Eastern Michigan University avoids using multiple employment relationship types in RE to minimize the number of fields they need to maintain, such as relationship type and reciprocal relationship. Instead, we rely solely on employment start and end dates to distinguish between current and former employment.
For pulling accurate employment information from RE NXT, Almabase requires:
  • Current employment to have the relationship type 'Employer'
  • Previous employments to have the relationship type 'Former Employer'
If this format is not followed, all former employment records appear with an end date as 'current' in AB, leading to data discrepancies.
We'd like to request an enhancement to the current data pull process that allows Almabase to accurately classify employment records based on start and end dates rather than relying on specific relationship types.