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:

Recruitment

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 > +New and type the name of the source:

Click on Save button.

Configure the mechanism of auto-recording the applicants’ sources¶

Through the specific email of each source¶

Navigate to the dashboard of Recruiment, press to the configuration area of each job position, choose Trackers:

On the interface, you press New button to create a new source, and then click on Generate Email in order to create an email for candidates.

In which:

Source: Choose the created source in the list.

Job: The job position.

Url Parameters: The system will auto-generate a specific url the position that correspond with the source. It mean each source of each job position will have one specific url.

Email: You can press the Generate Email button to generate an email for posting it in other recruiment websites.

Through the Link tracker¶

To see the Link tracker app, you have to activate the Developer mode at first. Then, navigate the app Link Tracker, press New to create a new link tracker:

Fulfill the information as following:

Page Title: Input the name of page;
Target URL: Input the target url of page.

Campaign: Choose the suitable campain;
Medium: Choose the medium that will be recorded if applicants apply through the tracked url;
Source: Choose the source that will be recorded if applicants apply through the tracked url;
Tracked URL: The system will generate a specific tracked url for the targe url. So, you can post this tracked url in any website to recruite applicants.

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.

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