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The race to launch Reception was intense, but we certainly haven’t stopped working on the product. And we’ll continue to iterate quickly and launch features and improvements on a regular basis. Recently we’ve launched a number of great features and enhancements related to Candidate Tracking that I wanted to share with you:

• Candidate Sourcing. When sourcing a candidate with our Talent Scout bookmarklet you can now associate them to an open position. So you might be searching on LinkedIN or find someone’s blog and decide to bookmark that into Reception. You tell the system that it’s a new candidate, put in their name and then select a job that you want to associate the person to. It’s as easy as that.

  

• Employee Reviews of Candidates. You can now invite employees to review candidates that have applied. Those employees can’t see any other candidates. They can vote on candidates and leave comments, making it easier than ever for teams and companies to collaborate and communicate internally about applicants. To invite employees to participate in the first place, just add them into Reception under the Contacts tab.

  

• Add Files to Candidates. You can now add files to candidates that have applied. So if they send you something via email, or you find additional information about them, just attach it to their profile in Reception’s Candidate Relationship Management Tool.
• Research Candidates. Just above I mentioned our Talent Scout bookmarklet which allows you to research candidates online and attach URLs you find to a candidate’s profile in the system. You can add URLs manually as well. The goal is to collect all information about a candidate that’s online into one central place. It makes researching candidates so much easier. In the screenshot below you can see two URLs attached to the candidate. You also see links for doing research on Google and within Social Networks. This makes it easy to find information about a candidate and then grab it.

  

• Candidate Tracking Facelift. We’ve done quite a bit to improve the interface in the Candidate Tracking part of Reception’s Dashboard. It’s now easier to view a cover letter, comments, and track files & URLs associated with candidates. And you can also message candidates directly from the View Candidate page.

  
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We still have a few more features to add into our Candidate Tracking tool, and those will be coming soon. But in the meantime these additions and enhancements will really make the process of managing candidates through the hiring process much easier.