We have launched a new invoicing system, by popular demand, to provide an additional integrated payment option for subscriptions.

New filters have been introduced allowing you to filter candidates based on Company Location and by Problem Solving Score.

A new action has been introduced that allows you to leave comments on a candidate's profile and tag multi-users.

Need to post a job internally? Now you can select to post your ad privately - meaning it can only be accessed via your Career Page or by direct link, rather than being distributed to the job boards.

We added a new Action in Automated Workflows called "Send an Internal SMS Text" that allows you to set up a text notification to yourself when a new candidate applies, an assessment is completed, etc.

Share your IdealTraits customized Career Page onto your company website using an embed or iframe.

You now have the option to delete previously created custom candidate tags.

You can now filter candidates based on their Pre-Qualifying Questions Score when you have scoring enabled.

You can now automate some of your recruitment efforts with Automated Workflows. Automatically send a video interview when an assessment is received, automate SMS messaging to check in with candidates throughout the hiring pipeline, move candidates to different stages based on set criteria and more.

You can now turn on scoring for your pre-qualifying questions. This feature is turned off by default, but you can enable scoring through the toggle in the job builder. If scoring is enabled, each Pre-qualifying question is worth 10 points, and you will be prompted to select a "Qualifying Answer" for scoring.

You can now filter by Resume Keywords and create Saved Views in your Filters drawer.

You can now manually add SMS texting consent on manually added, uploaded, and downloaded candidates. Ensure you have received verbal or written consent from these candidates to be texted before enabling consent in a candidate profile.

You can now bulk upload up to 500 candidates at a time to your IdealTraits candidate list.

Launched location permissions at the multi-user level, allowing employers with multiple locations to assign their additional users to only post jobs and view candidates for the location they are assigned.

Launched new, modern designs for Career Pages including an enhanced Settings experience and redesigned Job Ad Landing Pages.

Added an Archive Tag filter to sort your Archived candidates.

Added the ability to purchase additional location slots for businesses with multiple brick-and-mortar locations.

Added the ability to filter candidates by Video Interview status and Archive Tag.

Added the ability to send customized texts to candidates to maintain communication throughout the hiring process.

Added a new marketplace card to promote background checks offered through Checkr.

Recruiters can now access members' IdealTraits accounts in a Recruiter View when provided with the member's Recruiter Access Key.

Refer your friends who are actively hiring to IdealTraits directly from your account to be entered into our monthly Referral Drawing.

Added the ability to generate Company Descriptions on your Career Page with AI Technology.

Added a new marketplace card to promote licensing exam training offered through XCEL Solutions. Click here to learn more.

We launched our Pre-Qualifying Questions Module, encouraging you to ask applicants those need-to-know questions at the point of application.

We launched our Manage Columns feature on the Jobs page to allow you to choose the information you would like to see about your candidates.

Video Interviews are now transcribed with AI to ensure you don't miss a beat when reviewing candidate interviews.

We officially launched our first AI feature, allowing you to create tailored and customizable job ads at the click of a button.

You can now automatically share your jobs through LinkedIn's job network by linking your Company ID to your IdealTraits account in our Marketplace.

We made an update to the stages menu in our candidate UI that provides users with an option to collapse and expand their stages, allowing a bigger view of their candidate list.

You can now post Hybrid Remote jobs to advertise for partial remote and partial in-office in your area.

Added customizable tags to the Candidate List. Tags can be added to candidate profiles from the Candidate list or within the candidate profile, allowing you to categorize your candidates easily and review the top characteristics of their resumes at a glance.

The new feature allows you to tailor the calculator to your agency and generate a detailed, comprehensive report outlining the financial impact of hiring a new producer over the time they spend with your agency. Try it now.

Added multi-users to accounts. Additional users are able to have full access to collaborate within your IdealTraits account under their own login. Additional users can be edited at any time.

As a Gold partner, we work closely with Indeed to build reliable integrations that optimize your hiring process. Learn more about Indeed’s ATS integrations #indeedatspartner

Added a new marketplace card to promote licensing exam training offered through ExamFX. Click here to learn more.

Updated the Marketplace User Interface and added new marketplace cards to promote Insurance Sales Lab and backgroundchecks.com. Learn More.

Added links to all personality summaries inside the candidate profile, on click, an article will open in a new tab with more details regarding the candidates' personality. As well as a button that opens a video summarizing the personality type.

Added tagging to the Farmers exclusive candidate pool. Tags are applied to candidates whose resume includes specified keywords. Tags can be used in the filter drawer and transfer into your account after a candidates been downloaded from the pool.

