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A good round of updates this time.
Many of the new items in PCR center around Job Order Contacts.
In the past, the primary contact on a job order did not carry its
unique identifier. This prevented PCR from easily connecting sendouts
and positions to the hiring authorities.
Please note that only new jobs will have this feature; unless you
go back to the job orders and re select the primary contact, PCR
will not have the full identity of the contact. There is no way
to run a job to add the identifier to existing job contacts because
they are, naturally, unidentified. It may be a good idea, if you
have a small number of job orders, to re select the primary contacts
to allow this feature to work with older data.
As of the update, if a name has a status of "H" for hiring
authority, when you click the "handshaking" icon, you
will see all of the jobs that the person is the primary contact
on, as well as all of the interviews for those jobs.
If a name is a status of "C" then you will see the positions
and sendouts that the person is connected to. If it's a company
record, you will see all of the jobs and sendouts for all of the
jobs the company has. This is a great way to get a list view of
the jobs in a company record.
Also, because the primary contacts are now fully identified, you
have a new limit option on the Find box.
If you now "limit to position rollup" from the menu,
whatever name query you ran will be limited to only those names
that are primary contacts on any rollup list of jobs. This is very
good for contacting people based on jobs or attributes of jobs.
Please note that only new jobs will have this feature; unless you
go back to the job orders and re select the primary contact, PCR
will not have the full identity of the contact.
Also new is that all activities will default to "copy to company
activities" rather than requiring a check. This should ease
the clicks for people who want company activities to accumulate.
In the name and job associations table ("the race cars"
icon), the persons title is now part of the data grid. You may also
add people to rollup lists from those screens.
Some MAPI mail systems have been using new message forms that do
not include the user's autosignature feature. If you have a mail
system that was doing this, you may add an autosignature to SYSTEM
TAB/OPTIONS/Email Autosignature.
Also on that OPTIONS button, you may select your own folder where
you wish the "Set Word Doc" function (on the Resume file
menu screen) to place linked resumes.
We have improved the area code global change tool (on SYSTEM TAB)
so that you may add as many exchanges as you would like (separate
them with commas) to run against an area code. Although this is
not fully automated, it does allow each owner to bulk update via
batch jobs against their data.
Most firms make a shared document somewhere and note the changes
as they come up, and once a month or so, they run the global change
job. A fully automated solution should be appearing at some point.
A new feature on the company screen is the ability to add a company
stock symbol and have it link to Yahoo! Finance. We used the division
field for this. The division field is most often now covered by
the associations table and the HQ/Subsidiary label. If you are using
the division field, you may continue to as normal, but you will
not get the symbol feature. It now says division/symbol.
Main Sequence has been devoting energy to further development of
both the Windows version and the web version of PCR. Because the
versions use the same back end databases, you may use whichever
(or both) version makes more sense for you.
The Web version now has rich text, form letters, and much more
functionality than ever before.
If your firm has thought of a web based solution, many ASP's or
Main Sequence can host your PCRecruiter data for access via the
browser version of PCR. There are also technologies that can allow
the Windows version to run inside a browser if you have a high speed
Internet connection. Please contact us for details.
And of course, back up that data. No excuses! Its bad for you not
to backup and it's not even fun like most bad things are!
Access users; find your data file(s) in the about box, and copy
them to another computer, a tape, CD, or any other durable media.
SQL Users, look at those BAK files (and if you don't know what
that is or where they are, you should..) and check the dates and
sizes. Make sure you are getting a BAK file and it's in a safe location.
All users; save some older backups from time to time if you ever
want to be able to look back at the data at that point in time.
You never know when you might want to do that !
The continuing high quality of PCR user ideas is keeping PCRecruiter
growing and is a major asset. Please keep those ideas flowing. The
other Windows software providers are all going web only; PCRecruiter
will be the best of both and you are the reason why.
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