Limiting the Number of Job Applications per Candidate on External Career Site

Hi Team,

I'm working on an Oracle Recruiting Cloud implementation and a recurring requirement has come up from the client side that I'd like to discuss with the community.

The Business Problem

Clients are increasingly reporting two related scenarios:

1. Bot-driven applications — automated scripts that submit a job application on behalf of a candidate as soon as a new requisition is published on the external career site.
2. Indiscriminate applications — candidates who apply to every open position regardless of actual fit or eligibility, generating noise in the recruiter's pipeline and degrading the quality of the candidate pool.

The ask from the business is to introduce some form of