With this release, you can now edit any information attached to a candidate's application form. This includes all of the fields submitted by the candidate or even adding your own information during the selection process.
If you edit the email attached to the application, we will automatically detect if there are matching applications and merge them together into one candidate profile.
You can now reorder listings straight from the Listings page, just tap on the little ↕ Reorder button. This will affect how your listings are ordered on the public page of your organization. Additionally, if you are connecting to Along using our API, it will also affect the order there.
We added two key features that will help you manage your candidate database even easier!
You might stumble upon a candidate that you really like while going through some old applications, but perhaps not have added them to your Saved Candidates list. Now, you can easily tap on the ••• dots and add that candidate to any active listing.
On the other hand, a candidate might apply to a job listing, but it seems like they're a better fit for a different position. With this update, you can easily move them over to another active listing. This will copy over all of the existing feedback and comments from your team so you don't lose any valuable information.
When deleting a candidate, you now have two options. You can either delete it permanently or move it to a Deleted stage in your hiring cycle. This way, you can delete a candidate from your system fully or keep them for any future reference and reporting.
We've also tidied up the user experience around deleting applications, candidates, and listings.
After you publish a listing, there's a few ways you can get that listing in front of potential employees. You can use our API, embed the application form, or just link to your public careers page on Along.With this latest update, you can also link to a special link that will show potential employees just your application form. If you want to use this, just append /form to the URL of your job listing.
Leaving scorecards is something you do on a daily basis. Bearing that in mind, we've made some nice updates so that it's much smoother.
We're working hard on bringing you a way to email candidates directly from Along and get their replies also inside of Along! In the meantime, you can now...
You don't always have to start from scratch! With our latest update, you can now duplicate your existing listings or any drafts you have. Just tap on the ••• for a listing or draft and select "Duplicate".
This will pop open the "New Listing" flow with all relevant fields copied and pre-filled from the listing, so you can edit it before publishing.
Hopefully, this will speed up your editing process.
We love any piece of feedback you have and it's hugely important to us. Previously, you could email us and we'd get back to you. You can still do that, but now you can also tap the 💬 help button in the main navigation and have a chat with us through Intercom. We'll get back to you as soon as possible!
Ever come across a candidate who's a great fit but not for the current position you're looking to fill? Or perhaps you see future potential in that person? Say hello to "Saved Candidates", a feature designed to make talent retention easier for you.
Now, when reviewing applications for any job listing, you can save candidates to a dedicated 'Saved' list. This allows you to easily reference and reach out to them for future opportunities, ensuring you never lose track of standout applicants. Find this new feature under each candidate's profile and start building your talent pool today!
Before diving head-first into a big new feature (✉️ 📥 📫 👀), we spent a week or so just going through Along and fixing small bugs, tightening a few things here and there, dusting off dropdowns and fields.
Comments are the backbone of any discussion inside of Along, so we spent some time polishing and improving your commenting experience, specifically how you attach files. You can now drag-and-drop multiple documents into any comment field inside of Along.
Additionally, we’ve polished up the UI for the commenting experience, added better indicators while you’re dragging files into Along, and fixed some small issues when editing comments.
As an applicant tracking system, it's a given you'll spend a lot of your time reviewing CV's, portfolios, cover letters, etc. Those have previously opened in a new tab, but today we're launching an update for a better file viewing experience. View PDFs, spreadsheets, slides, and more!
And this is just the beginning, as we're constantly working on improving and streamlining your workflow inside of Along.
At launch, we decided that the user experience we had when editing workflows for published listings was... *meh*. We made a promise to ourselves to fix that as soon as possible. As it turns out, that "as soon as possible" is today. Four months later. 🙈
As of today, you can edit the workflow for a listing even after it has been published.
We know how important it is to organize and segment your candidates effectively. To help you out, we’re introducing a new feature: labels for candidates. Whether it's by skill, experience, or any other criteria that matter to you, you can now leave customized labels on candidates.
You can manage these labels under Settings → Careers → Labels.
It's crucial to remember why a candidate wasn't the right fit for your team. Now, you can record specific reasons when rejecting candidates. It brings clarity between your team members during a selection and helps out when someone applies to a different job listing in the future.
You can manage the rejection reasons for your company under Settings → Careers → Rejection Reasons. In addition, you can choose whether leaving a reason is mandatory when rejecting a candidate.
You now have the power to specify which email notifications you want to receive, so you only receive updates that matter to you. Whether it's about new job listings, comments, or daily and weekly summaries, you're in control!
We’ve previously worked on generating images for your job listings on the public careers page. We have now improved upon that with better layouts and speedier generation of these images.
You don’t need to do anything, just share your job listings around and they’ll be displayed with beautiful cover art reflecting who you’re looking for.
Browse and move through Along easier and faster than ever! Just tap on the "Search for anything..." box in the navigation bar (or press `Ctrl + K` / `⌘ + K` on your keyboard) and type away.
Easily find candidates, listings, and people from your company, and jump straight to that page. Also, navigate to any of the other pages inside of Along or toggle commands, like switching on dark mode instantly.
We'll be expanding the things you can search for and navigate to as we build in more things into Along.
Every person who applies to one of your job listings now has a dedicated candidate page of their own. On this page, you can see all of their job applications and more details about them.
Additionally, if a person applied one or more times, that is now visible on all of their applications.
We'll be building more functionality on top of the candidate page in the future, so stay tuned! We hope this makes it easier to manage your candidate database.
With this new update, it’s easier to navigate between applications via the persistent floating bar at the bottom of the screen when reviewing candidates. With the floating bar, you can easily see the names of the previous and next candidate, and navigate between them. See whether you left a score, and if you didn’t – you can!
Your organization administrators, and/or the HR department, can see the current stage of that candidate, and can easily move the candidate between stages.
You can now automatically (or even automagically) create beautiful images for your organization and your listings when someone shares them to social networks or to a friend. The images include the name of your organization, the cover photo, your branding colors, and details on the listing.
We’ve gotten some feedback that the publishing flow for a listing was a tad too complicated. And we felt that! So we went back to the drawing board and came up with a new way to publish listings that we hope is much, much nicer. It’s now extremely clear what each publishing option means and where your listing will end up.
You can now delete drafts! Alongside that, the drafts page is spruced up a bit and you can now continue more easily where you left off, preview a draft, or delete it if you’re not happy with it.
Apart from just linking to a privacy policy on your website, you can now generate a privacy policy using our template. Under “Settings → Careers → Privacy” simply fill out basic legal information about your company and Along will generate a privacy policy that is automatically shared with candidates when they apply to one of your job listings.
We’re continuously working on new things and improving existing ones. We’d love for you to have a say in what we’re building next.
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