MANAGEABLE SKILLS

Objective of this release is to provide new functionality to maintain a manageable skills list. As part of this, we introduced a new menu in Admin, modified the skills tab for candidates, applicants and employees along with the skills section in Job Orders. Users would still be able to parse resumes and auto populate all recognized keywords as skills as before. However, with this release users will also have an option to either retain the parsed skills and add more skills from the list maintained in AkkenCloud or remove the parsed skills and then add skills from the list.

1. Introduced a new preference under Admin for “Skill Management”

2. Introduced a new preference under Candidates for “Manageable Skills”

3. Introduced a new menu in Admin for Skill Management

4. Modified skills tab on the candidate, applicant and employee records

5. Modified skills section of the Job Orders

6. Modified Advance Search section in candidates

Selecting the preference in the above screenshot enables a menu for Skill Management under Admin. This preference can be turned on for just Admin users so the list can be maintained just by them.

2.) Introduced a new preference under CRM candidates, HRM Applicants and Employees

Selecting the preferences in above screenshot enables the option to add skills to the list by a non-admin user directly from the Candidates screen in CRM along with Applicants and Employees screen in HRM.

3. Introduced a new menu in Admin for Skill Management

Click on Admin – Skill Management to go to the skills list. This screen will NOT list any skills by default. A list must be created to be able to select skills on the candidate, applicants or employee screens.

Click on Add New Skill to get to the pop up for creating a new skill. Key in a skill name and click on Save. Skills can also be categorized for each HRM Department. Category and Department are optional.

Skill Categories can be added via multiple links.

a) Click on Manage categories on the main skill listing screen to get to the pop up as below

Click on Add New Category, key in a Category and click on Save.

b) When adding a new skill, Click on Select/Edit List next to Category(s).

Click on "Add New Category" to get to the Manage Categories pop up. Click on "Add New Category" and Save.

To assign a skill to a category, click on the link “Select/Edit List” next to the “Category(s)” label. This would launch a pop-up that lists all existing skill categories. Select the category(s) on the left side and click on “Add”. Selected category names would now be visible on the right side. Click on Save.

A similar option for assigning skills to an HRM Department(s) exists by using the link “Select/Edit List” next to Department(s). However, new HRM Departments CANNOT be added from this section.

4. Modified skills tab on Candidates, Applicants and Employee records.

a) Adding skills when creating new candidates manually using the wizard

When in CRM Candidates, click on “Create New” under the the “Manage Records” tab to get to the options for creating candidates. Select the first option to use the wizard.

When on the skills tab, links to add skills are visible in two places. Click on any link to get to the pop-up listing all pre-defined skills.

Pop up offers multiple ways to filter/search existing skills. Drop downs for Department and Category can be used to filter the list of skills provided a skill has been assigned to a category or a department.

Skill name can also be keyed into the “Search Skill(s)” and by clicking on “Search” will narrow down the list as in the above screenshot.

b) Modifying skills for candidates that were created by parsing a resume

Users can select multiple skills on the left side in the pop up and click on Add so they list on the right side in the pop up. Click on Save to populate the candidates skills tab with the selected skills.

Default values of “Current” for Last Used and “Expert” for Skill Level are populated with a blank Years of Experience field. You will need to select the “Edit” Link to set appropriate values for these and click on Save the candidate record. Skills added can also be deleted using the red “X” next to each skill.

Skills added from the list of managed skills are displayed on the candidate screen with skill type as “Managed”. They can be deleted by selecting the check boxes to the left and using the link “Delete Selected Skills”.

Note: When uploading a new resume to an existing candidate, all existing skills would be replaced by the newly parsed skills except the managed skills added by the user. Parsing does not overwrite any previously added skills from the manageable list. 

 1. Introduced a new preference, “Merge”, for CRM under Companies, Contacts and Candidates in Admin – User Management – Preferences

Users can be granted this privilege for Companies, Contacts and Candidates.  In CRM, based on this setting, the link “Merge Records” will be visible on the main listing screens. However, users having access to Admin – Data Management module can access this functionality regardless of the above preference.

2) Introduced a new link, “Merge Records” in CRM Candidates main listing screen under “Manage Records” - Merge.

To merge records, initiate a search to identify duplicate records or select duplicates as they appear on the screen. Either the Keyword Search section at the top of the Candidates’ main listing screen or the quick search boxes under the column headings can be used to search.

Additionally, searches can be run by using the AkkuSearch features to locate other duplicate candidates.

Once the search results display, select the duplicate records by clicking on the check boxes on the left-hand side of the screen next to the records and click on the link “Merge Records” under “Manage Records”.

This will launch a pop-up window with the same search results as displayed below:

The link “Remove from Merge List” will remove the record from the search results. If a record should be removed, click the check box on the left-hand side of the screen and click on “Remove from Merge List”.

The link “Mark as Master” will allow a user to select the primary record that will appear within AkkenCloud (all other records will be merged into the Master record, with only the Master record remaining).  Select the check box on the left-hand side next to the record that will become the master record and click on the link “Mark as Master Record”.

The record that has been marked as the master record will then be updated with a grayed-out check box.  To change the master record, select one of the other records in the screen and click on the “Mark as Master Record” icon again, which will update your selection.

Whichever record is selected as the Master will be the record that will be displayed within CRM, and all other records displayed on the screen will be merged into the Master record.

Records can be opened within the Merge screen in order to view the summary data to select the appropriate records to remove, merge, or mark as the master record.   Double click on any record to open the summary screen (see below). This gives an option to review the data on a record and determine to keep or merge by using the previous or next options to move through the records.

