Friday 12 April 2019

Find A Job (Formerly Universal Job Match) Vacancy posting Improvements


We have been alerted by Find A Job that they are making some improvements to how their vacancies work. 

This affects the way we can post to them and how long you can keep vacancies live for:


  • Currently job adverts that have been posted to the live service will remain live for a default period of 30 days.
  • As of 9th April 2019, you will have the option of continuing to use the default period of 30 days or you will be able to specify a closing date that is less than the 30-day default period.


  • For this, if your vacancy has an end date longer than 30 days then the service will only list your job for their specified maximum term of 30 days.


  • If you specify a closing date within the 30-day period, then your actual closing date will be included within the Vacancy submission and it will close on that date.


  • Updates will also be handled in the same way. if the closing date is within the 30-day period then the vacancy would update to this date.

·      We will be completing this in the background so you will not need to do anything differently

SOC Codes

Find a Job have (finally!) reviewed their SOC Codes. As you may be aware there were some weird and wonderful options to choose from and it was often quite difficult to locate a suitable SOC Code for your vacancy. These have now been replaced with a Job Category list of 29 values, listed below, which, as you will see are more generic and make it simpler to categorise your vacancies for Find a Job:
Accounting & Finance Jobs
Admin Jobs
Agriculture, Fishing & Forestry Jobs
Consultancy Jobs5Creative & Design Jobs
Customer Service Jobs
Domestic Help & Cleaning Jobs
Energy, Oil & Gas Jobs
Engineering Jobs
Graduate Jobs
Healthcare & Nursing Jobs
Hospitality & Catering Jobs
HR & Recruitment Jobs
IT Jobs
Legal Jobs
Logistics & Warehouse Jobs
Maintenance Jobs
Manufacturing Jobs
Other/General Jobs
PR, Advertising & Marketing Jobs
Property Jobs
Retail Jobs
Sales Jobs
Scientific & QA Jobs
Security & Protective Services Jobs
Social Work Jobs
Teaching Jobs
Trade & Construction Jobs
Travel Jobs

We will be rolling out updates to the current SOC field within the Find a Job posting section to update the list to these new values.

N.B. All historical vacancies with SOC data will require updating in order to post to the Find a Job channel. This is also now an optional field. Vacancies without this detail in a submission are automatically categorised via a keyword search on the vacancy description, by the Find a Job system.

It is advisable that you categorise your vacancies in order to be listed correctly within the Find a Job system.

We will be rolling out these changes to your Microsoft system week commencing 15th April so please advise all users of these imminent changes.

Thursday 4 April 2019

Microsoft Dynamics 365 and JustApply

JustApply is delivered with its own integrated solution in Microsoft Dynamics (CRM). This can be for any version from 2011 upwards, on premise or online. 
If your organisation is already using Dynamics CRM the solution can be added directly into your existing system and if you already work with a partner for your Dynamics CRM we will be happy to collaborate with them. 
In the event that your organisation uses a different CRM solution or would like integration to any other software we can also integrate directly with many other systems and/or provide an API. 
Please get in touch for further details.

Pending Email Warning - Microsoft Dynamics 365

Do you often log into Dynamics 365 and then get greeted with this warning message?

Pending Email Warning

 It drives you mad doesn’t it and you get to a point where you have had enough of clicking the close button each time you log in so you decide to do something about it. Well you’re in luck as we have the answers! Which is why you’re probably reading this blog post in the first place! 





The popup warning message is there for a good reason, it’s to let you know that there are unsent emails sat in your system so it would be a good idea to find out what they are. Emails may not send for a variety of different reasons so its best to check out what they are, how they were being sent and what can you do about it so that you minimise the problem going forward.
First, lets take a look at those rouge records that are giving us this warning.
1) Use the Advanced Find screen, Clicking on the Filter Icon at the top of the screen in the main ribbon (Right hand aligned) will get you there.
2) Within the Advanced find we need to set the Look for: Option set to the correct Entity, in this case we are going to select ‘Email Messages’ 
3) Now to set the Criteria of the Advanced Find. We need to find records that have a Status Reason of ‘Pending Send’.
4) Now when clicking onto results (in the ribbon) you will see all of the emails that are causing your ‘Pending Email Warning’. From here you can access each record individually or you may notice a pattern with the results and find that it maybe an automated workflow that is causing this issue.
Whatever it maybe, either resolving these one by one or deleting them from your system will clear your ‘Pending Email Warning’ from appearing when you first log in.

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