At Placement Partner, we are constantly looking at ways to enable our users to work smarter without sacrificing security and the quality of candidate data. As you know, the design ideas for Placement Partner often tend to come from you guys, our clients. This is another one of those.

We realized that many recruiters are adding candidates to their Postboxes by using the “Submit your CV” form on their own company websites to save time in this demanding industry. This method allows a recruiter to quickly capture just the candidate’s contact details and searchable CV, without having to capture all the compulsory fields in New Candidate. The candidate is then in the Postbox where the split screen helps you to drag and drop info from the candidates’ CV more easily than if you were capturing manually.

So thanks once again to your ingenuity, we decided to make this an official feature accessible from within Placement Partner.

The new Add CV feature will enable you as users to load your Candidate’s CV’s into the Postbox from within the Placement Partner System.

The Postbox menu has been moved and is now one of the main tabs on the system.

Try out and enjoy this time saving feature on your system TODAY! We value your feedback.

For more information or assistance, please contact support@parallel.co.za

Happy Recruiting!

Your Placement Partner Team

CONUNDRUM – Make a word using all of the following letters – only once:

Can you make 847 from any of the following numbers? Divide, Subtract, Multiply, Add…

75   9   4   10   1   7

How did you fair on solving the riddles above?

How about we take you back 10 years; sitting on your couch, eyes glued to the TV with a paper and pen in hand watching the show “A Word or 2” on SABC 2?

Admit it, we all did it. It was thought-provoking, enticing and exciting to be faced with a riddle / challenge. Try solve it and then to be shown the answer where nine times out of ten your reaction would have been something along the lines of “Ahhhh!” with a grin on your face.

And good golly, when William Smith came on and made magic with numbers! No matter how much you excluded maths from your passions in life; you admired this man and his wizardry skills with numbers.

So what’s changed? Nothing. As a recruiter you are faced with a thought-provoking, enticing and somewhat hair-pulling challenge of finding candidates. It might not be a game show featured on SABC2; but the rewards and commission that goes with it; it might as well have been.

You and your competition are the contestants, the hiring manager the host. The puzzles your challenge – what stops you from making the placement?

A recruiter’s world is fast-paced, filled with technologies, social media and phones. Time is of the essence without compromising on quality. Placement Partner is your right-hand all day long. Your dictionary, your assistant and your audience cheering you on.

Make a win; attempt the conundrum and go home with the winnings. Return to the show again and go home an even bigger winner.

Placement Partner is your cheat-book. All the answers and clues in front of you. Use it.

Bedazzle your recruiting desk and make a game show of it.

And for those of us who need a head-start; the answers to the above are simple, like when you come across THE candidate and you wonder what ever was so difficult…

75+9=84

84 x 10=840

840+7=847