Added a new marketplace card to promote insurance educational training with Role Play at the Olson Agency. Learn more about RPOA.

Building off of bigijobs.com, we launched a job board landing pages for all state associations within the Big I.

Build a Big I limited package for job placement on bigijobs.com.

Began parsing resumes, allowing IdealTraits users to search their candidates using keywords they seek out in resumes. This parsing technology is also put to work in new candidate alert email notifications - where candidate skills are highlighted in the message.

New integration built by IdealTraits. This integration allows you to send one way video interviews to candidates and receive responses in form of video right to your IdealTraits account where you can view on your own time. Learn more.

New feature allows you to upload an intro video to your career page. Learn more.

Implemented click to dial in the candidates list so users can click on a candidates phone number to dial out and call.

Exclusive to Farmers Store Agents.

New partnerships with Talent.com, The Muse, 12Twenty & Indeed

Allows users to download dynamic QR codes and advertise their opportunities from promotional products like flyers, banners, posters, etc. Learn more.

Exclusive to Big I Independent Agents

The Verified First integration provides employers with a seamless way to initiate and review background checks on potential new hires. Learn more

Learn more about getting an expert job ad review.

Allows users to post jobs and view candidates on the go via their mobile browser.

Desktop is still required to send emails via the IdealTraits platform, but all other features and tools are accessible through your mobile browser.

Updated to make the latest improvements for Indeed Campaign Predictions API

Through this API, Indeed provides budget recommendations based on job location and job title. Learn more.

Exclusive to Big I Independent Agents

Exclusive to Farmers Store Agents.

Updated SMS bot text to ACE bot in all areas within a users account.

Learn about the ACE bot here.

Made required updates from Indeed to the Indeed Sponsored Jobs API.

Updates allow users whom haven't sponsored with Indeed thru their IdealTraits account to sponsor jobs on Indeed through the IdealTraits platform.

Learn more about sponsoring with Indeed here.

Added more banner image options to the 'Corporate' folder

Expires 'Paused' job ads after 15 days of no candidate action.

This solves an issue where users would reopen a job ad that had been paused for 14+ days and job ad would instantly expire.

Users will not receive notification emails when 'Paused' job ads expire.

Added a required field for job type where user indicates if the job position is full-time, part-time or if they are hiring for either or.

Updated one time campaigns to switch from sponsored status to active status when budget set is 100% spent.

IdealTraits partnered with Yext to create an opt-in option when creating or editing a job ad that allows Farmers Store Agents & DMs only to share their job opportunities to their website via a seamless integration.

To do so, simply navigate to the bottom of your job ad in the edit/add job add page. Where it asks "share to Farmers website?" select "Yes" to opt-in,

If you do not want your ad to show on your website, choose "No" to opt-out.

Only job ads that are opted-in will display on your Career Page/Farmers Website.

Updated Job Ad webpage to coordinate with the users career page.

Added a button to the webpage that will allow candidates to access the company's career page, making it easy for candidates to view all available job openings for that company.

Banner image and colors used on the job ad webpage can be edited from the career page tab in user settings.

To prevent logos from stretching to fit our required dimensions, we've implemented an image editor into the platform.

This will allow users to resize and crop their images to best fit on their career page and job ads.

Implemented a referral section at the end of the candidate assessment where candidates can share the job opening with friends/family via social media, SMS, email, etc.

Moved career page content to it own section in My Settings.

Clients can now choose to customize their career page with color themes and a banner image.

Redesigned the layout of the career page. Added company description templates, 31 banner images and 11 different color themes.

Click here to read more about the career page.

Added Zapier to our suite of integrations. This will allow clients to connect to other apps (i.e google sheets, salesforce, etc) and export candidates. There will be more information to come relating to this addition. Learn more.

Added a shortcut button to the View All Jobs page that allows users to easily view their career page, access the link to share it, or edit. Learn more.

Added Monster to the list of job boards receiving a direct feed for all job ads posted through the IdealTraits platform.

This means any clients that click "Post Ad" in the IdealTraits Post Jobs page will automatically have their ad posted to Monster and can reach a new audience with Job Seekers on Monster.com.

This update added a time delay option when sending rejection emails. If you are using this feature and don't want to send a rejection email instantly, you can choose to send it in 30 minutes, or 1 day. When archiving & sending a rejection to 10 > candidates, the "immediate" option is not be available. This is because we are sending several emails at once and it will take a minimum of 30 minutes to process and send to all selected candidates.