This Does That?
Who - What - When
The Haystack
Sounds the Same
SonicSummit
2010
100
You configure these emails by: 1. Selecting the status that triggers them 2. Selecting the email template to be sent 3. Selecting the recipient choosing from the recruiter, hiring manager or applicant.
What are Auto Emails?
100
These reports are the newest addition to the Report Builder inside SonicRecruit.
What are Vendor Reports?
100
These job specific questions are effective in discouraging under-qualified applicants from hitting the submit button while they collect meaningful data for those who do hit submit.
What are Pre-Screening Questions?
100
This is the configuration screen where you can set up and update much of the automation in SonicRecruit OR Roy Roger's horse.
What is Trigger?
100
This improvement coming to Prescreening Questions allows you to give more value to one question and less value to another question - on a job to job basis - without having to create more questions or change the ranking of answers in existing questions.
What are Weighted Pre-Screening Questions?
200
This automated email is sent to the under-qualified applicant after they apply. It gently lets them know that they are not being considered for the position. Last year at the Summit we announced the ability to delay this email.
What is a delayed Pre-Screening Knockout letter?
200
This under-utilized report uses the funnel method to calculate both the number of days between statuses and the applicant fallout from first application to final destination.
What is the Bottleneck Report?
200
This career page enhancement can cut down on the number of phone calls and emails you get by allowing applicants to see where they stand. It helps dispel the black hole feeling that can happen with online applications. Used with auto emails this feature gives the applicant reassurance and helps your employment brand grow stronger.
What is Public Status?
200
With this easy to use metric you can track recruiter performance right from your home page in SonicRecruit OR on a soccer field you can score a point with this.
What is a Goal?
200
This best practice is designed to increase the number of applicants by making the initial application process quick and easy. It decreases dropoff due to its two phase application process. Also a form of gradual engagement as discussed by Jason in his presentation yesterday.
What are the Short Application and the Long Application?
300
This online form can be sent to anyone with an email address. The answers go into the resume profile, can be easily turned into a PDF document, and will soon be reportable.
What is a Feedback Form?
300
Introduced in 2008, this reporting tool allows you to set your own criteria and output. You can even change the order of your output columns after you add them.
What is the Report Builder?
300
This Sonic tool helps cut down the volume of applicants on your entry level jobs by allowing you to close postings without setting a calendar reminder.
What is Auto Close?
300
A very foul odor OR a position in within a society or organization OR the score that an applicant receives when they apply online to a job with Pre-screening questions.
What is rank.
300
This is the only Sonic job board partner that provides both free job postings and pay-per-click advertising. As a bonus you never need to assemble a batch!
What is Indeed.com?
400
Introduced in 2009, this added column in your all and my jobs screens allows you to share your jobs with others in your professional community or circle of friends.
What is the Share column or Social Networking?
400
This report, like the statistical report, calculates and returns the time to fill on filled jobs.
What is the Historical Job report?
400
Introduced just this year, we removed this requirement from the applicant search page allowing you more flexibility in your searches.
What is the keyword
400
An effective way to communicate with your applicants using these templates OR something that drivers sometimes don't do very well while texting.
What is merge?
400
This tool or technique is used to summarize and analyze spreadsheet data; making your SonicRecruit excel reports more meaningful and powerful and making you look like an excel wizard.
What are Pivot Tables?
500
This new feature is an enhancement to an old feature. They used to be permanent, now they can be removed.
What are color stamps?
500
This is the reporting mistake that probably everyone in this room has made at least one time. Your first clue is it's missing all of your custom fields.
What is forgetting to click on the GO button!
500
You can create these in configure. They allow you to search your applicant database using your unlimited custom fields as criteria.
What are search packages?
500
The latest greatest way to advertise your jobs OR what kids generally don't do very well.
What is share?
500
44%
What was the percentage of underqualified applicants in the opening video montage on CHANGE?
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