In NIXZ, we use vacancies for both permanent vacancies and interim assignments. You will find both in the same overviews, but the source and context can differ.
For users, the most important thing is to understand where a vacancy comes from and how you want to use it: review it in NIXZ, match it with candidates, or forward it to your ATS.
Permanent vacancies
Permanent vacancies published online are available as part of NIXZ Source. In combination with the embedded views in your ATS, NIXZ also makes it possible to monitor vacancies from specific employer career sites of your clients.
You can use these vacancies to quickly review market activity, keep track of new requests, or start a candidate search from a vacancy. The same vacancies can also be matched automatically against your candidates, so you can immediately see which opportunities fit a candidate.
Interim vacancies
Interim vacancies are sometimes also referred to as assignments or requests. In NIXZ, we treat them as vacancies, so you can search, filter, review, and match them in the same way.
These interim vacancies come from different types of sources, which we broadly group as:
- DASFeed for assignments from Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS);
- JobFeed for assignments from other Vendor Management Systems (VMS);
- BrokerFeed for assignments published by brokers on their own websites.
A broker may publish vacancies from its own clients, but may also republish vacancies that originally came from a DPS or VMS platform.
Subscriptions and access
NIXZ has and maintains its own subscriptions to almost all available sources, which makes it possible to give customers direct access to interim assignments in the Netherlands and Belgium through a subscription. It is also possible to unlock these sources, and sources from for example email or framework agreements, through the customer’s own subscription.
Why this distinction matters
The distinction mainly matters for source selection, data quality, and integration.
A permanent vacancy usually has a different structure from an interim assignment from a DPS or VMS. Interim vacancies more often include fields such as closing date, contract period, rate information, or hiring requirements.
NIXZ tries to structure this information as much as possible so you can still review and use vacancies in a consistent way.