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A detailed step-by-step guide on creating a Job which is the first step to getting started with an Assessment or Reference Check

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Written by Ricky Spiroski
Updated over 2 months ago

You can create a new HiPeople job by selecting the Jobs button from the left navigation bar and the clicking the purple "Create new Job" button:

1. Select modules

Here, you need to decide if you'd like to run an Assessment, Reference Check or both using this Job. You can add the modules using the "Add to job" button under each:

Module Details - Assessment

For for the Assessment module, not extra steps are required during the Job creation stage of the overall process, so if you're only wanting to run an Assessment, simply click the "Add to job" button under Assessment and then "Next step"

Module Details - Reference Check

When you enable the “Reference Feedback” module, you will see a modal pop-up asking you to specify the details for the process.

You're able to customise the below details:

Notification timeline

  • How many workdays HiPeople should send reminders to the candidate to invite their reference details after they've been invited by a recruiter.

  • How many workdays HiPeople should send reminders to the reference to complete the reference check after the candidate has invited them.

Required References

Here you can set the number and type of required references you'd like to collect. You can choose from the 6 reference types:

  • Manager

  • Peer

  • Direct report

  • Student peer

  • Client

  • Any Relationship

You can also edit the “Alias” field to give more details to the candidate whom specifically they should invite. For example, asking for their current manager or a specific peer from a specific previous role.

Reference Check Language

By default, the Reference Check interface language is set to English. You're able to add other languages from the drop down menu. The first language selected is the default and then the referee will be able to toggle between the other language options when they open the HiPeople portal.

The available languages are:

  • English

  • Spanish

  • German

  • French

  • Swedish

  • Norwegian

  • Danish

  • Finnish

  • Dutch

Candidate Self Reference

The self-reference feature asks the candidate to complete an evaluation about themselves and this helps recruiters/hiring manager compare the candidate’s views about themselves with those of their referees.

Job Title Verification

You can ask the references to verify the previous job title held by the candidate by toggling on the "Activate candidate job title verification option". Check out this article for an in depth look at the job title verification option

After you have selected all the details, click “Confirm” and you'll be returned to the “Select modules” screen. When you have selected all the product modules for this job, click “Next step”.

2. Specify details

🌎 Job Title

First, give the job an External Title. This job title will be referred to in all the communication that candidates, and later, references receive as a part of the evaluation process using HiPeople.

🔍 Internal Job Title

Next, you can optionally give your job an Internal Title. This name is only visible internally to HiPeople users.

☝🏼 Tip: you can include useful attributes to the job name here, such as job number, location, department, recruiter etc. which will later help you quickly find and identify it.

📜 Job description (optional)

Here you can paste in the job description of the job (responsibilites, skills required, day to day of the job).This description will be analyzed by our AI to suggest the most effective assessment tests and reference check questions.

🌐 Assessment language

If you've enabled the Assessment module, here you can decide which language the candidate interface should be in.

The available languages are:

  • English

  • Spanish

  • German

  • French

3. Add team members

In the next step, you can add all users from the Recruiting/Hiring team who should be able to access the results of the candidates within the job. As a Recruiter (full access)/Recruiter you can assign dedicated job permissions to people on your hiring team.

Permissions

There are two job-level permissions: can manage (Admin) and can view (Viewer).

People endorsed with admin permissions (e.g. coordinators or recruiters working on the same job) can start/pause/archive a job, invite/delete candidates, make changes to the questions on the assessment/reference check

People equipped with the viewer permissions (e.g. hiring managers or hiring panel members), have only viewing rights for the respective job and cannot perform any action on it.

In order to invite users on a job level, they must first be invited on an org level. Steps on how to do this are here.

ℹ️ Note: Organization’s permissions will always overwrite the job permission levels. For example, organization’s admins will be able to manage your newly created job.

💡 Tip: We strongly recommend adding Hiring Manager to the job at this stage.

4. Customize candidate portal page

On this final step you can add branding to the invitation screen candidates see when they open the HiPeople invitation link in the invitation email.

Edit Text

Using the Edit text button you can completely customise the text that appears and use this to give the candidate context about the next steps or any extra information you'd like to share with them about the Assessment or Reference check.

Upload a custom image

You can add custom assets to the splash screen to keep this part of the Candidate Experience on brand with your own. Simply upload an image file from your computer:

ℹ️ Note: The logo and button colour that appears on this page is your company logo & company colour which can be set within your Organization Settings

5. Customizing and adding modules

Once you've successfully created the job using the purple Create job button, you'll see the job page where you can complete the next steps to customise the Reference and Assessment modules using the yellow "+ Select template" buttons next to each module.

Check out our in depth articles on References and Assessments for information on how to complete these.

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