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We are really pleased to announce the release of Focus Search & Selection’s new responsive website.

Focus Search & Selection is a UK-based recruitment consultancy, they specialise in recruiting across a number of verticals including:

• Legal & Financial
• Wealth Sector
• Intermediary Life and Pensions sector
• Business Finance sector
• Insurance Sector
• Mortgages (Including Intermediary) Sector
• Pharmaceutical and Bio Science sector
• Construction Sector

Focus Search & Selection pride

Now that the holidays have well and truly passed and everyone’s back at work, It’s time to really start planning about what this year holds for your agency. Most of you are probably aware that this is set to be a record year in recruitment, and the industry is continually growing at a brilliant rate. To help you capitalize on this, we’ve come up with a few resolutions to consider for your agency to help you stay ahead and reach your potential. They’re also a lot easier than spending more time down the Gym!

1. A new look.

Chameleon-i grid searches for Clients and Candidates had a new search term addition, in the form of the ‘Sounds Like’ option in the criteria drop-down list.

You can use ‘Sounds Like’ to widen your search criteria for example: looking for the contact forename ‘Dave’ with this option will return results back such as ‘David’ or ‘Davy’. It’s a good way to get back results which include and allow for nicknames, shortened names, partial names in order to save you time and trouble in finding that elusive cont

Today we had a couple of reports from Chameleon-i users that our Outlook plugin had been disabled on the launch of Outlook 2010.

Further investigation revealed that the issue related to users applying the December update KB3114409 for Outlook 2010, Outlook 2010 may as a result only start in Safe Mode disabling plugins and extensions. Microsoft is aware of this issue and has pulled the update as a result.

Symptoms you may

Did you know you can seamlessly track all email and diary activity in Chameleon-i?

With email being the primary source of receiving CV’s and your diary being vital to stay on top of your daily tasks, we recognised it is even more important that your Outlook email and diary works in parallel with Chameleon-i.

Find out more in our article Make life easier with e-mail and diary integration.

How it works, your Outlook and Chameleon-i email and diary integrate

1. Write your opinions. Sounds obvious doesn’t it? People like blogs because they are written by people and not corporations so make sure you make your opinion known. Don’t fall into the trap of descriptive writing where you are not actually expressing your opinion, just giving a version of events.

2. Write with the reader in mind. Ensure your key audience is being catered for by keeping it on topic. Remember WIIFM, marketing jargon for What’s In It For Me? Your reader will read your post looking for w

Remember, to keep all your data safe and secure we recommend that you regularly change your Chameleon-i user password.

If you’re one of our users whose passwords look like “9RxkU55zxwinner,” you can go ahead and leave it. If your password looks like “1234567890” or “qwerty” or “yourname,” it’s time to change your ways.

When setting a new password we recommend that it is a minimum of 12 characters long, it should contain a mixture of numbers, letters and capital letters to make sure it is secure.

Avoid these passwords, they

If you are looking for reports containing customised data sets, Chameleon-i is now able to produce bespoke reports for your agency.

These reports contain the data stored in each record type within your database. You select the data including tags you wish each report to contain and we will create the template.

To use your reports add the records to your basket, press the ‘Download Excel’ button and select the report from your list. Now click ‘Generate Report’, this will download the report over the internet ready to open via Exce

New Fields and a Red Dot appear in Candidate records…

Transportation
License Type
Visa Type
Visa Expires (Date)
Nationality

As part of the new temps system build we have deployed a number of new fields within the candidate record. These fields include a number of drop down lists currently defaulting to the UK values, these will become customisable to take into account regional variations shortly.

The ‘Red Dot’ that many users have asked about today is connect to a new Temps Compliance section in Chameleon-i.