Feature

Add a RelevanceThreshold field to the SearchJobsRequest to filter results by precision.

Changed

Improve address resolution for LocationFilter with region code.

Changed

Jobs with commutable city-level locations are returned when allowImpreciseAddresses is set in CommuteFilter.

Changed

Jobs with matching nation-level locations are boosted for telecommute searches.

Feature

Adds MAX_THREE_PER_COMPANY DiversificationLevel option.

Changed

Added support for more MOC codes.

Deprecated

Marking keyword_searchable_job_custom_attributes on the Company as deprecated. Moving forward please use the keyword searchable tag on the Job.CustomAttribute to specify keyword searchable.

Deprecated

Marking company_size histogram facet as deprecated.

Changed

Extend the functionality for the inferred remote location filter to respect the region code

Changed

Histogram query for city and admin1_country can handle multiple location jobs

Changed

Support special characters in companyDisplayNames fuzzy match

Changed

Derive annualized compensation info for more employment types

Feature

Add a new operator on companyDisplayNames filter to further support fuzzy match by treating input value as a multi word token

Feature

Add a new option TELECOMMUTE_JOBS_EXCLUDED under enum TelecommutePreference to completely filter out the telecommute jobs in response

Deprecated

Deprecate option TELECOMMUTE_EXCLUDED under enum TelecommutePreference

Feature

• Jobs within same state will rank higher in results when search jobs in a state level location with TELECOMMUTE_ALLOWED option

Fixed

• keywordSearchable will be returned correctly in Job instance responses
• Fix compensation histogram query to return correct histogram result

Feature

The Cloud Talent Solutions dashboard management tool has added a Jobs and Companies page, which displays job statistics and metadata. You can use this page to troubleshoot data issues. The Jobs and Companies page has three tabs:

• On the Summary tab, see the latest job count snapshots and a visualization of job count statistics over time.
• On the Job Metadata tab, search for specific jobs and their available metadata.
• On the Exports tab, export your metadata to a BigQuery table for further analysis.

For more about this new feature, see the Jobs and Companies data documentation.

Feature

Added functionality in the companyDisplayNames filter to support fuzzy matching.

Fixed

Fixed a bug with certain DIVERSIFICATION_LEVELS where results were dropped.

Changed

Improvements in spell correction.

Feature

Added a new KeywordMatchMode field to support more keyword matching options.

Feature

Added more DiversificationLevel configuration options.

Feature

Added WALKING and CYCLING as commute options in the CommuteFilter.

Changed

Removes companyName requirement for use of ListJobs API.

Changed

Increased the number of characters supported in custom ranking expressions.

Feature

Cloud Talent Solution has launched the v4 version of the API. Migrate to Cloud Talent Solution v4 by October 14, 2021 to continue using Cloud Talent Solution.

Deprecated

As of today Cloud Talent Solution versions v3, v3p1beta1, and v4beta1 are deprecated. Deprecated means that these versions will continue to work until October 13, 2021, at which time these versions will be shut down. Migrate to Cloud Talent Solution v4 by October 14, 2021 to continue using Cloud Talent Solution.

Changed

When using orderBy to order job search results by distance_from from the search location, equidistant jobs from the center of the search location will be tie-broken based on each job's relevance to the search keywords. Previously, jobs in this scenario weren't primarily tie-broken based on each job's relevance to the search keywords.

Fixed

When using the EmploymentType as part of HistogramQuery, facet counts for CONTRACTOR no longer also include facet counts for CONTRACT_TO_HIRE.

Fixed

HistogramQuery facet counts no longer differ from the number of jobs returned when filtering search results by a given facet.

Fixed

CTS has made improvements to the handling of accented characters and gendered terms in job titles and search keywords.

Changed

Cloud Talent Solution's consumption pricing and quota limits will change effective January 4, 2021. The new pricing and quota limits are intended to better address the variety of use cases the talent industry has for managing and searching for jobs.

Deprecated

As of this date, Cloud Talent Solution Job Search v2 is no longer available. Calls to v2 will result in error. The deprecation of v2 was first communicated in August 2018.

