How to Push Candidates and Applications into ATS Systems with Unified's ATS API
Blog post from Unified.to
Unified's ATS API offers a structured approach to integrating candidate and application data into various ATS systems, emphasizing the complexities and provider-specific variability involved in write operations. The guide details the processes for creating candidates, submitting applications, uploading documents, and updating application statuses, highlighting the need for developers to implement idempotency and duplicate prevention at the application layer due to the lack of these features in Unified's documentation. Required fields and writable fields vary across integrations, with some fields being read-only in specific systems. Error handling follows standard HTTP status codes, and developers are advised to use exponential backoff for retries in cases of rate limiting or provider outages. The guide underscores the importance of understanding each integration's 'Writable Fields' section to ensure accurate and efficient data handling, noting that Unified's API provides a normalized interface without abstracting provider-level constraints, making it necessary to build workflows tailored to each provider’s requirements.