Oracle Taleo Interview Questions and Answers

Question 1 : What is the proper order for associating fields, forms, and files?
Answer : Assign fields to forms and forms to files.

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Question 2 : What is an important consideration when modifying permission for a group of users?
Answer : If the permissions associated with a user type are modified, the changes affect all users who have been assigned the user type.

Question 3 : Identify the two actions that you must take if you want to edit the properties of an existing application flow?
Answer :

  • Modify the properties of the associated Career Section.
  • Deactivate the Application Flow.

Question 4 : What two actions must you take before you activate a diversity form?
Answer :

  • You must match the code and the name.
  • You must associate a Location.

Question 5 : What two elements does the configuration profile control within the recruiting center?
Answer :

  • Search Widget
  • User Types

Question 6 : When building the olf structure, what function is served by the mapping data in the “associated reference” field for each element?
Answer : This association drives the radius-based job search.

Question 7 : what processes can be assigned unique candidate files?
Answer : Creating candidate profiles.

Question 8 : For each requisition, what is identified when ace prescreening is configured?
Answer : The top candidates for a position

Question 9 : What are the two actions that you must take if you want to edit the properties of an existing application flow?
Answer :

  • Modify the properties of the associated Career Section.
  • Deactivate the Application Flow.

Question 10 : You have been asked by your client to create a candidate selection workflow that is specific to all hourly positions in California. Which two elements would you contextualize on your CSW?
Answer :

  • Staffing Type
  • Requisition Status

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Question 11 : When you create a new department in the system, what can you associate with it?
Answer : Organization, Location, Job Field, Contacts.

Question 12 : When setting up prescreening on a requisition, which two parameters can only be applied to Competencies versus Questions?
Answer :

  1. Minimum Proficiency
  2. Minimum Experience

Question 13 : Your client would like to use the Taleo offer Management functionality for their corporate recruiting needs. What needs to be configured to enable offer management?
Answer : A step should be created called Offer with the reference model called Offer and added to the CSW for the corporate positions.

Question 14 : When configuring a status used in a step, it is possible to ask the system to automatically change the status. Under what two circumstances can this functionality be enabled?
Answer :

  1. This functionality can be enabled for the interview step once an interview is scheduled.
  2. This functionality can be enabled for a screening service such as an assessment that can progress the candidate to a new status based on the results.

Question 15 : What is used to determine the required fields that remain to be completed when saving, posting, or routing a requisition for approval?
Answer : More Actions Menu

Question 16 : When configuring a CSW, why is it important to designate a completion status within a step?
Answer : The Completion Status will allow the candidate to progress to the next step in the CSW.

Question 17 : When an ad-hoc prescreening question is created for a requisition and not saved into the prescreening library what are two disadvantages to this approach for an organization?
Answer :

  1. The question is not available for reuse on additional requisitions in a similar Job Family or Location.
  2. The question is not available in the candidate tracking history.

Question 18 : Your client would like ensure that candidates have the ability to search for jobs in a variety of ways. They would also like to provide visibility into jobs that candidates are a match for based on data that has been collected by the system. How would you ensure that this functionality is available?
Answer : Activate My Jobs Page on the Personal Jobs List on the Career Section Properties.

Question 19 : Your client has decided that they would like to collect the candidate’s Date of Birth and Social Security number for their background checking vendor in a secondary Application Flow that the recruiter will execute prior to requesting the screening service. Once you have completed building the new form with the data collection fields, what are the two steps that you must take in order to change which form displays to the candidate?
Answer :

  1. Deactivate the Application Flow.
  2. Edit the Page Properties.

Question 20 : What is the primary advantage of using the elements in the competency library when constructing prescreening on a job requisition template?
Answer : The competency library provides a standard set of measures for years of experience and proficiency that can be leveraged in a structured data search, ACE Thresholds, and candidate compare.

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Question 21 : What are two scenarios in which you would build qualifiers into your Candidate Selection Workflow?
Answer :

  1. Your client would like to collect data on why the candidates are declining their offers.
  2. Your client would like to collect data on why candidates are being rejected by their recruiters.

Question 22 : When assigning a user the ability to create, edit, manage, and delete questions, what is the correct path?
Answer : Configuration > [SmartOrg] Administration> [Users] User Types > Recruiting > Prescreening

Question 23 : When setting up the Candidate Communication Agent it is important to understand if the Client uses multiple Requisitions hire types. What would be a determination that you would need to make prior to the configuration of the Candidate facing Status?
Answer : Determine what the default filters are for candidate matching.

Question 24 : What is the default extension method selected by the system when a user of the system records the extension of an offer (within Offer Management)?
Answer : Verbal and Written (hard copy).

Question 25 : Your client would like to create a simplified way for hiring managers to progress candidates in the workflow with a single click avoiding the need to open each candidate record to complete the progression in the More Actions menu. What recommendation would you make to your client?
Answer : Next Action column must be added in the hiring manager’s candidate list format.

Question 26 : Your client requires the capture meal allowance terms as part of Offers generated for selected candidates in Mexico. How can this be accomplished?
Answer : Create an offer UDF for meal allowances and contextualize for the location of Mexico.

Question 27 : Your client has expressed concern that one of the open positions that they have activated prescreening for is delivering a high volume of ACE candidates. What recommendations should you consider making to your client?
Answer :

  1. You should suggest that the recruiter unpost the Job immediately and add competencies to the prescreening form on the job.
  2. You should suggest that the recruiter adjust the ACE Alert Threshold and employ weighting on the most important assets.

Question 28 : Your client would like to allow the ability for candidates to reply directly to a specific email address of a recruiting coordinator who is responsible for monitoring incoming messages when a candidate receives a correspondence message regardless of the origin of the message. What are the two steps to enable this functionality?
Answer :

  1. Enable the setting Display “Reply To” Field
  2. Copy a variable from the Variables list and paste it into the Reply-To field.

Question 29 : Your client would like to use the Taleo offer Management functionality for their corporate recruiting needs. What needs to be configured to enable offer management?
Answer : A step should be created called Offer with the reference model called Offer and added to the CSW for the corporate positions.

Question 30 : Your client is looking to solve the issue of multiple hiring managers considering the same candidate and progressing them to the offer stage creating an internal competitive offer situation. What two recommendations would you make to your client that will make this scenario impossible?
Answer :

  1. Activate the User Type Setting View candidates in search results even If the submission status is beyond the threshold step to hide from search for recruiters.
  2. Activate the Threshold CSW Step – Candidates Hidden from Search Results and specify the threshold in Recruiting -> Settings.

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Question 31 : Your client would like to enable radius search on their Career Section to allow for jobs at specific locations to be identified by candidates. What three steps must you take to configure specific locations to be searchable via the radius search?
Answer :

  1. Create another level In the Location Structure designated as a Work Location.
  2. Create Work Location by inputting Name, Address, City, and Zip Code.
  3. Map the Taleo Reference Location to the Work Location.