In keeping with our seasonal propensity in dropping hot new add-ons for our talent acquisition system, this winter SmartRecruiters announces not one, but three new products, like this Report Builder right here.

In order to understand the health of their recruiting function and make further decisions about areas of future investment, a company requires the ability to view, analyze, and report on their recruiting activity. Whether you’re an admins or a Talent Acquisition Analyst, what you’ve been missing is a simple interface to get at your own data.

Meet Report Builder, which produces customized datasets, schedule reports, and define tell you who in your organization these reports should be sent. If you were one to need the hard sell, we have bullet points for you:

What does the feature do?

• Chooses a specific reporting area (also known as reporting entity).
• Downloads the CSV files of the generated reports.
• Adds Standard and Extended users to a report—users receive an email notification when the generated report is ready to be downloaded.
• Schedules a report to be generated on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis
• Filters the report to customize a final dataset.

What doesn’t the feature do?

• Our goal is to expose as many data points as possible, so you can build quality custom reports. However, not all exhaustive data points will be available in the Winter 18 general release, so keep your pants on for a little while longer. We are ON IT.
• Reports can be sent to SmartRecruiters users, but not to outside email addresses or mailing lists. You must login to download the reports, which ensures data security. In order to download a report, a user must be authenticated and authorized.
• Only Admins can create reports in the Beta. Extended & Standard users can view and download, but they cannot create or manage reports.
• Generated Reports will not be kept indefinitely – only up to one year from generation date.

We like to think we’re ahead of the curve in TA, but we know we’re not the only game in town. However, when you stack everyone up, we think our report builder is the easiest to use, and gives you the most options, which means we’re pretty sure we’ll be speaking to you soon. Until then, stay cool and recruit on.

Christmas may have been a month ago, but SmartRecruiters has one more little present for its users: a new product release.

On January 25th, SmartRecruiters rolled out its Winter 2018 product update to all users of the platform. The release came packed with quite a few developments – including custom data reports, and integration of regional social networks such as DACH’s Xing and China’s WeChat – however, one of the most extensive updates concerns parallel processing and universal profiles.

What Exactly Are Universal Profiles and Parallel Processing?

Parallel Processing allows a candidate to apply for multiple positions within a single company. This new development takes full advantage of our new Universal Profiles, which allow you to quickly and easily see every application made by a particular candidate via a new ‘All Applications’ tab.

On an industry-wide scale, only around 15% of candidates make multiple applications with a single employer, although that number fluctuates depending on the sector, industry and job type. For example, companies which tend to source younger, graduate applicants are likely to see higher numbers of parallel applications, especially for entry-level positions or internships. Universal profiles will be particularly useful to these kinds of SmartRecruiters customers.

How Does It Benefit Candidates and Hiring Managers?

Universal profiles are designed to benefit both the candidate and the hiring manager at the same time. For the candidate, the benefits are clear: they can now apply for more positions within their favorite company, increasing the chances of nailing down that dream job. What’s more, hiring managers can keep better track of your applications, reducing the chance they’ll be lost in the ether. These developments will also result in a better candidate experience by providing additional transparency and ease of communication.

These benefits also carry over to the hiring manager. The increased collaboration and transparency means embarrassing mistakes can easily be avoided, such as two separate hiring managers sending offers or templated rejection emails to the same candidate. Now, thanks to Universal Profiles, each hiring manager will know where a particular candidate is in the process of all their applications with the company, as well as who is handling these applications, allowing them to better tailor their responses and communications.

All-in-all, this leads to an increase in candidate satisfaction, which leads to better employees and ultimately, hiring success.

Additionally, for companies undergoing expansion, restructuring or reorganizing, universal profiles could be an invaluable tool for dealing with many current employees reapplying to different positions within the company.

An Opportunity to Change Up Your Recruitment Process

Parallel processing also offers the opportunity to get creative with your hiring processes. For example, it could be used to foster internal competition between hiring managers for particular candidates, imbuing your staff with new drive and determination in their recruitment efforts.

If that’s not your style, the very same functionality can be used to encourage new levels of collaboration and cooperation. The ability for each manager to see where a particular candidate has applied means communication between users is seamless. So, if a candidate has applied to multiple roles, hiring managers can now easily discuss which position for which the applicant is actually best suited.

How Was Universal Profiles Rolled Out?

Universal profiles and parallel processing will became available from January 25th as part of our Winter 2018 product release. We understand the changes could impact upon existing workflows, and so a two-month opt-in grace period will be available from the date of release. Customers eager to jump in and take advantage of all parallel processing has to offer are free to do so from day one, however, those who want to take longer preparing, training, or testing the changes on test accounts will also have the time they need.

After the grace period, parallel processing will be rolled out to all customers as part of the SmartRecruiters platform.