Depending on your industry, your agency may match workers to jobs by using job categories or title and specialty. Use Skills to capture any abilities that may help give a fuller picture of a worker's qualifications.
Job Categories:
Job categories are a way for your Agency to categorize your jobs and workforce. The structure that we have set up allows you to set main and subcategories.
Main categories are used to capture an area of work that your candidate is qualified for. Whereas subcategories offers a way to pinpoint more specific duties that your candidate is responsible for and how they are able to perform within that work.
For example, in the Light Industrial industry, Warehouse would be a main category and subcategories would be Dispatcher, RF Scanner, Shipping & Receiving, Stock Picking, and Merchandiser.
During the app sign-up process, candidates can select a job category and subcategory that they are qualified for and interested in working.
Every job that is published will have a category and subcategory.
Skills:
In ActivateStaff, the skills section allows the candidate to be more specific about their qualifications or certificates.
Your agency also has the ability to set experience parameters for these skills that can be based on how long the candidate has practiced that specified skill or when their certification may expire.
Skills can be created, edited and unpublished in the skills tab in the settings of your Agency Portal. The candidate can add new skills on the Profile tab in the worker app.
Titles:
Titles are just like job categories. They are used to distinguish what type of medical professionals your candidates are. Titles are mainly used for the Healthcare industry.
For example, Registered Nurse (RN), Nurse Practitioner (NP), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), Physical Therapist (PT), etc.
These titles are also used when you create a job and helps to narrow down which workers best match the criteria for the job.
Specialities:
Within the healthcare industry, specialities help to identify a candidate’s area of expertise within their title. This is used in conjunction with their title and it really helps to understand your candidates skills and abilities are best put to use. Examples of specialities are Emergency Room, Critical Care, ICU, Home Health, Hospice, etc.
If ever you need to change your agency’s list of Speciality options, you will have to submit a support request.
The candidate will only be able to select one specialty during the app sign-up process. The candidate is not limited to only seeing jobs in their specialty. If the candidate is qualified in multiple specialties, they can use the Specialty Filter on the Open Job tab of the Worker App to view jobs in other specialties.