I’ve been testing the open beta, and it unfortunately doesn’t yet meet the brief, as it’s unable to automatically recognise candidate names.

Firefish have advised that a name will always need to be entered manually when creating records, as this forms part of their process to reduce duplicate candidates.

While I understand the rationale, I believe an alternative approach to managing duplication is necessary to align this feature with the functionality offered by other solutions that have been available in the market for some time.

This needs to be available to new candidates AND existing records

Create candidate records by dragging and dropping a CV into the system

For this to be an automatic process with minimal data input

Within the system, not via Outlook or Chrome

When uploading/parsing CVs from Outlook (especially if forwarded from a job board like Reed) the scrape for name and email has to be manually input.

If the software 'looked at' the attached CV and scraped the required data from there as well as for the full address and phone numbers etc this would save time on data input.

I would suggest that a manual drag and drop of a CV from outlook onto the system would save significant time

CV parser to take all info name, phone, email, address, postcode. So laborious uploading every one manually especially as a new business

Think this would be extremely useful

Agree the process of adding a CV from an external site is repeated multiple times daily. The work around is slow and cumbersome for something that is a basic feature and available in the market.
Small change big difference - This HAS to be seen as a priority as its a daily dose of water torture

Any reason this is still "open for voting" and not under "reviewed" or "in development" when we have been assured it's in the product roadmap and the idea with the most votes?

Not having this facility is a great let down. It is a feature we were expecting after we were told CV Parsing was available during the 'sales pitch' to us from Firefish! This is atechnology backward step and so time consuming.

Thought this was a given feature with any CRM. Having used over dozen, regardless of how poor they were, they all nailed this functionality. This should be priority in my opinion. It should include Name, Address, Contact Details, job title and last role.

This is essential to seamlessly adding candidates to the system, and ensuring maximum efficiency for users. So much so, I took it as a given that this was a part of the software. Another 'nice to have' would be parsing directly from a job board much like Sourcebreaker
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Totally agree, other systems offer this feature. RDB allows you to drop a CV onto the system by dragging it from an attachment in email and it populates all the info into a candidate form which you can then check. This was available back in 2016.

Should be a pre-requisite for any recruitment CRM.

In 20 years of recruiting I have never used a CRM that doesn't fully parse a CV in to the system. I thought this was a given. Would also be good if you could add a candidate to the system via this method.

Would be extremely useful if it was a case of "drag and drop" CV into Firefish

Great idea and would save a lot of time.

Great idea

Self populate fields in a new or existing candidate profile from a drag and drop CV function as quick route to add candidates. Currently the email adding function isn't great as you can only add candidates with a CV who have directly applied to you via email which isn't helpful for the vast majority of candidates who come from job boards, referrals or internal staff. The candidate adding or updating process is rather manual and laborious, self populating from a CV is a function other CRMs have that would be super helpful.

Agreed, this is on every other system and so important to ensure we do try contacting a candidate with contact information from 2014 – this could be the difference between us securing the fee, or the competition.
This also has a few knock on affects:
• We are keen (just like you I am sure) to actively encourage our users to use the system to contact candidates as it should save them time and logs contact, if there are issues with the system they will go the path of least resistance
• It’s time consuming to open a CV to find the latest contact details when you consider how many candidates we call each day
• Also, please correct me if I am wrong, but old contact details (email addresses) increase the risk of bounce backs which then effects any marketing we want / need to do.

While I like the idea of Account Managers and / or candidates keeping records up to date, if we are realistic this will not happen and so this needs to be an automatic action.