On Friday, April 28th, 2023, we will release Matador Jobs 3.8.9 to all our users. This release is a small update with a few minor enhancements and bug fixes. Let’s dig in.

Bullhorn’s publishedZip Becomes the Default Post Code Field

Bullhorn continues to improve its “public” job special object, which is a subset of the job object’s fields for “public” consumption. A feature of Matador is we access the whole “private” job object to give you the power to do more with your job board, but in many cases, using the “public” job fields, when available is a best practice.

Since our last round of updates for the “public” job, the publishedZip was added. When a Bullhorn users completes a publishing action on the job, the publishedZip is automatically populated from the job’s address, or if not available, the end company address.

That said, some of our users expose the published zip field for manual editing and are unhappy to have learned Matador does not read it. Beginning with this update, Matador Jobs Lite and Pro will prefer the publishedZip value to the address->zip value. This will improve the experience for those users that modify the published zip while leaving the job address intact, and will not change the experience for those who do not.

As a warning however, a best practice is to not do this. Since Matador uses Job City/Locality, Job State/Province, in addition to Zip/Post Code to provide a detailed job location to external services like Google for Jobs Search, a Zip/Post Code that is not a proper match for City/Locality and State/Province will create potential issues for location-based job search. You should have your job address properly set and let the publishedZip be set by Bullhorn during job publishing routines.

Minor Bug Fixes

This release also fixes the follow minor bugs discovered since 3.8.8.

  • Fixed issue caused by change to how Bullhorn’s returned resume object formats secondarySkills data. The issue was not impacting sync of Applications but was logging a PHP Warning and resulted further in the secondary skill data not saving to the Applicant record.
  • Fixed an issue with one of Matador’s site health monitoring systems failing when a transient is not set properly on first use of the day.
  • Fixed a bug where some salary strings would not have the proper salary unit field due to a variable name for the salary unit being misspelled.
  • Added logic to prevent a PHP “warning” from being logged when a job did not have a value in the “last post meta” meta array. The “last post meta” meta array was added in 3.8.7 so this would only occur on the first job update (due to republishing or a hard sync) on each job record after an upgrade from before 3.8.6 or earlier.
  • Fixed issue where items appended to the content of a job posting description, ie: apply button, application, job info bar, etc, was being added to XML feed content when it should not.
  • Fixed bug on new sync (currently in beta) that caused Matador to fail to ignore locally created jobs during sync, resulting in them being removed when they should not have been.
  • Added some additional logging to new sync to help us more widely monitor its performance.

Update Now!

Matador Jobs 3.8.9 is released for automatic* update to all subscribers as of Friday, April 28, 2023. If your subscription has expired, renew it on your account page. If you find any issues, please send a support request.

* Please Note: if your current installed version is 3.8.0 to 3.8.4, you need to manually install this update.