Datapeople Product Updates in 2023

Your new homepage: Get where you need to go, faster 🎉

December 13, 2023

We’re excited to introduce a more personalized and intuitive way to navigate the Datapeople platform.

Now, when you login to Datapeople, or click the logo in the upper left of your screen, you’ll be greeted with a personalized view of the actions, insights, and pages that are most relevant to you, all on one intuitive homepage. Click here to check it out!

Your new homepage enables you to:

• View a consolidated and personalized list of just your jobs
• Access core recruiting actions and critical insights, at-a-glance
• Learn from relevant content to make your recruitment process more fair and efficient

To learn more about your new homepage and how your feedback inspired this exciting update, read more here ❯

Easily replace vague soft skills with clear, experience-based alternatives

December 08, 2023

Instead of highlighting vague soft skills and only offering you the option to delete that language, we'll provide you with alternative verbiage that is role-specific, clear, and experience-based.

Benefits of this update:

• Enhanced job post clarity and directness (which candidates ❤)
• Time saved during the job writing process
• More qualified candidates in your pipeline

To learn more about vague soft skills and why they’re important to avoid in job posts, read more here ❯

Note: At this time, this update has been released for a handful of popular job types. We will gradually include more job types in the future.

British Columbia Pay Transparency is in Effect! 💰

November 01, 2023

As of November 1st, 2023, the British Columbia Pay Transparency Law is in effect.

This means employers are now required to list the salary range in job descriptions for all British Columbia jobs.

Luckily, you write your jobs in Datapeople and we make complying with this law easy. 😎

• If we don't detect compensation in your post, our sidebar guidance will alert you to add compensation details and we will list the job in your Compliance Report
• When you do detail compensation, we'll highlight it in green 👏 

We know that including salary information in your job ad can reduce bias and unequal treatment in the hiring process while helping to attract qualified candidates.

As more laws go into effect, we will, of course, continue to update our platform. For more information on what to disclose when, where, and why, read more here ❯

Introducing Nudges: Market-calibrated jobs, made easy!

September 21, 2023

You asked, and we listened. With Nudges, you'll now get content suggestions on what to add (not just remove) from your job posts 🥳

Nudges are based on job title and location, delivering job-specific content recommendations that ensure your job posts are market-calibrated and provide the information job seekers are looking for.

Nudges will appear as small red or blue plus signs on the side of your job post if we detect that your job is missing important, market-calibrated information.

🔵 Blue Nudges: Will appear anytime evergreen job content, such as benefits, is missing. These Nudges do not have a score impact, but can improve the appeal of your jobs to candidates.

🔴 Red Nudges: Will appear when job-specific responsibilities or requirements are missing. These Nudges have a job score impact due to their effect on candidate pool size and quality. Some red Nudges will even remove the guesswork for you and provide text to auto-add to your job post with just one click. 

We hope you find these Nudges helpful to your job writing process!

New York State Pay Transparency is in Effect! 💰

As of September 17th, 2023, the New York State Pay Transparency Law is in effect.

This means employers are now required to list the salary range in job descriptions for all New York jobs (not just New York City jobs).

Luckily, you write your jobs in Datapeople and we make complying with this law easy. 😎

• If we don't detect compensation in your post, our sidebar guidance will alert you to add compensation details and we will list the job in your Compliance Report
• When you do detail compensation, we'll highlight it in green 👏

We know that including salary information in your job ad can reduce bias and unequal treatment in the hiring process while helping to attract qualified candidates.

As more laws go into effect, we will, of course, continue to update our platform. For more information on what to disclose when, where, and why, read more here ❯

🎉 Identify Top-Performing Sources: Introducing the Inbound and Outbound Source Insights Reports!

If filling roles faster and reducing your cost-per-hire are a part of your hiring goals, the Inbound and Outbound Source Reports are here to help!

📊 Take a tour of the Inbound Report to determine which inbound sources (where candidates actively sought out your company) are most and least effective for your team

📊 Take a tour of the Outbound Report to determine which outbound sources (where your company actively sought out the candidate) are most and least effective for your team

If you don’t see these new reports (under ‘Insights’ in the Datapeople navigation bar), it’s likely because your ATS isn’t integrated with Datapeople. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn about connecting your ATS and start utilizing the new Datapeople Insights reports.