Feature

CTS has launched a new dashboard management tool. This new improvement provides visual data to give you more insight into:

1. How your job seekers are engaging with Job Search, by showing see top queries and locations by domain.
2. Whether Job Search is properly configured for your application, by showing inconsistencies in your search API integration.
3. Whether your client events are properly configured, by showing client events that you can correct or improve to take full advantage of Job Search's machine learning capabilities.

Changed

JS has improved the algorithm for better street resolution coverage. This will give you more precise geolocation results when using commute search.

Feature

The following fields have been added to SummarizedProfile:

• group_id
• application
• assignment

Fixed

Bug fix: Required fields are now marked correctly in the BatchUpdateJobs reference documentation.

Fixed

Bug fix: CTS has fixed a bug that caused deleted companies to be counted toward the company limit in a job distributor.

Feature

CTS has added validation to job.workHour.workHour now allows hour values between (0-23), otherwise a 400 error is returned.

Feature

New enum CONTACT_AUTOMATED_SYSTEM has been added to ProfileEventTypes.

Feature

JS has added new field query_language_code.

Fixed

Bug fix: Job Search has fixed an issue that caused only some jobs in a specific location to be returned, rather than all options matching the search query.

Fixed

Bug fix: Job Search has fixed an issue that caused only some of the results to be returned when searching on the string "Chief accountant". All results to this query string are now returned.

Fixed

Bug fix: CTS has fixed a bug that caused the job export tool to generate fewer results.

Changed

All resource (Tenant, Job, Profile, and so on) Create/Update methods now return any duplicated resource names in a structured error response to ALREADY_EXIST errors.

Changed

Job update time is now only tracked if the job was updated by a customer.

Fixed

Bug fix: CTS has fixed a bug that caused information in the addresses field to be appended to structuredAddresses.

Changed

The maximum size of the customAttributes filter field of a job has been increased from 3KB to 6KB.

Feature

Cloud Talent Solution has launched a new Batch API.

Fixed

Bug fix: Cloud Talent Solution has fixed an issue where UpdateJob failed with a 500 error if the job's name didn't have a tenant_id.

Changed

New documentation added: Create an expired job.

Fixed

Bug fix: Cloud Talent Solution has fixed issues related to histogramming custom attribute facets. An empty histogram expression now throws an error message.

Changed

Cloud Talent Solution has added an exception for an invalid profile name.

Feature

Cloud Talent Solution has launched new Batch API calls. These calls enable you to perform multiple operations at the same time. Note that Batch API calls only apply to Job resources and CTS does not guarantee how quickly they will be reflected in search or recommendation responses.

Fixed

Bug fix: Compensation filters are now able to account for jobs that have no compensation fields set.

Fixed

Cloud Talent Solution fixed an issue that would not allow customers to upload expired jobs. You are now able to create an expired job and link it to any associated Application or Assignment records. When loading your historical data, input the following values:

• postingPublishTime=[timestamp when the job was created]
• postingExpireTime=[timestamp when the job was closed]
• requisitionState=[FILLED, LOST, CLOSED]

Feature

Cloud Talent Solution has launched the v4beta1 version of the API. You can download these libraries from our Client Libraries page.

Feature

Cloud Talent Solution has updated it's documentation to include more code samples, and better structured examples on how to use the APIs.

Changed

Cloud Talent Solution has added validation checks on timestamp related fields on the job and profile entities.

Changed

Customers can now set the group_id field with their values, rather than having to use the Cloud Talent Solution auto-generated values for this field.

Fixed

Cloud Talent Solution has fixed issues causing 500 status messages to be returned due to discrepancies in the Profile object.

Changed

Cloud Talent Solution now allows you to define your own group_id to identify the same candidate across multiple profiles.

Fixed

Cloud Talent Solution fixed issues causing the excludedJobs list in the search API to work incorrectly.

Changed

For invalid histogram expressions Cloud Talent Solution will now return a 400 response instead of a 500 response.