---
title: "Require Employment Information"
slug: "require-employment-information"
description: "Ensure applicants provide employment information in Slate-hosted applications using application logic with hard and soft fails. Utilize Suitcase for example imports, conduct testing queries, and configure submission requirements to verify applicants enter job history on the Work Experience page, choosing between hard fail for mandatory and soft fail for optional work experience details."
tags: ["Application Logic", "Applications", "Slate-Hosted Application", "Submission Requirements"]
updated: 2025-10-24T20:01:59Z
published: 2025-10-24T20:01:59Z
---

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# Require Employment Information

> [!NOTE]
> 📚 Part of the series **Application Building Phase II:**[**The Slate-hosted Application**](/v1/docs/introduction-to-the-slate-hosted-application)

[Application logic](/v1/docs/submission-requirements-hard-and-soft-fails), including hard and soft fails, ensure applicants enter all necessary data prior to submitting an application.

## Try a Slate example 💼

Use [Suitcase](/v1/docs/suitcase#importing-a-suitcase-0-5) to import the example in this article (and others in this section) into your institution's database. These examples are also featured in the [Clean Slate Showcase environment.](/v1/docs/provision-clean-slate-test-and-time-warp-environments#clean-slate-0-2)

#### Using testing queries

Before you commit to using the application logic records, try a testing query by importing the Suitcase link in the second tab. These queries recreate the application logic records, taking advantage of the Query Builder's **Preview Results** function to ensure the records that should be receiving the hard or soft fails appear. If you only use the application logic records, you'll only see the number of records affected.

#### Application logic Suitcase ID (hard fail library)

```plaintext
082d8112-e41b-4fc5-aef5-9c7beef46969:slate-admissions-showcase
```

#### Testing queries Suitcase ID

```plaintext
a04770f5-349d-4e95-a9c0-0c5d0b1ba3b0:slate-examples
```

## Warn if missing work experience

This submission requirement displays a warning if the applicant has not entered a job on the employment history page.

- **Type:**Submission Requirement
- **Section**: Select the application page that includes [job information](/v1/docs/custom-employment-history-page)
- **Name:** Provide the text that will display when the applicant is missing information.
- **Warning:**If you require that applicants have previous work experience, select Hard Fail to prevent application submission without entering job history. Otherwise, select Soft Fail to display a warning.
- **Base:** Configurable Joins - Application
- **Filters**: Create a [Subquery Filter (Aggregate - Not Exists)](/v1/docs/subquery-filters#not-exists). If no specifics are needed, no filters are necessary once the joins are in place.

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