📖 Learn more about the Inbound Report ❯ and the Outbound Report ❯

🎉 Your Hiring Process, Demystified: Introducing the Gender, Drop-off, and Hiring Reports!

August 03, 2023

You read that correctly: THREE new reports have been added to your Process Insights tab!

📊 Take a tour of the Gender Report to view gender representation at each stage of your hiring funnel so you can optimize for fairness

📊 Take a tour of the Drop-off Report to easily identify where candidates are dropping out of your hiring process so you can adjust for a better candidate experience

📊 Take a tour of the Hiring Report to understand the results of your hiring efforts so you can set accurate, data-driven hiring goals

If you don’t see these new reports (under ‘Insights’ in the Datapeople navigation bar), it’s likely because your ATS isn’t integrated with Datapeople. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn about connecting your ATS and start utilizing the new Datapeople Insights reports.

📖 Learn more about the Gender Report ❯, the Drop-off Report ❯ and the Hiring Report ❯

🎉 Get Answers to Your Recruiting Questions: Introducing the Overall and Pass-through Reports!

We’re excited to introduce TWO of SEVEN new reports hitting your Insights tab (previously the Analytics tab) this summer!

Formerly known as the Source Performance Report, the Overall and Pass-through Reports are designed to help you easily answer source and process-related pipeline questions so you can use data to make strategic recruiting decisions – without the manual effort.

📊 Take a tour of the new Overall Report to easily determine your most efficient and cost-effective sources for attracting candidates and hires.

📊 Take a tour of the Pass-through Report to learn how candidates move through your recruiting process so you can introduce efficiencies and ensure you reach your hiring goals.

If you don’t see these new reports (under ‘Insights’ in the Datapeople navigation bar), it’s likely because your ATS isn’t integrated with Datapeople. Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn about connecting your ATS and start utilizing the new Datapeople Insights reports.

📖 Learn more about the Pass-through Report ❯ and the Overall Report ❯

🎉 Introducing Actionable Insights Reports

Easily monitor, de-risk, and improve your job posts with two new reports that allow you to take immediate action and ensure every job post is working towards (not against) your hiring goals.

Looking for an easy way to boost your Job Scores? Don’t know where to start?

👋 Say hello to the Easy Wins Report: Your one-stop shop to identify and fix any job posts that are incomplete or hurting your job post performance. Take a tour of the Easy Wins Report ❯

Never second-guess whether or not your job posts comply with legislative requirements again.

Our new Compliance Report allows you to identify and remedy any non-compliant jobs in a single consolidated view. Take a tour of the Compliance Report ❯

Looking for more information about Actionable Insights? Click for more details about the Easy Wins and Compliance Reports.

📢 Canadian pay transparency guidance

Are you posting jobs in the Canadian state of British Columbia? 

You'll now receive guidance that helps you comply with upcoming (November 2023) pay transparency requirements.

If the location of your job post is listed in British Columbia, you'll notice:

• Sidebar guidance to add compensation if it's not detected in your post
• Green Highlights when you do detail compensation 

While pay transparency requirements for British Columbia don't go into effect until November 2023, we believe it's never too early to start including salary information in your job ad. To learn more about pay transparency, read more here ❯

📖 Get the "why" behind our guidance

You asked for more explanation behind our guidance, and we heard you! We've been working behind the scenes to add educational references to our most popular highlight suggestions – because understanding why certain words, phrases, or context should or shouldn't be included in a job post is the first step in creating a more fair and equitable hiring experience.

Now, when you hover over our guidance (highlights and sidebar) and a tooltip appears, you may see a "Read More" button that directs you to a helpful article or applicable resource that provides you with additional education and/or context behind our suggested guidance.

We're excited to bring more of our data-driven approach to your experience here at Datapeople and look forward to growing our library of tooltip resources. Happy reading!

🔒 Header and footer template locking has arrived!

May 25, 2023

You asked, and we listened! We've added new lockable header and footer sections to your templates, allowing Admins to create and control well-defined templates that define the structure for your job postings (without compromising on the seamless job editing experience our editors know and love).

