myStaffingPro News and UpdatesSometimes I wear another hat – I am a co-owner of a local coffee house and cafe with approximately 20 employees. The coffee house, The Meeting Place on Market, benefits greatly from the use of myStaffingPro. For just $60/month, we use the myStaffingPro Express system to administer our hiring process the following way:
Walk-ins requesting a job [...]
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At a Microsoft Convergence trade show a couple weeks ago, we were often asked, “What is applicant tracking, anyway?”
Loosely, applicant tracking is how your organization keeps track of resumes, applications, EEO data, and any other data required within the hiring process. An applicant tracking system (ATS), is software designed to automate your organization’s applicant tracking [...]
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Congratulations, you have finally found an applicant that you want to hire! Thankfully, you are now able to move forward to the offer approval process that may include:
Defining the offer
Contacting the appropriate people to approve the offer
Creating the offer letter
Sending the offer letter to the applicant
Manually completing the offer approval process can be a daunting [...]
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“The Big Easy” provided the perfect background for the Microsoft Convergence conference. The overwhelming theme of the conference was “giving back” with a Monday volunteer activity and several “green” initiatives applied throughout. Although the economy may have kept some at home, the conference still had a lot of buzz and a great turnout.
From the exhibit [...]
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A good online application is like an interview in the way that it educates the applicant about the company and about the position being posted. There are several steps that are needed to make an application a success for the applicant as well as for the company creating the job application.
- Incorporate a Welcome Message [...]
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A recent article about employers requiring applicants to jump through hoops to apply online caused a colleague and I to “take sides” on the applicant experience versus the employer experience.
Applicant Advocate: “I think applying online can be painful and frustrating. Everyone’s process is a little different, it’s time consuming, and taking some of those assessments [...]
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In time for Convergence, myStaffingPro® has released version 2.9 of its popular Microsoft® Dynamics GP integration.
New features in the 2.9 version include:
- The ability to choose when and if to export a requisition and its applicants to Microsoft Dynamics GP
- A new Microsoft Dynamics GP administration section on the requisition. The new section provides details on the integration’s status, the date/time [...]
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