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Feature Update – A Modern Twist on the Vacancy List!

The tech team have just completed the restyling of the iFrame which displays your list of vacancy adverts on your website, giving it a fresh new look as shown here – 

Here are some of the distinctive differences you will notice:

The new Keyword search function, which has recently been added to the advertising tab on your vacancies page, will now also have an effect on the vacancy list on your website.

Candidates can use the search bar at the top of your vacancy page to find the right jobs in an instant.

The entire page has been redesigned to be more visually open and flowing, making the info easier to spot and comprehend at a glance.

We added some fun colours to liven things up! The Sector and Function, Vacancy type and Vacancy Reference Number are being displayed more prominently with colour coding to make your candidate’s searching experience easier and more enjoyable.

We also added some eye-catching icons to indicate the Location and Salary.

And have you see our brand new Share button?

Slicker than your average sharing function! Click on it and a number of icons will pop out indicating the variety of platforms for your candidates to choose from. The options include Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, E-mail and WhatsApp!

This is a massively valuable tool which allows your candidates to refer friends to this particular vacancy. The added bonus is that any applications coming in from this shared link will flow directly into your PostBox too.

Top tip!

Remember to actively ask your candidates to refer their friends. It may seem obvious to you that they should do so but often it honestly doesn’t even occur to most, until you bring it to mind.

This feature is scheduled to be rolled out to all Placement Partner systems early next week.

Looking to activate this feature immediately?

Contact Support to make the switch today.

Until then, happy recruiting! 

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Gauteng – Advanced Interview Skills for Future Recruiters

We are very glad to announce that Placement Partner will be bringing Jane Moors to Gauteng on the 15th and 16th of August 2019.

Future recruiters are true Talent Advisers who are capable of offering more value –

  • Identifying candidates who have something special about them, beyond education and experience.
  • Understanding the client’s needs and providing recruits who really fit into the company and the culture.
  • Coaching candidates on how to showcase their uniqueness best, and really shine in their interviews.

It’s all about fostering loyalty and commitment early on by creating meaningful connections.

In this breakfast workshop, Recruitment Expert, Jane Moors will be coaching us on two key aspects of interviews on opposite ends of the recruitment process:

1. Interview Skills to Increase Candidate Commitment

Find out the best ways to conduct an interview with your candidates, ascertain whether or not this recruit is the right fit for your client and foster commitment to the company from the very beginning.

2. Coaching Candidates for Improved Interview Performance

As an internationally accredited Business Coach, Jane coaches corporate clients on how to inspire their teams and become more effective communicators. In this workshop she will share some of her methods and tools so that you might do the same for your candidates.

Date and Time:

15th and 16th August 2019 from 08:30 to 11:30

Venue:

Johannesburg & Pretoria

(Details to follow)

Cost:

R499 per person including brunch.

Any questions?

Click here

For more info and book your seats today!

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Feature Update – Advertising Keywords!

We live in an age where we are all forced to work through massive amounts of data and information. This could not be more true when it comes to our candidates and their job searches!

One of the tools used to do so which is becoming increasingly prevalent is the Keyword Search, much like the one available to you when searching the Postbox and Quality Database.

In order to make it easier for candidates to find your vacancy adverts, we have added searchable keywords to your advertising page.

Candidates searching for jobs on various portals can simply enter keywords into the search bar and any of your vacancies with matching keywords will come up in their results – Even if none of those words appear in the job title.

Here’s how it works –

1. On your vacancy advertising tab, you will now see an additional box directly below the vacancy descriptions, labelled ‘Advert Searchable Keywords/Phrases’

2. Type in all relevant keywords which your candidates may use when searching for jobs. Hit ‘Enter’ (on your keyboard) between each keyword or phrase to create a list.

3. Simply continue with creating and posting your ad as usual! Remember to check the ‘Activate Advert’ box and then click ‘Apply’.

Did you know!?

You can come back to this page to edit these keywords at any time! Simple click on the ‘X’ to remove unwanted keywords or type in any additions you require.

