PCRecruiter ASP Hosting System Status & Announcements

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• Blue: New/Enhanced Feature - see below

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PCRECRUITER 8.1 WEBINAR: Watch the recorded webcast of our overview of the new features in version 8.1. Main Sequence Technologies released PCRecruiter 8.1 on May 27th, which includes the features listed further down this page. This update should be available to self-installed clients soon. If you are a self-hosted client and are using the CareerBuilder resume search functions, we recommend not using this feature through PCRecruiter until you have received and installed the 8.1 release.

General/User Features

• Planner: The MyPCR screen has received an upgrade with the first phase of the planner, which allows users to review previous calls or activities with a given client or company, plan the day, and then execute those calls from a single interface. It features customizable call types and result codes, and provides direct access to most of the functionality of PCRecruiter. Currently, items can be added to the planner from Company Search Results, Name Search Results, and the Names button on a Company record. The upper/lower frame relationship used elsewhere in PCRecruiter is maintained, allowing the user to deal with the planned item or quickly have access to the Name record. When adding planner items, color codings can be used to group items as well.
  NOTE: The Planner is not currently usable outside of the USA, as the time/date format adjustments have not been implemented. We will be making the Planner internationally functional soon. If you have questions, contact our technical support team.
• PCRecruiter Portal for Microsoft Outlook™: This update includes back-end support for our new add-on product, the PCRecruiter Portal for Microsoft Outlook™, which allows PCRecruiter to operate within the reading pane of Outlook, including direct integration with the database. This toolbar will be available to our customers starting in June - contact your Main Sequence Technologies sales consultant for complete details. The features of this exciting new integration include:
  • A unified view of your database - Interact with your entire PCRecruiter system via a ‘pane’ within Outlook just as you would within your web browser.
  • A unified calendar – Events added to your Outlook Calendar automatically appear on the PCRecruiter Schedule and vice versa, with a link to jump directly from the Outlook Calendar event to the associated record in PCRecruiter. 
  • A unified contact management system – Keep your PCRecruiter names and companies in sync with your Outlook contact list.
    • Look up email correspondents in your PCRecruiter database.
    • Add email correspondents to PCRecruiter.
    • Add attached resumes from emails directly into the PCRecruiter database.
    • Sync Outlook contacts with PCRecruiter records.
  • Tie-Ins Between Outlook and PCRecruiter for email:
    • Basic emails – Click from any name record to open a blank Outlook email to that contact.
    • One-off form letters – Click from any record to load a PCRecruiter ‘Form Letter’ template, with all of the merged fields from the selected contact, in a new Outlook email.
    • Interview confirmations – Click from the Pipeline to open any PCRecruiter Interview template into a new Outlook email.
    • Resume routing – Click the Routing button in the Pipeline and load resumes and attachments from PCRecruiter into a new Outlook email.
    • Contact lookups - Pick names from PCRecruiter for To:, Cc:, and Bcc: on Outlook emails.
    • Attachments – Pull attachments from PCRecruiter contact records into an outgoing email in Outlook, including global and company attachments.
    • Activity logging - Any email sent or received in Outlook that matches an email address in PCRecruiter will generate an Activity record in your database.
• 'Written By' and Rows Per Page for Pipeline layout: The predefined "Written by" interview field can now be customized into the position Pipeline. In addition, you may define the number of rows per page which appear in the Pipeline, up to 200 rows per page. Please note that adding high numbers of records to the screen may lead to slower performance.
• "Summary" box for Company/Org/Department layout: When customizing your Company/Org/Department screen layout, you may now insert "Predefined: *View Summary" to display the Company Summary in the screen.
• Position list from Company/Org/Department record enhanced: When clicking to view the list of positions associated with a selected parent record, a new filtering dropdown has been added to allowing filtering by Job Title.Numeric counts have also been added next to each filter option in the dropdowns. In addtion, a Rollup button is now available on the position list screen.
• Photograph Field for Name layout: A new "Predefined: Photograph" option is available under the Customize layout feature for Name records. This function allows the user to upload a picture into the Name record, which will appear under the MORE > Attachments area, and also in thumbnail form on the main Name screen layout.
• Last Position with Interview Column in Name search: The 'Customize Search Results Layout' screen for Name search results now includes a "Predefined: Last Position with Interview" column option. This item will add into the name search results a link to the latest position for which each name has a pipeline/interview record.
• 'Available' field for Rollup layout: The system's Predefined: Available field from the Name record can now be used when customizing name Rollup layouts.
• Altered "Change Org" functionalities:
  • When moving a Name record to a new Company/Organization/Department in your database using the 'Change Org' option under the MORE menu, there are now two new options which will:
    • Replace Industry/Specialty field data on the Name record with the destination parent record's Industry/Specialty
    • Append the Keywords from the destination parent record into the Keywords for the Name record
  • When moving a Position/Requisition record to a new Company/Organization/Department in your database using the 'Change Org' option under the MORE menu, there is now a checkbox (unchecked by default) which essentially leaves all pipeline records for that position linked to the original parent record. By default, when a position is reassociated with a new parent record, all of the pipeline records will be re-linked to the new parent as well. Checking the box would only be advised if reporting purposes require a log of the interview process both before and after the position was moved to a new parent record. Note that if the box is checked, deleting the originating parent record will also erase the interview history still associated with it.
• History Fields Update: The 'History' button in the toolbar on the Name record now includes pre-defined blocks for Education, References, Licensing, Military, and Work History. These options can be configured from SYSTEM > History Fields. Options to build these blocks into Web Extensions registration forms and candidate profiles are also available.
• Improved email activities for job record emails: When using the "Email Job Info" item on position records or the email icon in the Pipeline screen, the activity record stored in the Name and Position records will now include the email address that the email was sent to. If the email was sent to a Rollup list, the activity will record the name of the list that it was sent to.
• 'Clipboard' Parsing tool improved: When adding a new record and clicking the 'clipboard' icon to populate the contact information into the new name or company record, PCRecruiter is now better able to recognize and populate the Fax number field.

