked Questions

The centralized Symplicity Recruit portal charges for any schools selected for the posting (for a full description of rates, please visit our rates page). A multi-school posting initiated from a school’s website automatically selects that school free of charge, and only charges for additional school selections.

NOTE: Since the school from which you are posting is automatically selected, do not select it from the list or you will be charged. You can confirm that the school is in fact in the total by looking at the count field on the right of the school picker.

When you initiate a job posting and fill out your job details, you will advance to the next step allowing you to target candidates from particular schools of interest. At this time you will be presented with the option to target candidates at connected schools at the top of the page. Once selected, we will give you the opportunity to review and make adjustments if required; otherwise, you job will be targeted to all of your connected schools.

The participating schools list reflects an accurate list of all Symplicity Recruit schools. Please do let us know about school(s) where you are interested in recruiting. We can reach out to them to encourage them to join Symplicity Recruit. Under “Contact Us” use the “regarding” option “Request New School in the Network” to submit your request.

Symplicity Recruit retains copies of any position you previously created on the portal. To repost a position, follow these steps:

1. Log into Symplicity Recruit and click on “Post a Job”
2. On Step 1, at the top of the form, open the dropdown next to the “Copy an Existing Job” field
3. Highlight the job you would like to copy (if the job has already expired, click “Show Archived” to access it)
4. Review the information and make any necessary edits

Symplicity Recruit postings are designed to last 30 days. Because some schools have up to 7 days to review and approve a posting, a 7 day grace period is pre-pended to the 30 day window to allow added time for School review of the posting. If you need to close the job earlier than that, you can do that in the system from the job list.

NEW – 15 Day Job Extension! While a position is open, there is a new feature that allows you to add an additional 15 days to the posting time-frame. The feature can be purchased as the job is posted, or any time prior to expiration. With the extension, the maximum posting duration is 45 days (52 days accounting for the 7 days grace period for school review of the posting).

There may be two reasons for this:

1. Some universities are served by one centralized career services office while others have a decentralized approach where students enrolled at the university are served by separate, college-specific career services offices. Furthermore, at certain decentralized universities, some career offices may not utilize Symplicity, and their respective students may not have access to your job posting.
2. Regardless of whether a university has a centralized or decentralized career services approach, Symplicity allows career services offices to control which students access which jobs. In order for a student to be eligible to view particular jobs, career services business rules may require that the student be in a specific class or degree level, have their resume reviewed and approved by career office staff, or participate in a career services workshop. Therefore, your posting is only visible to students that have met the career office’s baseline requirements to access jobs.

Yes. You can always request connections to schools after logging in from the home page, by clicking the “Add Schools” button located on the right. You can research schools and the Symplicity Recruit features available on a per school basis by selecting Schools from the top nav. On the Schools page, you can view schools you have already added and schools you may like to add in the future. To add a school, simply look for the “+” icon in the schools listing or if you are on the school’s profile page, click the ‘ADD TO MY SCHOOLS’ button.

The convenience of a multi-school ensures that you do not need to log in at each individual school to view your posting and/or applicants. During the posting process, you are able to preview how the job will appear to students. Upon submitting the job form and credit card payment information, your posting is automatically distributed to target schools.

If a target school chooses not to post your position, you will receive an email notification indicating that the school has denied your posting. If a target school has denied your posting, you will also see this information listed in a column on the right-hand side of the page when you log into your Symplicity Recruit account.

Once logged in to Symplicity Recruit:

1. Click on the Jobs navigation
2. Open the Post Jobs tab, find the job on the list and click on the job title (or the Edit icon) – note there are list search tools to help you find the job more easily.
3. Once the job is open to edits, enter your edits and click Submit

The posting will be updated at the schools to which you have posted. Note, some schools require that edited jobs go back through approval review prior to reposting.

Symplicity Recruit Network schools often convert standard Symplicity Recruit fields, such as Industry, to labels that are specific to their student population. This “field conversion” increases the opportunity for students, at the schools where you have posted, to see your job when searching based on specific fields such as Industry, Job Function, and more.

Multi-school job postings expire 30 days after the posting is posted (in effect 37 days if considering the school review period) unless an extension is purchased. Recruiters can “close” a position if they want to close the position “now”. So if you want to close it early, you can do so.

Under the Jobs tab, click on the job’s title or the Edit icon on the left column. On the job description page, on the right-hand side you will see a gray section with administrative information, including the target schools where the job is posted and the total number of student views.

In order to be able to create Resume Packets, you must select the option to accumulate resumes online when you enter your job posting. This will ensure that students are submitting their resumes through the Symplicity Recruit system, and a record of these resumes is then recorded in your account. To create a resume packet of applicants to your Symplicity Recruit job posting, take the following steps:

1. Login to your account at: https://recruit.symplicity.com/sign-in
2. Click the Jobs navigation
3. Select the title of the job you wish to create the packet for.
4. To the left of the name of each applicant, you can either manually select or use the +/- button at the top of the list to select all, to designate the applicants you wish to include in your packet.
5. Once you have selected the applicants for your Packet, click on the Batch Options dropdown and select the Generate Packet option.
6. Complete the required fields and then submit your packet.

The packet will take a few moments to process. Once completed, you can access the packet from under Jobs, and then look for the Resume Packet tab.

Each school may choose to accept or deny a new job posting. Upon receiving a “job denied” alert, you may contact the specific school for an explanation. Use the Research More Schools tab to access the school’s profile and contact information.

If you post a job to Symplicity Recruit targeting 5 or more schools and at least 1 school rejects your posting, you will be issued a courtesy job credit eight days after posting your job. The courtesy job credit allows you to re-target your original posting or post a new job up to 30 days after it is issued. To use a job courtesy credit, simply post your job to Symplicity Recruit and from the Checkout screen, apply the credit using the dropdown next to the job posting.