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Mandatory Tags in Mercury are a great way of making it mandatory for users to apply specific tags to Candidate or Client contacts based on a variety of data points such as Location, Work Status or Specialism.
 
Enabling this functionality significantly adds to the power of Mercury Search allowing you to filter by the Tags applied.
 
If your organisation has enabled Mandatory Tags then you should contact your system administrator if you aren't sure how you should be tagging Candidate and Client contacts.   
 
Mandatory tags are displayed on the General tag of the Contact record. The tags that are mandatory are noted with a red * and what's available to choose from has been defined by your organisation: 
 
 

Tags are still available in the regular place for Candidates on the Experience tab:
 
 

Client Contacts tags are still available on the As a Client Contact tab:
 
 

Tags applied to Contact records are all then available to filter your searches within the Mercury Search tool:
 
 
 

Mandatory Tags on a Vacancy

What

Within a Vacancy, mandatory Tags can be added to any new or existing Vacancies to allow greater ways to screen Candidates.
 

Where

Home > Vacancies > select your View > click into a Vacancy record > click the Skills & Tags tab
 

How

1. Access an existing Vacancy record and from there click into the Skills & Tags tab:


 


2. Then from within Skills & Tags, the facility to add a Mandatory Tag can be found by clicking the ellipsis icon:



3. From here, a look-up menu will open up allowing users to search for all available Tags or they can type in a specific value:








4. Once a Tag has been found, users can then add the Tag to the Vacancy. If a relevant Tag is not available, you can add a new one via the New Tag feature. Once the Tag has been applied, it can then be found within the Skills & Tags area:


 


 

 
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