Until today viewing Entelo profiles required hub-and-spoke navigation. First you went to a collection of candidates (a set of search results or a list), then you drilled down to a profile. To view the next one you went back to the search or the list, then on to the next profile. It wasn't possible to view them sequentially.
Lists are one of Entelo's most popular features, and we've received a lot of great customer feedback on how to make them more powerful and easier to use. Many of these suggestions have recently made it into Entelo. Here's a overview of some of the things you can do with lists:
A common pattern on Entelo is to first to cast a wide net, and then add more specific terms and additional filters until your search returns a crafted set of candidates who match your requirements.
You can now indicate if an Entelo profile has been viewed, or if you've contacted the candidate, and organize and sort profiles based on those actions.
Most searches on Entelo tend to be for skills ("Ruby on Rails," "Java"), positions ("VP Marketing"), or both ("senior developer PHP"). But a significant minority are a name, where the searcher is looking for a specific person ("Larry Page").
Welcome to This Week in Work for Friday, September 21, 2012. A compendium of recent stories on hiring, human resources, company culture, and our professional lives.
Welcome to This Week in Work, a compendium of recent stories on hiring, human resources, company culture, and our professional lives.
An engineer's perspective on sourcing engineers.
At best, engineers view recruiters as a necessary evil. At worst they consider them leeches, sucking cash from hapless clients while adding little value. As with so many troubled relationships, miscommunication is a big part of the problem. Here are some tips to help you woo engineers, from someone who's been on the receiving end of many, many pitches.