Force Platform Fundamentals: An Introduction to Custom Application Development in the Cloud

Bringing Candidates and Positions Together with Job Applications

Our app can track candidates and open positions, but there’s a crucial element that’s missing: how do we know which candidates are interested in which positions? We can create lookup relationship fields on the Candidate object that let recruiters specify the positions in which the candidate is interested, but what if we want to track additional information, such as whether the candidate is currently scheduled to interview for one of those positions? And wouldn’t it be helpful if the recruiter has a way of storing the cover letters that candidates tailor for each specific job to which they are applying?

We can satisfy these requirements with a Job Application custom object that stores ...