Main Sequence Technologies – Leader Both in Innovation and Customer Satisfaction

Main Sequence Technologies has been at the forefront of the staffing software industry for a decade, with several thousand clients worldwide, spanning a variety of sizes and industries from single-user recruitment operations to Fortune 500 multinationals. By blending concepts in contact and relationship management, applicant tracking and digital communication, Main Sequence Technologies has proven itself a leader both in innovation and customer satisfaction.

The company’s flagship product is PCRecruiter, a natively web-based system that is available both as an installed application and via the company’s convenient application hosting service. PCRecruiter offers a complete solution for the management of contacts and applicant flow. This combination of applicant tracking and contact management tools creates a powerful center for the entire pre-hire process, facilitating every step from requisition submittal, to requisition approval, through to on-line job inquiries and hire logging. Augmenting these functions is a host of potent administrative metrics and dynamic candidate questionnaires and assessments, plus enterprise-class features like integrated email, automated resume parsing, document storage, and diversity tracking.

The key to PCRecruiter is configurability and customization. Main Sequence Technologies believes that the human resource process should define the software, not the other way around. Within PCRecruiter, users will find an unprecedented ability to customize everything from screen layouts and terminology to applicant flow stages and applicant questionnaires with little or no specialized ability. The user or database administrator can choose exactly which data fields are visible and in what order on the name, department and requisition record views, putting the most important information within easy reach. Searches and reports are also configurable, to make getting your data out of the system as easy as getting it in.

The management of the hiring process in PCRecruiter begins with requisition entry. PCRecruiter stores requisition data under each department with fully searchable, HTML-formatted job descriptions. Job templates can be created to promote consistency and accuracy, and approvalscan be requested and tracked through adjustable email chains. Field managers can even enter their own reqs via an online portal, and then start the email approval chain to get documented approvals from management before the job ‘goes live.’ The same manager portal allows managers to track the applicant progress for their openings and enter interview feedback.

Once a requisition has been activated in PCRecruiter, the next step is to link applicants to it. Applicants can be entered directly into the database by the user, or be collected through a variety of self-entry points. One of the most common methods of self-entry is the system’s integrated job board module, referred to as the ‘web extensions’. This limited portal into the database is easily tied into a company’s public website (often in just a few minutes), making available positions in the database instantly available to online applicants. Visitors to the web extensions can search positions, seeing only the information decided on by the HR administrator, and then submit their resume, contact info, or even a complete job application with basic qualifying tests. With the web extensions in place, PCRecruiter can push jobs directly to existing accounts with partner services like Monster, CareerBuilder, Indeed, SimplyHired and eQuest for streamlined source tracking and expanded visibility.

If the HR department receives a high volume of resume documents by email, an additional product called the Resume Inhaler is available to automate the process of importing them into the system. The Inhaler creates applicant records in the database automatically based on intelligent parsing of the contact details in the resume document. Organizing emailed resumes in Microsoft Outlook sub-folders by available positions allows the Inhaler to go one step further, linking the automatically created names to the jobs they were interested in. All resumes collected in PCRecruiter are stored inside of the database in their original Word, RTF, text, PDF or HTML formats, and are completely keyword-indexed for Boolean searching.

Once an applicant has been added to the database and linked to one or more jobs, they can be easily moved from stage to stage in the Pipeline screen. The Pipeline is the backbone of the applicant tracking process in PCRecruiter, showing which applicants have completed which steps in the (easily configurable) hiring process. The Pipeline also offers quick access to resumes, interview confirmation forms and questionnaires, plus automated email triggers, data collection and comparison tools, and reportable activity logs. The Pipeline brings the hiring process into focus.

Identifying the most valuable applicants is simplified with Profiles. These broadly customizable HTML forms can be attached to any contact in the database and completed by that contact or an internal HR professional. Profile forms can be as simple as a checklist of qualifications, or as complex as a completely traditional job application form. Building simple profiles is easy using PCRecruiter’s built-in editor, and any HTML editing software can be used to create more complex custom page layouts. Main Sequence Technologies offers expert design services for this purpose as well, and can even replicate existing print forms in this time and paper-saving digital format. Completed profiles can be used to automatically filter applicants into lists, and can be compared to a master key or to other profiles to help with qualification.

The list grouping functionality in PCRecruiter is also a key to the system’s power. ‘Rollup Lists’ are PCRecruiter’s multipurpose record grouping system. Any name, departments, or requisition in the system can be grouping into one or more lists, which can serve to store search results, send bulk emails, mass-move or delete records, sort records, route resumes to managers, act as telephone calling lists, and more. These lists can also be used by ‘researchers’ to store groups of qualified candidates for regular contact and potential future hiring, minimizing advertising efforts when a position becomes available. Rollup lists aid in practically every task facilitated by PCRecruiter, and provide a high level of control over data of all kinds.

These same lists, or even a simple date range selection, are used for generating dozens of reports. Reports can be used to print out lists of records, track EEO or OFCCP diversity sourcing information, and even internal user activity metrics for HR administration. Beyond the stock reports, PCRecruiter includes tools for creating user-defined reports. Most reported data can be exported for use with other programs such as Microsoft Excel.

The power of PCRecruiter isn’t just limited to applicants and requisitions. With PCRecruiter’s integrated calendaring and email features, correspondence and appointments with applicants, managers and other human resource contacts are logged and searchable. Productivity is greatly enhanced by access to user schedules and email from any internet-enabled computer, with automatic logging of all emails sent and received in the appropriate contact records, and easy entry of names and resumes directly from emails into the database. For HR professionals on the go, a low-bandwidth interface is available to make reading email, working in the system’s schedule planner, resume searching and other primary functions convenient and fast through handheld wireless devices like iPhone, BlackBerry, and Palm.

PCRecruiter is a reliable solution, built on time-tested industry standards. Data, which is stored in Microsoft SQL Server format, can be maintained and backed up with few special requirements. If the Main Sequence Technologies ASP is used for hosting the data, users gain the confidence of a stable online service with an outstanding ‘up time’ record and multi-server redundancy, with worry-free backups and multi-level personal service. The non-proprietary nature of the database makes integrations with third-party background checking services, applicant assessment services, and accounting / payroll solutions possible.

Main Sequence Technologies not only strives to offer the industry’s most flexible solution, but also the best value available. The most cost-effective method of implementation is decided by Main Sequence Technologies sales consultants based on the client’s choice of hosting model, number of end-users, training needs, data volume, and requirements for professional services. The consulting staff is more than just a sales team; they are highly experienced in the industry’s use of applicant tracking systems, and can assist in tailoring PCRecruiter’s many configurable options to the needs of the client. The system is not a ‘modular’ model, with features sold ‘a la carte’, but a complete solution with all of the enterprise-class features required by today’s human resource professional included. Despite the robust nature of the product, Main Sequence Technologies’ low-cost operating basis allows the product to be offered at a very competitive price.

On the whole, PCRecruiter is a ‘must consider’ solution for any human resource department looking for a better way to manage the hiring process. Over the last ten years, Main Sequence Technologies has earned a respected place in the corporate applicant tracking industry by constantly innovating and updating its solutions, and by offering focused training and support to assure that the solution works to serve the client’s own best practices.

Visit www.PCRecruiter.com or call 440.946.5214 for more information.