I would rather not have manual candidate source drop-down menus at all, but when they’re there, I’d rather do something (like populate them) than leave job seekers to figure them out, which we know typically doesn’t go well. At least I know the correct source is listed in these cases. Hiding candidate source menus is a nice option because it removes any opportunity for the job seeker to affect the source data – as long as the jobs are tagged properly. Two ATS providers that use this approach are OpenHire and VirtualEdge – I’ve included some screen captures on ATS Report Card that show how it works. One caveat on VirtualEdge – there are two versions or variations of the ATS that I know of, and only one has this ability. I’ll cover the differences and hopefully the details on why in a future post.
