Standout Jobs

Over the weekend, we released a number of major upgrades to our applicant tracking functionality in Reception.

• Status Tracking. You can now track the status of a candidate through the hiring process. We’ve implemented basic workflow to handle this. When a candidate applies (or is sourced) they’re flagged as “New” and you can then move them to “Active” or any other status you’d like.

  
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• Conversation Tracking. We’ve embedded the conversations you have with candidates through our messaging system into their profile and the commenting that team members are leaving on them. This will make it much easier to track the entire conversation and discussion surrounding candidates in a complete timeline.
• Reply to Candidates. It’s now much easier to reply to candidates directly from their profiles and applications. We’re trying to encourage companies to communicate more effectively, and this is one step towards that.
• Candidate Source. Where available, we’re tracking the candidate source. We don’t ask candidates to supply this, because we know they tend to get it wrong or forget, so we try and do it automatically for as many sources as possible.
• Filter Candidates by Position. You can now filter candidates by position, making it easier to manage them and manage multiple jobs simultaneously.

  
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• Vote Resetting. You can now reset votes when you change a candidate’s status - so as they move through the hiring process you can redo the votes at each stage.
• Sorting by Column. You can now sort candidates by column, giving you more flexibility in managing the data.
• Major UI Upgrades. We’ve done a significant upgrade on the UI - making it easier than ever to use.

We still have some more work to do on applicant tracking - with some very cool features coming in a couple weeks - but these additions make Reception an even more useful, powerful and effective applicant tracking system. We hope you’ll check it out and let us know what you think!