Help Topic: Candidate Settings

Default Candidate Status

The first option within General Settings is the Default Candidate Status dropdown.  In here will be a list of the all of the Statuses which you have created in your system for a Candidate.  So generally, the default would be Active for when the Candidate is initially created as they are actively looking for work.  You may change the default here if required.

Duplicate CV on Parse Action

When a Candidate sends you a CV and you 'Parse' it into the system, you can choose here whether to

• 'Accept and Update' the Candidate record with any additional information that may be available
• Or, if there is a match found on either the email address or mobile phone, reject the CV as a duplicate so nothing is changed.

If there is a particular user who will always need to be the owner of Candidates when they are created, you will need to selct their name from the Default Candidate Ownership dropdown list.

If you wish to create a 'Fixed List' of Job Titles, you may do so and have

• 'Yes, Fixed List' selected to force your Users to select from a list. 

Or,

• 'No, Free Text Titles' and allow your users to manually add a Job Title if it is not available from the list.

This setting, if set to

• 'Yes, by Default' means that your Candidates will be given access to your Portal to enter Timesheets, however, this can be changed within an individual Candidate record if it is not required. 
• Setting it to 'No' will mean you need to add this privilege each time you add a new Candidate to the system. 

• If you wish to give your Candidates access to the Online Documents section on your Portal as soon as they are created, you will need to select 'Yes, by Default' here.  This will mean they can view any documents you have added to your Document Library and shared to the Portal. 
• This can be changed at the Candidate record if not required, but you can also select 'No' if you want to restrict this completely.

Upload Documents by Default

• To permit your Candidates to upload Documents, such as copies of Passports, or Forms, you can select 'Yes, by Default' here to set it for every Candidate when they are created.  This can be changed within an individual Candidate record, if it is not required. 
• Setting it to 'No' will mean you need to add this privilege each time you add a new Candidate to the system. 

Log Portal Logon as Activity

• Setting it to 'Yes' will log an activity in that candidate's record each time they logon to their Candidate Portal

• To allow Candidates to register on your Website Portal, select 'Yes, show the link on the Portal'.
• If you do not want to allow online registration, select 'No, hide the link on the Portal'.

• If you wish to allow Candidates to upload their CV to your Website Portal, select 'Yes' from this dropdown. 
• To restrict this option,select 'No'.

• Allowing manual registration means that the Candidate can populate their details and submit them on the Portal, without a CV.  Select 'Yes' to permit
• Or select 'No' to restrict this option

• If you have Skills created in your system, you can choose to push these out to the Portal and allow Candidates who are registering the option of ading their own Skills.  Select 'Yes' to allow
• Select 'No' to add Skills at a later point

• If you want to give Candidates the option of uploading References when they Register on the Portal, select 'Yes'
• If not, please select 'No, skip this page'

• If you wish to allow candidates to upload supporting Documents to the Portal, such as a copy of their Passport for example, select 'Yes' here
• If not, select 'No, skip this page'

Candidate Statuses help you to asceratain the current situation for a Candidate in your database.  All of these statuses are completely customizable so they may look different on your system. Options such as “Assigned, Inactive, On Billing and Rejected” Are all most likely Inactive statuses. By choosing to mark a Candidate as Inactive he/she is no longer an active Candidate in our database.

If you wish to edit or delete any of the Statuses, click on the relevant row and select 'Edit' or 'Delete'.  To add additional Statuses, click the green 'New' button and enter the details. 

A Candidate Type refers to the type of work they may be looking for, such as Permanent or Contract in this example.  

To edit or delete any of these options, click the appropriate row and select 'Edit' or 'Delete'.  To add a new Type, such as 'Temporary', click the green 'New' button and add the details.

To understand more about Candidate Prospecting, please go to our help file on this topic. 

These Statuses can be selected when you have matched a Candidate as a Prospect to a Client or Contact so you and your colleagues can see exactly what stage in the process the Candidate is at.  To edit or delete any of these options, click the appropriate row and select 'Edit' or 'Delete'.  To add a new Type, such as 'Temporary', click the green 'New' button and add the details.

You will create options here for your Users to select a Job Title when they create a Candidate, but you may also make this a free text field.  (Please refer to the Fixed Job Titles section under General Settings at the top of this page to understand a little more about this list.)

To edit or delete any of these options, click the appropriate row and select 'Edit' or 'Delete'.  To add a new Job Title, click the green 'New' button and add the details.

Should you wish to, you can add an Ethnic Origin to your Candidate record and create a list here of all of the options. 

To edit or delete any of these options, click the appropriate row and select 'Edit' or 'Delete'.  To add a new Job Title, click the green 'New' button and add the details.

If AWR has been applied against a particular Job and Candidate, you can edit, delete or add Alerts into this section.  You will be notified of these alerts in order to keep within all of the required timefrmaes for AWR.