Shortlist Board - Candidate Shortlists

What

From a Shortlist, move a Candidate through the recruitment process from a Vacancy to a Placement, with the drag-and-drop functionality of a Shortlist Board. Any changes made will feed back to the Vacancy, Candidate, and relevant Placement records. 

Where

From Mercury:

Home > Vacancies > Vacancy Record > Candidates tab > Shortlists button > Board View

Shortlist Board view:

1. Shortlist Statuses

2. Sort By: Newest to Oldest, or Oldest to Newest

3. Expand each Candidate text box to view information such as: 

• Name (click the hyperlink to view the Candidate card in a pop-up window)
• Current Job Title
• Current Client
• Last date of Shortlist update
• Salary Information
• Latest Feedback
• Vacancy Details: Job Title and Position Type

4. Not all Shortlist statuses may be visible on-screen, click the arrow(s) to navigate

How

Change Candidate Shortlist Status

Drag-and-drop Candidates between statuses. A grey box appears where the Candidate will move to:

Statuses

Submitted

Client Shortlisted

Interview

Offer Made

Offer Accepted (and Placement creation)

Offer Rejected

Submitted

When a Candidate is updated to Submitted, the following pop-up appears. The financial details are populated from the vacancy. These can either be saved to the shortlist upon submitting, or amended and saved to the shortlist instead. 

Client Shortlisted 

No additional information is required when a Candidate is updated to Shortlisted. 

Interview

When a Candidate is updated to Interview, the following pop-up appears.

All information must be filled in before it can be saved. No information can be typed in, and must be selected from the drop-downs provided. 

When complete, click Confirm to progress the Candidate. If you click Discard and Close, the Candidate will remain under their current status and no changes will be made. 

Candidates at any Interview stage will have a flag added: 'Interview First', 'Interview Further', or 'Interview Final'. 

For multi-stage interview processes, you can add another interview by selecting Options > New Interview. 

Offer Made

When a Candidate receives an offer, the same pop-up shown from the Submitted stage will be shown again in the case that any information needs a final update.

For permanent roles, Salary and Fee % are required fields. The Fee Amount field is automatically calculated from Fee Based On and Fee %. 

For Contract/Temp roles, Pay and Charge are required fields. Markup %, Margin %, and Margin are automatically calculated based on the values given, and cannot be overwritten. 

When complete, click Confirm to progress the Candidate. If you click Discard and Close, the Candidate will remain under their current status and no changes will be made. 

 

 

Offer Accepted (and Placement creation) 

Offer Accepted 

When a Candidate accepts an offer, the same pop-up shown from the Submitted stage will be shown again. However, no changes can be made at this stage.

A tick-box confirming the details are correct must be ticked before you can select Confirm and progress the Candidate. If you click Discard and Close, the Candidate will remain under their current status and no changes will be made. 

 

Placement Record creation

Following this, a pop-up appears to notify that a Placement record will now be created. This message will not disappear until the Close button is clicked. 

 

 

Navigate to the Placement record in three ways:

 

1. Notifications

NOTE: This is part of Mercury Automate. See New Placement Notifications for more information.

 

 

2. Vacancy Record > Candidates tab > Placements

NOTE: This will only show active Placements.

 

3. Vacancy Record > Related Tab > Placements tab > Placement Associated View

NOTE: From here both the Vacancy Ref (TR/156387) and the PlacementID (016244/00/00) can be viewed for any cross-reference. 

For more information - see the Placements section of the Knowledge Base. 

 

Offer Rejected

When a Candidate rejects an offer, the following pop-up appears.

The Rejection Reason is required, Additional Information in optional. 

When complete, click Confirm to progress the Candidate. If you click Discard and Close, the Candidate will remain under their current status and no changes will be made. 

 

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