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When you run your own agency, whatever your location, size or niche, being a figure in the local business community really pays dividends. From awareness of your brand to useful networking opportunities, being a company that people in your local business scene are used to seeing or hearing about in a positive light can offer a lot of invaluable benefits, but it isn’t always easy to build your profile when you are a new company or have opened a location in a new area.

One of the best and easiest ways to gain opportunities to increase yo

If you’re planning to head off on holiday in the near future, then you may well be looking forward to a well earned break from the hectic world of recruitment. It is absolutely essential to use your holidays to relax and have fun to avoid the intense periods at work causing you to burn out or lose motivation, and so whether you are going far away or just having some nice time off at home, you want to make sure you’ve set everything up so you’ll have no need to worry about work until you return.

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Working from home is becoming a more and more common option for professionals in all kinds of fields, and in recruitment, it certainly isn’t unusual. If you’ve recently decided, or been given the opportunity to work from home some or all of the time, at first it can seem like the best idea ever – no more time or money wasted on commuting, the ability to work more flexibly, and of course, the lack of obligation to wear proper clothes every morning. However, if you’ve never worked from home before, you may find it a little different to how you

South Downs Resourcing are an independent technical building services recruitment consultancy.

They operate throughout the UK, specialising in providing consultative and cost effective staffing solutions to the BMS & HVAC markets work in partnership with some of the UK’s leading maintenance contractors, Trend technology centres, systems integrators and consultancies.

South Downs Resourcing website includes the following functionality: –

• Candidates Registration and Login
• Vacancy Posting
• Vacancy Searc

We have released a couple of product updates within the Chameleon-i tagging system.

Tag Search.
A new search function has been released enabling you to quickly search/filter your tags removing the need to look manually. The search works across all 3 tag tiers. You will need to expand the tiers by pressing the + icon to view all results.

Automatic Upward tagging.
There is now an option, set within the Tags tab in your administration panel to automatically tag Tier1 and Tier2 tags when Tier 3

The Offer Action Wizard now allows you to record the offer details as part of the action when an offer is made.

You can also record the potential fee and offer information while completing the Offer action.

Once you have selected the Offer Action in the candidate shortlist, click the new ‘Offer/Note Txt’ Button.

Complete the information on the form that pops up.

For further information visit our Support Ce

Vacancies – The Shortlist Status

You can now specify and view the Shortlist Status of your candidates per vacancy, via the Shortlist tab in Vacancy records.

In the Status column you have a drop down list associated with each candidate. By default we have set the options to WF CA (Waiting for Candidate) and WF CL (Waiting for Client).

You can edit the Shortlist Status options you require with lists in your Admin panel.

You can only remove statuses that has been added by your agency, not the system defa

We have updated the way the Block Bulk Email and Block Bulk SMS Function works within the Chameleon-i marketing features.

Historically, to prevent sending bulk communications to specific clients or candidates users would create a specific note type within the record, this obviously took a couple of clicks to perform.

To simplify this process and make the data more visible to the user we have replaced these 2 specific note types with simple tick boxes in both the Client and Candidate records.

A New tab in Chameleon-i records now shows the baskets a record is currently in for easy reference.

We are now well and truly in the digital age, and Social Media is now one of the most important tools that a recruiter can have. From professional sites such as LinkedIn, through to more personal profiles such as Twitter, Social Media is a multibillion pound industry that when used effectively can advertise your agency and gain candidates!

Chameleon-i’s RSS Feed can assist your Social Media presence, whether you don’t know the difference between a Retweet and a Like, or if your Klout is high and you know all the Peak-times and #Trends,