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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Chrome have released a new version (45) which unfortunately has a knock on effect on our current Autorec Droploader plugin.
Chrome has taken the decision to no longer support Java and NPAPI plugins in version 45 which unfortunately our current Autorec feature uses.
To combat this we have developed a new solution using HTML5 which will be deployed this evening. This change will be automatic and will be available tomorrow when you login to Chameleon-i via the Chrome browser.
If you wish to continue using the current version o
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Introducing Fee Catcher our latest integrated partner.
Recruiters today miss £1,000,000,000 (one billion!) in fees every year because they don’t keep track of all submitted candidates.
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| 5 Reasons why an RSS Feed is a must-have… |
3. Feed vacancies to social media. |

| Top 10 Tips to kickstart your social media | ||
| 1. Start small. Pick a platform to start with and grow from there. Everyone wants thousands of followers, hits and fans on multiple social media channels but it takes time to develop a fan base and they may not all work for you. Start with one and ensure that you spend time on it and build on the ones that are working f | ||

Keeping your data clean, consistent and up to date.
Data quality is the essence of any good CRM database system. Its quality will help to return consistent, accurate and relevant search results, although it is no small task to always keep large amounts of data clean and relevant for your consultants to use.
Taking time to clean your data is a worthwhile activity saving time and improving efficiency in the long term by minimising time spent reviewing search results.
Chameleon-i has a number of features that wil
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Seamlessly track all email and diary activity with our integrated Microsoft Exchange module.
With email being the primary source of receiving CV’s and the diary being vital for consultants to stay on top of their busy daily tasks, we recognise it is even more important that your email and diary works in parallel with your Chameleon-i account.
Our email and Diary integrates with Microsoft Exchange enabling you to track all email and diary communications and store them automatically in the associated candidate or client record.
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