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With email being the primary source of receiving CVs and the diary being vital for consultants to stay on top of their daily tasks, we recognise it is even more important that your email and diary work in parallel with your Chameleon-i account.

We have now made it possible for you to seamlessly track and store all email and diary activity with our Gmail and Google Calendar Synchronisation Module. The Chameleon-i email and diary integrate with Gmail enabling you to track email and diary communications whilst storing them automatically i

It’s that time of year again and both the roads and offices are a little quieter. The summer holidays are here and this notoriously slow part of the year can be quite frustrating with most teams and HR missing important players for two weeks or more.

This can be a frustrating period for those of us who are left behind, and although it has a lot of advantages – cheaper holidays later in the year, a shorter commute, it does mean you end up working during the slowest period and may find there isn’t much to do! This is especially noticeab

Surrey-based Recruitment Software Provider Chameleon-i has partnered with OneUp Sales, a leader in gamified enterprise technologies as it looks to expand the functionality of its cloud-based recruitment software solution.

OneUp Sales utilises the traditional elements of game design mechanics and techniques, applying these to the non-gaming world of recruitment to create an all-in-one activity management solution.

David Egan, Managing Director, Chameleon-i says: “Partnering with OneUp Sales is another step in the

When you find a potentially interesting candidate for a role you are recruiting, whether they are someone you find online or someone who is already on your recruitment database, but who you haven’t personally spoken to, you are obviously going to be keen to get them on the phone and pitch the job to them. What many recruiters forget when contacting new candidates for the first time is just how many recruitment agents an acti

As a recruiter, you see more CVs than just about any other professional and have a pretty good idea about what works and what doesn’t. However, one thing many managers find surprising when they are hiring for a new role is the low quality of the writing and layout of the CVs of even quite senior and experienced people. As one manager in the IT industry once told me, ‘Don’t people get taught how to do this in school anymore?’.

Well, whether they do or not, there is plenty of advice online from professional writers and employers about ho

We have just released an update to our data cleansing tools.

Chameleon-i enables you to search your client and candidate database for missed duplicates based on either their Full Name, Email address or a Mobile Number as criteria.

Simply Press the new ‘Get Duplicates’ button in the client or candidate grid to open the search popup. Select your criteria and specify a basket name.

Click the ‘Find Duplicates’ button.

This will create a basket and populate it with any duplicates found ready for you to merge/delete where r

Want to send single SMS text messages or bulk SMS text messages directly through Chameleon-i? You can, we have partnered with Icetrak to offer this discreet but effective type of communication.

[columns][column]2-Way or 1-Way SMS text messaging
For occasions when you don’t need to have a conversation with the candidate and just want a simple text back reply the 2-way service is ideal. Replies get routed back to the consultant’s email and importantly, also stored on the corresponding Chameleon-i record. If you don’t want or need text

The majority of teams have a weekly slot where they get together and have an update meeting, with even remote workers often dialling in to touch base with everybody else. However, these meetings seem to vary between different workplaces from being motivating, efficient and useful, to being a weekly drag that everybody tries to get out of so they can get on with what they were doing. It is really important for teams to have regular sessions together and a weekly team meeting can be a very good idea, but it is just as important to ensure that

For several years now it has seemed like every piece of marketing advice you can find insists that every business has a Facebook page and a Twitter account, for the purposes of that dark art known as ‘social media marketing’. On the face of it, this makes a lot of sense – after all having a Facebook page is free, and just about everyone you want to market to as a recruiter is on Facebook – likewise Twitter. However, if you have been using these social networks as part of your marketing strategy for some time now as a free tool by posting con

When it comes to the requirements on job descriptions, those of us who have seen enough candidates placed without meeting the exact ‘mandatory’ requirements for educational qualifications or years of experience know that there are certain things that can be taken with a pinch of salt – they are ‘nice to haves’ rather than essentials that the employer absolutely must see on every CV they’ll consider. However, candidates can often be less experienced in working out what is really important on a job spec, and listing something like a Master’s d