Adding Companies

Companies in PCRecruiter come in two varieties. The first group are the real companies. These can be companies that your candidates work for, companies that you have placed candidates with, companies looking for new hires, etc. The second group are fictitious. Fictitious companies can be "Unsolicited Candidates", "Web Search Results" or any other grouping you wish to choose. Fictitious companies are necessary because PCRecruiter uses a "relational database", meaning that no Name record can exist without a company to belong to. If a person in your database does not belong with a real company, they MUST be associated with a fake company to be entered into the database.

Follow these steps to enter a new company record:

1) Click on the 'Companies Tab'.

2) Click the 'Add Button' to create a blank record. The 'Add Button' will change to a 'Cancel Button' which can be used to abort the new addition at any time until the record is saved.

3) Enter the information. Note that if you have the company's formatted name, address and phone number in the Windows Clipboard (i.e. you opened a webpage or document, selected the company's contact info and copied it), you can push the "Addr" button to automatically pop the name and address from the top of that resume into the proper fields, after which you can change the person's name to the company name. Another shortcut is the ability to enter annual revenues in shorthand... enter in "35k" and hit "tab" on your keyboard, and PCRecruiter will change the "35k" to "$35,000". Also, if you change the "Client Company" entry to 'Y' instead of 'N', the name of the company will appear as red text on blue instead of yellow on black for easy reference.

4) Click 'Save' to complete the addition of the new record.