Greenhouse Recruiting's structured education fields functionality allows your organization to capture a candidate's relevant education history in a uniform format. By capturing a candidate's education history in a structured format, your organization can more easily and effectively search your candidate database by these criteria.
Greenhouse Recruiting's structured education fields are comprised of the following fields:
| School Name | Start Year | End Year |
| Degree | Start Month | End Month |
| Discipline |
In this article, we will provide a brief overview of the following:
- Configure Structured Education Fields
- Default and Custom Options for School Name, Degree, and Discipline
- View and Edit Candidate's Structured Education Fields
- Search by Candidate Structured Education Fields
Configure Structured Education Fields
Structured education fields are configured on a per-job post basis. This granularity allows your organization to customize what education data is required, optional, or hidden for each job post. For more information on how to configure structured education fields on a job posts, click here.
Default and Custom Options for School Name, Degree, and Discipline
For your convenience, Greenhouse Recruiting provides default options for School Name, Degree, and Discipline. While we have tried to provide a large array of options, the lists are by no means exhaustive. Each of these fields are single-select and can hold a maximum of 5000 values.
Users with the appropriate permissions can append or edit existing entries on these structured education fields. For more information, see:
- Add New School Name to Structured Education Field
- Add New Degree to Structured Education Field
- Add New Discipline to Structured Education Field
View and Edit Candidate's Structured Education Fields
Once a candidate (or prospect) submits their information to your organization, their structured education data can be viewed on the Details tab on the candidate's (or prospect's) profile.
Users with the appropriate permissions can also edit any of the structured education fields on a candidate's profile. For more information, see Edit Candidate's Structured Education Fields.
Search by Candidate Structured Education Fields
A powerful reason to capture a candidate's education history in a structured format is to enable more efficient searching of your candidate database. Click the All Candidates tab on your navigation bar and expand the Education filter panel on the left-hand side.
Use the provided fields to search your candidate database by different education criteria.