Remember to click on ‘Apply’ after making any changes and the system will automatically update Careers 24 and Pnet too.

A great way to boost your advert and ensure it comes up in as many searches as possible is to review your job spec and pick out as many keywords as you can, ensuring they are all relevant to the position.

Adding these keywords will make it easier for candidates to find your advert on the job portals and should therefore, significantly improve your response rates too!

Feeling a little stuck when it comes to thinking up keywords?

(Have no fear – You are not alone!)

Give your Key Account Manager a call!

They would love to meet you for coffee and discuss some ideas around how to maximize the effectiveness of this feature and many others which you have at your disposal on your Placement Partner system.

Thank you to all the recruiters who suggested this helpful idea!

Let us know what you think?

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Artificial Intelligence for Prioritized Search Results

Our developers have served up yet another great innovation to make it easier for you to find the right candidates amongst all those ad responses. And so much faster too!

Placement Partner is now equipped with artificial intelligence to save you the effort of having to go through low quality records to get to better results.

With the application of some complex algorithms the system can assess which CV’s contain the most relevant results according to the Keyword Search terms you’ve selected.

In other words, if you are searching for a candidate with experience as a Project Manager in the FMCG industry, the top candidates are more likely to have worked as a Project Manager.

While the lower results may be candidates who are perhaps listing a reference, or in this case, worked as an assistant to the PM.

Bear in mind that although this artificial intelligence is designed to streamline your search process and take some of the decision-making off of your plate, no machine will be able to do the work of a seasoned recruiter’s keen eye. Computers just can’t get ‘that feeling’, the way that you can!

We’d love to know your thoughts?

Have your say!

Finally, we’d like to say a big thank you to all those who have taken the time to contribute your valuable feedback and suggestions!We definitely owe you a coffee…

Call anytime to collect 🙂

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The Future of HR – Award Finalists Second Year Running!

Placement Partner has once again achieved finalist status in the preliminary stages of the Future of HR Awards!

Following the two-day Future of HR Summit, the awards bring together CEOs, CTOs, HR directors and personnel from South Africa and beyond to celebrate and explore the hyper-responsive, agile workplace of the future. Having received a bevy of outstanding entries for both organisations and individuals, this year’s finalists represent the very best of the best in the South African HR industry.  

Hosted in partnership with Careers24, the event seeks to celebrate industry leaders achieving exceptional standards of people management by showcasing strategies that make a direct impact on business performance. These innovative practices set new standards for the HR industry, reshaping HR into a cutting-edge strategic business component.

Commenting on Placement Partner’s finalist status, Operations Manager, Noeline McComb said:

“We are truly honoured to have been selected as finalists for this prestigious award for a second time. Our development team has been dedicated to pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence on our digitized recruitment platform and automation is taking care of more of those mundane tasks in order to give our clients additional time to apply their soft skills and create real value. We will continue to focus on delivering innovations which have a meaningful, positive impact on the lives of our clients as well as the HR industry as a whole.”

As HR rapidly becomes one of the most influential business departments, we are leading the charge in creating workplaces for the future. Combining advances in technology with human ingenuity, we are driving an exponential increase in HR’s impact and enriching the workplace experience.

Placement Partner will go up against the other ‘Tech Provider of the Year’ finalists at the 2019 Future of HR Awards in Johannesburg on the 13th of June 2019.

Explore the Future of HR here and keep your eye out for news on the final result!

FAQALL➜



Yes. Templates are used to automatically generate documents from the data stored in Placement Partner. A typical example of this is to automatically generate standardised CV’s which can be sent directly to your clients.

Yes. Placement Partner was designed to store candidate CV files and many other files with each candidate’s and client’s record.

No. Placement Partner is password-protected and is hosted on an encrypted secure connection which makes unauthorised access virtually impossible. An unfortunate reality today is that a server, located in your office building, is far more likely to be stolen than someone gaining unauthorised access to your data via a secure connection.Our servers, with your data on, are located in a high-security data center and we keep the location of our servers strictly confidential.

Placement Partner is charged on a monthly subscription basis, based on the number of users.

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