Overview

SmartRecruiters is SAP's next-generation recruiting platform, integrated within the SAP SuccessFactors HCM suite. When creating job postings, recruiters work with a set of standard job fields that directly influence the candidate experience on the career site — how jobs are categorised, filtered, and discovered.

Five fields are especially important: Location, Function, Industry, Experience Level, and Type of Employment. These are structural picklist fields that drive job-board categorisation, candidate search filters, and downstream application workflow logic.

As documented in KBA 3746432, there is currently a product gap: these fields cannot be automatically populated from a Position object in SAP SuccessFactors. This means every job created via Position must have these fields manually updated by a recruiting stakeholder — an inefficient and error-prone process at scale.

This blog presents a supported workaround using the SmartRecruiters REST API combined with a job.created webhook to automate the update as soon as a job is created.

Understanding the Product Gap

The five affected fields and their impact on the recruiting process are summarised below:

Field	Type	Impact	Mappable from Position?
Industry	Drop Down	Job board category; candidate search filter	Not available
Function	Drop Down	Role category; drives career site taxonomy	Not available
Experience Level	Drop Down	Seniority filter for candidates	Not available
Type of Employment	Drop Down	Contract type; mandatory for many job boards	Not available
Location	Structured/ Pre-defined	Country / region / city; drives geo-targeted postings	Not available

Current state: Because these fields cannot be sourced from the Position, recruiters must manually open each newly created job and populate these fields before publishing. In high-volume recruiting organisations this introduces significant manual overhead and the risk of miscategorisation.

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