Congratulations! Your offer from a candidate has been accepted. Now, it's time to take the next steps in the hiring process and send a contract to the applicant.
Before sending a contract to the applicant, it's important to review the offer that was accepted. Make sure all the details are correct and that you are ready to move forward with the candidate. You can download this via Actions and selecting the offer and it will download a copy to your computer.
How to Send a Contract to a Successful Applicant
How to Send a Contract to a Successful Applicant
Once you have reviewed the offer and are ready to proceed, it's time to prepare to send the contract. This is a legally binding document that outlines the terms and conditions of employment for the candidate. Go to Actions and Send Contract.
When you select Send Contract a new modal opens for you. If this is your first time, you will not have existing Contract templates available. You'll select Upload New and choose a template from your work computer.
NOTE: Once you have uploaded a template contract above, this will be saved as an existing template that can be used for future candidates.
How to Edit the Contract Before Sending
How to Edit the Contract Before Sending
When you have uploaded a new contract as a template from your computer, this opens the edit screen where you can insert macros to pre-populate data before sending this to your successful applicant.
Once you've added the macros to your template, select Save and Continue to move on to the next step of finalising your Contract before sending it to the candidate.
Otherwise, if you need to pause and come back to this, select Save Draft and you can come back to this contract template and resume the process at any time.
How to Finalise your Contract and Send it to the Successful Applicant
How to Finalise your Contract and Send it to the Successful Applicant
You've now progressed to the next step, here is where you can finalise the Contract of Employment before sending it to the applicant.
You will see the template from the previous step has come through and those macros has populated your candidates information.
Manage Recipients
In Manage Recipients, you can add multiple signature fields. Ie. the candidate to receive and sign first and then send to the secondary person being the employee Manager.
You also can CC in another person ie. HR Manager if needed and they will receive a copy when all parties have agreed and signed.
Adding fields into the document
Once your Recipients are configured, you can add additional fields to be completed by those recipients like a Signature field, Date and Time, Text field can be used to capture name etc.
NOTE: If you have missed any information or the template has the wrong information and you need to edit the template, you will need to exit this screen, and will bring you back to your template to make those changes.
Sending the Contract to an Applicant
You've finalised your document and added in the additional fields ready to send your Contract to the Applicant. Now you can select Invite to Sign the document.
This action opens the send invite modal where you must Customise Message that recipients will receive.
Here, you will add in your email Subject line and body of the email the applicant receives.
Follow the same steps for any additional recipients like managers that you've added.
When complete, Send invite to first recipient. You will receive a success message on screen and be taken back to the Workinitiatives applicants screen.
Signing of Contracts by Recipients
Signing of Contracts by Recipients
Not received the email? Please check your Junk or Spam folders as this is coming from a new email address.
Candidate email and signing:
Manager email and signing:
At the end, both parties (including any CC's if they were added) upon signing will receive a copy via email and your candidate will show as Hired in Workinitiatives.
Congratulations! You have successfully completed the hiring process and can now move forward with onboarding the new employee.
If you have any further questions or need assistance with sending a contract, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team. We are here to help make your hiring process as seamless as possible.