ADDR & Resume Inhaler Features

• International Parsing: Our ADDR tool for extracting resume contact data now includes a checkbox which will allow a user to swtich the parser into 'international mode', which greatly improves the accuracy of the contact parsing for resumes from non-US jobseekers. The enhanced parser will also be included in the Resume Inhaler v3.0 when it is released.
  • International mode allows the parser to split up contact information including postal address data for the following countries: AT - Austria, BE - Belgium, CH - Switzerland (plus Liechtenstein), DE - Germany, DK - Denmark, ES - Spain (plus Andorra), FI - Finland, FR - France (plus Monaco), GB - United Kingdom, IE - Ireland, IS - Iceland, IT - Italy (plus San Marino and the Vatican), LU - Luxembourg, NL - The Netherlands, NO - Norway, PT - Portugal, SE - Sweden, US - United States
  • International mode allows the parser to recognize all commonly used contact information structures (e.g. name:, address:, phone:, email:, etc.) in the following languages: Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
  • NOTE: To take advantage of these features within the ActiveX version of our ADDR tool, please install the latest PCRecruiter control pack. If you have questions, contact our technical support team.

Integrated Email Features

• Winmail.dat / TNEF Handling: TNEF is a proprietary e-mail attachment format used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server. When sent to non-Outlook email clients such as PCRecruiter's own integrated email client, these files can appear as a 'winmail.dat' file attachment. PCRMail now includes the ability to decode and view the contents of these files when received.

Web Extensions Features

• Automation Plan "From" Address Enhancement : When creating an 'Apply/Inquire' automation plan under SYSTEM > Console > Customize Web Extensions > Candidate Screen Options > Automation Plan, there are now additional options available for the 'FROM' address on Form Letters. You may select to use the Position: Contact or Position: Username as the 'sender' for the email, so that the applicant sees the job's Contact or User as the sender, rather than a static email address. To complement these new options, you will also find new Position.Username_Signature and Position.Contact_Signature choices in the 'Insert Fields' feature when you are creating your Form Letter, which allow the signature of the PCRecruiter User associated with the position to appear in the body of the email, or a simple Name/Phone/Email/Company block of contact data for the position's contact.

Reporting Features

• Show-on-Web in Position Reports: When building a custom report for Position records, the 'Show-On-Web' field is now available for inclusion through the 'Change' buttons.

CareerBuilder Integration Features

• Career Builder Search Update: CareerBuilder.com will be rolling out changes to their resume searching engine starting in June. We have included new code in PCRecruiter to maintain compatibility with these changes.

Administrative Features

• Custom-to-Custom Global Change Field: A new option appears under SYSTEM > Global Changes which allows for the copying of data from one custom field to another.

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