Posted in September 2007

New Internal Candidate Application Process

Managing Internal Candidates in Hirebridge Recruiter has never been easier with the rich suite of new features now available.
Employees can now go to your Career Center or Intranet site and request a transfer online.  They apply in a new streamlined process, which collects current position and manager data for you.
 

A new feature in the Job Requisition area allows you to select a screening question set that will only be presented to your internal candidates.
 

As before, internal candidates are marked with the yellow star icon in the Indicators section.

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New Hiring Process and Reporting

The New Hire Process within Hirebridge Recruiter has been enhanced to provide greater flexibility for users.

 

All candidates processed through the New Hire form are entered into a new Hired Candidates table.

 

New hire information for all candidates can be downloaded and forwarded directly from your Hirebridge system to any email recipient, including Users, Contacts and others.

 

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Firms’ freebies help perk up employee retention

From HartfordBusiness.com …

Workers at Microsoft get grocery delivery. And valet parking. Free.

Employees at Anheuser-Busch enjoy a monthly two-case beer allowance. No charge.

The folks at Google get homemade French toast in the morning with ginger-infused maple syrup and caramelized apples. Gratis.

Workbytes could go on, but we already know what you’re saying. And it likely includes the word “squat.”

That’s because most of us will never see the kind of perks that are handed out at some U.S. companies in the name of employee retention.

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And you thought you had a bad day!

Even if this isn’t real, it is very, very funny!

Complete Candidate Activity and History Log

The Complete Candidate Activity and History Log within Hirebridge Recruiter has been created to provide you with a single place to view all notes and activities for candidates attached to multiple job requisitions in your Hirebridge system. This complete log can be filtered by user, job and requisition number; it can even be printed and exported like any other report.

 

A new access level has been created, allowing Administrators to grant individual users permission to view this complete notes and activities log.

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U.S. Employment Declines for First Time Since 2003

Via Bloomberg … 

The U.S. economy unexpectedly lost jobs in August for the first time in four years, increasing speculation that the Federal Reserve will have to reduce interest rates to counter an economic slowdown.

Employers cut 4,000 workers from payrolls, compared with a revised gain of 68,000 in July that was smaller than previously reported, the Labor Department said today in Washington. The unemployment rate held at 4.6 percent as almost 600,000 people left the workforce. Bonds rallied and the dollar weakened.

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