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 > +New and type the name of the source:

Create a source of applicants

Click on Save button.

Save the source of applicants

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:

Create email for sources

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.

Create email for sources press generate email

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.

new email for candidates

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