Before you start
You need someone who can manage your career site in the Talentsoft Recruiting Back Office.
Your career site must allow applications without an account through the API. Cegid calls this the apply-without-account option. If you are not sure it is on, ask your Cegid contact.
You will paste three things into Metaintro: your career site host, a Front Office client ID and its client secret.
Create the credential in Talentsoft
Cegid's Front Office API documentation says client IDs and secrets are generated for a career site in the Talentsoft Recruiting Back Office. It does not name the exact menu.
In the Talentsoft Recruiting Back Office, open the API settings for your career site.
Generate a new client ID and client secret for Metaintro.
Copy both.
Note your career site host, such as acme-career.talent-soft.com.
If you cannot find the page, ask your Cegid contact where Front Office API clients are created.
Connect in Metaintro
In Metaintro, go to Settings > Integrations.
Choose Cegid Talentsoft Recruiting.
In Career site host, enter your career site host.
In Front Office client ID, paste the client ID.
In Client secret, paste the client secret.
Select Connect.
Then map your jobs, set your rules, check the preview and go live.
What Metaintro sends and reads
Metaintro only sends people who chose to share their profile with you for a specific job.
Jobs: Metaintro reads the offers published on your career site so you can map them.
Application: Metaintro applies the person to the mapped offer without an account, with their name, email and phone.
Résumé: attached to the application when the person has one.
Proof card: the link to the person's proof card goes in the application message.
Origin: if your origin list has an entry named Metaintro, the application uses it.
Stage updates do not come back to Metaintro.
Limits
The Front Office API cannot search for existing candidates, so Metaintro cannot check whether the person is already in Talentsoft. Each shared person is sent as a new application.
The application message holds up to 1,000 characters, so a long message is shortened. The proof card link is always kept whole.
Metaintro cannot read stages, add notes or move candidates through this API.
Cegid asks partners to keep calls to a minimum and may limit or block heavy use.
If something goes wrong
The client ID or secret is rejected: check that both came from the same client for this career site, and that the host matches that site. Then connect again.
Applications are refused: check that applying without an account is switched on for the career site.
An offer is missing: only offers published on the career site are listed.