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A guide to including candidate preferences and properties in your registration forms and why this is important.
As candidates are registering with your business, its great to get as much data upfront as possible, without boring the candidate by asking them to answer too many questions and upload masses of documents. This article will talk you through two of the key areas you should look to include on your registration forms - preferences and properties.
- Adding preference questions to your registration forms
- Making sure your system has the right preferences set up
Preferences
It is important that you update each candidate's disciplines, location and speciality at the point of registration. This information is used throughout the system to create accurate searches and meaningful potential matches.
Adding Preference Questions to Your Registration Forms
Open the Website tab in the top left hand corer of Firefish and click into Candidate Registration. From here you can click into either Web Registration or Advert Application, depending on where you would like to add the preference questions.
You should then select the page you would like to add the questions to which shows on the left hand side (most sites will only have one page). You can then scroll to the bottom of the page and select Add New.
In order to set up a preference based question you should select 'Preferences' as the Data Field, then the discipline option you are adding to the form.
Make sure to give a title to the question using the Question field, and to mark it as Mandatory so that you can be certain your candidate's will answer the questions when they register with you.
It is also important that you copy these steps on the Manual Registration from which is accessible via settings (cog) > People Configuration > Manual Registration.
Making Sure Your System Has The Right Preferences Set Up
Your preferences should already be set up, but if you need to amend the existing list then you can go to settings (cog), then into System Configuration. From here you can select Drop Downs, then Preferences on the left hand side.
You can then choose between Disciplines & Roles, Locations and Specialisation. To add a new option, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Add New.
Properties
Our candidate registration methods are crucial to ensure that as recruiters we are capturing the data we require to successfully screen and review candidates. For many recruiters it is important to have up-to-date and accurate records of your candidate's employment and education history, as well as a note of which certifications and professional memberships that they hold.
Adding property based questions to your registration forms
Open the Website tab in the top right hand corer of Firefish and click into Candidate Registration. From here you can click into either Web Registration or Advert Application.
You should then select the page you would like to add the questions to which shows on the left hand side (most sites will only have one page). You can then scroll to the bottom of the page and select Add New.
In order to set up a preference based question you should select 'Profile' as the Data Field, then you can select the property you are looking for.
Make sure to give a title to the question using the Question field, and to mark it as Mandatory so that you can be certain your candidate's will answer the questions when they register with you.
It is also important that you copy these steps on the Manual Registration from which is accessible via settings (cog) > People Configuration > Manual Registration.
For more guidance on setting up your candidate registration forms, see this article.