This article will look at the ATS dashboard, and how to create a vacancy.
ATS Dashboard
The Dashboard/Overview is the first tab in the ATS, it is the first displayed when you go to ATS. This provides the number of vacancies that are active at the moment and also shows the total number of applicants (accepted, rejected, and new) within the active vacancies. These figures do NOT include applicants within closed, archived, draft, or pending vacancies.
Creating a vacancy
1. Go into the ATS tab on the left-hand side.
2. Select the 2nd tab at the bottom - here is a list of all vacancies.
3. Click on the '+' plus icon.
4. You will be taken to the 'Vacancy Details' tab first.
Give the vacancy a name. Unless adding a specific job title in the 'Job Information' tab, this will be the name of the vacancy shown to potential applicants.
Instead of filling out all details manually, you can use the 'Copy From' tool to quickly import from existing vacancies and edit from there.
Summary - Information you add in the 'Summary' text box will be presented if you choose to post the job link on social media.
Specify a company, location, and department for this job role.
Status - you are unable to change this until the vacancy has been saved for the first time.
Vacancy type - All vacancies on set as External are publicly available and can be found on your job board. Internal vacancies will not be posted anywhere unless manually actioned by yourself or another user with access to this vacancy.
Add a closing date - this is optional.
You can edit the vacancy reference to suit your internal processes.
Add any comments about this vacancy - this information is not displayed publicly.
5. Next is the 'Approvers' tab
Specify Hiring Leads for this vacancy. For more on what this is please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/applicant-tracking-system-ats/hiring-lead
Add a Job Approver - once this vacancy has been saved, a notification would be sent to the Job Approver to authorise this vacancy.
Add Offer Approvers - an applicant will have to be approved by this user before being moved to the 'Accepted' stage and added as an employee.
6. 'Job Information' tab
If not blank, this will be the name of the vacancy. If blank, the vacancy will be displayed as the vacancy name in the first tab.
Enter details of salary range if necessary - optional.
Specify experience if required - optional.
Specify a City and Country. Although optional fields, this is mandatory if you wish to utilise our integration with Glassdoor and Indeed job boards. For more information on this area, please see:http://help.peoplehr.com/applicant-tracking-system-ats/indeed-and-glassdoor-integration
Use our rich text editor to write out the job description. You can also add files and images into the editor.
7. 'Questions' tab
You can select whether or not you wish for a covering letter and/or CV to be uploaded.
Turn ON = making it mandatory for an applicant to upload a covering letter and/or CV.
Turn OFF = removing the option for an applicant to upload a covering letter and/or CV.
Upload application form - here you can upload a blank application form. When a candidate applies, they have the option to download this, fill out the details, and re-upload.
Source - This is the drop-down list of what an applicant can select as their source of where they applied or heard about the vacancy. You can select 'Manage This List' to add, edit or delete an option.
For information on all the different question types you can create and how, please see the article: http://help.peoplehr.com/applicant-tracking-system-ats/ats-question-types
Please note! Once a vacancy has been created and made live, no changes should be made to any of the question types (adding or editing). Existing and future applicant records may be affected otherwise.
Quick Tip: If questions may be the same or very similar to those in a different vacancy, flick back to the first tab of creating a vacancy and use the 'Copy From' tool. This will import all vacancy information from another vacancy, you can then edit the specifics from there.
8. 'Scorecards' tab
This is the scorecard that will be available to fill out in each of the applicant's record who has applied for this vacancy.
This area will already have your default scorecard, but you may want to edit this specific to the vacancy.
To learn more about Scorecards, please see the specific article: http://help.peoplehr.com/applicant-tracking-system-ats/scorecards
9. 'Notifications' tab
Select who you wish to receive weekly ATS reports via email. On what this includes, please see: http://help.peoplehr.com/applicant-tracking-system-ats/ats-weekly-ats-recap
You can then specify who should receive a single notification via email every time an applicant enters a certain stage. You can only select someone who is a hiring lead to that vacancy.
Select the frequency of these notifications - Immediate or Daily.
Once all information has been added, click 'Save'.
When you first create a vacancy and click 'Save', you won't find this vacancy in the Active list right away - vacancies will be saved as a draft (unless pending and waiting for approval).
You will first need to use the 'Status' filter and select 'Draft':
From here, you can click back into the vacancy and select the status to show as 'Active' - please refer to the below screenshot:
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Product Team