ADP recruitment tools

Chris Flippo

Does anybody out there use ADP's automated service provider database for managing online applications? Our HR department is looking into purchasing this product called HRB Live site. They say it can be embedded in our page wrapper, but it sounds like a lot of work. Requires the HR person to know at least some coding. Is anyone using this and if so, how are you using it to be mroe efficient?

Thanks for your help.

Chris

Joanna Houlim

Hi Chris,

Whenever it comes to integrating a 3rd party product with your Convio site, it is advisable that you consult with Convio prior to purchasing the product so that we can make sure that the 2 products will work together to meet your organization's needs. Please contact your Account Manager to discuss the details of your current initiative, and your AM will work with you to determine how Convio can help.

Cheers,

Joanna

Chris Flippo

Thanks. Wish I could say that people check with us before buying products to see if they interface with our site. Ah well. Typical nonprofit.

Michael

Have you learned any more about this? Just curious. It strikes me though... I wonder if what they really meant to say was that they could put your site's page wrapper around their application (the same way Convio can, for example) rather than actually embedding their application right into YOUR site. That would be very interesting, though, if true. It would mean their site is effectively a giant widget... That either means a boat load of work on your side doing server-side integration to handle the data feeds, or it means their application is wholly client-side using Flash or JavaScript, which is cool for sure, but maybe not appropriate unless your general audience is used to such things. My org, for example, gets thousands of applications a month and many of them come from overseas folks who have old computers and generally low bandwidth, so such an application while very neat wouldn't be appropriate at all.

I suspect, though, that its really that they can take your template and put it around their hosted application to make it look just like your site. We finally managed to get our HR department to dump the vendor they were using for online job search/applications because it DIDN'T do that sort of thing (it wasn't that good anyway, but my concern is the user experience not whether it's handy for HR....), the new one does that.

Chris Flippo

Michael :

Have you learned any more about this? Just curious. It strikes me though... I wonder if what they really meant to say was that they could put your site's page wrapper around their application (the same way Convio can, for example) rather than actually embedding their application right into YOUR site. That would be very interesting, though, if true. It would mean their site is effectively a giant widget... That either means a boat load of work on your side doing server-side integration to handle the data feeds, or it means their application is wholly client-side using Flash or JavaScript, which is cool for sure, but maybe not appropriate unless your general audience is used to such things. My org, for example, gets thousands of applications a month and many of them come from overseas folks who have old computers and generally low bandwidth, so such an application while very neat wouldn't be appropriate at all.

I suspect, though, that its really that they can take your template and put it around their hosted application to make it look just like your site. We finally managed to get our HR department to dump the vendor they were using for online job search/applications because it DIDN'T do that sort of thing (it wasn't that good anyway, but my concern is the user experience not whether it's handy for HR....), the new one does that.

To save time and money, we just decided to link to it. It seems to be working. And our HR department is overworked. They needed a way to streamline incoming applications. Doing it on our site with our form made too much work for them. I understand that, because Marketing is a support department, too. We non-revenue producing departments have to focus on efficiency so more of our funds go to helping people.