This article explains how Selection Signals work within the ELMO Recruitment module. These signals provide automated feedback to SEEK regarding candidate progression and requisition status, helping to improve candidate matching and recruitment insights.
What are Selection Signals?
Selection Signals are automated data points sent to SEEK to indicate the outcome of a recruitment process. When a candidate sourced from SEEK reaches a specific status in ELMO, or when a requisition is finalized, ELMO notifies SEEK of the result.
These signals allow SEEK to improve their AI matching technology. By understanding which candidates are successful, SEEK can more effectively surface the right talent for your roles, increasing your speed to placement.
Increasing visibility on how SEEK applicants progress through the recruitment journey allows SEEK to better understand how hirers assess suitability for a role. These insights will enable SEEK to improve its AI matching technology over time to ensure the right talent sees your role and increases your speed to placement.
Application Signals
Signals for application statuses will only send to SEEK for candidates who applied via SEEK. Each of the following statuses will trigger a signal:
Candidate Status | Signal sent to SEEK (success indicator) |
Shortlist | NULL |
In-Progress | NULL |
Offer | NULL |
Offer Accepted | TRUE |
Not Suitable | FALSE |
Rejected | FALSE |
Withdrawn | FALSE |
Requisition Signals
Signals for requisition statuses will only send to SEEK if it contains a job ad posted to SEEK. Each of the following statuses will trigger a signal:
Requisition Status | Signal sent to SEEK (success indicator) |
On Hold | NULL |
Finalised | TRUE |
Withdrawn | FALSE |
Managing Selection Signal Settings
Selection Signals are managed within your Recruitment Administration settings.
Active SEEK Integration: For customers with the SEEK integration enabled, Selection Signals are active by default.
Opting Out: You can opt-out of sending these signals by navigating to Administration → Recruitment → Job Board Configuration and toggling the Selection Signals switch to "Off."
Disabled Integration: If the SEEK integration is disabled for your account, Selection Signals are inactive, and the toggle is hidden from the configuration page.
FAQs
Why am I not seeing any data? +
SEEK Ad Performance Panel has a known 24 to 48 hours delay in displaying data, while ELMO’s “New Application” source attribution figure is updated real-time.
Why do I see a different number of application completions in the ad performance panel compared to the number of applications from SEEK in ELMO? +
This could be due to different factors:
Factor # 1 – A known 24 to 48 hours delay in SEEK Ad Performance Panel data
SEEK Ad Performance Panel has a known 24 to 48 hours delay in displaying data, while ELMO’s “New Application” source attribution figure is updated real-time.
Factor #2– Applications received prior to BETA Release Date (5th November 2025)
The registration of application completion signals only commenced from 5th November 2025 as this is when the functionality was released by ELMO. Therefore, completion signals for applications submitted prior to 5th November have not been captured.
As a general rule, application completes for ads posted after 5th November 2025 should match, but ads posted prior to 5th November 2025 may not match up.
What do some of the terminologies used by SEEK within the Ad Performance Panel mean? +
Please refer to the following term and definition table