Once a master record has been selected, click on the “Merge” button at the bottom of the screen.

AkkenCloud will then request confirmation of the merge and provide the quantity of the records being merged into the Master.

After the user clicks on OK on the above pop-up, AkkenCloud will then merge the unselected records into the selected (master) record.

NOTE: This process takes between a few seconds to a few minutes.  Please be patient as AkkenCloud processes the merge request. The amount of time the merge takes depends upon the amount of data being merged (activities, notes, documents, resumes, submission details, etc.).

A pop-up confirmation will be displayed upon successful completion.

The user will be brought back to the main Candidates listing screen with the original search retained and the master record visible.

To verify that a record is a master record and duplicate records were merged into that record, open the master record and there will be a denotation on the top left-hand side of the summary screen that states, “Merged Records: Yes”.

Click on the hyperlink “Yes” to view the details of the records that were merged or click on the documents panel.

If there are multiple merges into one record, there will be multiple merge documents shown in the documents panel (one document per each time a merge has occurred).

Resumes, Notes, Documents, Tasks, Events, Appointments and Activities will be merged from the duplicate records into the master record selected and displayed under the Activities and Documents panels.

Exception: When Candidates in CRM are placed on Job Orders, they are tied to HRM Employee records. These candidate records with a Candidate Type of “Employee” cannot be merged. There is a column in the merge pop-up window named “Placed” which displays the values “Y” indicating there is a relation to an employee record in HRM module or “N” indicating that it is still a CRM record alone.

A pop-up message will be displayed when such a record exists in the search results and the “Merge” button is clicked.

If there is an Employee record and a Candidate record that need to be merged, the Employee record can be marked as the master and all duplicate candidate records can be merged into the Employee record.

CANDIDATES

Once an assignment is approved in Accounting – Assignments, the Candidate’s Status automatically changes to “On Assignment”.

NOTE: The automatic change in the candidate status in CRM occurs only when:

a) The Assignment is approved, thereby changing the Assignment Status to “Active”, then the Candidate status changes to “On Assignment”.

b) All of the Candidate’s Assignments with a status of “Active” or “Needs Approval” is updated to “Closing/Cancellation”, then the Candidate status changes to “Actively Searching”.

*** For Direct Placements, once an assignment is approved the assignment will close and the Candidate Status will be changed to “Actively Searching”.

*** For Employees with multiple assignments, all assignments must be closed for the Candidate Status to change to “Active Searching”. If one assignment remains Active, then the Candidate Status will be changed to “On Assignment”.

AkkenCloud Staffing facilitates you to send an email message to the selected candidates from Candidates home page.

To send an email message to a Candidate, just click on the ‘Send Mail’ link on the Candidates home page. Result: The screen refreshes by displaying the Compose screen.

When you archive a record using ‘Archive’ link in the Candidates home page, the record is not removed completely from the application, but is transferred to the View Archive screen. This provision is made available to the AkkenCloud Staffing users as there is a possibility of deleting the record by mistake, or you may require the record to be used after it has been deleted. To provide ease of use in such situations, AkkenCloud Staffing provides the ‘View Archive’ feature where you can retrieve or permanently remove a record from the application.

Click on the Archive down arrow icon on the Candidates home page. You will see the menu listing:

Click on the ‘View Archive’ link to view the list of the records deleted temporarily from the menu listing. Result: The screen refreshes by displaying the View Archive screen. You can either make the record available or permanently delete the record from the application.

To make available a record from the "View Archive" screen:

Select the record and click on the ‘Make Available’ link on View Archive screen. Result: You are prompted to respond to an alert message as shown below:

I.   If the Candidate that you intend to make available relates to other roles/functions such as Contact Record and Address Book Record, then the above screen will be displayed.

The Archive feature assists you to remove the candidates temporarily or permanently from your active candidates list. You can remove single or multiple or all records at a time. The candidates removed from the Candidates home page will be available in the Candidates View Archive page.

Note: You can also archive the candidates who are submitted to Job Orders only if the job order status is either Cancelled/Closed/Filled.

To Archive a record from the existing records:

I.   If the Candidate that you intend to archive relates to other roles/functions such as Contact Record and Address Book Record, then the above screen will be displayed.

II.   If the Candidate that you intend to archive has no connection with other roles/functions in the application, then the following alert message will be displayed as shown below:

You can share candidate details with others. You can share candidate from candidate’s screen. The employee records are by default given access to the all the users in the application.

You can make a candidate details public. The record type of the Candidate you make public from the Candidates screen is displayed as ‘Public’ against the corresponding candidate in the screen. Employees are by default made public.

You can make a candidate details private. The record type of the Candidate you make private from the Candidates screen is displayed as ‘Private’ against the corresponding candidate in the screen. Employees’ records cannot be selected for making private.

AkkenCloud Staffing allows you to export the data in a CSV (comma separated value) format which can then be imported into other applications comfortably.

The different export options available in Candidates are:

Select the required candidate(s) in the Candidates home page and click AkkenCloud in the Export drop-down menu. The system displays the File Download window.

In the File Download window,

In the File Download window,

Note:

You can export up to 5 sets of Candidate Skills and Experiences.

AkkenCloud Staffing supports importing of the candidates’ details that use the comma separated value (CSV) format.

Import Candidates

Steps to Import

AkkenCloud Staffing provides an excellent feature of creating groups of the Candidates from CRM – Candidates home page.

You can just select the list of Candidates and click on the “Groups” link. The screen refreshes by displaying the Create Group pop up window.

See the Creating Group of Contacts topic for more information on how to create group of candidates