Ready to get started?:

• Admins, head to 'Templates' under 'Settings'
• Click on any existing template or create a new template
• At the top and bottom of each field* you'll see the purple lock icon indicating where you can add lockable content
• Add the content you want to be locked into those fields

Now, any job editor who uses that template won't be able to make any changes to those sections in Datapeople. For more information about how template locking works, read more here ❯

*Each field: Every field, with the exception of Greenhouse and Lever's "Intro" and "Conclusion" fields and Lever's "List" fields will have header and footer locking.

📢 New York pay transparency guidance

May 18, 2023

Are you posting jobs in the U.S. state of New York?

You'll now receive guidance that helps you comply with upcoming (September 2023) pay transparency requirements.

If the location of your job post is listed in New York, you'll notice:

• Sidebar guidance to add compensation if it's not detected in your post
• Green Highlights when you do detail compensation 

While pay transparency requirements for the entire state of New York don't go into effect until September 2023, we believe it's never too early to start including salary information in your job ad. To learn more about pay transparency, read more here ❯

Introducing Datapeople Anywhere: Write where you work (your ATS!)

April 28, 2023

Did you know you can get Datapeople guidance directly in your ATS?

🎉 Save time in your recruitment process with Datapeople Anywhere! For those seeking more efficiency, here's your chance to have one less tab open with Datapeople's guidance right where you need it–in your ATS (now with no integration required)! 🎉

What is Datapeople Anywhere: Datapeople Anywhere (formerly referred to as the Datapeople Chrome Extension) is a browser overlay that enables you to write a new job, import an existing job, and use our Similar Jobs feature without ever leaving your ATS. It's a simple, one-time configuration (no API integration needed) that shortens time-to-post, increases user adoption, and ensures every job is optimized for success!

How to get started:

• Check out this article to see if your ATS is already configured (if so, simply follow the instructions in the article!)
• If your ATS still needs to be configured or you want to use Datapeople Anywhere outside of your ATS, reach out to anywhere@datapeople.io or contact your Customer Success Manager to get started!

What are the benefits of using Datapeople Anywhere? Check out this article to find out!

🎉 A more seamless editing experience has arrived!

March 02, 2023

We've been busy redesigning our editor so that it's easier and more intuitive to use than ever before! Watch to learn more.

• Copying and pasting made easy – say goodbye to excessive fields interrupting the main editing field, now you'll only see pre-defined fields matching those in your ATS 
• One toolbar to rule them all – enjoy the familiar look and feel of a unified formatting toolbar at the top of your page
• Less locking – enjoy fewer editing obstacles with locked fields matching only what's locked in your ATS –which typically appear at the beginning or end of the job description only

Head to the editor to see these exciting changes for yourself!

New Guidance for Washington Job Posts

January 25, 2023

Are you posting a job in Washington? Washington's Equal Pay and Opportunities Act now requires more clarity around benefits, perks, and non-wage compensation within the job post.

But, don't worry! Our new guidance ensures that your job posts comply with Washington's latest mandates effortlessly. Here's a summary of the side-bar and highlight guidance you can expect to see:

• Describe all major benefits (ex: health care, dental, etc.)
• Specify non-wage compensation (ex: bonuses, commissions, etc.)
• Specify PTO days (the exact number of days)

Similar to pay transparency, we know that including specific benefits and perks information in your job ad can reduce bias and unequal treatment in the hiring process while helping to attract qualified candidates. As such, we will, of course, continue to update our platform as new laws like this go into effect. Click here to learn more about the Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act.

CA & WA Pay Transparency is in Effect! 💰

January 03, 2023

It's official, officially.

As of January 1st, 2023 the California Pay Transparency for Pay Equity Act and Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act are in effect.

This means employers are now required to list the salary range in job descriptions for California and Washington jobs (in addition to NYC and Colorado).

Luckily, you write your jobs in Datapeople and we make complying with this law easy-peasy. 😎

• If we don't detect compensation in your post, our sidebar guidance will alert you to add compensation details
• When you do detail compensation, we'll highlight it in green 👏 

We know that including salary information in your job ad can reduce bias and unequal treatment in the hiring process while helping to attract qualified candidates. That's why this guidance has been live in Datapeople since January 2022 and might seem familiar.

As more laws go into effect, we will, of course, continue to update our platform. For more information on what to disclose when, where, and why, read more here ❯