Source of applicants

If the company regularly recruits applicants from many different sources such as applying directly, using the recruitment website or social networks, etc. It’s essential to track and manage these recruitment sources to help you find which sources are really effective and focus the strategy on them.

Requirements

This tutorial requires the installation of the following applications/modules:

With Recruitment app, the above tasks can be done easily and give you accurate measurement results at once.

Settings of Applicants Sources

To set up the Source of Applicants feature, you have to activate the Developer mode at first.

After successful activation, navigate to Recruitment module > Configuration > Sources of Applicants > Create and fulfil the following information as:

Create a source of applicants
  • Source: enter the source name, such as: a survey, Facebook, Twitter, apply directly, etc.

  • Job: enter the Job Position/Title is recruited through this source.

Click on Save button.

Save the source of applicants

Then, click on Generate Email button and an email for receiving applications is auto-generated after that. If you mention the email on the recruitment posts on Facebook, recruitment websites, etc. the system will automatically identify and classify the source of its applicant when an application is submitted.

Generate email Generated email from Viindoo system

Management of Applicants Sources

The sources of applicants can be generated automatically when a candidate submits his/her application to the above email or from the company’s jobs site. However, you can also enter these sources manually.

Source on its application

Using the filters and grouping on the applications list helps you know which source the applicants come from and the number of applicants.

Group applicants by sources