Sophisticated Search 1Staff 365 Front Office

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1Staff 365 Front Office and Microsoft Dynamics 365

1Staff 365 Front Office is powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), an intelligent CRM and ERP platform used by millions around the world. As such it benefits from both Microsoft Dynamics 365’s powerful reporting, analytics and AI driven insights and the wider Microsoft platform benefits. For example, the amazing new Search.

The amazing, sophisticated search engine behind 1Staff 365 Front Office.

Search your data

1Staff provides many ways to search your data, quick find, and of course its powerful built in search and match allows you to identify, rank, and match talent and jobs.

But it also has an amazing secret weapon that allows actionable search across every aspect of the solution, from marketing, sales, operations, and compliance. A genuine 360 on the lifecycle of a customer, vendor, candidate, from prospective, nurtured through to reengagement or offboarding. All these data points can be found from one search bar almost rendering the need for menus, list and views as unnecessary to be product fast.

Can you search across every relevant record and field to find a match for a candidate across all activities, related jobs, assignments, all communications? When all this data can be reached at the touch of button it brings obvious benefits but it also helps with more fundamental requirements like consumer privacy. Can you identify all relevant consumer data without a massive painstaking audit?

With 1Staff you can search for anything java related from onboarding tasks, job roles, text in resumes, tasks, leads, opportunities, and the list goes on.

Quick view of recent rows and searches

With 1Staff you can see your recent searches and recently accessed rows when you select the search box. Before you start typing in the search box, you’ll see information pop-up that helps you complete your search.

From here you can jump straight to the record, share, assign and launch a communication.

Inline suggestions

As you start entering text, you’ll see suggested results that help minimize keystrokes and simplify page navigation.

With suggestions, you can access your information quickly by using minimal keystrokes even when the search term is misspelled by a character. Text that’s highlighted in bold in the suggestions shows the term that was matched.

The results don’t just take to where you want to go but they provide connections and insights. They bring together records and data that in most Front Offices remain disparate hiding latent opportunities.

There are smarts everywhere, powered by AI, natural language understanding that adds to the productivity dividend.

Search results page

Within a quick step you can see the results of a full search.

Search results are ranked based on relevance and grouped by all the key records from Accounts, Jobs, Text Communications across every relevant facet of the solution. A Top results tab displays the top 20 results for the search term.

Filter results with context relevant filters

On the search results page, you can use filters to refine and explore your search results. These are not just standard filters such as Owner, Modified or created on but filters relevant to each record type, such as questionnaire points scored for a questionnaire response or position and account for Job Order results. The beauty is what you display, what you search on is completely configurable.

Want to find out more about Sophisticated Search?

1Staff boosts efficiency, increases productivity, generates insights, maximises margins, and improves cash flow. Whether you are looking for a full suite of functionallity, or a robust front office or back office to integrate with your existing solution, 1Staff has you covered.

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First and foremost, thank you to all of our 1Staff customers and visitors who stopped by our booth or attended our session at Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) Executive Forum last week in Phoenix, Arizona! The 1Staff team had a great time networking and learning about where the industry is heading.

What to do before the robots attack?

It’s an uncertain world. What if one day something eradicated the staffing industry? What if a technology changed the workplace so much that it rendered the staffing agency obsolete? Will the robots get so powerful they will attack?

Vision: Get it, share it, measure it.

In July 2011 Forbes published “How to Create a Powerful Vision for Change”, and it is still extremely relevant for staffing firms today.

8 Ways to Transform Your Business Through Change Management

Through my years of managing and consulting, there’s one lesson I wish I had learned sooner: obtaining this greater use of technology and ensuring it lasts through change management.

3 Ways to Create a High-Performance Sales Culture

As a VP of Sales your main goal is clear: increase sales and grow revenue. You can’t do it alone or even with just a few top sales people though.

5 Ways Your Staffing Agency Can Efficiently Manage Candidates & Clients in 2016

Staffing and recruiting tools have come a long way since the days of Rolodexes and file folders. There are plenty of solid email, marketing, and document collaboration tools to manage clients’ and candidates’ interactions with your company but many of these tools are already dated. We challenge you to efficiently manage candidates and clients in 2016 and ditch the the old way.

When Was the Last Time Your Staffing Company Tracked Marketing ROI?

We’ve known for eons the importance of tracking the ROI on marketing efforts. Unfortunately, there are challenges in tracking that return in an era of ever-improving technologies and tougher markets.

Meeting The Man Behind Moneyball

Paul DePodesta is the man behind Jonah Hill’s character in the movie “Moneyball”. I had the pleasure to hear how as Oakland A’s assistant, Paul, worked together with his General Manager, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt in the movie), to transform their baseball team.

2 Step Guide to Winning the War for Talent

Talent is out there, you just need to find them! Are you providing your team with the tools they need to win the war for talent? Get your staffing agency on the right track in two steps…

1Staff Struck A Chord In Music City

As an avid fan of all music genres, especially country music, my colleagues would probably say I was just a tad bit excited to hear that Staffing World would be in the heart of Music City.

7 Signs Your ATS Is Failing You

It might have been a while since you did a health check on your ATS. At Professional Advantage we specialize in enabling high performing staffing organizations through technology.

Stop driving your organization using the rear-view mirror!

Imagine that you’re an executive weighing up a tough business decision. You’ve consulted stakeholders and colleagues. You’ve made a pros and cons list. You’ve even spent a night ‘sleeping on it’.

Sales Seminar at a Sushi Bar?

I had lunch today at a new sushi place down the road. It’s a small sushi bar with an open kitchen, and three chefs who greet every customer with boisterous hellos.